hey there,
i registered only because of this issue. i bought the game on steam a few days ago and i also have big fps drops (to like 40fps from 60) and massive stuttering because the framesync is bad with everything below 60fps.
in contrary to many others (it seems) i've a vast experience with this stuff and therefore i know why this is happening. still hoping this will be improved though !
its without the slightest doubt a cpu limit. a hard one ! when i walk into fort joy, one core of my cpu is getting completely maxed out @99% and the framerate is dropping hard, especially at the area with the shrine before the camp kitchen.
my cpu is a 2500k @4ghz and because the game only runs on 2 cores it seems (one core is @99% in fort joy, the other is ~@70%) the framerate drops. and its not fun to play it like that with a horrible framesync and stuttering all the time, even if the framerate only drops to 55fps from 60 :( my gpu is a 980ti and its far from being maxed out always !
unfortunately i had identical problems with the first original sin game (the classic version). in the town in the first game my framerate droped to like 35fps or something like that. with the same pc exept a worse gpu back in 2014. the reason was the same.
larian hasn't done anything at all in terms of technical quality unfortunately :( no engine improvements at all within the last 3 years. will this ever change ?
it me it seems that the geometry maxes out one core very fast. i killed everyone in the camp kitchen because griff attacked me after the one quest and with all of them dead the framerate still dropped identically as before.. before that i thought it maybe might be the AI thread thats maxing out, but it seems to be the thread thats processing the entire world geometry ?!? if thats so, i don't even want to know what will happen later on in a town etc...
please (i know, nothing will ever change, otherwise it would have changed within the past 3 years) finally fix this abysmal one threaded performance ! playing it on 60fps outside of fort joy is supernice and the game is superb, but this shit is killing it for me :(
best regards
oxa1900
edit: i was so fed up with this that i tried literally every trick in the book and nothing helps exept forcing realtime cpu priority ! everything else made it even worse (changed everything in the game's config back and forth and nothing made it better. actually everything made it worse.
the only thing that helped with the stuttering and the bad framerate was to put the process to realtime priority.. idk if this will make it instable (possible) but i'll have to see... still in the end it needs fixing from larian. some optimization would really be nice after waiting years for this ;)
edit2: actually it only worked once.. what a joke this engine is.. it always was :( the first time i set it to realtime it actually changed the cpu usage completely and all my cores were @70+% and i had like 10fps more on the exact same spot.. second time i changed it, it didn't work anymore and the cpu utalization remained the same as before... this is so frustrating -.-
Last edited by oxa1900; 23/09/17 10:53 AM.
