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

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I started writing about what I think the real cause of all the performance problems are here but it ended up so long I made it its own post. It affects everyone but AMD users especially

Laggy cosmetics, stuttering, broken direct storage and more can be explained by the launcher relying on Nvidia Streamline

Issue Description (Required): The game launcher relies on Nvidia streamline for GPUDetection.exe which it calls twice according to the launcher logs. If you remove the streamline files from the launcher folder it just fails and returns a generic device. The launcher then runs darktide_shader_cache_builder.exe which is also likely effected by streamline. This is very bad. The SystemCaps function used in Streamline to check GPUs states that devices aren’t released until shutdown but even though …