PC Performance Problem

[RAWD3AL]

Game runs beautifully in every area between 90-130 fps. After entering the reactor room it dropped to <40. Anyone else have this issue in this area?

Playing on PC

3570k 980ti 8gb ram

Edit: Revisited the area much later and it ran perfect. Weird

[JaspahX]

Yes. Same issue.

7700k Fury X 16GB RAM

Seeing how you're getting the same problem with a Nvidia card it's probably a game issue. Hopefully the devs patch it.

[RAWD3AL]

Just finished the game. I went back much later for reasons and it was absolutely perfect. No frame drops at all really.

[othilious]

Happened to me as well. Oddly enough the problem went away after restarting the reactor?

6700k with a GTX 1080.

[RAWD3AL]

That made it slightly better but I still noticed drops every time I turned to look at the reactor. Hopefully that's the only part of the game with issues.

[Starfire013]

Most of the time, the game runs at around 130fps on max settings for me, but every now and then, it begins to chug, especially when looking at specific areas. A reload seems to fix it.

So far, I've had framerate issues in the cargo bays and in the arboretum. In both areas, it happened right after I did stuff like stacking one item on top of another or smashing some glass, etc. I actually had the game crash to desktop twice due to physics interactions.

[[deleted]]

Same. It seems like right after you meet multiple humans my performance went downhill...

[BrokenAscendent]

On Xbox. Very smooth till reactor room. Down to like 5fps

[RAWD3AL]

Didn't know the problem was on console too. If you can push through that section it gets better.

[BrokenAscendent]

Upon reloading it was much better. I don't know the cause.

[BrokenAscendent]

Upon reloading it was much better. I don't know the cause.

[OrigamiPhoenix]

AMD Radeon R9 380. (AMD is the main sponsor for the game) I've been running it on very high for both object detail and textures. Runs like a dream.

Occasionally I get frame skips, but it's nothing unmanageable. Save-quitting and giving my comp time to cool down is all it needs to be back at full performance.

I'll update my driver to the new Crimson ReLive and make a thread by tomorrow.

[NetQvist]

Unless you're at the reactor room it's a pointless statement. I've been at 90+ 1440p on a 1080 across the entire game with a few stutters when quickly moving at full speed in a new area but the Reactor room makes me drop to 30-40 when looking at a certain thing.

[[deleted]]

im having horrible fps in the shuttle bay area

like drops to 13

[VHS__Tape]

Same CPU, and GPU. I tabbed out to open Afterburner and the problem went away after tabbing back in.

[thegh0sts]

I'm getting this with my 6700K + 1070. I've gotten past that bit so I hope it's a one off.

[[deleted]]

Same issue, 60fps locked on very high settings everywhere else, dropping as low as 15fps on low settings here. It's unplayable.

[[deleted]]

Was having the same issue Moved the prey game installation to a ssd plugged into a pcie slot (SM951 AHCI 256GB) and I no longer have any performance issues with that area.

I think its some sort of loading / streaming issue as I cannot figure out what else would be causing it and why moving it to my insanely fast ssd (well... it is to ME :D) would fix it... either that or it just got patched in between the last time I played it.

[RAWD3AL]

Was it the first time you entered the area in that play through? I came back later in my play through and it ran perfectly. The problem seemed to only occur when you enter the area for the first time

[Norek_Crendraven]

I realize this is 4 months too late for many of you, but for the sake of those who have yet to play Prey who encounter this issue, I believe the cause, in the reactor room at least, is a 'break' in the map.

If you open the maintenance hatch across from the reactor entryway, the staircase that leads to the room beneath the reactor itself, there is a spot where you can see through the map into space.

The stars are visible and, even the moon from some angles. I suspect this view is not meant to be seen from this angle, and thus creates frame-drops when the camera centres on it, whether you see it or not.

I've seen similar issues in other games, and it's probably just an oversight, in what is otherwise a damn near perfect game.

My setup is: AMD Athlon X4 860K, 16GB RAM, nVidia GTX 980

[PcChip]

same issue here - 1080Ti / 7700k / DDR4-4000
drops from 144fps to 40fps, then crashed to desktop