Low FPS

I run the game just fine over 100 FPS. What cpu and graphics card do you have?

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Hello, first thing what i want to say is sorry for me engrishu.

Is it only me or this game is poor optimizated? + i downloaded msi afterburner and find out that my GPU and CPU is loaded on 40% + - while my fps droping on 30.

This question is hard to answer without knowing anything about your rig.

CPU?

GPU?

RAM?

Drivers up to date?

I am running this on ultra settings with ~110FPS with an i5 7600K with 32GB RAM and a GTX 1060 6GB, for reference.

Also, are you running the game in windowed mode or fullscreen? Windowed mode can often result in lower performance, in any game.

i've the same problem playing it almost in full low (texture in high and particles in medium.. the rest on low and disable) and get like 30-60fps as much.. I have:

CPU: AMD A-Series A10-9600P (2400 MHz - 3300 MHz)

GPU: AMD Radeon R7 M440 (4GB)

RAM: 16GB DDR4 (1866 MHz)

Drivers up to date: All of them updated

btw i'm playing the game in a notebook and the model is "Hp Pavilion 15-aw002la" and send a ticket to Gameforge support to know if the game was (a bit or not) optimizated for AMD users... i got this answers, literally they said: We don't know.

Yes the game is poorly optimized, especially in Grace City.

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i've the same problem playing it almost in full low (texture in high and particles in medium.. the rest on low and disable) and get like 30-60fps as much.. I have:

CPU: AMD A-Series A10-9600P (2400 MHz - 3300 MHz)

GPU: AMD Radeon R7 M440 (4GB)

RAM: 16GB DDR4 (1866 MHz)

Drivers up to date: All of them updated

btw i'm playing the game in a notebook and the model is "Hp Pavilion 15-aw002la" and send a ticket to Gameforge support to know if the game was (a bit or not) optimizated for AMD users... i got this answers, literally they said: We don't know.

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Fullscreen, V-Sync off, update drivers, make sure you are running the game with your dedicated card, configure 3D settings in your AMD control panel and set stuff to "Prefer Maximum Performance", try to not run anything in the background that could hog your CPU or GPU usage while you play the game, set your Windows power options to "High Performance", play the game with your laptop plugged in (Some laptops throttles perforamance on battery)

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i've the same problem playing it almost in full low (texture in high and particles in medium.. the rest on low and disable) and get like 30-60fps as much.. I have:

CPU: AMD A-Series A10-9600P (2400 MHz - 3300 MHz)

GPU: AMD Radeon R7 M440 (4GB)

RAM: 16GB DDR4 (1866 MHz)

Drivers up to date: All of them updated

btw i'm playing the game in a notebook and the model is "Hp Pavilion 15-aw002la" and send a ticket to Gameforge support to know if the game was (a bit or not) optimizated for AMD users... i got this answers, literally they said: We don't know.

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Ehh, thats because your gpu is DDR3..............i checked some videos and this video card is really not for gaming but still, it should be enought for soulworker, i think our problem is CPU, looks like sw is not friend with these.

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I know that my gpu sucks cuz it's the worst of his serie, all fine. and as you said it should be enought to run sw. But anyways i'll make the excuse that this is a OBT so hopeful we will get a better optmization in the future or when obt ends.

BTW the I5 760 performance

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i've the same problem playing it almost in full low (texture in high and particles in medium.. the rest on low and disable) and get like 30-60fps as much.. I have:

CPU: AMD A-Series A10-9600P (2400 MHz - 3300 MHz)

GPU: AMD Radeon R7 M440 (4GB)

RAM: 16GB DDR4 (1866 MHz)

Drivers up to date: All of them updated

btw i'm playing the game in a notebook and the model is "Hp Pavilion 15-aw002la" and send a ticket to Gameforge support to know if the game was (a bit or not) optimizated for AMD users... i got this answers, literally they said: We don't know.

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Fullscreen, V-Sync off, update drivers, make sure you are running the game with your dedicated card, configure 3D settings in your AMD control panel and set stuff to "Prefer Maximum Performance", try to not run anything in the background that could hog your CPU or GPU usage while you play the game, set your Windows power options to "High Performance", play the game with your laptop plugged in (Some laptops throttles perforamance on battery)

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Sadly, i always do that in everygame (in SW too). Ty for the reply dude

Ok, so since it was said about a gazillion times already that the GPU really isn't very awesome for gaming and even if it were it's highly rusty and antique by now :), I'll focus on the one question you haven't answered: full screen or windowed mode? If you're playing in windowed mode try full screen. Windowed mode very often reduces performance in just about any game.

As for AMD CPUs and gaming performance...difficult topic. Any processor from the Bulldozer series will simply mess up most of your gaming experience for example. They're just not good. Actually...most AMD CPUs lose against comparable Intel CPUs when it comes to gaming. Actually, hold on, not quite true. That WAS the case until Ryzen came along. That one now gives Intel a run for its money.

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i think our problem is CPU, looks like sw is not friend with these.

Yup.

Older AMD CPUs are pretty bad when it comes to gaming, notably towards titles like these. Many games are CPU bound and lack true multithreading, so having a CPU that's powerful in single threaded applications (high IPC) is a must.

I experienced this first hand back when I had a Phenom II CPU. I threw my GPUs into an Intel system (i7-920) and ran some benchmarks and tried out games I was playing.. gained 20+ FPS despite it having far lower clock speed, was astounded. Been with Intel ever since.

Newer games, notably DX12, take advantage of multiple CPU cores much better and run a lot better.. but of course we're still stuck with DX9/11 and their CPU bound nature, especially DX9. Sure developers could leverage multi-core better, but as adding true multithreading is a serious development task, many just don't ever bother with it, leaving their games performing poorly. Sad.

Playing on a 10 year old laptop and i'm getting 30-40 fps on max settings (except medium shadows).

Although i'm only playing on 1366/768 usually, i plug my tv in for 1080p and get about 20-30 which is playable

I'm also using an AMD card; for this reason i don't think the game is poorly optimized.

Might be possible you have a lot of crap running in the background:
1. Windows key + r

2. type "msconfig" and press run
3. select "selective startup" and go to services tab

4. Check "Hide all microsoft services" then disable all, then select the services you want on
5. Go to startup tab and disable all
6. OK then reboot

I have my pc only running the game, driver services and discord

Another thing you can try is a disk defragment, you can google how to do that (it should be done monthly if possible)

I hope these things can help you out to get some more tasty frames

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Playing on a 10 year old laptop and i'm getting 30-40 fps on max settings (except medium shadows).

Although i'm only playing on 1366/768 usually, i plug my tv in for 1080p and get about 20-30 which is playable

I'm also using an AMD card; for this reason i don't think the game is poorly optimized.

Might be possible you have a lot of crap running in the background:
1. Windows key + r

2. type "msconfig" and press run
3. select "selective startup" and go to services tab

4. Check "Hide all microsoft services" then disable all, then select the services you want on
5. Go to startup tab and disable all
6. OK then reboot

I have my pc only running the game, driver services and discord

Another thing you can try is a disk defragment, you can google how to do that (it should be done monthly if possible)

I hope these things can help you out to get some more tasty frames

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Gonna do that. Thanks for the help, appreciate it.

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Ok, so since it was said about a gazillion times already that the GPU really isn't very awesome for gaming and even if it were it's highly rusty and antique by now :), I'll focus on the one question you haven't answered: full screen or windowed mode? If you're playing in windowed mode try full screen. Windowed mode very often reduces performance in just about any game.

As for AMD CPUs and gaming performance...difficult topic. Any processor from the Bulldozer series will simply mess up most of your gaming experience for example. They're just not good. Actually...most AMD CPUs lose against comparable Intel CPUs when it comes to gaming. Actually, hold on, not quite true. That WAS the case until Ryzen came along. That one now gives Intel a run for its money.

Nope Ryzen still loses hard in terms of gaming performance to comparable Intel CPUs, however if you are doing streaming or multitasking then Ryzen does have better dollar to performance ratio.

Here too , i am now in grace city and fps is low it keeps jumping around from 30 to 80 . and the fps drop in dungeons are worse making the game unplayable at times . both cpu and gpu load are at 35 to 40 % .

specs are :-

gpu :- nvidia geforce gtx 1050

cpu :- i5 7300 HQ

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Here too , i am now in grace city and fps is low it keeps jumping around from 30 to 80 . and the fps drop in dungeons are worse making the game unplayable at times . both cpu and gpu load are at 35 to 40 % .

specs are :-

gpu :- nvidia geforce gtx 1050

cpu :- i5 7300 HQ

Are you running a gazillion other processes at the same time?

Do you play in windowed or fullscreen mode?

Do you have a very restrictive AV solution or FW?

With the rig you specified you shouldn't have these issues and I can personally not reproduce that at all, so there must be some other factors gnawing at your performance.

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Here too , i am now in grace city and fps is low it keeps jumping around from 30 to 80 . and the fps drop in dungeons are worse making the game unplayable at times . both cpu and gpu load are at 35 to 40 % .

specs are :-

gpu :- nvidia geforce gtx 1050

cpu :- i5 7300 HQ

Are you running a gazillion other processes at the same time?

Do you play in windowed or fullscreen mode?

Do you have a very restrictive AV solution or FW?

With the rig you specified you shouldn't have these issues and I can personally not reproduce that at all, so there must be some other factors gnawing at your performance.

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i just disabled all but intel's and nvidia services . 108 fps in dungeons but it still drops to arount 40.

i am playing in fullscreen mode , using eset internet security (which is always on gamer mode whenever i am playing).

edit :- i have 53 processes running now

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Here too , i am now in grace city and fps is low it keeps jumping around from 30 to 80 . and the fps drop in dungeons are worse making the game unplayable at times . both cpu and gpu load are at 35 to 40 % .

specs are :-

gpu :- nvidia geforce gtx 1050

cpu :- i5 7300 HQ

Grace city is just optimized badly, nothing you can do about it.

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Here too , i am now in grace city and fps is low it keeps jumping around from 30 to 80 . and the fps drop in dungeons are worse making the game unplayable at times . both cpu and gpu load are at 35 to 40 % .

specs are :-

gpu :- nvidia geforce gtx 1050

cpu :- i5 7300 HQ

Grace city is just optimized badly, nothing you can do about it.

ya but it happens in dungeons too . the fps starts high then just random drops starts happening .