INVESTIGATION: Poor Performance & Power Draw Issues Impacting AMD Radeon 6000 - 9000 Series GPUs

[DashHandsome]

Funny thing about the RTGI and the baked lights. Doubt it’s exclusive to the 9070 cards but rather the baked in lighting either has issues or creates problems elsewhere in the game engine. Maybe it takes too long to load the baked lighting which fills a direct storage queue and causes a stall or maybe it’s something completely unrelated.

Something I never thought I'd say: Playing with raytraced global illumination is way smoother than without. Playing with the baked in lighting disables VRR briefly when the game hitches

Issue Description (Required): Normal gameplay has lots of hitches when moving around, during hordes, or when daring to turn the camera too fast. I noticed while using my monitors OSD that it would randomly report the max refresh rate of 144 as the monitors current refresh rate despite the steam overlay counter saying otherwise. Attempted Solutions (Optional): I turned on raytraced global illumination and despite the lower framerate and some stutters due to the shader cache builder not generatin…