Lag/FPS dips

  • Lothaes
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    For sometime I have been getting FPS dips after I’ve been playing for some time. It usually happens when I get close islands - a skelly ship is about to pop or generally when there’s a lot of activity.

    My specs are as follows

    1tb hybrid drive
    ASUS ROG 1060 gtx
    8gb Ram single channel DDR4
    Ryzen 5 1600

    I run the game at a locked 72 FPS at max settings apart from particles

    Running on a 144hz 28” ASUS gaming monitor with a secondary monitor as second screen.

    Drivers are upto date, not checked windows update yet but will in the morning - any light that could be shed on this would be great and appreciated

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  • Daddy Sanctus
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    @lothaes I was playing on a PC with similar specs and had the same issues. Drops in FPS especially when approaching islands. Just had a new PC built and no longer experience any of those issues, but it's also much more powerful.

    What graphics settings are you running? EDIT Nevermind, I see you're running max settings. I would suggest dropping those down for sure.

  • RealStyli
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    With those specs you are not going to get a solid 60FPS+ in this game.

    I have a Ryzen 7 1700X, 16GB DDR4 RAM, and before I upgraded I had a GTX 1060 6GB. I had to run at mostly Rare settings to achieve a locked 60FPS, and even then I had drops on some islands.

    I upgraded my GPU to an RTX 2070 Super and mostly run a locked 60FPS on all Mythical settings (particles always resets to Cursed so I leave it be), and I have 150% resolution scaling at 1080p Native.

    The islands that still give trouble are Plunder Valley, Plunder Outpost, and Thieves Haven - those with a lot of foliage, hence a lot of shadows to tax the CPU (the weakest part of my rig) but it can depending heavily on lighting conditions. Still, it's a huge improvement on what it was.

    TL;DR - drop your settings, especially shadows.

  • rsb5663
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    Just run with high quality and remove shadows and stuff. We can't run real full screen anyway with Windows 10 UWP.

    If I try running on Mythical settings with my Ryzen 5 2600, GTX 1070 GAMING X 8G and SSD, I will take a big hit with FPS at 1440P @ 144Hz.
    Quick side note, if that 1TB Hybrid Drive is HDD+SSD, please just get a 'real' SSD. Big improvement with gaming.

  • dyfrin
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    @lothaes said in Lag/FPS dips:

    Running on a 144hz 28” ASUS gaming monitor with a secondary monitor as second screen.

    Disconnect your 2nd screen and play and see if the dip occurs....

  • Lothaes
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    @rsb5663 said in Lag/FPS dips:

    Just run with high quality and remove shadows and stuff. We can't run real full screen anyway with Windows 10 UWP.

    If I try running on Mythical settings with my Ryzen 5 2600, GTX 1070 GAMING X 8G and SSD, I will take a big hit with FPS at 1440P @ 144Hz.
    Quick side note, if that 1TB Hybrid Drive is HDD+SSD, please just get a 'real' SSD. Big improvement with gaming.

    One of the first things I plan on buying for my setup this year is a decent SSD. Second to that - for now I will lower my graphics settings. A quick question though if I were to upgrade my Ryzen 5, what would you recommend?

  • Lothaes
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    @daddy-sanctus what’s inside your new build?

  • Daddy Sanctus
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    @lothaes
    i7-9700k
    RTX 2070 super
    16gb ddr4 @ 3600
    ROG Maximus XI Hero
    Samsung EVO PLUS m.2

    Only playing in 1080p though on a 144hz monitor. Have everything set to legendary and see between 120-144 pretty consistently besides a couple dips here and there to about 110 on some islands / certain events.

  • rsb5663
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    @lothaes Ryzen 5 3600 and Ryzen 7 3700X are very popular depending on your budget for 1440P gaming.

    If I had your PC, I'd go with:

    • 1 more ram sticky (8gb extra same brand/model)
    • SSD
    • CPU
      Make sure mobo/ram/power supply etc can be combined though in your journey of upgrading.

    GPU after that. (Currently RX 5700 XT advised?)
    Your PC is currently just lacking juice to go 144Hz/FPs on max settings.
    SoT isn't optimized the greatest for PC either when having to stick to xbox360 configurations/requirements.
    Guess it also depends on what games you play/upcoming games.

    It's a never ending cycle with upgrading for us PC gamers =)

  • SatanicNemesis
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    I’ve the same problem.

    Intel i9 9900k
    RTX 2080TI
    32GB GSkill DDR4 Ram
    Playing at 1440p with 120hz GSync Monitor
    Using a fast SSD M.2 ssd

    I’ll get frame time micro stutters and random FPS drops while other xbox players on my crew get rubber banding.

    It doesn’t matter if I lock at 117fps or 60fps. It will happen when lag happens.

  • CaptBeefhart936
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    I really need to upgrade my graphics card soon, just recently upgraded my motherboard and cpu.

    I'm running

    Ryzen 3600
    16gb corsair vengeance ddr4
    1TB wd blue m.2 ssd
    GTX 950 mini 2gb - it really feels like its holding everything else back now.

    I was thinking maybe a gtx 1660 for 1080p gaming?

    Thoughts ?

  • rsb5663
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    @troubled-cells Currently it seems to be advised to either go for the GTX 1650 Super / 1660 or the RX 5500 XT for 1080P.
    rX5700/RX5700 XT/GTX 2070/2080 etc. if you got deeper pockets and keeping in mind 1440P (or higher resolution) gaming in the future.

    Like I said though, Sea of Thieves has no real full screen mode for PC, xbox 360/game engine requirements/limitations and unstable servers with lag/hit reg/fps. You could probably run 2080TI in SLI and still get hit with fps drops lol
    Here's to hoping that new gen consoles improve all our lives soon :P

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