After a period of time, GPU utilization drops to 70-85% from 100% and never goes up again until restart.
It’s much faster to reproduce using my frost affected purple sword. I just break some barrels or hit somebody that triggers the frost effect and the game stutters for a second, then the fps drops along with GPU utilization.
The drop is about 10-20 fps depending on the location.
Further testing, I noticed it happens no matter what weapon I use. The key is to break boxes/barrels, using weapons or by rolling. It always triggers a performance hit and I restart the game to fix it.
I noticed more people having this issue and they don’t even know what caused it. They keep playing with dropped performance.
As a result, I stopped breaking boxes/barrels entirely to stop getting my performance destroyed, until a fix comes.
Personally, after updating the GeForce 3060 driver to the latest version, the sounds in the game began to disappear even more often, and the music sometimes stops playing, or plays quieter, compared to others, some kind of out-of-sync with the movement of characters begins, previously this did not happen so often when I was on the previous version of the driver, I do not advise updating on the latest version of the driver, there may be a problem with it, since on the very first version before the release of hot fix 1, everything worked perfectly.