Hello first of all i have an almost brand new Asus Rog strix g713RM laptop. RTX 3060 Ryzen 7 6800H 16 gb ddr5 240 hz 17.3 screen. Operation system windows 11. When i open the game i start with high fps if i dont set max framerate i have 80-130 fps on very high settings doesnt matter whats going on around me. BUT! Only in the first game. If i exit and start a new game and play around in second game, change wp and so and go to river of flame, next to lava my fps dropps to 54-57 if i stand there. I dont see any texture glitches just stuttering after when i move with character. If i teleport with a sorc or so i dont feel stuttering just when running.
I tried totally everything set vsync max framerate in game or in nvidia control panel. Havent got nvidia overlay or afterburner or so, just armoury crate. My temps are ok for laptop. Dxdiag shows everything okay. No errors no crashes no blue screen. If i restart the game i have good performance again in first game. My drivers up to date. I have good fps in other games didnt feel stuttering or so. Warzone 2.0 runs flawlessly also death stranding age of empires 4 or so.
Probably someone faced the same issue.
I can link dxdiag but nothing in it. Tested my ram, my cpu, my graphic card. Also forgot that i use mux settings in Armoury crate and turbo mode. Tried other modes but they all end the same.
Same thing is happening to me on rtx 3050 laptop. First game is perfect fps, no problems. Then it gets worse as I keep playing.
I know its not the hardware because i can drop the graphics settings to low with dlss on, and over time the graphics card gets taxed and the performance drops.
I spent a few hours testing things and this is what I could find:
it isn’t dlss
not my hardware. Ive played Elden Ring 5hours straight with no problems.
successive games (save quit and creating a new game) isn’t the only way to get the problem to show up. If you start in act 4 then go between River of Flames and towards Chaos Sanctuary, then go to Travincal the performance will quickly start dropping. Going to different acts won’t drop it as much. Go back to act 4 and the lava will completely tank fps to sub 20s.
Act 3 from kurast city and act 4 river of flames seem to be the worst culprits in tanking performance. The tile sets that share act 4’s River of Flames assets in act 5 portals (abaddon etc) will also tank performance even though act 5 snow zones will run fine.
I’ve capped fps to 60, have it set to prefer max performance in nvidia control panel. Ran the laptop off and on an external monitor and the problem still occurs. Switching to the igpu actually improves performance (until i keep pushing the game going from river to trav etc). Restarting the laptop will provide the best means of fixing the problem (until it eventually starts up again).
it’s not my battery settings or power plan (i have all that set up for gaming performance).
Again, like the OP, i don’t have this issue with other games.
i noticed that the vram usage would steadily creep up as I played. In task manager CPU looked fine, memory looked fine, but the gpu vram would trickle up from 3.3 gb till 3.7gb then the problem would start (my card is a 4gb card).
A minor work around I have found is to reduce the Character detail quality setting to low a long with shadows. No idea why but it absolutely tanks fps. You will still get drops in areas with lava and Travincal but it won’t be as bad.