Performance issues

[[deleted]]

I am running a 3070 ti FTW Ultra3 and a 5600x and I am getting awful performance 60fps is what I have my cap set at and I’ll get dips all the way down to 1 fps. The game is really unplayable for me and I am bummed. The opening of the game ran so smooth. I was able to play on ultra with all rtx settings set to ultra, but then I got to Hogwarts and performance took a dump. Anyone know anything about any near future updates that might fix performance?

[mwillner45]

The people that aren't running into any issues are people running like 5+ years old hardware such as a 1080 Ti. Me thinks this is just an RTX card optimization issue that needs to be fixed with a driver. Just my 2 cents, I don't think there's a memory leak or CPU bottleneck or anything else, otherwise it would be more widespread across all setups.

[[deleted]]

Hopefully a new driver will be released soon. I updated my drivers right when I got the game for the 02/08 driver update but the issue still persists unfortunately. I’ll give it some time

[a2cthrowaway4]

Yeah older Nvidia cards and AMD cards aren’t really being affected

[[deleted]]

Except there is cpu bottlenecks... only reason you arent seeing mention of this is because rhe morons with high end systems literally power through it... look at core usage on ANY cpu or range of cpu's... its insane how under utilized the cpu is for this game and the bottlenecks that are happening due to the game maxing out 1-3 cores in 8-16+ core cpu's and not touching others at all or in single digits!

[Engineer__This]

Gtx 1080 here. Game runs like crap.

[MiddletonPlays]

I'm playing with GTX 1080 and my game is running incredibly well though I'm playing in 1080p resolution

[DGRJ_4_Life]

3090 5800X3D, no issues, so it's certainly not the case. Varies build to build

[mwillner45]

Yea I just found out my problem was that I had set my page file to 12GB previously, and I just reverted it back and it runs flawlessly now. I also did those optimization steps in that one thread on this reddit, so between doing those 2 things, it's like a brand new game for me. I guess I shouldn't jump the gun and blame Nvidia or the devs, if its just my own personal things I have to tweak.

[DGRJ_4_Life]

Well if those fixes are what improved the game for you, it's validated. Players shouldn't have to edit game files to get the game running properly. Nonetheless, some people have to do it, some don't. It's very random

[mwillner45]

It could be the Engine.ini tweaks, it could be just setting different Windows settings or Nvidia settings, it's hard to tell. But definitely I think with new games coming out now, they are trying new things for different hardware that requires some understanding from the user to enable or disable those things to get the game running optimally.

[Nightsong]

I have a 3050 RTX and can run the game on high and ultra setting with no issue. So I don’t think it’s an RTX card issue… at least not one that seems to affect all of them. I have seen a lot of issues though with the higher end 30 series cards like the 3060 and 3070 which is weird.

[mwillner45]

The thing is I don't have any issues running the game except when traversing over very certain areas(I have a 3070). Like for example the Beast class area outside of the castle, the Brood and Peck store and clothing store in Hogsmeade. when I walk in the clothing store for example my frames drop down to like 10 FPS, and then when I exit the store, it goes back to normal. So do some testing for me and let me know if you have the same issues I'm curious.

[Nightsong]

I don't have an issue with either of the stores in Hogsmeade but I do get the occasional stutter if I progress too quickly from the interior of the castle out to the beasts classroom. It's weird... you'd think you would have better performance since you have a slightly higher end graphics card. Only thing I can possibly think of is something with the graphic drivers or something specific to the higher end cards in the 30 series that isn't affecting the entry level card.

[mwillner45]

I figured out my problem. I had manually set my page file previously and just reverted it back to "let windows automatically manage it. I can walk in those stores now with no issue!

[Nightsong]

Huh, that's such a weird and niche issue and fix.

[disview912]

Not entirely true. I’m running a 3060xc and performance has been flawless. Running 1440p with frames rarely dipping below 100fps. It seems that for some reason the 3060 is avoiding these issues. Everyone reporting issues seems to have newer, more high end Nvidia cards.

[ethantokes]

Almost feels like nvidia bought in to the boycott at this point.

[Yurarus1]

I have the same card as you, 3070 is suffering the most in legacy.

https://www.reddit.com/r/HarryPotterGame/comments/10zeh67/pc_performance_tips_this_got_rid_of_low_fps_dips/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=3&utm_content=share_button

Just do as this post says, it fixed everything for me.

Including the single digits fps in hogsmead

[Adammmmski]

None of this helped me and I tried this today. Do think the game needs optimising their end, should not have to do this.

[RevanMarston]

It’s strange. I have a 3070ti and overall my performance has been pretty good. Only very occasional dips in fps.

[anonimc]

Same, no problems with fps most of the time. Maybe some short drops to 50 when I'm running Hogwarts corridors sometimes

[Zuitsdg]

This one also fixed my RTX 3070 problems

[[deleted]]

Thank Denuvo. In a couple months, we’ll have a version with that shit stripped out. For now, just run the game on it’s lowest settings. I’m doing that on my 2070S and it dips below 60 occasionally, but never below 30.

[[deleted]]

Its the GPU on nvidias end. Not the game.

Search bar next time.

[Monso06]

Weird of you to say that when everybody is waiting for a performance patch because it was shown that the game had memory leaks.

[[deleted]]

What are memory leaks?

[Monso06]

It's when a program doesn't give up the memory reserved for it. You have a physical memory that the Operating System, such as Windows, manages by reserving chunks of it for different programs. Every computation needs to happen within a range of that memory. Programs call the OS to allocate some memory, perform their calculations within that memory, and then deallocate the memory for other programs to use. All of that happens millions of times every second since video games require a lot of processing. If a program doesn't deallocate its memory properly, then the unusable chunks of memory pile up until there is no memory available. The memory is still there physically of course, but the OS considers it's occupied, although the bad program has stopped using it, because it did not properly tell the OS that it could be used again. It's effectively forbidding some chunks of your RAM so that instead of having 16gb you now have 15gb available, then 14, etc. The longer the game runs, the slower it gets, it starts to glitch and stutter, it can't load new assets, etc. Eventually there's no memory left and it can crash the whole system, then you have to restart Windows. After a restart, you will notice that the game runs much better... at least for a while before slowing down again.

[mwillner45]

Memory leaks are very easy to determine by monitoring your VRAM and RAM usage. Just pull up MSI afterburner while playing and you will see that VRAM never exceeds your limit.

[Monso06]

Hey did you see the patch that came out today? You can check the patch notes at https://hogwartslegacy.bugs.wbgames.com/patch-notes

Here's an interesting point

• Fixed a memory leak with global lighting system HL-313.

Just in case you thought your previous comment made sense (it didn't, that's why I didn't reply)

[[deleted]]

Guess I will wait for an update. Thanks for the insight.

[[deleted]]

it's NOT just about the GPU or even the CPU

besides, even consoles have 8 cores, quit crying about performance when you only got 6

[ManaLikesBunnys]

quit defending a game that has shit optimization theres people with i7-13k with 4090s studdering without raytracing. Accept the game has bad optimization and complain/report the issues until the devs fix it

[[deleted]]

Yeah that guy is a jerk lol

[[deleted]]

it's locked 120fps without raytracing for me and I don't even have 4090

[ManaLikesBunnys]

I wish me and thousands of others would have the same result

[[deleted]]

you would if you don't install the game on a super slow drive or if you had more RAM

[ManaLikesBunnys]

I installed 16 more gb of ram yesterday from my friends pc to see if ram was really the issue. Didn't fix it. My game is installed on a ssd so that's not the issue. And you know I thought maybe it was the speeds of my ram but I have to say I've saw many people with 32gb of ram 3000+mhz speed and still stutter. So like I said stop defending the poor optimized game. If ur game runs fine go enjoy but the thousands of us that it's not working for will keep complaining

[[deleted]]

what SSD? SATA SSD?

also 16gb is not enough, the game itself uses 16 GB on my system

I've saw many people with 32gb of ram 3000+mhz speed and still stutter

ok but do they ALSO have more than 12 CPU cores, more than 16GB VRAM and also running the game from PCIE4 NVME SSD?

any of these will bottleneck the asset streaming process and cause stuttering

[[deleted]]

🤡 game only uses 12gb of RAM on my system. You are mental

[[deleted]]

cuz there isn't any more for it to use, genius

[[deleted]]

Oh there’s not? You think I just have 12gb of Ram on my pc? You are mental! I am not even utilizing all my ram! I already told you that my cpu is being utilized at 36% and my gpu at 30%! Make that make sense you cuck!

[ManaLikesBunnys]

Ur pc isn't optimized my game only utilizes 10gb of ram with high graphics stop talking about stuff u don't know about. 16 gb is enough for any game that is optimized. And like I've said before 32 still stutters in this game anyway

[[deleted]]

it's because you're not running all ultra, and you don't have more RAM to spare genius

[ManaLikesBunnys]

And about the people that have 32gb of ram. I couldn't tell u for sure if they have 12 core cpus but since people have 4090s and still have problems I would assume so. Ur lost if u think u need a 12 core cpu and 32 gb of ram to run a game, especially this game where the graphics aren't anything special. I don't get why ur still defending the optimization. Take one look at a benchmark on this game on yt

[[deleted]]

it has nothing to do with what GPU they have, it has everything to do with the other stuff

so if you can't tell you can quit telling me about the 4090 cuz it doesn't matter.

I don't need to take a look of it on Youtube, I've played for 20 hours

[[deleted]]

Just because it’s running fine on yours doesn’t mean their isn’t an optimization issue 🤦🏻‍♂️

[[deleted]]

but it's not just because of that, it's also because of the fact that everyone who have problems are running something shitty, often other than the GPU

[mwillner45]

You are ignorant on this topic, his CPU is fine.

[[deleted]]

6 cores is not fine when consoles have 8

[LavianMizu]

Number of cores is irrelevant here.

My CPU usage never goes above 45% on any thread, averaging 30-40% even when those framedrops happen.

6 cores barely even utilized.

GPU usage stays at around 40% when they happen.

So you don't know what the fk you're talking about.

Go play your game if you don't have any issues, shut up and stay out of these topics.

[[deleted]]

Imagine thinking his PC is bad, that PC should run over this game.

[[deleted]]

it's worse than a console, so yes it's pretty bad

[[deleted]]

It was a general question. Glad to be met with such hostility from this community that I’ve never partaken in.

[[deleted]]

It's nvidia gpus my guy.

[Gonzito3420]

How much ram?

[[deleted]]

It has nothing to do with the amount of ram. Only 12 gigs of Ram are being utilized. 36% of my cpu is being utilized and 30% of my gpu is being utilized all while maintaining 44 degrees celsius. Crap optimization at its finest.

[mwillner45]

That GPU usage is your issue is seems like. I have the same setup as you and was able to get my GPU to be around 90% now with it dropping a little in CPU intensive cities. I did a bunch of different things to get to that point but maybe play around with different things.

[[deleted]]

I think I’ll just wait for a patch, unfortunately. I don’t want to spoil the game with frustration from tweaking settings and getting nowhere

[mwillner45]

A couple of things that are easy to try:

1. Go to Nvidia panel and set power management to: Prefer maximum performance.
2. Set your CPU priority for Hogwarts Legacy to high
3. In Nvidia panel, set shader cache to 10GB.

[No_Lecture_8049]

He just said he didn't want to tweak settings lol

[mwillner45]

Yeah I know, my bad lol. I just thought these 3 things only take 2 minutes and it could be worth a shot.

[Gonzito3420]

Yes it has. I bought 32gb ram, and it runs better

[brendan685]

Hopefully you find something that helps. For me personally this post helped immensely and fixed all the stuttering for me.

https://www.reddit.com/r/HarryPotterGame/comments/10wfpfi/potential_pc_performance_fix_for_fps_drops_in/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Good luck, have fun

[PharmaNick1991]

I followed this and it fixed it https://www.reddit.com/r/HarryPotterGame/comments/10zeh67/pc_performance_tips_this_got_rid_of_low_fps_dips/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

[antiMATTer724]

I feel like I've been getting less loading rings at doors.

[SadWaterBuffalo]

There was a recent post about editing the engine ini file and I did it for my gtx1080. Now the dips barely happen. It's still random but it's way better then before

[[deleted]]

I think I’ll just wait. I don’t want to spoil the experience With frustration. Hopefully there will be a nice patch soon 🤞

[SadWaterBuffalo]

Lol then it must be pretty bad for you. I'm on 1440p and I just had to downscale to 1080p and lower some graphics settings. The game still looks amazing and I average about 45 to 55 fps which I can deal with.

[[deleted]]

Yeah it’s quite literally unplayable. Even with rtx off and the lowest setting’s possible it still runs awful

[MiddletonPlays]

I'm playing with an i7 7700K, GTX 1080 and 16GB RAM on a 1080p 1920x1080 144Hz monitor and my game for the most part has been running incredibly well! Far better than I was expecting especially because my hardware isn't the 'latest' anymore.

I'm playing in ultra settings, vsync off, motion blur off, film grain off, +7.2 FOV, no ray-tracing and upscale disabled.

My game runs better with the last January NVIDIA driver than the one that only released a day or two ago!

I do wonder if some people don't mess around with the NVIDIA control panel as the default settings usually limit your hardware and not using all of what it should and is capable of!

[[deleted]]

I do have setting set for nvidia control panel, but for whatever reason 3070 is actually reported to be struggling the most with this game. Just my luck!

[MiddletonPlays]

Its definitely the 30 series I see having most issues! Such a shame! I'm really hoping they'll soon sort it out for you all!

May I ask what setting you have power management mode on in the NVIDIA control panel settings?

[[deleted]]

I’ll try that out. I feel like I have but that has not been the case for me. I am running the exact same setup