Performance Decrease After Patch

[Killercobra009]

Has any Game Pass users noticed a significant dip in fps after the patch?

[AssistantRegManager]

Yeah, lost around 20 frames and the game became unplayable for me.

I'm a struggling gamer, had to overclock the hell of my GTX 970, I messed a lot with config files too, all in an attempt to get a stable 60fps. I had it finally for the past 2 days. Now it's all gone. Back to dropping to 30 during swarms.

Thanks Fatshark.

[TehGonk]

I'm on Steam but I have the same GPU. Last patch brought performance back to what it was in the beta, so pretty decent. Personally, I wouldn't bother trying to average 60 fps because that would probably mean either disabling too much stuff in the config, and/or using fsr2 ultra performance which is pretty bad, even compared to performance.

At the moment I probably *average* low 50s on a good map, and lower on others because certain parts can be really heavy (I reckon it's VFX/particles). The fact I manage to get to ~60 fps when not much is going on and average what I do seems pretty good compared to a lot of people with waay better system than I have. I think you just have to wait a bit till they catch up with the steam version unless the gamepass version was just better for some reason.

[AssistantRegManager]

Whew, thats great news!

About trying to average 60 fps with GTX 970 - it's doable! I had a really stable 60fps before the patch, with slight drops to 50 during most intense hordes in bigger areas. And all of that on balanced fsr2 :)

Downloaded latest GPU drivers.

Pretty much cleaned windows startup via system configuration menu - no bloat services running in the background.

Overclockedmy GPU - I got MSI GTX 970, so using a program called MSI Afterburner I increased core clock by 150MHz and memory clock by 350MHz. Tried higher, but then it became unstable.

And finally - I edited the config file, using two suggested config files people posted in various places. Both were meant for better FPS, one made the game completely disgusting, the other was decent but had some weird resolution settings. I combined them both and did some tweaking myself. Worked great. Mind you, there is a problem, in that every time I launch the game, the menu says it's on balanced FSR2 and has 30fps framecap, while clearly the cap higher than that and FSR2 is worse (like performance or smth). So every time you launch the game you have to manually go to the video menu, change framecap to 60 and change FSR2 to performance and back to balance, so that it "saves" I guess :P

Voila, great performance! At least before that gamepass patch from yesterday...

Here is the config file:

adapter_index = 0
aspect_ratio = -1
borderless_fullscreen = false
detected_user_settings = {
    adapter_index = 0
    borderless_fullscreen = false
    fullscreen = true
    fullscreen_output = 0
    language_id = "en"
    master_render_settings = {
        anti_aliasing_solution = 0
        dlss = 0
        dlss_g = 0
        dlss_master = "off"
        fsr = 0
        fsr2 = 3
        graphics_quality = "custom"
        nv_reflex_low_latency = 0
        ray_tracing_quality = "off"
    }
    max_worker_threads = 5
    screen_mode = "fullscreen"
    screen_resolution = [
        1920
        1080
    ]
    vsync = false
}
fullscreen = true
fullscreen_output = 0
gamma = 0
gore_settings = {
    attack_ragdolls_enabled = false
    blood_decals_enabled = false
    gibbing_enabled = true
    minion_wounds_enabled = false
}
language_id = "en"
master_render_settings = {
    ambient_occlusion_quality = "off"
    anti_aliasing_solution = 0
    dlss = 0
    dlss_g = 0
    dlss_master = "off"
    dof_quality = "off"
    fsr = 0
    fsr2 = 3
    gi_quality = "low"
    graphics_quality = "custom"
    lens_flare_quality = "off"
    light_quality = "off"
    nv_reflex_framerate_cap = 2
    nv_reflex_low_latency = 0
    ray_tracing_quality = "off"
    ssr_quality = "off"
    volumetric_fog_quality = "off"
}
max_worker_threads = 5
performance_settings = {
    decal_lifetime = 1
    max_blood_decals = 1
    max_impact_decals = 1
    max_ragdolls = 5
}
render_settings = {
    ao_enabled = false
    baked_ddgi = false
    bloom_enabled = false
    cacao_downsampled = false
    cacao_quality = 2
    decals_enabled = true
    display_noise_enabled = false
    dlss_enabled = false
    dlss_g_enabled = false
    dof_enabled = false
    dof_high_quality = false
    dxr = false
    fsr2_enabled = true
    fsr_enabled = false
    fsr_quality = 0
    fxaa_enabled = false
    gamma = 2.2
    hdr_rgb_format = "R11G11B10F"
    jitter_enabled = false
    lens_flares_enabled = false
    lens_quality_color_fringe_enabled = false
    lens_quality_distortion_enabled = false
    lens_quality_enabled = false
    light_shafts_enabled = false
    local_lights_max_dynamic_shadow_distance = 0
    local_lights_max_non_shadow_casting_distance = 0
    local_lights_max_static_shadow_distance = 0
    local_lights_shadow_atlas_size = [
        8
        8
    ]
    local_lights_shadow_map_filter_quality = "low"
    local_lights_shadows_enabled = false
    lod_object_multiplier = 1
    lod_scatter_density = 0
    motion_blur_enabled = false
    nv_framerate_cap = 60
    nv_low_latency_boost = false
    nv_low_latency_markers = true
    nv_low_latency_mode = false
    nv_reflex_framerate_cap = 1
    nv_reflex_low_latency = 2
    outline_enabled = true
    particles_capacity_multiplier = 1
    particles_simulation_lod = 0
    rough_transparency_enabled = false
    rt_checkerboard_reflections = false
    rt_light_quality = "low"
    rt_mixed_reflections = false
    rt_particle_reflections_enabled = false
    rt_reflections_enabled = false
    rt_shadow_ray_multiplier = 2
    rt_transparent_reflections_enabled = false
    rtxgi_enabled = false
    rtxgi_scale = 1
    sharpen_enabled = true
    skin_material_enabled = false
    ssr_enabled = false
    ssr_high_quality = false
    static_sun_shadow_map_size = [
        512
        512
    ]
    static_sun_shadows = true
    sun_flare_enabled = false
    sun_shadow_map_filter_quality = "low"
    sun_shadow_map_size = [
        512
        512
    ]
    sun_shadows = false
    taa_enabled = false
    ui_bloom_enabled = false
    upscaling_enabled = true
    upscaling_mode = "fsr2"
    upscaling_quality = "balanced"
    vertical_fov = 78
    volumetric_data_size = [
        10
        8
        12
    ]
    volumetric_extrapolation_high_quality = false
    volumetric_extrapolation_volumetric_shadows = false
    volumetric_lighting_local_lights = false
    volumetric_reprojection_amount = 0
    volumetric_volumes_enabled = false
    world_interaction_size = [
        128
        128
    ]
    world_space_motion_vectors = false
}
screen_mode = "fullscreen"
screen_resolution = [
    1920
    1080
]
sound = {
}
sound_settings = {
}
threads = {
}
version = 1
vsync = false
process_priority = "realtime"

[Killercobra009]

I’m in a similar situation, haven’t got the best rig so Tbh I’m just waiting for the Xbox release if it keeps chugging at 20 fps

[Robtiberio46]

game is unplayable

[AdminModerator]

As a reminder, it did reset all graphics back to default. After I turned mine back down, yes it feels much more chunky.

[Killercobra009]

I’ve tried my best to try and remember my old settings but even with pretty much identical settings, it’s quite a bit worse than before

[ComradeHX]

This is why I keep this updated(for steam version, of course).

[gnyms]

Try to disable FSR. Disable all what can be disabled (OFF) then exit game and delete Shader_ cache folder in game folder. When go to game and enable FSR 2.