ive been playing this game for years and have only played on PC for a year of that. Ever since ive started playing on PC ive noticed that the fps I get and the ping on servers has gotten worse. I used to get 160+ FPS and now i get 60. Im literally getting better FPS on max rdr2 graphics than cursed on sot. and my drivers are up to date. RDR2 has higher system requirements so it doesnt make much sense. And not to mention the ping on servers nowdays. ITs gotten to the point where 130 ping is decent on sot. And even then it has random spikes on every server. So imo this game needs to hold on the content updates and worry about making the game playable again.
this game has some serious optimization issues
@mcgarnaglewolf server performance has always been garbage, but I do agree it's worse recently. It's sadly just an expected result of more active content. Rare has spoken about upgrading their servers recently so we'll see.
As for FPS, I really can't relate. It depends on your hardware but I've played SoT on a GTX 970, GTX 1070, and now an RTX 3070 TI and I've not had FPS issues at all over the whole time it's been released. What are your specs?
I haven't noticed any increased FPS issues with my PC (RTX2070 Super, Ryzen 7 3800XT). Some areas have improved but still remain problem areas (Plunder Valley and Thieves' Haven being the worst). Overall, in that area, the game seems okay.
I am more concerned about the server stability. Every session I get a handful of major ping spikes. I average 50-70 usually but the spikes can up to well over 200. I even had one recently that spiked to 1800.
To add to the ping spikes, the rubberbanding is equally as annoying. It doesn't happen constantly but enough to be concerning. Some servers are worse than others. One I was on yesterday started fine but then spiked to 150-180 and wouldn't settle back down, so I ended up just hopping servers for a better experience.
At first I thought it was only myself getting these problems, even after multiple tests on my connection, until I talked to friends who confirmed the same things were happening to them. We're in EU though, so it's possibly a regional infrastructure issue due to everything happening in the world right now.
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