Terrible framerate despite solid PC and low GPU+CPU utilisation. Also Vsync displays some fascinating behaviour.

[Blazoran]

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Summary​

Terrible framerate despite solid PC and low GPU+CPU utilisation. Also Vsync displays some fascinating behaviour.

Description​

Card is a 5070ti. CPU is a ryzen 9600x. Runs recent games very well on high settings.

So for some reason even in a pretty tame 6v6 battle i'm getting 25-35 fps, plus some stutters. So I checked to figure out my bottleneck and the answer is, nothing.

CPU and CPU utilisation both at less that 30%. RAM and VRAM both at less that 50%.

Even stranger, I tried putting all settings on minimum and it made literally no difference. Given I started with the "ultra" preset I'd have expected it to do something.

Even more curiously after doing some tinkering I found that setting Vsync to "quarter" capped my framerate at 15fps. Which is very weird as I have a 165hz monitor! The game appears to think I have a 60hz one. Sadly this is not the root of the earlier issue, as turning Vsync off did not change the number listed at the start at all. Still, strange behaviour, thought you should know.

So yeah terrible performance on a PC that should outstrip this game and the graphics settings make actually no difference. Apologies for presenting you with this kinda conundrum, I don't think it makes much sense either.

Good luck, and thanks for any help

(Also I can't get the owned DLCs multiple choice to work. I have dragon dawn, empires and ashes, primal fury,)

EDIT:it seems while no fight is free of this some are way worse than others. I had a 6v6 in a cave with spiderwebs everywhere that was stuck at 25-30ish fps but then had a biiiig battle with many army stacks present at a desert ruin that was managing like 40-50ish with some stutters. This indicates that there is something particularly bad about the spiders in a cave map or the particular foes present. Notably the FPS did not improve as enemies died which indicates either it is the map or that it also applies to enemy corpses. Bugs in question were 2 death beetle, 2 vampire spider hatchling, 1 hunter spider, 1 giant beetle.

Steps to reproduce​

Just kinda play the game on a PC like mine.

Platform​

Steam

Game Version​

1.010.003.106815

Owned DLCs​

• Dragon Dawn

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Affected Feature​

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[Triumph Jordi]

Hi Blazoran

Even more curiously after doing some tinkering I found that setting Vsync to "quarter" capped my framerate at 15fps. Which is very weird as I have a 165hz monitor! The game appears to think I have a 60hz one.

Do you have a FPS Cap active in the Driver Software somewhere? Is the monitor plugged into the GPU port on your PC?

As is the information isn't enough to really do anything with. If you com across any FPX drops please use the in-game feedback reporter to make a quick report and notify us here so we can retrieve your data and have a look.

 

[Blazoran]

I'm not getting any FPS capping from Nvidias drivers currently, unless it's unique to AoW4. No other games get this and AoW4 has no unique settings in Nvidias software.

Monitor is plugged into the GPU but i appreciate the idiot check. I've done dumber things in my life

Found the spider map again on a different playthrough and experienced the same issue again so I sumbitted a report via the ingame report tool as suggested.

Found a fun bug with the in game report tool while I was there XD details enclosed in the report I left. Feel free to chase me for followup questions, should come from steam account "Talile".

Apologies for putting work on your desk and thanks for the response!

The game is otherwise really great! FPS issues are honestly not the hugest deal in a turn based game unless they get way worse than this haha.