Huge RAM usage and FPS Drops after last update

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My apologies for the delay in resolution for your ticket and thank you for forwarding your systems DXDIAG. From viewing that I cannot see anything out of the ordinary.
 
I can confirm that the team are aware of a drop in performance for a small subset of players and are actively investigating improvements to this which will be rolled out for all players in a future update so please keep an eye on our social channels for any news.
 
Though in-case this issue is not related, and as we only have limited troubleshooting for your issue, please try the following in the meantime:

• When you enter Windows, ensure that you are using a Microsoft account and not a local Windows account.
• Reverify the integrity of your local game files. To do this, right click Sea of Thieves from your steam list and select properties. Then from the local files tab click 'Verify integrity of local game files'.
• Please ensure that Sea of Thieves is using your desired graphics device through your graphics application software (such as Geforce Experience or the Nvidia Control Panel).
  -  Could you try setting the default graphics settings profile used by Sea of Thieves via your graphical application software  to the lowest values possible and then launch the game. Once in the main menu, also change your graphical settings to the lowest values and try to enter gameplay.
• Then once in-game, try increasing all graphics options to your desired performance. Does also switching to different modes such as Windowed mode in the main menu make a difference?
• Please also try completely remove your graphics drivers and installing them to the latest versions. It may also be worth using software which is available to ensure that these files are completely removed.
   
  Other system and Windows checks:
• Disabling any overlays applied to Sea of Thieves (such as Discord, Afterburner etc. - you may keep essential overlays open if needed: Steam, Xbox Game bar etc).
• Closing any unnecessary background processes while running Sea of Thieves
• Checking if Anti-Virus/Anti-Malware software is affecting the performance of Sea of Thieves and adding the game executable and its folder on exclusion list.
• Disabling CPU and GPU overclock (or lowering OC to a stable setting and using correct RAM profile/timings in Bios).
• Please also disable any 3rd party software which may be causing any conflicts with Sea of Thieves (such as MSI afterburner). You can also boot Windows in Clean mode (which prevents 3rd party software from loading when booting) to see if you can then access the game. To do this:
  
  How to perform a clean boot in Windows - Microsoft Support

same here, 1080TI and 40 FPS since this update.

@ixxxoloff I'll try the "Reverify" thing but i still think that it's not about our driver or PC. I hope they find the real issue that makes the game be laggy. Thanks for sharing this text with us btw!

@voexy4211 Have you tried using the Display Driver Uninstaller to completely remove the drivers? I also tried disabling data caching in the drive properties. The problem still exists of course, but I seem to have achieved the best performance you can get with the stutter issue. I hope that this problem will be completely fixed in the next updates.

@ixxxoloff I've updated my drivers but I haven't tried what you said. I don't find it logical to play around with all the computer settings for a problem they can fix with a single update. If the problem doesn't go away in any way,, only then I'll try. Because I don't have any problems while playing other games for now. Thanks for the advice tho! No SOT for me till the update comes :(

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I was able to solve the problem! My game is installed on HDD. And the swap file (virtual memory) was also installed on the HDD. I set the swap file to 20 GB on the SSD and that solved my problem completely.

@ixxxoloff Can you specify exactly step by step how to do that?

@lami-the-insane
Step 1: Press the "Win + R" key combination, type the command "systempropertiesadvanced" and press "Enter"
Step 2: You will see the system properties in front of you. In the "Performance" field, click the "Settings" button.
Step 3: While in the performance settings, select the "Advanced" tab and click "Change" in the "Virtual Memory" field
Step 4: Uncheck the "Automatically manage paging file size for all drives" box. In the list of connected drives, select the drive that currently holds the page file (in our case, the system drive) and check the "No paging file" box below. Then click "Set"
Step 5: Without closing the window, select the disk to which you want to move the swap file (by clicking on it) and check the "Custom size" box below. Then specify the paging file size in the corresponding fields, or check the option "System managed size" to let Windows determine the paging file size itself and then click "Set" again. Then click the "OK" button and restart your computer.

@valonqarr What is your disk format? mbr or gpt?

@ixxxoloff I have tried it out, and it definitely helped a good bit. I was playing for 3 hours and for the first 2 there were no problems at all. I tried all scenarios - dying, going to Athena's Hideout, fighting skelly ships, doing voyages, and so on...

In my last hour of gameplay the game seemed to get a few stutters here and there, where I would teleport around, get 15 fps for a second or two... basically what was happening to us for the past few days. However, they were not constant and the game was not unplayable. The islands loaded pretty quickly, and I never got to the point where I would not even be able to go on an island because it has not loaded yet. I recommend people who have an SSD to check this out.

@valonqarr How much free disk space do you have?

@valonqarr Are you using usb for this disk?

@valonqarr You need an internal ssd, through the use of which you will increase the RAM. An external drive is not suitable for this. data passes through usb, which slows down the speed.

@valonqarr
You have 3 options to solve the problem:

1. Buy an internal ssd.
2. Buy a lot of RAM
3. Wait for the fix of the game.

@havaska22 Same problem, I have NVIDIA too, the same thing happens to me, please resolve, it turns out to me, UN PLAYABLE.

@havaska22 I tried it too, but it didn't help much. However it is a "palliative" method, after a few hours the problem starts again, and the only solution is to restart the Game/PC. It is not possible, I hope they resolve.