Lower FPS, Microstutters and Screen Tearing
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I didn't want to post until I tried absolutely every solution I could find first, but after spending half a day researching testing, I think I've tried everything.
I remember a year or so ago, I used to be able to run T5 at 165fps (my monitor's hz) no problem, maxed out settings, everything. Didn't touch Plutonium for a while, but now I only get around 60-100 (140-160 if I am looking up at the sky or the ground), plus it just feels more stuttery.
What I've tried:
- DDU uninstall + reinstall GPU drivers
- "Cycling" the fullscreen settings from fullscreen -> windowed -> fullscreen. No change with either setting
- "Sync every frame". No change if on or off (game restart after change to "apply" change)
- In AMD settings, turning on/off Enhanced Sync. No change.
- In AMD settings, turning on/off FreeSync. No change.
- Everything else is off in AMD settings.
- Following an old Steam forum post - overriding AMD tessellation settings and setting it to 16x
- Deleting %localappdata%/plutonium and letting it get redownloaded.
- Deleting T5 and redownloading the entire game
- Deleting plutonium.exe and redownloading
- Turning all settings down to the absolute lowest (10ish fps gains)
- Setting GPU to "High Performance" in windows graphics settings for plutonium bootstrap
- Checking "disable fullscreen optimizations" for boostrap
- Basically everything in https://plutonium.pw/docs/low-fps/
- com_maxfps is set to 161, but also tried 0, 200, 30 then back to 161. No improvement.
- r_multiGpu and r_multiThreaded? (I don't remember the exact command). No improvements set to 0 or 1.
I really think there must have been a Windows, GPU driver, or Plutonium update that fucked my performance, as I vividly remember being able to run T5 well a year or so ago.
In addition to the lower FPS, the worst part is I actually occasionally get screen tearing. The worst of both worlds.
My GPU usage hovers around 50-60%, CPU usage at <40%.
If there's anything else I could try please let me know lmao. THANK YOU.Specs:
Ryzen 5 3600
AMD RX 6600
RAM 16GB 3200mhz
NVME M.2 SSD