FPS Drops (300 -> 2 fps) micro stutters post Old Gods, New Blood

[devlin]

I typically average around 300 fps with a smooth experience. However, after Old Gods, New Blood dropped, I'm having game ruining frame stutters every 5, 10 seconds. I'm going to link some clips from just the last game I've played, and this is just a few that I recorded. It happens consistently throughout the entire game. This is my favorite game and it makes me sad I can't play it at a competitive level anymore due to performance issues.

I've tried:
switching back to preset K in the nvidia app
switching to Vulcan
reinstalling the game
full screen instead of full screen borderless
deleting steam shader cache for the game
deleting game folder shader cache
deleting directeX shader cache
clearing all nvidia shader caches
downgrading nvidia drivers
switching to FSR instead of DLSS
fresh clean driver install using DDU
deleting the shader_.vpk files and verifying integrity of game files
deleting the video settings file and backup file
turning off my GPU OC
turning off my CPU OC
turning off my ram OC

Verified that my GPU is NOT overheating.
Will check CPU temps after I post this and give an update.
EDITl: yeah CPU temps are fine
Every other game I try (BF6, Highguard (smh), POE2, ARC Raiders, Warframe, COD, CS2) runs perfectly smoothly with no issues. With and without my OCs turned on.

Pretty stuck here! Not sure what else I can try
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-14900KF, 3201 Mhz, 24 Core(s), 32 Logical Processor(s)
Graphics Card GeForce RTX 4090
64 GB DDR4 Ram
SSD

EDIT:

Saw this in the console after one of the stutter spikes

 

[a5dhr]

Wanted to report about this issue thinking I was the only one having trouble with this issue. I asked alot of people in game if they had any stuttering issue, never got a yes from anyone. I used DDU to delete and reset my drivers and downloaded an older NVIDIA driver (581.80) which fixed the issue. However, it was temporary and the sttuters kept on happening where my GPU ussage goes from 50-70% to 0%. Tried alot of ways to fix, did the same as the guy from this post, removed RAM, CPU, GPU OC, still nothing worked. Every game works perfectly for me except for deadlock.


PC specs:

i9-14900k
3090
32 GB DDR5

 

[a5dhr]

@Yoshi

 

[Gelidus]

theres actually a workaround from what ive learned! they updated the game to use something 4.5, i forgot the name, but from what i remember preset F works really well in the nvidia app for deadlock.

 

[RouquinBlanc]

up
Exactly got the same problem, posted on it also

 

[alafosselt]

same issue here

 

[devlin]

theres actually a workaround from what ive learned! they updated the game to use something 4.5, i forgot the name, but from what i remember preset F works really well in the nvidia app for deadlock.

I've tried preset F, unfortunately I still have the same issues

 

[wun4]

same issues on an amd (rx9060xt + ryzen 5 8400f) machine on fedora linux, was running on 120 fps before the update, now in games (everything is okay in the lobby) after some time (it can be 5 minutes and it can be 30) it becomes a stable 15-30 fps and it is NOT fixed until i relaunch the game (changing graphics settings doesn't work, the ram/cpu/gpu are not fully utilized, no overheating or anything). the drops seem situational, sometimes it just doesn't happen ???

 

[ThePotatoSenpai]

yup, same here as written in my post

 

[klankz23]

same issues on an amd (rx9060xt + ryzen 5 8400f) machine on fedora linux, was running on 120 fps before the update, now in games (everything is okay in the lobby) after some time (it can be 5 minutes and it can be 30) it becomes a stable 15-30 fps and it is NOT fixed until i relaunch the game (changing graphics settings doesn't work, the ram/cpu/gpu are not fully utilized, no overheating or anything). the drops seem situational, sometimes it just doesn't happen ???

Same here but with an 6800xt, ryzen 7 5600g.

 

[Stark Trist]

Getting this same issue! Please fix!

 

[OrangeFreeman]

The game has been pretty much unplayable since the update

 

[Cardeiz]

Same problem. A reset fixes it temporarily but the stutters return inevitably. Causes enemies to teleport, and some abilities to completely miss their mark - despite user accuracy - making the most recent update hard to play in any competitive manner.

 

[I_LostMyMojo]

Same issue. Game is unfortunately completely unplayable for me. Tried everything I can think of and find online, nothing works.

 

[wistful_serendipity]

Wanted to post here to say the same thing; I've been getting constant stuttering since the latest update and nothing I've tried really seems to work. It's such a bummer, because it looks like a fun update. For reference, I have an i7-13700KF, an RTX 3070 8GB, and 32GB of DDR4 RAM - the game ran perfectly fine before this, with little to no issues. I'm not even entirely sure what might be causing it, to be honest

 

[6co]

same here. for me, the issue only shows itself after a game or two, but makes it basically unplayable once it starts. i'm rocking a core ultra 7 265k, nvidia rtx 5060, 64gb ddr5, and samsung 9100 pro.

 

[a5dhr]

I typically average around 300 fps with a smooth experience. However, after Old Gods, New Blood dropped, I'm having game ruining frame stutters every 5, 10 seconds. I'm going to link some clips from just the last game I've played, and this is just a few that I recorded. It happens consistently throughout the entire game. This is my favorite game and it makes me sad I can't play it at a competitive level anymore due to performance issues.

I've tried:
switching back to preset K in the nvidia app
switching to Vulcan
reinstalling the game
full screen instead of full screen borderless
deleting steam shader cache for the game
deleting game folder shader cache
deleting directeX shader cache
clearing all nvidia shader caches
downgrading nvidia drivers
switching to FSR instead of DLSS
fresh clean driver install using DDU
deleting the shader_.vpk files and verifying integrity of game files
deleting the video settings file and backup file
turning off my GPU OC
turning off my CPU OC
turning off my ram OC

Verified that my GPU is NOT overheating.
Will check CPU temps after I post this and give an update.
EDITl: yeah CPU temps are fine
Every other game I try (BF6, Highguard (smh), POE2, ARC Raiders, Warframe, COD, CS2) runs perfectly smoothly with no issues. With and without my OCs turned on.

Pretty stuck here! Not sure what else I can try
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-14900KF, 3201 Mhz, 24 Core(s), 32 Logical Processor(s)
Graphics Card GeForce RTX 4090
64 GB DDR4 Ram
SSD

EDIT:
View attachment 79060
Saw this in the console after one of the stutter spikes

Found this might help, helped in my case. Lower fps bc of high graphic settings, howerver get no stutters in game.

 

[wistful_serendipity]

Found this might help, helped in my case. Lower fps bc of high graphic settings, howerver get no stutters in game.

I followed the instructions in the video, and I think it actually kind of helped! I mean the stuttering isn't completely gone, but it feels a bit smoother and less jittery overall (unless it's just placebo lol)

Process Lasso is a pretty neat and useful tool - I'm surprised I never heard of it until now!

 

[RouquinBlanc]

Same here, updated my post with some screenshots too

 

[luckyshotty]

game crashes way more often for me now, and every time I rejoin I have several minutes of unplayable stutters. Losing because the my team in street brawl has 1 less player has been abysmal for everyone involved. I know that playing on a decade old GPU is really asking for it but this game has been very playable since the start of open testing (kudos to valve), and the horrifle perf after updates is usually fixed within days. This time it's getting tiring because ever since the patron rework it's been like this, and has only gotten worse with every new hero addition