[Observation] Performance Megathread

28 Aug, '21
Roy Timmermans Merged

1. frametimes are very inconsistent and all over the place which results in very bad stuttering. see screenshot for example, this line should be straight.
2. Performance is very poor. lowering settings doe not help much, even tried all DLSS options but from OFF to Ultra performance DLSS I gain maybe 20 FPS. Even with DLSS off and lowering rendering resolution barely does anything.

PC Specs:
CPU: Intel I9 10900k 10-core
GPU: NVidia RTX 3080
MEM: 64GB DDR4
Storage: NvME 1TB Samsung Pro 980

All drivers up to date and Windows up to Date
I even tried my other system 8700k with RTX3070, same issue there.

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28 Aug, '21
Imerg Merged

Performances decreases a lot in combat, leading to powerpoint gameplay sometimes. On correct config

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28 Aug, '21
Wonderworlds Gaming Merged

Exactly This

28 Aug, '21
Dennis wormire Merged

Same here,
RTX 3070 on I7 8700k
Performance is poor, switching quality does nothing
DLSS is a joke

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29 Aug, '21
MattTheHazard Merged

When you are aiming with the bow and are zoomed in, if you switch from your bow to something else(used number keys), it was a pick ax for me, the bow was zoomed in when I switched back. Was able to reproduce it regularly.

29 Aug, '21
Brushy Merged

Change FOV to maximum, this will fix your performance issues. This needs to be fixed asap..

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29 Aug, '21
A user Merged

Very poor overall performance on OC'd i9 9900k, 32GB 3200mhz RAM, 2080Super, SSD. Does not feel like I'm getting the frames the steam overlay says I am - that frame graph in the OP is why, I guess. Performance is my biggest concern with the game right now.

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29 Aug, '21
Chris Merged

If this helps I notice my stuttering is significantly higher near large mountains and rock formations.
i9-9900k
RTX 3090oc 24g ram
32gb ram on PC
Running on Nvme drives (Sabrent Rocket+ for my gaming drive, Samsungs for others)

29 Aug, '21
Mekaj Merged

I don't have the highest end set up but the performance/ frame rate issues are rough. Changing the graphic settings doesn't change anything performance wise, usually sitting around 20 fps. Also noticed a hard fps drop when using the bow.

PC Specs:
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core
GPU: GTX 1060 3GB
MEM: 16GB
Storage: SSD

29 Aug, '21
didi Merged

For how average the game looks, the performance is abysmal.
Changing from high to low had no effect on framerate. FP games need 120+ fps.
Hopefully gets optimised before release or its a refund.

29 Aug, '21
Brad Merged

Same, it is the worst around the mountain borders of the current playable area.

Epic Graphic Settings
PC Specs:
CPU: Intel I7 10700k
GPU: NVidia RTX 3080
MEM: 32GB DDR4
Storage: NvME 1TB Samsung Pro 980

30 Aug, '21
Norbu Merged

Even the intro video stutters on my computer (GTX1070, i5-7600k, 16gb ram)!

30 Aug, '21
Dan Merged

Same. Depth of Field (blurred vision) when using the bow kills my framerate. Forget trying to chase and hunt anything on foot through vegetation. Have tried on low settings and still seeing that inconsistency in FPS.

PC Specs:
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600x 6-Core
GPU: GTX 2070
MEM: 16GB
Storage: SSD

30 Aug, '21
Corey Merged

Same... horrible performance in comparison to other unreal games. 5120*1440@120 framerate limited in game to 117 vsync on and DLSS performance selected, settings High, Fullscreen. 50FPS average with sometimes spikes to 70FPS and dips down to 30fps.

PC Specs:
CPU: AMD 5900x
GPU: EVGA 3090 FTW3 Ultra
Mem: 32GB 3600
Storage: M.2 970 evo plus

31 Aug, '21
JaysonPhoenix Merged

seems to be no optimization at all yet, some with highend cards get low fps while some with low end cards get high fps, also seems to be depending alot on the rest of your system, for example the game is very ram hungry.
also theres games looking better with more mechanics that even a gtx760 can play while here you cant play below a gtx960 (not even on everything low on 720p ^^). but optimization will come later on as usual, hopefully to a huge extend...
@norbu gtx1070 i7 2nd gen, 16gb ram, ssd, win7. playing on everything epic with 20-30fps. intro not stuttering, but alot of short fps drop spikes in game, not much of an issue but saying not running smooth. so definately depending on the overall system and probably even the component brands differences

06 Sep, '21
Elissa - Producer Admin Merged

"Low FPS Performance" (suggested by L33TCH on 2021-08-28), including upvotes (9) and comments (3), was merged into this suggestion.

06 Sep, '21
Elissa - Producer Admin Merged

"Stutter/frame rate drop when aiming" (suggested by Nuk3 on 2021-08-28), including upvotes (2) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

06 Sep, '21
Elissa - Producer Admin Merged

"FPS stability" (suggested by Maxpain on 2021-08-28), including upvotes (7) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

10 Sep, '21
Dalluge Merged

Still huge amounts of stuttering happening when moving around the game world. Seems to happen a lot in certain areas like near cave entrances (the ones in the chasm on the line of J14 / K14) but also just happens randomly a lot.

10 Sep, '21
Kahai Merged

The game runs well enough (over 60fps) @ 1440p with everything on High and Textures at Epic (15GB of memory being used on the 3090...) but the stuttering is god awful. Worse when you zoom in with a bow making tracking a target terrible sometimes. Then the random hitch when, I think, it's unloading/loading an area. You can almost consistently make it hitch going back and forth between areas.

11 Sep, '21
Troy Merged

Same problem all drivers up to date but still lots of stuttering
Changing the graphic settings didn’t help
Even when playing solo

13 Sep, '21
Grant Merged

Poor performance, averaging 30 FPS on medium overall settings.

DISPLAY: 4K 144Hz G-SYNC
CPU: i9-9900KF @ 3.60GHz
GPU: RTX 2070 SUPER
MEM: 32GB
DISK: Samsung SSD 860 EVO 2TB

13 Sep, '21
Shoppy Merged

When you ADS with the bow, rifle, and shotgun, your frames drop A LOT. I went from 50-60 FPS to 20 FPS by ADS with shotgun.

14 Sep, '21
Fabiano A Merged

Bad Performance to me too:
Intel I7 8700K
32GB DDR 3200mhz
Intel M2 665p 1TB
RTX ASUS ROG STRIX 2080
ASUS 34" 2k 144hz

The game are awesome and i am really enjoy a lot, i even bought 2 times the game for my 2 friends, both we are cant play together because the graphics are low or medium with 30 ~ 40 Fps. really bad.

14 Sep, '21
THi_DELTA Merged

The Game needs a good working DX12 mode !

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14 Sep, '21
Prybar Bas Merged

Seeing the exact same issues. GTX 2080 Ti @ 3440*1440 G-Sync
All the things that typically work and increase performance, does the exact opposite in this game.
Lowering settings, only felt like it made things worse .

DLSS off, made things look slightly different and handle a fair bit better.
Altering the resolution render scale set to 70% gave some hard needed FPS gains.

But lowering graphical settings all the way down, made the game ugly and still handle rubbishly for the significantly less appealing graphics.
Stuttering and hick-ups were much worse at lower settings, likely due to a higher FPS tanking to much lower value's.

Cranking settings to max, weirdly enough made the game a lot more bearable. FPS obviously was lower, but with less stuttering, it felt much smoother even with the FPS being lower. Speculating that higher settings like 'Epic' caches a lot more data, reducing possible loading of new data?

14 Sep, '21
frank Merged

poor performance average fps 30-50 fps , but overall the game are amazing !!

display native :4k but im at 1920x1080 at 120fps
cpu: i7-8700k medium oc 4,50 ghz
gpu: nvidia 1070ti
ram : 32gb 3200 mhz xmp on
ssd m2 : 2x XPG SX8200 Pro 1TB 3,5gb/s

14 Sep, '21
Chuck Merged

While aiming down sights I have noticed the camera responding to your mouse is much more rough and unprecise compared to no ADS. It is very jumpy and seems like the response to the mouse movement during aiming is not as good especially when you are trying to snipe that deer or wolf from a distance. You aim for a headshot and try to move just a hair to the right then it jumps too far, try to come back to the left and again it jumped back over to the other side. I tested adjusting my mouse dpi (razer naga trinity) and the in game aim sensitivity and nothing made it better. NEEDS TO BE SMOOTHED OUT. (stamina was not an issue while aiming)

14 Sep, '21
Elissa - Producer Admin Merged

"ADS Stutters/Not smooth (Aiim down sights)" (suggested by Chuck on 2021-09-14), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

15 Sep, '21
Musterion Merged

I am glad that they have stated it is a known issue.

G-Sync 165Hz 2560x1440.

63fps EPIC settings, but quickly dipping down to 40 or even 20fps.
65fps LOW settings, same as above dropping to 40 or lower in certain places.
Frame times of 15-22ms!

CPU: Ryzen 7 2700x (liquid cooling) no OC / CPU is not working very hard even on EPIC sits around 30% (13% on LOW)
RAM: 16GB 3200MHz
GPU: 3070Ti (newest drivers - 471.96) / GPU utilised 99% on EPIC and around 76% on LOW

Yes, Intro video is stuttering.

The game is fantastic, but we, desperately, need those performance issues addressed ASAP.

26 Sep, '21
Chris Haugh Merged

My PC isn't the best PC money can buy, but it's also no slouch either. I've had zero issues running games like Escape from Tarkov and AC: Valhalla at max graphical settings and hitting a steady 60-80 fps consistently. This game, with most settings on medium (some even low like shadows/foliage) I barely manage to stay at a consistent 35-40 fps with constant frame rate drops that at times hits as low as 8 fps for 10 seconds or more at a time. I'm not sure where the issue is, but half the time I don't even want to play the game because the fps performance is so awful.

PC Specs incase you're wondering:

i78700K @3.7Ghz
ASUS ROG Strix Z390-E Gaming Motherboard LGA1151
32GB DDR4 RAM @ 3200Mhz
MSI GEFORCE 2070 RTX Twin Frozr7
Samsung CHG70 32" QLED Monitor (1440 @ 144hz)

Can anyone lend a suggestion that might help?

27 Sep, '21
Jeff Merged

this seems more like a network issue more than anything else to me. my setup runs about 70-80% on current settings and can be sitting regularly at 50-60FPS. I'm pretty sure this is more like a packet dropped error since we are all playing from their servers. this issue should be non existent on solo mode and local servers, which i'm sure we will see once they finally have those options.

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27 Sep, '21
Sphinx Merged

Yes switching to other handheld while aiming with bow, does not reset aim sensisivity. Only switching back to bow and cancel aim resets it. Reproducable always.

27 Sep, '21
Iulian Merged

I can relate to the issue, I have a good performance after a game start or a game restart, but once I keep playing and exploring the game starts to stutter after 1-2 hours. I think this is related to the game cache or something since it clusters and deposits know location information. Also, this can happen because I have a 6800 graphics card and I play on 4K with the biggest graphics settings.

System info:
Processor: I7 9700K
Graphics: AMD 6800
Ram: 32 GB
SSD

27 Sep, '21
Mantauk Merged

Similar issues this week (B3) whereas previous weekends seemingly ran better. During B3 we all had frequent frame drops, hitching and stuttering.

This seemed to be get worse when others joined the prospect. Things really went down hill fast when one of our team wanted to jump in but only had his friend's older laptop to play on at the time. You could see him skipping as he ran and he reported having a very laggy experience, while the rest of the group saw an increase in stuttering and skipping, especially when moving across the map or turning the camera. When he was playing from his desktop computer the game ran more smoothly for everyone.

My specs:

i9-11900K
RTX 3090
32GB DDR4-3600
PCIEv4 2TB WD_Black SSD (the really fast one)
400Mb internet
3440x1440 UW

GF's specs (similar issues):

i5-8600K
RTX 2080
32Gb DDR4-3200
PCIEv3 1TB 970EVO SSD
400Mb internet
1920x1080

28 Sep, '21
Terry Merged

Yeah its all over the place for me too, but the glitches and stuttering and bogging down is really annoying. Have it limited to 75FPS but the bogs and glitches go all the way down to almost single digits, its bizarre.

I'm running this at 5120x1440 on Samsung Odyssey G9
AMD 5950X
RTX 3080 OC
64 GB RAM 3600Mhz
1TB Samsung 980 PRO M.2 NVME

08 Oct, '21
M Sewell Merged

Just logged in for beta weekend and the graphics look like crap. The trees etc look all jittery. Tried all different graphics settings but nothing works. I have the latest graphics drivers and didn't have an issue previous weekends. Game is near unplayable with this.

09 Oct, '21
Chris Haugh Merged

To my wonderful surprise, I login last night and I'm running at a consistent 57-75 fps the entire night. The first time since this beta launched that the fps has been stable. No doubt it's going to be a fun weekend on Icarus. And then you patch something...and you break the fps stability again. Go figure.

09 Oct, '21
Conan Merged

The guy who said it seems like a dropped packet nailed it. Are there plans to allow the game to be client hosted after official launch? It's telling when so many with newer machines run into the same unexpected frame drop issue at random. Makes total sense if what we're encountering isnt hardware related but occasional high latency between servers in NZ (or wherever you guys host) and all the myriad of places people play from.

09 Oct, '21
Xtrem Edwin Merged

Game stuttering the same way, no matter if I set graphics on Epic, high, medium or low.
I can't even play, only 10 min and I'm having seasick.
It's really sad because I'm really hiped by this game and I hope an optimisation will be made because I haven't a huge set up but I can run Battlefront and Apex nearly max graphics but can't even play Icarus over 10 fps...
I'm not asking for full HD (I know it's impossible with my graphic card), but I would like to be able to play the game with descent graphics and framerate as for my other games.
If no optimisation is made before the end of the beta process, I'll be very sad about that but I will have to uninstall the game and get refound before it's no more possible.

My specs :
Processor: Intel Core I7 6700 CPU @ 3.40GHz
Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
Ram: 16 GB

11 Oct, '21
Maxpain Merged

DLSS is ghost out since BW2, I now see the AMD FR settings are active but I use an RTX 2070 so should have DLSS support.

Intel i5 9600 @ 3.70GHz
RTX 2070
Ram 32GB

11 Oct, '21
Hyperxion Merged

I have same issues, with bow it's getting much worse:

AMD Ryzen 5 3600
RTX 2060
Samsung M2 SSD
16GB RAM

Decreasing resolution from 1080p to 1600x1024 helped. Also decreasing settings in Nvidia control panel. Everything set on low in game

11 Oct, '21
PJ Merged

Same issue.

AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core 3.79GHz
32 GB
Quadro RTX 4000 8GB

Strangely poor framerates on 'High' settings. Averaging 30FPS. Can usually achieve much more on similar graphicly rich games.

12 Oct, '21
Peaceful Jim Merged

i7 10700K, GTX 3080, 32GB RAM, SSD - This game maxes out my GPU and RAM on multiple occasions. FPS drops to as low as 5 every few minutes for me.

13 Oct, '21
fornost gsd Merged

A shotgun is a close quarters gun not designed for sniping animals from distance.
Most that I have had dealings with don't even have sights.

23 Oct, '21
Joe Merged

Performance is good for the first hour , then it drops to 15fos .
Performance and the settings are many of our biggest concerns.
I believe from listening to my discord community . Most will not purchase the game because of the hardware requirements . Some have tried and then refunded . Fix the settings so they actually work . And the performance is taxing in a one year old machine .
Thank you

23 Oct, '21
El Diablo Merged

Makes it almost impossible to shoot anything, please hotfix.

23 Oct, '21
Fallout2097 Merged

Hi,
I have a problem with fps dropping over time (starts at 120 then 100, 80, 60... etc ... until the game is no longer playable) as I play
CPU: Ryzen 7 5800X
GC: 3080 ti
RAM: 32 GB
Windows 10 / Dx 11
The CPU seems very poorly used, and it gets worse as the game progresses, the game tends to use only one thread (see picture), and I think it's the cause of the FPS dropping over time.

24 Oct, '21
Elissa - Producer Admin Merged

"Aiming down sights makes you fps drop HARD" (suggested by El Diablo on 2021-10-23), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

24 Oct, '21
Elissa - Producer Admin Merged

"[Bug] Bow ADS" (suggested by MattTheHazard on 2021-08-29), including upvotes (4) and comments (1), was merged into this suggestion.

[Observation] Performance Megathread

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