I have recently bought this game on Steam, due to the absolutely glowing reviews! So far I'm enjoying it, and can't wait to get deeper into the game. But I have ran into the same problem that Egg and others have reported. I start out at 60 fps, the fps will drop after a conversation with an npc, and can only be recovered by saving, or loading. Saving is a temporary solution however, as the first drop to around 55 fps will be returned to 60 fps upon saving, when it drops again, the fps will go even lower, to around 40-45 IIRC, then returned to 60 with saving.. but go to 30 or so with the next drop, and so on. At this point I have been reloading the game.. only to repeat the whole cycle again. As you can imagine this is quite frustrating! This problem did not present itself until reaching the first town, which makes sense, as until that point I had not been having many conversations.
@Raze - I find it confusing that you yourself experienced this problem, but managed to solve it by closing programs and restarting. The only background programs I have had running are ones that I can't really close - steam (I bought the game on steam) and fraps (so that I can monitor the fps drops caused by this issue). You say that it was an unusual amount of programs you had been running, so I doubt steam and fraps are the issue. As for the fact your computer hadn't been restarted in several days, this is a non-factor, as I booted up my computer about an hour before I first encountered this issue. Even though I doubted this was the cause, I restarted my computer anyway and the problem still occured. So this is very confusing :(. Maybe fraps is the issue? I generally run fraps when playing a new game, to see how my rig is coping. I'll try running it without fraps and see what happens. What program do you use to monitor your FPS? Have you had steam running in the background while playing?
So if it wasn't programs running in the background, and it wasn't retarting that solved it for you, what could it have been? :O
My rig:
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
Intel Core i5 4690
8 GB Corsair RAM
ASUS SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 1
2048MB ATI AMD Radeon HD 7850
238GB Crucial_CT256MX1 SSD
My GPU and CPU are not OC'd, although CPU is running with the intel boost thing activiated.
Hopefully this issue will be solved swiftly. I've had too many poor experiences with games in the last few years due to FPS related issues and poor optimization etc, it's getting to the point where I don't trust any developer to make games that WORK anymore. It seems everyone is after a fast profit, and not actually willing to put in the effort required to make the game properly. Game breaking bugs and brutal performance issues are the norm it seems. Sorry if I seem like a grumpy prick, but having just upgraded my rig to try and rid myself of these issues, it's just depressing to find yet another game with yet another game-breaking problem. :(
Hopefully you guys will restore my faith in the industry and gain yourself a loyal supporter/customer!
Regards,
Anoose
Last edited by Anoose; 07/12/14 07:38 PM.
