I have hundreds of hours in this game and played since first day last year. The performance is getting worse and worse every patch. I have a NVIDIA 1060 which isnt amazing but isnt terrible. I get 5 min loading screens It takes 5 min for the game to boot and 5 more to load into the game after hitting continue.
Every new enemy encountered result is a solid 15-30 seconds freeze where I usually die. Looting chests or enemy result in a freeze for 1 min. Dying takes 4 min toload back.
I used to enjoy this game, but the performance really is way worse than the first day it came out. I have settings on ultra performance in order to get it to work better. It has done no difference between the quality settings tbh. it just takes forever to load anything.
Any objects loaded (item, monster, building, merchant inventory, etc.) is just an atrocious spike freeze. This did not use to be this way.
This game which I love has become 90% where 10% is playing and the other 90 is waiting on the game to figure out if I can play.
At some point an almost 10 year old graphics card and god knows what the rest of your specs are going to be an unreasonable ask for developers to design their game around.
You don’t need a 30 or 40 series even, there are very affordable upgrade options that would take you basically 2-3 full day of work at minimum wage to afford.
Especially because the update most definitely improved performance for most people, the opposite of what you are saying here.
no offense, but i disagree. i just recently upgraded from my 1080ti. that was a “not bad” card. but the 1060 was super low end even when it released 9 years ago. i am really sorry to tell you, but that upgrade might be super overdue lol.
i hope u have at least a decent SSD, at least 16GB RAM and a reasonable CPU.
in any case tho, the dev team asked to get them log files if people encounter performance issues: How to Properly Report Bugs!
thats the only way how they can investigate whats going on
a very regular rig setup lasts about 3-5 years tops, unless you are rocking cutting edge (and expensive) hardware, then maybe 10 years or so is doable… and this has been true to this day since DOS era LOL
(also no offense, but is just unreasonable, sorry)
With my steam deck performance has been getting better with every patch, maybe you should consider buying one since a used one could be cheaper than aPC upgrade.
Firstly, as mentioned by others above, the graphics card you have needs to be upgraded for sure. Also, probably the rest of your system will be of the same age as your graphics card maybe? Then it is no wonder that you encounter performance issues. I also guess the new areas are even more demanding to the pc than the once we have since the start. What i also see is that loading times are longer, i also experince this. I wait 30 seconds before the moon logo, 30 seconds before the main screen and another minute before i am in game. I have a ryzen 7 5800x, a rx7800xt 16bg vram and 32gb ram. So i can imagine that with your system it has to be unbearable woth the loading rimes. As soon as i am in game i have no issues at all, everthing smooth. I am on highest settings.
if u are having performance issues, and not yet shared your files, please do so. Kuro requested on discord to please share all files when encountering performance issues, so they can investigate: How to Properly Report Bugs!
Loading times are not an issue of the graphics card, but mainly of your storage and your cpu. This game is constantly streaming assets in and out of memory to prevent load screens from zone to zone, and keeps a ton of its world off screen in memory too. Which means you’re going to need a fast SSD to comfortably run the game. It sounds like you’re installing the game on an old hard drive, the ones that still use a disk and spin it to read data. Upgrading your gpu won’t help you in that department. Also, even if you had an SSD your CPU is also working on it to send the data back and forth so it needs to be decently good too. The GPU shows issues when your resolution and framerate are lower than needed, but it doesn’t interact with loading.
I’m using a 1660 ti with 6gigs too and I never had problems as bad as what the OP is mentioning though. If I lower the resolution and settings I could run it at 60fps, but usually I preferred better visuals at 30fps. Sure, some stutters here and there when obviously crossing from zone to zone sometimes, but what is being mentioned is extremely worse than anything I encountered, and I do have an SSD. Another thing that could also be an issue is that some models of the 1060 were 3 gigs instead of 6. So that could affect performance too, but at 6 it’s not a bad experience.
yeah 3 or 4 GB would likely be super bad. kind of impressive it is “playable” with that little GPU memory lol
nowadays more than 8GB are pretty much mandatory.
and as for RAM, i can always only tell people to rather get 4x8GB instead of 2x16 to use all memory lanes efficiently. always use all slots the MB provides. depending on the application it can shorten communication time between RAM and CPU.
Using all ram slots compared to the same amount of memory with fewer can help unlock a few more fps, more noticeably on CPU bound scenarios like esports titles. It won’t make or break performance from what I’ve seen when being GPU bound (like with realistic graphics at high resolutions) or just a little. Using only one ram stick isn’t optimal either though.
Yup, Thomas recently took to Twitter to remind people that they cannot possibly support people playing the game on HDDs.
With that said, even if you need upgrades, I’ll note that my rig still every now and then experiences stutters still in the game.
4090
Ryzen 7800X3D
64 GB Ram
4TB SSD
Running the game on DLSS Transformer Quality at 100-130 consistent fps, but there will be times with stutters happening several times in a 2 Hr play session.
