Big FPS drops in fights mostly in fights.

[craggy harbor]

I've also noticed the game is consuming a big amount of my RAM (4G) I don't know if it's normal, but I've been experiencing FPS drops specially in crucial moments, my Laptop should not have any problems running this game smoothly. I would like some advices and help on what to do. This game looks incredible fun and it's a game I wanna put my time in :). I can record a match if needed so you can see what happens.

[last hearth]

Do you have Malwarebytes installed?

[craggy harbor]

Should I get this?

I don't believe I have any malware but doesn't hurt to double check

[last hearth]

I asked because there is a known incompatibility with Malwarebytes which causes games to hitch and stall when loading files from disk

[craggy harbor]

So anything else I could do?

[last hearth]

Can I get a copy of your logs? C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\SUPERVIVE\Logs

you can zip them and attach them here and I can take a look

[proper tendon]

try directx 11

worked for me pretty fine with genereall fps probs

[craggy harbor]

Didnt work

@last hearth Found anything?

[last hearth]

While your laptop is CPU and GPU are almost 6 years old, it should be enough to run smoothly.

have a few suggestions:

• Disable Medal and see if you get perf improvements
• Disable Dynamic Global Illumination from the video settings menu
• Clear our Dx12 driver shader caches : https://www.epicgames.com/help/en-US/c-Category_Fortnite/c-Fortnite_TechnicalSupport/fortnite-stutters-heavily-and-has-below-expected-performance-on-directx-12-a000088950
• Finally, I would test out running on DirectX 11, While I believe the performance here should generally be worse, but might be more stable (switch back to DX12 if you don't see any wins)
  • You might need to remove the -DX12 command line parameter you added

Also, be sure to enable the perf graphs located in the UI settings tab. Good graphs to have up are GameThread, RenderThread, RHI and GPU.. This could help indicate if your issue is more CPU or GPU bottlenecked

[proper tendon]

My Personal feeling with directx 11 is that its runs abit smoother than 12 for older systems.
To be fair my Pc is 6+ years old and I have a 1060gb with i5 9400F and I have problems with frames aswell, as example when day and night shifts theyre usually some drops and the purple goo zone bottom left from kobayashi is worse most of the time. I dunno if it helps atleast abit but i think some clues here and there can help u guys

[craggy harbor]

I will try all of this and come back to you

[craggy harbor]

Dx11 works better

But I still have the same issue with FPS drops

I will record a match and send it here

[last hearth]

Can you do so with the perf graphs on?

[craggy harbor]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYuu5EoRHLQ&feature=youtu.be (without perf graphs on)

I will do another match with it on now

[craggy harbor]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDyIjI20i3g (with perf graphs)

[last hearth]

Interesting, we have not seen these type of issues before.
From the video we can clearly see that something is making the GPU stall for a few seconds every once in a while.. tanking your average FPS from 90FPS to about 20

Your drivers seem fairly recent too.. you did disable Medal and closed any other applications that might be scheduling GPU time in the background? (chrome, discord, etc)

Were the videos captured using DX12 or DX11?

[craggy harbor]

DX11 the performance with DX12 was worse

[craggy harbor]

Yh I even uninstalled medal

I've tried with discord close, chrome, spotify

[manic forum]

@last hearth disabling lumen seems helping me for getting rid of fps drop/micro stutter, but still its not 100% clear, i'd say it lessen it by 60-70% of time before vs after disabling lumen

thanks Dev, im still hoping for 100% clear :) coz who wanna play game with stutter, especially at crucial time

[last hearth]

Interesting.. Lumen should only be active for the lobby and never in game.. I’m surprised disabling is affecting in-game performance.

From the footage and graphs.. there definitely seems something going on with the GPU

@manic forum are your symptoms exactly the same as the ones posted above? GPU time dip after few hours? Do you have footage with perf graphs on?

[manic forum]

Sadly i dont have
Maybe can we have fps capped on our typing number (we type fps we want that will be a cap/max fps limit)

Im using 7800x3d + 4070s
Im just curious why the microstutter keeps happening

[craggy harbor]

I will try disabling lumen to see if its helps

[craggy harbor]

It was already off, so issues remains the same

[manic forum]

ah yes, it seems that its not 100% fixing

although after applying that, it was good and got lesser than before, but not permanent solution for this