Poor performance on strong gaming laptop

Warhammer 40,000: Darktide Performance Feedback
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Issue Description:
[Please include your minimum and maximum FPS, and think about when your performance is at it’s worst - is it during any particular event or location? (Please include a screenshot if your issue is location-based)]
FPS is always extremely low, averaging about 15fps is standing in the hub. Can drop to <10fps sometimes in combat. High appears to be about 20fps in an empty corner of some rooms.

Attempted Solutions:
[Have you made any changes to your PC or Darktide’s ‘Video’ options in an attempt to improve your performance? Please see our common solutions in the pinned Topic]
I have turned all my settings to as low as they’ll go. I have also tried editing my config file to ensure ray tracing is off and decreasing settings with regards to shadows. Nothing has substantially improved performance, average is still about 15fps.
I have also updated my drivers.
I have also verified integrity of game files through the Steam client, as well deleted and redownloaded the entire game.
I have also deleted the user config file and allowed the game to remake it.
I have also ensured that the game boots using my laptop’s dedicated GPU rather than its integrated graphics.

Platform:
[Steam/Microsoft Store]
Steam

PC Specifications:
Intel i7-10750H CPU @ 2.6GHz (12 CPUs), 32GB RAM, NVIDIA RTX 2070 Super

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  5. Upload here
    darktide_launcher.log (458.1 KB)
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Have you disabled your integrated graphics completely?
Maybe the super low cpu clock speed is a problem, desktop cpu’s are at 5+ ghz and single core performance matters for gaming.

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Interestingly, when I disabled my integrated graphics my FPS actually drops to about 5fps…
Checking my task manager, it appears that sitting in the hub I’m not using more than about 10% of my GPU resources, yet the fps is embarrassingly low at 5fps.

I haven’t tried overclocking my CPU yet, something for me to look into.

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Unfortunately using the GeForce Experience built in overclocking doesn’t improve performance above 15fps average for me.

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This game does not run well on a one generation old gpu as I have experienced, but it should not be that bad. Try updating the mobo bios, graphics driver, ssd firmware. Try checking temps. IDK what else.

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Hi folks, just jumping back into Darktide after some months off and I have to say, I’m still only getting like 11-18 fps in the Mourningstar.

Pretty disappointing. Feels like I’ve tried about everything at this point.