Uninstalling the “Nvidia performance nuke” windows security update yielded around 0-1 fps on my system.
Re-installing the game several times did not yield any results (as was to be expected)
I think the main reasons for the horrendous performance is that there seems to be no LOD scaling, DLSS is fundamentally broken (around 1-5 fps difference from “max performance” to “quality” either on CNN or Transformer), resolution and or scaling also does not affect FPS in any way (see screengrabs in my last post), and “dynamic resolution” is also seemingly just an empty checkbox, because even if I turn that up to the maximum, my fps do not change beyond normal fluctuation of 1-3 fps when standing still in Sacrament.
Is there any reason why the floor texture has to be 4k at the fountain, while I’m standing next to The Watcher? … why?
The seemingly random nature of performance issues must be hell to pinpoint for the devs, so I understand why there’s not any actual helpful response yet… but damn, people, this is frustrating 
EDIT:
Turning off “Optimizations for windowed games in Windows 11” yielded 10-20 fps improvement in Sacrament (Forge), up to 35 fps (!) in the Sunflower Field leading to the Lowland Meadows and an average 30 fps throughout the whole “Windmill” Area of the Lowland Meadows.
I’m confused but also quite pleased.
Will report back after further (longer) testing.
//EDIT 2:
After 5 hours in-game the FPS gains are completely gone and I’m even down to around 60-70 in sacrament and 24-36 FPS in the Windmill area in the Lowland Meadows.
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OK!
I worked out what was killing it for me let me introduce you to: Discord Overlay!
That’s why for me I had no issue previously, because I was solo’ing the game and why suddenly the game was having a seizure when playing coop - I was on a Discord call with a friend.
This probably won’t solve everyone’s issue, but if you were on Discord and playing, go to options and disable the overlay. No more stutters.
I encountered an issue with game performance. I get around 20 fps avg.
The lowest fps I have is 9 on Sacrament entrance wall near dummy.
Tried to lower the settings but it doesn’t help the performance at all.
I have:
CPU - Rysen 5 5600g
GPU - 4070 Super
RAM - 32 Gb 3600 Mgz
NVME SSD
Here you can find dxdiag file as well as Player logs:
I know that my CPU is lower than recommended specs on steam page but still I should not be getting 9 fps.
My friend however has PC that is not as powerful as mine but he gets around 60 fps.
I played the game in “The Breach” update and I had decent experience but now its making me to forget about this game even though I liked it before.
Sorry if this issue has been posted already.
UPD: I don’t know why but I want to mention that I have no issues like that in any other game.
We have had a confirmed case in Discord where someone’s performance was incredible boosted by using the setting CUDA - Sysmem Fallback Policy. (for NVIDIA DRIVERS)
Find it here:
Set it to “prefer no Sysmem Fallback”.
Helpful video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoVljJoJr9I
Disclaimer; this is not a fix for everyone, nor is it an official patch or resolution. This is player-to-player support where 2 users found something working for them. Please treat it as such!
Silas
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I want to add 2 things:
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I tried to launch the game on my steam deck and I got 25 fps in the same area (sacrament wall) which is, as you can understand, strange cause Steam Deck obviously less powerful than my PC.
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tried to launch the game on my PC via APU and not 4070 super. Imagine my surprise when I get 2x more of fps than via 4070 Super.
I don’t know why this is a thing. It’s very unintuitive to say the least. How can it be that less powerful hardware gets more performance?!
I know it’s too much to ask but it would be nice to get an answer to my problem from someone from Moon Studios.
