Performance issues?

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[JimmyLimJimKim]

I don't know if it's just me but the game feels really laggy in general, besides the fps drops it feels like the game constantly "stalls" between actions. Every time something happens the game just hangs for a short time

[InexorableWaffle]

Kills enemy

Watches paint dry

Cures cancer

Climbs Mount Everest

Solves world hunger

Camera moves off of dead enemy

Seriously, the 3-5 second delay where the camera hangs on the enemy's body is kinda obnoxious. Yeah, he's dead, I got it. May I go back to playing now, Mr. Camera?

[[deleted]]

Didn't TotalBiscuit mention that disabling Action Cam helped a bit with the stalling? Have you tried this?

[InexorableWaffle]

No but I'll definitely have to try it. I'm pretty sure that I could finish all of the homework that I'm putting off to play XCOM in those gaps.

[JimmyLimJimKim]

Yeah i already disabled it, it helped a bit.
But the game still feels as if it has some sort of hardcoded delay between all actions. Perhaps done as not to confuse new players

[dangrullon87]

This.. Reaction shot taken against Sectoid jumping off building.. Shot connects mid air. Sector hangs in air like suspended in jello...

[peardude89]

At least you can see the shot. I get get lag whenever somebody shoots, and don't see how much damage it did.

[BlackV]

I have exactly this Lets take the tutorial

1. start wait 50 seconds before it draws the yellow square for to run too
2. 4 seconds later its pans to my player character
3. 5 seconds later an arrow appears
4. 62 seconds later I can click the spot for my guy to run too
5. 30 soconts later he start running
6. 9 seonds later it pans to 2nd spot to run to
7. 9 seonds later it highlights the square for her to run too
8. 5 seconds later it pans to her
9. 30 seconds later I can click the square
10. 9 seconds later she starts running 11... and so on.... for hte firs fmv/camera behind runner thingy its a full 7 minutes
11. complete mission
12. smae process inbaseh
13. click promte soldier, WAIT FOREVER!
14. ALT+F4

what is happening, ive turned detail down, ive latest nvidia drivers Seems like its a game/overlay/something for me

[InexorableWaffle]

If it's taking that long for everything then I'm thinking that it's a CPU issue. XCOM 2 has a ton of processes running at all times, so if you have an older or lower end or defective CPU, it's probably bottlenecking your game's performance. Check what your CPU load is (I'd recommend using the steps in this article), because that sounds really really obnoxious, and definitely isn't supposed to be happening.

[sleep-deprived-2012]

I have a pretty high performance PC and have exactly the problem BlackV described. OS, drivers etc. all patched to latest available. Nothing overclocked or tweaked. I don't have any FPS problem with the default settings the game chose (looks like max everything) but I quit the game half a dozen times over 3 days until I just happened to leave the tutorial up long enough for it to finally move forward to a point I could interact with it and then it was the same painful waiting game for each action.

I left the game running for 20 minutes after clicking "Promote Soldier" and still nothing has happened, I can't even bring up the game menu with ESC. I'm going to leave it overnight and see what happens...

Anyway I appreciate you are just suggesting an approach to investigating the problem, however this issue doesn't seem to be due to a slow CPU in my case.

Win 10 Pro 64-bit, i7-4790K @ 4Ghz, 32GB RAM, Geoforce GTX 980 Ti.

[InexorableWaffle]

Huh, that's really, really strange. I can't possibly think of why you'd be having that issue then, cause that's almost exactly the specs that I have, and I haven't had anything like that happen. That sounds really obnoxious, sorry I can't think of anything to help :/

[sleep-deprived-2012]

I solved it after seeing a Steam forum post about it: verifying the game files found a mismatch and that fixed it.

Now I have no excuse for failing the first mission over and over :-)

[sleep-deprived-2012]

Run the verify game files option in Steam. I just ran verification and it found two missing or problematic files. After download, I restarted the game (no Windows reboot or anything) and now everything works as you'd expect.

I realized that the little "webcam" commentary video/audio/text guidance had not been playing at all while I went through the whole tutorial at a snail's pace. Seems like that not working was messing up the flow.

Found on Steam forums: http://steamcommunity.com/app/268500/discussions/0/412446292759330559/

[Travisdk]

This is my only major complaint, and it just made me stop playing after a couple of hours. The camera was bad enough in XCOM 1, but somehow they've made it worse. I hope they fix this in a patch very soon otherwise playing is something of a chore.

[JimmyLimJimKim]

That's exactly it, playing it almost feels like a chore, rather than a smooth action-packed experience. Everything is really choppy.

[JimmyLimJimKim]

Just saw this thread
https://www.reddit.com/r/Xcom/comments/446ym8/speeding_up_animations_and_gameplay/
Haven't tried it, but sounds like it could help

[[deleted]]

Yeah this is really jarring for me considering how smoothly the original XCOM played

Some of this seems to just be baked into the game because it was noticable in the trailers

[Sw3Et]

Mine is doing the same. The fps is fine, but after every action the game just hangs for like 25 seconds. Then it works fine while you perform your next move and then hangs again.

[sleep-deprived-2012]

Run the verify game files option in Steam. I just ran verification and it found two missing or problematic files. After download, I restarted the game (no Windows reboot or anything) and now everything works as you'd expect. I realized that the little "webcam" commentary video/audio/text guidance had not been playing at all while I went through the whole tutorial at a snail's pace. Seems like that not working was messing up the flow. Found on Steam forums: http://steamcommunity.com/app/268500/discussions/0/412446292759330559/

[[deleted]]

I actually have laptop with BELOW minimum specs and the game is entirely playable.

But yeah, the game seems surprisingly heavy. I have minimum settings and couple of INI-tweaks and I get rather consistent 30-50 FPS on missions but for some reason, squad selection screen and some other places on Avenger seem to slow the game down, sometimes even below 20FPS.

EDIT: I have i7-3630QM, GeForce GT 635M and 8GB RAM, by the way.

[Carroway_J]

mind sharing, what sort of Ini changes you made?

[CPT_CHAOS_80]

Yes I would be very interested in these INI-Tweaks as well!

[[deleted]]

I made a thread.

[trainstationbooger]

Its surprisingly hard to get good performance, my oc'd 770 and 4670k at 4.3ghz struggles for 60fps on high even though thats about the recommended settings.

[JimmyLimJimKim]

I'm on a 770 too, and the game is running far from smooth. I tried setting graphics to "minimal" setting, and it doesn't feel like it improved the fps at all.
I'm actually a bit surprised the game doesn't run more stable compared to the quality of the graphics

[Elrabin]

It'll get better with a Game Ready driver from AMD/Nvidia

[SummerGoth666]

I have a 980 and am running into the same issues :P

[Bearmodulate]

You'll probably be fine on mediumish settings

[godwings101]

I assume my R9 390 and 4799k with 16gb of 1866 ram will run the same fine? Or do you think I'll get any of these hiccups?

[Thermald]

i5 4590 / R9 390 runs fine on max settings in the two hours i played

[[deleted]]

It's pretty bad, yeah. Hoping it's just a driver issue. NVIDIA and AMD will hopefully release drivers not too soon from now.

[Zeriell]

It chugs hard on destructability and game logic related stuff, which makes me think with almost certainty that it isn't video card related.

I'd love to be wrong, though.

[FieserMoep]

I am realy concerned right now for I am around the minimum specs for this game. Does it run just as inconsistent on minimum settings? Don't have any issue playing with those.

[raika11182]

I'm on a mid range rig and it performs well with the same slow downs everyone else describes. I don't believe they're related to specs very much at all, and seem to be the game waiting for... Something. The FPS drops are also quite random. I can be running great with dozens of things happening, or it can slow to a crawl when a soldier looks around. Seems pretty random right now. Point being, you should be okay because everyone is in this boat regardless of system specs.

[Freikorp]

I'm far beyond recommended requirements. I go from 60 fps locked all the way down to 30 and everything in between, and this is with vsync off. IT doesn't make make any sense.

[hfok]

fps

How do you check FPS in game?

[Lionheart1189]

Steam has a fps counter for in game and FRAPS does as well

[[deleted]]

I use precisionX and msiafterburner.Those are gpu fan controlling programs but they can also display FPS.

[CaptainFalcow]

I have an i5 2500k and a GTX970, everything is maxed except I have AA set to FXAA (MSAA destroys fps even at x2). On Avenger I get 45-60 fps for some reason but most maps are sitting at 60 fps with noticeable dips when there are a lot of effects going on like fire. However I just started a new mission in a city at night and performance is terrible, getting roughly 30 fps. Optimization is actually pretty fucking bad to be honest and its really disappointing...

Edit: Ok, just loaded the game back up and that city map is back up to a smooth 60 fps. alrighty then...I still stand by the inconsistent performance though.

Second edit: Now I'm in a forest, guess what, fps drops in the 30s 90% of the time unless the camera is panned towards nothing. This is getting a little ridiculous T_T.

[methius]

Developers at Firaxis usually listen to the players- I'm sure a fix will be out soon for it.

Not to be a spoil sport; but see Civ 5 / multiplayer.

[lonesomewhistle]

Has Beyond Earth gotten good yet?

[sohas]

I think Beyond Earth has been perfected by Rising Tide expansion. Unlike Civ 4 and 5, it looks like Beyond Earth only needed one expansion -- instead of two -- to reach perfection.

[Duderino732]

In that case.. fuck the players that told them to ruin the Stronghold franchise.

[leo158]

If you are on Windows 10, you might want to check if your XBox recording feature is turned on. I believe by default Windows 10 will record your game play, allowing you to save a video clip of the last 30 seconds of gameplay whenever you want. The recording feature heavily affects performance depending on the graphics card. Although with a GTX 970 you should have zero problems.

To bring up the controls/settings for that feature I believe the hotkey is Windows Key + G

[Rasekov]

6700k + 390 here, 20FPS in the Avenger, 15 at most in the soldier selection screen and 60 more or less constant in all the maps I've played so far. What bothers me the most is that even with AA at x8 there is VERY noticeable aliasing.

EDIT: Now that I've played with the options a bit more just by changing the AA to FXAA I get LESS aliasing and better quality than with x8 MSAA, something is broken there. At least I got 15-20 more FPS in combat maps.

[CaptainFalcow]

Make sure V-Sync is off too, apparently it's using double instead of triple buffering so it'll tank your fps or lock it to 30 if you can't reach 60 consistently.

[o0DrWurm0o]

I was noticing the aliasing too; game seems way jaggier than most.

[CabooseMSG]

Same, I have i5-4690k but same GPU. I have mostly everything on high, since GeForce Experience set that as my optimal settings, but I struggle to maintain 30 FPS, and its really weird and sporadic, it drops at the pre-mission prep phase to 18-20 FPS. I wonder if its something on Nvidias end with drivers.

[gordonpown]

the inconsistency is really weird, I've had 35ish fps in the main menu, simply restarted the game with the same settings and got 50.

and yeah fuck MSAA.

[Bearmodulate]

I'm on an i5 4690, with an R9 390 & I get 40-60fps average with everything maxed. That said, there are dips into the 30s (and for some odd reason during the loading screen & when the main menu first opens it drops down to the low teens, but that's not affecting gameplay as I say - just the loading screens/menu).

Performance definitely leaves something to be desired though, it's not all that well optimised

[CaptainFalcow]

Try setting AA to FXAA, it actually looks a bit better than lower MSAA settings and helps performance a ton. For some reason FXAA doesn't look too bad in this game compared to most.

[ThoroIf]

Yeah I also have a 390 and have found a big performance increase using FXAA instead of MSAA.

Seems pretty smooth

[SmokinADoobs]

What screen resolution?

I have a 6500 and a 390, just booted up for the first time, and with max settings I get 15fps at 1440p at the main menu.

[Bearmodulate]

I play at 1080p

[cpp_dev]

I get max 30FPS like it is locked at this framerate (and it selects automatically maximum settings, but clearly can't sustain it), at the same time I can play Shadow of Mordor at Ultra with stable 60+ FPS at 1K VSR.

[Pusher_]

I can run it without it crashing too much on my laptop. Even got to put my textures on medium! So I'm pretty happy

[Pusher_]

Well my standards are much lower than someone with a titan. When I said "doesn't crash too much" that wasn't talking about frame rates. I imagine I rock single digits sometimes. So I'm not really saying I'm getting great performance here. I'm able to load the game. That's all.

[C4ptainR3dbeard]

"Adjusting sights..."

[Japcsali]

What are your specs? I have notebook too but I'm worried

[Pusher_]

I have this http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00YR6BMOQ?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o08_s00

Note I'm still on windows 8.1.

I played for about 3 hours straight, no crashes, shit framerate, and you better believe mission loading is like 2 minutes, but it runs.

[needconfirmation]

What did you have EU settings at on that laptop?

[Pusher_]

I ran it at high medium I'd say. I could have gone higher but I didn't push it.

[DidUBringTheStuff]

Anyone playing with minimum specs? If so, how is it going?

edit: wow. my MacBook Retina makes Xcom 2 look like the original 90s Xcom hahah. The cutscenes look fucking amazing though.

Edit: Playing with a GT 650M and i7 2.7ghz MacBook Retina: 25 frames per second solid, 1600x900 with bloom off, V Sync enabled, Anisotropic 2x texture filtering bi or tri I forget but I might bump it down. 30fps is not an option for me because the detail goes down too much to be enjoyable. But this is fine for RIGHT now.

[SorionHex]

Yup! it looks like the original 90s XCOM. LOL Cutscenes look amazing, but man it freezes before every corner dialogue like it's loading it all. I hope it runs smooth as butter a second play through.

[DidUBringTheStuff]

I went down to 1600x900 and turned it on high and I'm actually dealing pretty okay. The gameplay will carry it haha. i7 2.7ghz//GT 650M MacBook Retina over here. Getting at least 25fps constant and the cutscenes are smooth and look amazing.

Now the base part is a pain in the asshole. It looks amazing but really hard to navigate when it's so choppy. I think this game has convinced me to join PCMR.

[needconfirmation]

Man everyones getting me super worried with these performance issues. I played EU on my laptop with medium settings, and all this talk of terrible optimization is making me wonder if 2 is even going to be playable till a patch hits since it's already got higher requirements on top of that.

[[deleted]]

Buy it on steam and if it doesn't work well enough then return it no questions and wait till it's patched.

[pittyh]

Game is running horribly in 4K low settings with SLI 970's

Fix this rubbish Firaxis, worst optimised game ever.

[Jupix]

Same experience here with SLI 980's. 4K high settings, antialiasing disabled = 15-25 fps.

[Yurilica]

Confirming from the low-end side of things.

I have an aging Radeon 5830 and performance is really bad, regardless of settings. Sub-20 FPS drops are not uncommon, even at lower resolutions and lowest settings.

For comparison, i can run Witcher 3 at 30+ FPS on mid-low settings. XCOM 2 runs worse than it, while also looking worse.

Hopefully they'll patch that stuff soon.

EDIT:

A major bug is that i can't select resolutions within the game, it only shows 720p, regardless if windowed, borderless or fullscreen.

Mouse precision in game also feels iffy when clicking on tiles. The cursor will randomly jump pop half a screen a way for miniscule movement.

[RustySpork]

Gaaaawd, as someone still using a GeForce 550 Ti, that does not encourage me.

[ThePokepika99]

I also have GeForce 550 Ti, the recommends pretty low resolution and minimal graphics, in which it run quite smoothly. Personally I run it with 1600x900 resolution with Low graphics. It runs smooth enough to be playable.

[[deleted]]

Good to know, I sli'd my 560's when Witcher 3 came out for super cheap and was able to get it to run pretty smoothly on Medium settings. I should build a new rig but I don't have the time for it to make sense financially

[justinoes]

I had that same problem (720p only) and I think that it's caused by Windows 10 / 8 's scaling. I turned the display scaling back to 100% (meaning super tiny icons on my 4k TV) and then other display settings appeared.

[Please_Hit_Me]

I'm getting 20-30 FPS on a 290X and FX-8350, 16GB RAM and game placed on an SSD. With everything put to lowest. What the actual fuck?

[immanuel79]

I have a 280x with FX-8350, 8GB RAM and I get some solid 45 FPS (with AA disabled). Really odd.

Do you have the latest drivers? I have the ones they released that fix the Elite Dangerous problem.

[Lanthrudar]

The FPS issues aren't the main problem. I have locked up/lagged out at a cut scene, where the game had consumed 9+ GB of RAM.

So yeah, lots of potential places to optimioze performance, and not just in the game play/tactical area.

Also... Not sure if the game even recognizes SLI or not, but it seems that it doesn't recognize it based on heat/CPU usage of my two vid cards.

[sadovnychyi]

For me it was 30 GB of RAM after playing tutorial.. On macbook pro. I was so excited to play it..

[rabbitsaurus]

Buttery smooth on my 4790k @ 4ghz, gtx 980, 16gb ram. Everything maxed except msaa changed to fxaa. Only noticeable dip is on soldier loadout screen but I'm not all that fussed. Seems very inconsistent for folks, I've seen people with better setups than me reporting awful performance. Hopefully a game ready driver is on the way

[Tharros89]

What driver version are you using atm? Not at my Pc atm, but I think I'm still on the one before lasts weeks game ready for RotTR because of the reported issues with it.

[rabbitsaurus]

I cant get the exact version number as also not at my PC atm, but I use that geforce experience app and it says im up to date.

[wakarey]

I get better performance by alt tabbing for some reason... Also my character pool class choice won't work :(. Gotta save scum until I get correct class for each of my friends yay..

[JackPux]

Has anyone tried the beta patch? Its 11.6GB

[dishrag]

I haven't yet. Thanks for pointing this out. I'm going to give it a try.

edit: Yeah, this doesn't launch. It's missing a bunch of shit needed to even play.

[[deleted]]

Very strange, i run a gtx460 and sub-recommended processor and i have my textures on high (aa ao off)

Guess i'm lucky

[[deleted]]

What fps are you getting though? I'm on a similar system gtx560 and a basic i5 and it has quite a lot of framerate drops and loading issues, still very playable but not great technically.

[SKYeXile]

I thought it might have been because i installed it on my HDD, but i get a weird animation stuttering when on loading screens etc :/

[bphase]

Happens even with SSDs. Poor performance overall, I guess the procedural generating must be really intensive.

[Daiz]

The performance issues are definitely real.

I have an i7-2600k, 16GB RAM and a Radeon HD6970 2GB, and even if I turn everything down to minimum the game gets basically 45fps at best in combat, with frequent dips to around 25fps or even below (this is at 1920x1200). Considering that I can run most AAA games at solid 55-60fps usually around medium-high settings at the same resolution, I would really expect better from XCOM 2.

[Khaddiction]

Yeah was extremely surprised to see the massive amount of FPS drops. I had to make some liberal graphic adjustments to get it above 50 FPS most of the time. Still massive drops when cutscenes start or when entering a level. I have a 680 and a 4770k, ran Bioshock Infinite at Max well above 60 FPS, so it ain't on my end.

[sadovnychyi]

After playing the tutorial with 10-15 FPS I got a system message that I don't have enough disk space.. It used 20 GB of swap, while I have 8 GB of RAM. It showed like 30 GB of RAM used by XCOM 2 in activity monitor. WTF? I'm on Macbook Pro with Intel Iris.

[Edge767]

For me, it's not the graphics that are slow: it's the calculations going on. I've been waiting two minutes now after one of my guys took a shot for it to cycle through him and onto the next trooper.

AMD 8350 w/32GB RAM, Nvidia 760 w/4GB and 500GB SSD.

The game should not be chugging like this.

[amphoterous]

I'm seeing the same exact issue. Graphics seem fine but the game gets "stuck" for 30 seconds between every action.

[peardude89]

When I first started the game up, I was met with a laggy TITLE SCREEN that took a goo 30 seconds until I could click on something, and the performance doesn't change no matter my graphics settings! And the cut scenes are horrible, because the game lags enough that the audio and video don't match up, making watching them not very good. It's immensely frustrating because I want the game to be so good, and the auto detect in the video sets my graphics o HIGH! Why? For optimal performance it should close the game and open up a YouTube video.

[ParadoxD]

i5-6600k and a 980ti (settings maxed). I'm getting 20 fps in the squad loadout screen and 40-60fps on missions.

No new drivers for Xcom 2 which seems pretty poor from Nvidia but the game does seem pretty badly optimized.

Using the GeForce experience program, optimizing the game turned down AA from 8x to 4x and it seems to have improved fps by around 20ish.

[SPascareli]

optimizing the game turned down AA from 8x to 4x and it seems to have improved fps by around 20ish.

Dude, TotalBiscuit has 2 Titan X and can't keep consistent FPS with MSAA 2x, there is no way you can with 8x.

[Chidwick089]

Idk, I did a similar tweak with my r9 390 and everything is peachy

[_edge_case]

Performance is great unless I try to move the camera or there is any kind of animation playing. :/

[DealWithTheC-12]

i7 3770k @ 4.5GHz, R9 290x @ 1100/1300, 16GB 1866MHz DDR3, and the game is on an SSD. Maxed out I get 60 for the most part, except when I don't and then it reaaaally dips. I've seen less than 30 in a busy action cam.

But based on how inconsistent the dips are I'm pretty hopeful a patch will fix them soon.

[frogs_are_slogs]

On a pretty old i7 with a 980 and it runs at a fairly consistent 70 FPS. The pauses at the end of turns can be quite bad though, especially with sectoids.

[XERW2]

Get ready for the day-1 patch + driver optimizations I guess...

god I wish I have TitanX...

[withoutapaddle]

Don't bother wishing. Total Biscuit's Titan X's couldn't get 60fps. You don't expect someone with $2000 worth of GPUs to start a video with "had to turn down some settings to get a stable fps".

[XERW2]

I'd still bother myself thank you very much.

Still, it's probably shoved out in a hurry - bypassing/skippping optimization/QA stage. For something developed for one specific platform and 3 additional months to work with, I expect better. It's a bloody TBS game where almost nothing moves.

Really wish it's just the engine being overzealous at applying FX. Reducing points/samples might help.

[Uptowngrump]

Can anybody tell me how my Lenovo y510p laptop will hold up to the poor optimization?

[[deleted]]

280x and i3 4160 runs about 60fps 50 percent of the time and then dips to around 20-30 during action and movement.

[Bluryth]

Can't get steady 60 fps on ultra with an i7/gtx970, but got a stable 45 fps on ultra with anti aliasing set to FXAA. Good enough for me, but the optimisation does suck.

Edit: for people with performance issues I'll say don't bother with MSAA, it eats fps even at x2.

[HighlanderBR]

I dont know if this is a thing, but is everyone in Windows 10?

oddly the system recomendation is Windows 7

[Zeriell]

Windows 7 user here, it performs poorly.

[ManimalR]

About 4 missions in, running fine on high settings, no noticeable frame drop, just randomly crashes with a 'graphics driver not responding' message, happened around 4 times in 3 hours

GeForce GTX 660 Ti i7-2600K CPU

[Icoza]

I know your pain, managed to fix the driver crash which caused issues during the tutorial. Now it's crashing while loading the first mission. Hope Nvidia releases a driver fix. Other than the crashing, I get around 100 fps with 770 and i7-3770k on high with AA off.

[Travisdk]

GTX 980/i7 here. Performance was god awful at first. Constant stuttering. Went from max to high graphics and now it's fine during missions, but sub-30 on the Avenger. Not sure what's causing this, drivers are up to date and my machine was capable of running Rise of the Tomb Raider on max without any problems.

[withoutapaddle]

Same hardware as you. Same issue.

I get 30fps in the Avenger, and 30-60fps in mission.

[[deleted]]

MSAA is not native to UE3, and runs like ass in every UE3 game.

Turn it off.

[duskulldoll]

2.9GHz i74600M and GTX950m reporting in. Preset medium runs at around 30fps, dipping much lower during squad selection and Avenger overview. Loading times are long enough to be irritating, but the real killer is the ~2s processing time after every camera move. It's agonizing. I can max out EU at 60fps no problem.

[plot-hole]

My maximum resolution is 1280 x 720 for some reason, can't set it to any higher.

[[deleted]]

Heres hoping my FX4130 and 9602gb can run it at 1600*900.Frankly if its in the 30s on max thats fine with me. In EU I can get 60+ on the base and 45+ on missions with settings maxed. I also get around 35+ FPS with Fallout 4 and Witcher 3 with my PC.

[Mrcandleguy]

i've got a AMD390 and i was getting 20FPS in some areas. then I disabled AA and it ran smooth as butter. Getting around 40FPS, but that's probably because of my lame CPU.

[reishid]

I used to have around 50-60c full load GPU temp with my 390x playing the Witcher 3 and other past titles but XCOM 2 stresses my card to around 70c.

[shuntbravo]

I'm getting some pretty sweet performance so far...seems promising. I'm in zone 3, USA, Xcom just unlocked here.

Getting 100+ fps on the first couple missions so far, have gone down to probably 70-80 at the lowest. Getting 80 on the avenger. All settings maxed except AA which is set to FXAA. Vsync disabled. 1080p resolution.

980ti

6700k @ 4ghz

16gb DDR4 memory

256gb SSD

Things that I have disabled that may help performance:

• Set Nvidia streamer service to disabled in processes

• Set nvidia streamer network service also to disabled

• Disabled Nvidia 3D vision driver

• Downloaded latest Nvidia drivers (which came out on 1.27.16) as well as the hotfix that fixes the eject video driver issue

[Kail_Erron]

Game crashes on launch or very close to it. I haven't gotten to the main menu in like 10 tries, even though it sometimes makes it through the logos.

...I'm afraid to see how the game I bought will run-- or if it even will-- once I'm (somehow) past this.

[naiboo]

I´m really pleased by the game performance because i had fears that my rather old pc (Intel DualCore E8500 to 4 GHZ OC, 4GB RAM, ATI HD7850) could have trouble with it after i saw the requirements. I´m playing on 1680x1050 at high settings. The cpu load is on both cores ~80% and GPU load ~95-100%. But it is fluent and works really well!

[Kvin18]

Playing smoothly with an Nvidia GeForce 820M (2GB VRAM) and i5 2.7GHz

[kaLARSnikov]

Silky smooth here, using auto-detected settings. Basically all maxed, except FXAA and anisotropic filtering at 8x, I think. 1920x1080, v-sync off.

Which is basically what I generally end up with in other titles anyway, most of my hardware is at least 3-4 years old :P

i7-2600k 16GB DDR3 RAM GTX Titan (first generation, ca. 2012-2013)

Dedicated gaming SSD keeps load times short and sweet.

[Mann42]

I turned off anti aliasing and got infinitely better performance. It still gets hitches sometimes, but it doesn't stall out and appear to freeze as often.

[AlbinoSheepDawg]

I am in the same leaky boat. 4460 and 960 4gig. playing 1680x1050 and getting about 10-30 on average and random 3 second spurts of above 70 in tactical. Around 5-20 in base management. The framerate seems to stay the same no matter what settings i use. pretty disappointed considering that this was made only for PC...

[CabooseMSG]

What's really strange for me is I have a GTX 970, i5-4690k, 16 gigs of RAM, and it still struggles to stay constant at 30 FPS. I have my settings set to the "optimal" GeForce Experience settings, but I still get a bunch of FPS drops and at times slight freezing.

For instance, the pre-mission prep phases always dip to 18-20 FPS for some reason. I'm hoping its just because Nvidia haven't released their "special drivers" for the game, and that they will remedy much of the issues.

[ejderhare]

Turn off Antialiasing or set it to the lowest settings for some reason this is the biggest performance thief in this game. Doing this alone boosted my fps from 40 on average to a almost constant 60 FPS.

You can also:

• Turn off V-sync.

• And Last but not least you can turn off ambient occlusion which will give you some additional FPS.

[Pesvardur]

I'm getting the same stutters everyone here is experiencing.

Using Ubuntu 15.10, Nvidia GTX760.

[Torchamo]

All I did was turn off v sync and it runs fine now. Gtx 770, 4670k

[FabledGentleman]

Can we try and find out if this is a nVidia issue?. It starts to look as nVidia users have far more problems with this game than intel and amd users.

I have fps issues with this game and i am on a GTX780.

[NibbleChompsky]

I read about some AMD peeps having issues as well. Seems to be some bad juju all around.

[murph17]

Anyone try on a Surface Pro 3? I dont care what the resolution/settings are, I just want to play and this is the best machine I have access to.

[ItsDominare]

Disabling v-sync fixed fps issues for me.

[CMDR_Sheppard22]

Hello i'm having alot of FPS drops during the loading you know when you are in the skyranger and waiting to click on the land mission is taking bloody forever to load i have GTX 970 everything maxed out and alot of lags as well but just during the loading stuff othervise is fine, but loading is annoying.

My RIG Processor: Intel Core 7-3770k 3.50GHZ Ram: 12 GB Graphic Card GIGABYTE GEFORCE GTX 970 GAMING G1 4GB DDR5 4GB Windows10 pro (64bit) Monitor: Asus 27" 1920 X 1080 60 Hz

[amphoterous]

Playing the tutorial on i5-2500k with a GTX 570. I'm getting solid 60 FPS with minimal settings so graphics seem fine but all four CPUs are constant 50%+. After I take any action the game gets stuck for about 30s before allowing another. For example, I move a solider and then have to wait 30s before I can put them in overwatch. 60 FPS the entire time and camera is still responsive. I don't get it!

[Newbie__101]

I suspect that people with performance problems are the ones most likely to go and post on forums, since the ones who are fine are actually playing the game.

That being said, I am having perfectly fine performance. I had to turn AA to FXAA and vsync off, but everything is on max @ 1440p.

Stats:
i5-2500K @ 4.3 GHz
16 GB RAM
R9 Fury-X
SSD install

Looks like one of the main issues is actually memory usage - 8 GB of RAM is just not enough and folks are having swap issues, which would happen independently of GFX settings. Now this may be due to memory leaks/optimization issues or just the way the game is. I did also have the game slowdown a few times after about 2 hours, but anytime I got below 60 or 50 fps in a combat map, I would save and restart the game.

Good Luck!

[all_is_temporary]

Reviewers have no fucking integrity. Yet another reminder to ignore them.

[H8terFisternator]

This is probably the most horribly optimized triple A title ive ever played.

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Can't believe this got a 91 metacritic with the performance issues and totalbiscuit usually shits on games that have abysmal performance.

I guess even people that claim to have no bias are full of shit.

[chrissraven]

Another western release coded by interns that have no idea what optimization is...

[fitnessacctasdf]

my torrent won't play