[Bug] Fire Textures Horrible FPS

29 Aug, '21
Brad Merged

shot a deer with a fire arrow. only saw random puffs of fire as it ran when it died there was a weird red box around it? i have bad textures and an fps around 27 so it may be related to whatever is causing the really bad textures issue. sadly my game looks awful, im sure your aware of that bug, wanted to raise this incase its not the same cause

12 Sep, '21
Rodney Bosley Merged

I was in a cave with a group of 3 I pulled out a hand torch and we all dropped below 10 FPS from 60+ frames with out the torch on.

13 Sep, '21
Jack Merged

When trees or bushes catch on fire, I can see a very noticeable red "box" around them, as though the fire is taking place inside a square.

14 Sep, '21
Uberfish Merged

Any kind of lighting from fire causes my FPS to drop drastically. If I use a hand torch, the game FPS drops so much it turns into a slideshow. If my friend turns on his torch near me, the FPS drop drastically. During a lightning storm, the flash from the lightning causes the game to freeze for about 5-6 seconds.

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5, 3600
GPU: Sapphire RX 5700 XT
16GB DDR4 Ram
MB: MSI gaming plus B450

Video: https://streamable.com/98ci9z

14 Sep, '21
Grey Merged

Same here, AMD 5700XT.

26 Sep, '21
Josh Merged

For me everything with a fire effect causes my game to go from stable FPS to slide show, eg camp fire, fire pit and even the furnaces. My FPS drops considerably when looking at these objects and sometimes goes back to stable if I re load the world with the fire still running. (Makes game unplayable with any of these items active)

06 Oct, '21
ONETAP Merged

Virtually all of the place able objects with visual effects like campfires and pits cause major Fps drops and get resolved when game is restarted (issues starts again when new object is placed and activated)

06 Oct, '21
Elissa - Producer Admin Merged

"FIRES AND OTHER VISUALS CAUSE MAJOR FPS DROP" (suggested by ONETAP on 2021-10-06), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

08 Oct, '21
danny Tangtam Merged

I was running around the forrest at night with a torch, the frame rate tanked to low single digit FPS. Default settings except I turned on FRS for my RX5700xt. I turned it off and performance was still terrible.

I am running windows 11, ryzen 3900x with 48GB of ram,

09 Oct, '21
danny Tangtam Merged

did more testing with friends who run nvidia cards and pretty much seems to be just the AMD card i am running. Its pretty much any fire effects whether it be me or someone else or a tree burning the FPS just tanks. I turned down the settings graphically wise and it is still tanking fps to single digits. This happens with FRS on and off. I generally have POV set to 110 when I play since i am on an ultrawide monitor. So my setup is

MSI X570 Unifi with latest bios.
Ryzen 3900x
DDR4 3600 Gskill memory 48 GB
RX 5700XT
2 TB NVME SN750 black from Western Digital
Drop Vast 35" ultrawide monitor 3440x1440 res at 100hz
2 LG Ultragear 27GN850 Monitors 2560 x 1440 at 144hz
Windows 11
Latest AMD Radeon drivers 21.10.1

I do have smart access memory enable in BIOS,

10 Oct, '21
Khaos Merged

Not sure what it is but Fire Seems to be a big culprit in the FPS and Graphics Bog down Issue. etc. game freeze/stuttering Please look into this it even has this effect if it is in a cave and you look towards the Fires direction.

10 Oct, '21
Marton Merged

2 players, good ping, not host anywhere on Icarus.
My friend that is using AMD 5700XT joined me and every time I light up a floor torch or close to him with a handheld torch his PC gets super laggy.

10 Oct, '21
Marton Merged

2 players, good ping, not host anywhere on Icarus.
My friend that is using AMD 5700XT joined me and every time I light up a floor torch or close to him with a handheld torch his PC gets super laggy.
This performance hit looks to be in and around flames in general

10 Oct, '21
Elissa - Producer Admin Merged

"[preformance issue] torch/flames hits GPU/Frames hard" (suggested by Morten H on 2021-10-10), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

10 Oct, '21
Dan Ooms Merged

Torches and floor torches causing severe lag

10 Oct, '21
Elissa - Producer Admin Merged

"Torches and floor torches causing severe lag" (suggested by Dan Ooms on 2021-10-10), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

10 Oct, '21
Elissa - Producer Admin Merged

"Fire" (suggested by Khaos on 2021-10-10), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

11 Oct, '21
Squigglypotamus Merged

Fire and flame effects cause progressively worsening graphics FPS, This is immediately noticeable when I pull a torch out at night or in a cave. Within minutes, the game becomes all but unplayable. I was walking back to my drop ship, at night and I was getting super jerky graphic renderings of about 1 to 4 frames per second (estimated). I do not notice issues with other lighting, such as water reflections or ambient sunlight and shadows. Only open flames and forest fire effects do this and it seems to compound, the longer that I am exposed to them. If I put out the torch and wait a few seconds, everything is fine, until the torch is turned back on, again, With the international chip shortage, I have not been able to upgrade my system yet, so I have set the settings to low or medium, as best I can. The game has been playable, but a little choppy at times. Other than when fire is present, I have found it to be workable. Is there a way to reduce the animation or light sources?

11 Oct, '21
Elissa - Producer Admin

"Fire and Flame = Super Low FPS" (suggested by Squigglypotamus on 2021-10-11), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

12 Oct, '21
Tanathos Merged

When turning on a torch or/and a campfire at night time the game has huge lag issues.
PC specs:
CPU: Ryzen 5 3600
GPU: rx 5600xt
RAM: 16GB

Please, fix this.

13 Oct, '21
Chrissy Admin Merged

"Lag (very low fps) and freeze when turning on a torch or/and a campfire" (suggested by Tanathos on 2021-10-12), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

20 Oct, '21
Tanathos Merged

Same here anytime I used a torch during BW3 and BW4 as well. Torches and campfires (and all the similar) sources of light seem to cause a massive framerate drop.

My PC Specs:
CPU: Ryzen 5 3600
GPU: rx5600 xt
RAM: 16 GB (3600 MHz)
OS: Win 10 pro 64 bit

21 Oct, '21
Clayton Lynn Merged

No matter what settings im on, low/med/high/epic, my game runs fine until the second i pull out my torch and turn it on, then it instantly becomes unplayable.

21 Oct, '21
Elissa - Producer Admin Merged

"[Bug] Terrible FPS with torch at night" (suggested by danny Tangtam on 2021-10-08), including upvotes (4) and comments (1), was merged into this suggestion.

21 Oct, '21
Elissa - Producer Admin Merged

"[Bug] Torch causing massive frame rate drop" (suggested by Rodney Bosley on 2021-09-12), including upvotes (13) and comments (3), was merged into this suggestion.

22 Oct, '21
Dordanov Merged

Same Issue, also with an AMD card. (Ryzen 5 3600, RX 5700 XT, 64GB RAM).

Was pretty bad in BW3, then issue seemed to be almost gone in BW4. Back with a vengeance in BW5. Effect seems worse when in multiplayer when playing as the host. Solo is a bit less impactful, but still very noticable.
Pretty noticable with a handheld torch and from the standing torches. An activated Firepit also creates a very big performance hit and result in <10 fps when I stand near it. When deactivating the firepit my FPS instantly shoots back up to around 60.
So seems to be fire/light related. Impact on performance from the Fireplace for example is much less noticable weirdly enough.

23 Oct, '21
Damascus Merged

Camp fires, forest fires and torches causing low FPS (~1-5), even when looking at them from a distance (~100ft). Happens on any level of settings.

Ryzen 7 3700x
16GB ram
Radeon RX 5600 XT

23 Oct, '21
SnS Merged

Same here rx 5700 Xt game is imposible to play less than 10 fps. Some fire effect ruin performance

23 Oct, '21
Tanathos Merged

I'm experiencing the same issue as for @Dordanov. I have already reported in this topic the issue I had with firelight during the BW4. I thought and hoped it would be fixed for this BW (i.e. BW5) but nothing has changed :(

24 Oct, '21
Crazyhorse Merged

Lanterns are the ONLY way to go now...they are incredible and give off fantastic light. The really cool part is they take NO fuel and they last forever. We had no fps drop off using them in groups with multiple players using them at the same time.

26 Oct, '21
Jeff Merged

I was able to find a setting on DX12 that works pretty well. (basically everything max low) but I did notice how bad it really was when i was turning everything up for a photo shoot with my glass house. 3950X and 5700XT anniversary edition

26 Oct, '21
Tanathos Merged

UPDATE on BW5 torch/campfire/floor torch performance issues:

Torch and campfire light resulted in a massive framerate drop during BW3 and BW4. The situation appeared to be better during BW5 though.

My settings for BW5 were the same as per previous BWs:
FSR activated to ultra quality (I also tried lower options) with a quality sharpness ranging from 80 to 100 (needed to try different solutions).

Funny thing I found a way to make the massive framerate drop disappear:

When activating a torch I pressed the windows button to highlight the windows bar and check the task manager to keep an eye on RAM and GPU usage. Just highlighting the Windows bar resulted in an overall framerate gain. Could it be possible that the windowed mode has some inconsistencies when calculating the light resolution for torches and campfires? (sorry if it may sound stupid but I'm not a game programmer)

07 Nov, '21
Robert L Scherzer

I'm having the same issue this beta week testing. When I light a campfire and get close to it it become super laggy.
Rx5700xt. And a 6800xt that died on friday night :(

18 Nov, '21
Jeannie Merged

I was using the basic torch at night in a cave and every time I pulled it out my frames would drop down to 3 frames. Testing it out in the open and still had the same issue.

18 Nov, '21
Elissa - Producer Admin Merged

"Major frame drops with basic torch" (suggested by Jeannie on 2021-11-18), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

19 Nov, '21
HillStreet Merged

Turning on a torch or having multiple torches lit lags the game out pretty bad. Radeon RX5600xt. Other games with lighting I have no issue. All lighting effects turned off.

19 Nov, '21
Jeannie Merged

Also having issues with campfires and lightening storms now. I also run a AMD card I didn't have any problems for any other beta weekend just this current BW7 with this. it is really bad and drops me down to 1fps especially when in multiplayer server.

20 Nov, '21
Dem Merged

I never lagged so much in any of the betas as this one bw7 this is the worst .. and it must be the nvidia update stuff. Never had problem with fire now torches or campfires anything with fire .. lags me a bit / My friend was so bad on his 5600 he couldnt play yet he played all the other bws.. no problem.. and this is the first one that i have had so much lag.. I Sure hope this changes cuz i wont have anyone to play with since everyone is lagging it seems.. Find this problem or revert to like bw 2 LOL i never lagged then at all ! even last weekend was not too bad. I dont know if this game can deliver that bw 2 experience with adding so much more to it .. sorry guys .. love this game love the dev team but this needs fixing the lag is terrible and im running a rtx 2060 plenty of ram and i dont lag with any games .. and i hear 3000 series is having major issues .. fix please

20 Nov, '21
Shadoon Merged

I am getting massive frame rate drop when I have a lite torch out. I am going down to around 20-ish frames if not less. There where a few moments that the frames dropped down to 1fps. I have a Radeon RX 5700 RT, and the graphics are set to medium across the broad, and I also have the FSR option on.

20 Nov, '21
Dinkelbrot Merged

Hey. Normally I get around 60-75 fps with an RX5700xt on mid settings. However when I turn the torch on my fps drops significantly to 24 fps. Reproduceable every time when I'm standing next to some trees and bushes. In caves I have no drop at all.

Issue not happening with 6700xt or Nvidia Quattro P5000 (Shadow Cloud gaming)

20 Nov, '21
Elissa - Producer Admin Merged

"Significant FPS drop with Torch in the Forest." (suggested by Dinkelbrot on 2021-11-20), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

20 Nov, '21
Elissa - Producer Admin Merged

"Frame rate drop when using a torch" (suggested by Shadoon on 2021-11-20), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

20 Nov, '21
Elissa - Producer Admin Merged

"Torches Lags pc" (suggested by HillStreet on 2021-11-19), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

20 Nov, '21
DestiniesGuardian Merged

I made a simple rag torch last night and my game just started getting janky and jittery. It went away as soon as I put the torch away, but started again when I brought it back out.

I have checked all me drivers and such, they are up to date.

20 Nov, '21
SkyNett81 Merged

i do have AMD RX 6800 and i do lose much frames when there are flames nearby .
i have only 5-7 fps.

20 Nov, '21
Diemosthenes Merged

Same issue here in BW7; Sapphire 5700 XT gpu @100%. Outside seems ~ok with torch though still a heavy hit to frames. Caves with hand torch is unplayable, though stationary and dropped torches are OK.

21 Nov, '21
Elissa - Producer Admin Merged

"frame drops with flames-rendering with AMD GPUs" (suggested by SkyNett81 on 2021-11-20), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

21 Nov, '21
Elissa - Producer Admin Merged

"Bug with torches last night." (suggested by DestiniesGuardian on 2021-11-20), including upvotes (2) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

22 Nov, '21
Ennon Merged

AMD Radeon 6900XT here using DX12 all Epic settings -- this only is occurring for me in BW7 and not any previous BW's. Usually get 60+ FPS, but when a torch (handheld or floor) is lit, frames drop to 5 FPS.

22 Nov, '21
ARTHAS Merged

From yesterday I played fine until when I setup a firecamp on daylight, turnsout it was the fire effect that cause fps drop and stuttering. Not only with fire, it can occur when effect like laser and smoke appear.

[Bug] Fire Textures Horrible FPS

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