Hey all, wanted to post my own thoughts and please reply/upvote with your own experience as well so this gets developer attention.
SoT is getting slower. Areas where I used to push 144 frames with mythical settings are now at 60-120 frames on cursed. For reference, these metrics were performed on the same computer- a NIVIDA GeForce RTX 3090Ti 24Gb, AMD 5950x 16 core 32 thread CPU, my os and SoT installed on a 2TB PCIe NVMe Gen4 M.2 2280 internal SSD maxing out around 7000 MB/s, ethernet connection, and 128Gb of DDR4 RAM. My temps are the same, barely topping 60 C. The frame rate in this game is degrading rapidly, even with Vsync and all cursed settings, even resolution scaling from 100% to 50% doesn't dent the frame rate. Next to islands, forts, and Port Merrick are the worst offenders. I update my drivers and game, reinstalled, etc. Still no performance change.
My buddy has an AMD card he's used for 3 years, and used to push 120 frames consistently, now can barely break 50-60. He hasn't changed his graphics settings at all. He's updated his drivers. I know this isn't a hardware issue.
For an FPS game, I'm extremely disappointed. I have a very powerful rig and I want to play this beautiful game, but it's so unoptimized that an user cannot expect anything consistent above 30-45 FPS. There needs to be resources allocated to consistent performance on systems so that people with all kinds of rigs (including console players) can enjoy SoT consistently.
The sheer bloat of the game is making it inaccessable for people who don't have the drive space or hardware to run past 30 FPS.
