Issue Type (Required): Performance Issue Description (Required): I recently got a laptop cooling pad and decided to increase my graphics settings for the game, however it’s running into problems whenever there’re large waves of enemies spawning at once, or when there’re many VFX effects on screen a…

Hello, it’s possible @Axloss will have additional recommendations for you but he won’t be back until later in the month. General solutions can be seen here in the meantime: [PC] How to Improve Your Performance in Darktide Players can experience poor performance in Darktide for a varie…

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I tried this in limited testing last night but it wasn’t doing much. I usually play the game at 80fps (40 cap, FSR3.1 frame gen 2x up to 80), however the game can randomly drop down to 64~69fps with such long frame time that the game slows down drastically in a brief moment. I tried last night in …

I don’t think it’s working so far, I’ve tried everything, and it still dips down to 64~69 fps during horde spawns. Ragdoll is set to 3 and CPU utilization never goes super high so can’t be that. My specs are: Nvidia RTX3060 laptop GPU AMD Ryzen 7 5800H CPU 16gb RAM 512gb SSD (still 150+gb spac…

Update: I’ve now tried capping framerate to 70fps in game and it achieved nothing (when frames start stuttering, they still feel exact same even though my overlay says 68fps). I’ve tried 70fps, 80fps, 90fps, 100fps and 120fps cap, and they all suffer the same frame stutter problem. It’s making the…

[image] bath.rawr: so not exactly a CPU bottleneck either It actually is. Going out on a limb, can you edit your user settings.ini file and find the max threads (there are two of them) and change them higher than your thread count? Like, 20 maybe? And try lower too. Also make sure you’re not…

Update, I’ve now tested smiting 150~200 poxwalkers in psykhanium Never experienced the frame stutters like in live games CPU utilization fluctuating between 34~41% for the most part, rarely jumping above 50%

You disabled the invisibility to give them AI? I wish I could help buddy.

yea, invisibility disabled, it was at around 30~44% CPU utilization which was quite normal. I think I have a clue as to what’s going on though, it’s probably from mesh LOD being set too high (?), as that’s the only constant between all the tests I did (I set it to 1.6) Lowered it down to 0.5 today…

Stutters during intense horde spawns

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Stutters during intense horde spawns

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