Weird performance improvement on reconnect

[Tamara Mochaccina]

I've noticed that sometimes, when I have to restart the game for whatever reason and I reconnect into a match without loading into the lobby map first, I get upwards of 40fps of stable improvement until the next game. I theorize that it has something to do with the lobby map, but I don't have the expertise to come up with any more specifics.

 

[Tamara Mochaccina]

Update: It seems like reconnecting in this way lightens the load on the GPU specifically, as some experimentation has shown me. My graphics card is an RX6400 (i know), so it's very clearly the bottleneck for when my game is stuttering, but when I rejoin the usage goes down to about 70-95%.