I’m a bit late to this party but I feel there should be a section about general performance issues under jank or another section.
This game runs like an absolute dumpster fire - it runs worse than anything I’ve played recently by far, on AMD at least. I do see comments from NVIDIA users as well, but the lack of support/performance issues/lack of communication on AMD is just mindblowing.
There are dozens of threads regarding low FPS and stuttering on AMD cards in the performance section and if you have a look at steam reviews performance is very frequently cited.
A few for flavour - this is just casually scrolling the first page. There is a thread saying it’s a known issue, and and that thread hasn’t had an update since the 3rd of April, not even a “no news to share at this time”, and that update on the 3rd was “no news to report”. The thread itself is from April 2025, and issues predate it. the FSR fix that came along a few patches ago improved things, but it’s still pretty dire. It’s also disappeared from “known issues” when hot fixes are released.
Part of what gets me is that people in the community are digging through the files and making improvements to the .ini files that result in dramatic improvements, even if they don’t fully solve the problem. I’m scared to imagine the number of hours Vizra and co have sunk into testing.
So we can say with some certainty there are gains to be had from simple tweaking - but these changes aren’t integrated into the game? Every patch they must be reapplied. For AMD users at least, these changes seem universally positive (and even some Nvidia people see gains), so I don’t understand why they’re not adopted? If we’re considered an edge case, the launcher automatically detects CPU Core count, so why not AMD card detection and an alternative config? Why is it that the best result is being delivered by fans on a forum and not a team with access to development tools?
I have a very modern and powerful system that delivers superb performance in everything else I’ve thrown at it - it’s only Darktide where I have to lower settings to get a playable (not great) framerate.
Aside from general performance issues, there are issues like longer loading times which still seems to be an issue. I regularly load slower than my friend on a weaker system. This was acknowledged in 2023.
I hesitate to include these as well, given they were acknowledged and fixed, but it also seems like half the time when updates are released they break or worsen performance. Is this stuff not tested? I’d normally be fairly forgiving of updates breaking stuff but when taken in context with the other issues I just get the impression that testing for AMD is an afterthought.
In general - really not happy with the state of the game and the approach FS seems to be taking. I’ve seen some comments that it’s an AMD driver issue, and that may be true, but at the same time the .ini changes really make me suspect that’s not the whole story. There are definitely things that could be done. Given the consoles of this generation are on AMD hardware, I’m terrified to imagine what their performance is like.