FPS drops over time

[Crimsomrider]

Personally I don't have any 3rd party software installed on my PC at all, so the memory/vram leak is not caused by them. Naturally they can make this issue much worse and happen faster, but the core of the issue still lies within the game itself, especially due to all the overwhelming amount of reports about it from all over (Steam, Reddit, here...) always describing the exact same symptoms.

Hopefully the upcoming content update stabilizes the performance or at least improves it

 

[SigilFey]

Personally I don't have any 3rd party software installed on my PC at all, so the memory/vram leak is not caused by them. Naturally they can make this issue much worse and happen faster, but the core of the issue still lies within the game itself, especially due to all the overwhelming amount of reports about it from all over (Steam, Reddit, here...) always describing the exact same symptoms.

Hopefully the upcoming content update stabilizes the performance or at least improves it

Right -- as I mentioned earlier, the issues being discussed here seem to be jumbled up. There's definitely more than one problem being identified. It's just important that people rule out external programs as part of the basic troubleshooting. Aside from mods, antivirus, tool suites for gaming mice and other such peripherals, or driver extenders like RTSS or Afterburner are other things that could be introducing issues. As long as those things are ruled out, that helps to narrow it down.

As far as I know, CDPR is aware of the performance issues that some people have been experiencing and are working on it.

 

[heavyoak]

Im having a similar issue with my RX 580 8GB OC+

starts out at 90FPS and drops down to about 40FPS in a few hours of playing and then the game crashes.

 

[SigilFey]

Im having a similar issue with my RX 580 8GB OC+

starts out at 90FPS and drops down to about 40FPS in a few hours of playing and then the game crashes.

Does OC+ mean you've overclocked? First step in troubleshooting anything: make sure that all hardware is factory default clocks and voltage.

Next step is to ensure that the game is running 100% vanilla (no mods) and begin a new game.

 

[Philipfoxhq]

I also have same performance problem on my PC which lasts from 1.5 or 1.52 patch and still not resolved - its FPS drop in random places in game after random time in game (30 - 40 min or 1 hour and ect). Before this FPS drop game runs very smoothly. I noticed that there are some triggers which activate this FPS-drop its - opening map , openeing map in fast trevel terminals or after i used photomod. I dont use any RT settings


P.S
Thats not cuz of mods(i checked it in vanilla game) ,or NVidia drivers , or game settings (it happens also in low settings for example)
All other games in my PC work nice(including CDPR's Witcher 3 Nextgen) - i mean without those FPS drop during time
1440p 144HZ
i5 10400
RTX 3070
16 Gb ram
SSD 1TB
Win 10

 

[heavyoak]

Does OC+ mean you've overclocked? First step in troubleshooting anything: make sure that all hardware is factory default clocks and voltage.

Next step is to ensure that the game is running 100% vanilla (no mods) and begin a new game.

No its factory OC, and I dont use mods.

 

[Notserious80]

No its factory OC, and I dont use mods.

Factory OC can cause problems too sadly. You can try too downclock it too basic clock speeds but im not sure this is the issue tbh.

 

[SigilFey]

No its factory OC, and I dont use mods.

Factory OC can cause problems too sadly. You can try too downclock it too basic clock speeds but im not sure this is the issue tbh.

This is true! But factory OC is usually fairly moderate and well-managed. It's easy enough to test, though.

Without heavy OC, that probably rules out heat throttling, and without mods, that rules out script wonkiness and such. It sounds like it could just be the general performance loss that has been reported. Work is ongoing with that. I'd send it directly into CDPR Support:

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[Dlon93]

Have the same problem. Have an RTX 2070 Super. I start playing, and it's all running super smooth. But, the longer I play the more the FPS keeps dropping. I open the map, and for around 5-10 seconds it stutters like crazy, like the FPS is in single digits, and then it goes back up. Reloading a save makes the game run smoothly again for a while, before eventually the FPS starts going down again. It's super weird.

 

[Philipfoxhq]

Have the same problem. Have an RTX 2070 Super. I start playing, and it's all running super smooth. But, the longer I play the more the FPS keeps dropping. I open the map, and for around 5-10 seconds it stutters like crazy, like the FPS is in single digits, and then it goes back up. Reloading a save makes the game run smoothly again for a while, before eventually the FPS starts going down again. It's super weird.

Same problem with RTX 3070

 

[Tozan01]

Same problem with Ryzen 5 5600X and RTX3070 and 32 GB system RAM. The game starts with RTX on Psycho and Ultra graphics option at 1440p with about 60 fps. The frame rate drops to lower than 20 fps after ca. 45 min of playing.
New is that the sound begins to stutter, too. Maybe there is an issue which causes a high load on the PCIe-bus? Could it be a problem with rBAR?

Update: the BUS usage goes to 50% when I open the map and returns to something like 30%. Before I opened the map it was something about 10% and lower. It begins to stutter immediately when the BUS usage rises.

 

[joelgalang]

Still stutters like crazy from time to time..... (7950X + 4080 _ Win 11 new install)

 

[IndifferentEmpathy]

The performance drop related to closing menus etc. seem to be related to DLSS

 

[CaramelVT]

Here to add to the "sudden loss in performance" thread:

I have an i9 9900k, 3080Ti (with latest drivers) and 32GB 3200MHz of RAM
Also have 300 hours in Cyberpunk so I am aware of how far I can "push" the graphics as it were. I'm running at 1440p, without RT (though have tried with as well from time to time), DLSS on Quality.

Having just restarted a playthrough and played through all of Regina's missions and the Heist, the Interlude and waking up in the Megatower, I had great performance all the way through, pretty much locked 60FPS. Even with RT on, tho I prefer not to overstress my GPU if I don't have to and the game looks amazing without it anyway (though I do turn it on for the photomode with pathtracing feature)

However, waking up in the Megatower and opening my door, my performance tanked to 30-45FPS, and not a static drop, it fluctuated constantly. So I dropped DLSS to Balanced. Weird that I would have to do that on a 3080Ti, but whatever, I can deal with the small downgrade in visual quality
Still same performance issues. Set DLSS to Performance. Still same performance issues. Set resolution to 1080P with DLSS set to Performance, which my GTX1080Ti back in 2020 could easily do (it didn't even have the DLSS option and didn't need it to render the game at 1080P). Still same performance issues.

My card doesn't get hotter than 65C. My CPU doesn't get hotter than 60C. I have really good cooling options for both, so throttling seems unlikely though obviously I did send a support ticket with my DXDiag log, so maybe they can see something else.

It's really unfortunate because I wanted to get to Phantom Liberty after finishing the prologue, but now I don't really know when to start because I want that experience not to be soured by performance problems.

Small thing to note: After the game updated to Phantom Liberty, I had constant crashes when trying to launch the game from GOGalaxy, so I started it via the executable itself and that worked, but I also had performance problems back then. To fix that back then I removed all the files in my DXCache and GLCache folders in the Nvidia folder in localappdata, and figured that it was just some old cache Nvidia hadn't removed for CP2077 that was causing the issue. But now I'm not so sure anymore.

 

[Warjo]

Just here to keep this thing up.

Also having the same odd issue. CaramelVT posted nice info here already.


Doesn't matter where i start i have great fps at the start and i can play fine for like 2 hours but then the fps starts slowly decaying until it goes so bad the game crashes or i just reboot it.
It's not a huge game breaker because you can pretty easily just restart the game while taking a break (or like someone said, just reloading a save from the main menu works too), but i get why it starts to annoy ppl.

And it seems to be this game only, no problems on playing long stretches of other games so it's not an issue with hardware.

I do use mods tho and it COULD be the reason, but when so many have the same issue with vanilla game, i somehow doubt it is that this time around.

2080ti 11gb vram
i9-9900k
64gb 3200mhz ddr4
Some samsung SSD

 

[xYumaix]

Hey,
i have the exact same Issue.

I play on Raytracing: Ultra on 1080p and have around 80-90 FPS average for the first 30-60 Minutes. After that it drops to 25-40 FPS and my GPU Load goes from 100% down to around 30-50%.

The only things i can do to fix it is:
- Deactivate Raytracing - Confirm - Activate Raytracing again and wait for around 5-10 Seconds. Then my GPU Load goes up again to 100% and i have full FPS.
- Load a Savegame

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5800X (Undervolted)
Board: MSI B550 Gaming Plus
RAM: 2x 16GB DDR4-3600
GPU: MSI RTX 3070 Surprim X (Undervolted)
CP 2077 is installed on a Samsung 990 Pro 1TB
Windows 11 Pro with newest Drivers
My Temperatures are around 45-52°C on CPU and GPU. So nothing is throttling.

I really hope they can fix this. The last Time i played Cyberpunk was at the Release Date and i had really long Play Sessions on Stream and never had FPS Drops (with my old 3700X + RTX 2060 Super 8GB plus Stream)

Have a nice Thursday

 

[lockecole777]

I honestly think this is Phantom liberty related. Before I downloaded the DLC I was perfectly fine on 2.0. Played 60 hours without any drops in performance on PS5. And now with PL in a new playthrough, i basically have to do what everyone is stating above, or my fps just starts to drop to mid 30s (approx) Reloading fixes this but usually not for long. And yes it's mostly those trouble areas that cause it to happen.

 

[Niebieskif]

My fps dropped from 130 (patch 2.0) to barely 60 with patch 2.01

 

[Paszkowski]

My FPS also dropped, it's must be related to Liberty and 2.0.
Pre 2.0 I had average 60 fps in benchmark, now I have 30-40 fps.

Everywhere else the game works smoothly, but in Dogtown bazaar area it's almost like a slideshow. No idea why CDP packed there all the crowd and shops an a tiny space, it made the area overpopulated and too much load to the graphics. This space is probably main reason why PC minimum requirements were incresed for Liberty. Wandering through the Bazaar was such a pain to my eyes.
Place looks nice, but due to the issues I had there, I wish not visit it anymore.

 

[xYumaix]

Yesterday it was weird.

It was Night Ingame, Raining and i was in the City driving around. I stopped and mentioned that my FPS dropping really hard to around 30.
I saved and restarted the Game and at the exact same Spot after i launched again i had 90 FPS average where i had 30 FPS before.
Ryzen 7 5800X, 32GB RAM, RTX 3070 (All Thermals under 60°C) - i play on 1080p High, Raytracing Ultra with DLSS Quality.

Before someone is saying its VRAM related - i dont think so. I tried CP 2077 on another PC of my Friend, he have an 12900K + RTX 3090 Ti. And he have the exact same Problem on his Machine.

I noticed that the problem occurs everywhere, no matter where I am on the Map. Whether in the city or outside of it.

Please CDPR fix that, its so annoying to restart the Game every 30-45 Minutes to have good FPS...