Henious Rituals SEVERE frame drops

Warhammer 40,000: Darktide Performance Feedback
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Issue Description (Required):

When getting closer to the Heinous Rituals, my frame rate halves and usually caps out at 40 (real frames)
With frame generation enabled, I sit around a 100 when staring directly at it, so again at 40 in real frames, it’s a slideshow.
On average I run around 130-170 w FG x 2 depending on what’s going on and it’s usually smooth ish.

Rituals were a fps issue before the Patch but since the update overall performance went down a lot. Thus affecting the “usual gpu heavy” spots like Henious Rituals to a point it’s just a slide show.

It’s bothering me a lot, I understand that you guys have a tech debt. Please look into particles or something tied to it, it’s really bad.

PS: Psyker also chugs performance more tha usual.

Attempted Solutions (Optional):

There are no solutions since it’s the green effects on the rituals.

Platform (Required):

PC - Steam

[PC] PC Specifications (Optional):

9800x3D
4090
32GB
4K DLSS quality
Nvidia Panel Preset L and FG x2 with preset B
Win 11
Installed on SSD

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What is your GPU driver?

The only way for me to distantly reproduce the described behavior is by running 617.14 and above

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Downloaded whatever version for Control Resonant, so a few days before DT update.
Darktide worked fine w these Drivers but then the Update dropped lmao

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So 617.14 :+1:

Do with it what you will, but i had a pretty bad time with those drivers in DT!

Also there’s a problem with Archivum Sycorax, the place refuses to utilize my CPU and GPU past 40% and runs in low 60’s no matter what’s happening. That being said there is clearly a general performance issue that came with the patch!