Performance issues / RTX 3060 TI, Ryzen 5 5500

Warhammer 40,000: Darktide Performance Feedback
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Performance

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Hello,

Since the latest patch has been dropped, I’ve experienced abnormal performance issues.

Used to get around 80-100fps mid fight and now im around 30 and lower, the game is literally unplayable.

My specs are:
Nvidia RTX 3060 TI 8gb
Amd ryzen 5 5500
16gb ram
SSD

I played with medium settings on 2k resolution and had no issues until now. Game was smooth as butter and I didnt even had any fps drops on havoc 30+.
After the patch I tried the following:

  • Lowering all settings to “low”
  • Reinstalling the game completely
  • updating my nvidia driver
  • clean shader cache using DDU
  • deleting the darktide shader cache
  • made modifications via darktide config files.

Unfortunately, there’s no improvement. No matter what graphics settings I use, medium-low, medium-high, low etc. it still runs the same.
There are also stutters which weren’t there before.

I see I’m not the only one experiencing this type of issue so I ask kindly that you look into it.
My PC is capable more than enough to run games like these.

Thank you.

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Update:

I found out that in the meantime that the ray tracing nvidia option was somehow ON in the background, even though it was “disabled” in the settings in the launcher and ingame.

I accidentally found out in one of the config settings files. To be honest, I can’t remember which one was it.

The “rt” settings in the config were all mostly labeled as “true” and “high” instead of “false” and “off”

I changed all of them to “false” and “off” and my FPS increased to around 50ish FPS.

The game itself is playable now, however, compared to the performance from before the patch, it is still showing significant difference, with mild stutters.