Huge FPS drops engaging in fights with Frigates | Windrose | Page 1

viral sinew Apr 24, 2026, 2:52 PM

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When I sail and just fight normal ships it's mostly fine with my Frigate, however near end-game and Swamps.. most enemy ships are also larger Warships and Frigates.

This takes my FPS from a comfortable 90-100 to 40, sometimes almost 30 during the massive "0/20" boarding battles. There's a lot of jankiness going on with this and makes the high level ship battles a bit unplayable / unenjoyable currently.

See attached screenshot - 38 FPS boarding the Stede Bonnet fleet and fighting it. As soon as I sunk it the FPS recovered. 50-60FPS recovered the moment I left the boarding.

Playing on a 5700X3D, 32GB RAM and 9070XT.

digital jungle Apr 24, 2026, 3:10 PM

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I can confirm i expirenced similar issues today when taking on the big ships, it might be the entities loading at once and keep on loading

My system is 9950X3D / 64GB DDR5 RAM and 3070TI

viral sinew Apr 24, 2026, 3:44 PM

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Then once you board, it dips again and then you're just hacking slashing at 5-6 sailors at once and yea.. it's not the best experience, but it is playable. Just not great 🤣

fluid bronze Apr 25, 2026, 9:57 PM

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Thanks for the report, we'll look into it.

viral sinew Apr 27, 2026, 12:58 PM

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fluid bronze Thanks for the report, we'll look into it.

No worries - I could not find a post relating to this on Discord so maybe it was already reported. Had some discussions and seems like the Frigates currently are not the most friendly on FPS.

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