Severe FPS Drops Over Time on RTX 3060 Laptop

[eXmort]

Hi. I’m having serious FPS drops and stutters in Deadlock and I can’t understand why.

My laptop specs:

• i5-11400H
• RTX 3060 6GB
• 16GB RAM (single channel)
• SSD
• 144Hz display
• Windows 11 25H2 26200.7623

A year ago the game ran perfectly: 150–250+ FPS everywhere. The major performance drop began after map updates and new character additions, which seems to be the point where FPS became much worse.

Now:

• In menu / lobby: 200–250 FPS
• Normal gameplay: 70–80 FPS
• Teamfights: 40–60 FPS
• Enemy base or some heavy moments: drops to 30 FPS + freezes/stutters

Important:

• All settings are on minimum
• VSync OFF
• Drivers updated
• Laptop cleaned, temps normal
• Pagefile increased to 32GB
• Tried Vulkan and DX11
• Disabled Windows Game Bar, overlays, background apps

Other games run very smooth with high FPS, no stutters at all. Only Deadlock behaves like this.

It feels like the game starts fine and then after a few minutes (1-5 minutes) performance degrades badly.
I currently have to restart the game after every single match, otherwise the performance becomes even worse in the next one.
I tried changing all graphics settings from minimum to maximum and different combinations, but the issue persists and performance still degrades during matches.

Could this be a memory leak or bad optimization for single-channel RAM?
Is Deadlock currently very RAM/CPU bandwidth dependent?

Any suggestions or known fixes would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.

 

[stemipro]

It's not your PC, it's the game. I'm facing the same issues and I think everyone is.

 

[Shadowlet]

Same

 

[Barachiel]

I've had the same experience! One of my friends said I'm the only one she plays with who seems to have it, but I've been seeing it pretty consistently on the forums for at least a year with no clear fix.

 

[eXmort]

I've had the same experience! One of my friends said I'm the only one she plays with who seems to have it, but I've been seeing it pretty consistently on the forums for at least a year with no clear fix.

The problem is that I didn’t have these issues before. I could play just fine even with other apps open and with Discord running. Even when loading into an empty map, I get around 90 FPS, and as soon as I add bots it drops to 50–60 FPS. Before, it never went below 150 FPS — not in team fights or anywhere else. I’ve read a ton of posts on the forums and tried many different things, but nothing helped. At this rate, I’ll have to stop playing, because it’s impossible to even finish a single match with normal FPS

 

[daniil.esakov]

I have the same problem after the last update, I had around 150-200 fps in a normal match

configuration:
i5 13600kf
3060ti
64 gb ddr4
nvme m2

now in the lobby the graphics card is loaded at 80-90%, I have 200-300 frames, a large spread, but it is

in street brawl, I have 100-120 fps, but my graphics card is only loaded by 40-50%

in a regular 6v6 match, my fps drops to 60-80, and my graphics card is also loaded by 40-50%. I've tried various settings, but nothing seems to work.

I've tried "esports" configs, changed directx/vulcan, set different dlss modes, and explored various settings in the nvidia control panel, but my fps remains unchanged.