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Just wanted to gauge if others experienced this issue before raising a support/bug ticket.
I'm playing ED on PC (i7 6700HQ, 960m 4GB, 8GB RAM, install on SSD). Drivers are the latest (419.17), which I updated yesterday and which apparently sorted some FPS drops I've been having over the past weeks (well, I presume they did as the game ran a LOT smoother where only a day before it wasn't).
But twice now this week (once pre driver update on Monday, once afterwards, last night) I experienced severe drops in FPS towards the end of my session; on Monday when entering Shinrarta Dhezra in Open, the game became unplayable - down to 4-5fps, controls unresponsive. I have a feeling this may have been related to my Xbox One controller's batteries being empty, although this never caused performance issues in the past. Maybe just a coincident.
Then last night I played in a NHSS for a few minutes. Rock solid 60fps in pretty much any scenario before that, in the NHSS it dropped to about 40-50, I then had to leg it to the station for repairs, where it gradually dropped to below 20fps, and stayed there. I logged from Open to Solo, but performance remained poor. Same result with changing some GFX settings.
I thought maybe it's a heat issue, but laptop itself and the power brick both running normal temperatures i.e. same as when I got smooth performance. Fan activity seems normal, too.
I had Windows performance monitor open, and nothing really jumped out - CPU utilisation around 30-50%, GPU around 40-50%, nothing unusual with RAM and VRAM either. Disk activity also minimal and no other processes appear to interfere either (such as Antivirus).
Anyone had this before? Been playing on this hardware for a couple of years now and never came across these severe (and permanent) performance drops until now.
I'm playing ED on PC (i7 6700HQ, 960m 4GB, 8GB RAM, install on SSD). Drivers are the latest (419.17), which I updated yesterday and which apparently sorted some FPS drops I've been having over the past weeks (well, I presume they did as the game ran a LOT smoother where only a day before it wasn't).
But twice now this week (once pre driver update on Monday, once afterwards, last night) I experienced severe drops in FPS towards the end of my session; on Monday when entering Shinrarta Dhezra in Open, the game became unplayable - down to 4-5fps, controls unresponsive. I have a feeling this may have been related to my Xbox One controller's batteries being empty, although this never caused performance issues in the past. Maybe just a coincident.
Then last night I played in a NHSS for a few minutes. Rock solid 60fps in pretty much any scenario before that, in the NHSS it dropped to about 40-50, I then had to leg it to the station for repairs, where it gradually dropped to below 20fps, and stayed there. I logged from Open to Solo, but performance remained poor. Same result with changing some GFX settings.
I thought maybe it's a heat issue, but laptop itself and the power brick both running normal temperatures i.e. same as when I got smooth performance. Fan activity seems normal, too.
I had Windows performance monitor open, and nothing really jumped out - CPU utilisation around 30-50%, GPU around 40-50%, nothing unusual with RAM and VRAM either. Disk activity also minimal and no other processes appear to interfere either (such as Antivirus).
Anyone had this before? Been playing on this hardware for a couple of years now and never came across these severe (and permanent) performance drops until now.
