Major frame drops at Listening Posts

[Interactive Cream]

Title. Nearly every Listening Post I go to, my frame-rate absolutely plummets. I thought it may just be a game thing in general, but it only seems to happen when I approach Listening Posts. I think it may have something to do with the mechs themselves, but I'm not sure.

Has anyone found a specific cause for this/having this problem?

 

[hongooi]

I had this problem as well. Try turning frame generation on; I used HSR.

 

[Interactive Cream]

I've been using DLSS, it could be something to do with that. I'll try the other ones.

 

[Lostinwhere]

What hardware is your computer running and what are your in game graphic settings? Also, what are your framerates dropping too? Is gameplay becoming choppy and unplayable?

 

[ravenswift]

I also experience this... my computer is old and decrepit, but I've been able to get the rest of Starfield playable (around 30fps). At the listening posts, though... my framerate drops below 10 :S

I took out SavrenX's textures, but that didn't make a difference. I'll try using frame regeneration and see if that helps (although i really don't like the way it looks)...

 

[twolargepepperoni]

Thank you folks for sharing your experiences here regarding settings and hardware. Unfortunately we haven't reproduced this ourselves on PC or xbox, so it's difficult to ascertain a cause, but if you have found workarounds in regards to settings please do let us know. I will forward this thread on to the dev team as well to ensure they are aware, in case there is anything more we can do to mitigate performance issues some of you are having.

 

[Interactive Cream]

What hardware is your computer running and what are your in game graphic settings? Also, what are your framerates dropping too? Is gameplay becoming choppy and unplayable?

I'm on a 2080 Super with a Ryzen 7 3700X and 32gb RAM. Also installed on a PC. I generally have 60+ fps in pretty much every stretch of the game, with the exception of really big player-made ships and some of the listening posts.

I actually haven't ran into any major performance issues with other listening posts since posting originally, so an update may have solved my problem without me even realizing.

As for settings, I run most everything on medium, with DLSS on.

Thanks for communicating regardless though, it's much appreciated!

 

[Lostinwhere]

I'm on a 2080 Super with a Ryzen 7 3700X and 32gb RAM. Also installed on a PC. I generally have 60+ fps in pretty much every stretch of the game, with the exception of really big player-made ships and some of the listening posts.

I actually haven't ran into any major performance issues with other listening posts since posting originally, so an update may have solved my problem without me even realizing.

As for settings, I run most everything on medium, with DLSS on.

Thanks for communicating regardless though, it's much appreciated!

I'm running an RTX 2080 with a very old i7-2600K and 32 gb of Corsair gaming RAM, but it's the older ddr3 tech. For settings, I run ultra with crowd settings to medium, DLSS on and upscaling preset DLAA, Vsync On, Anisotropic Filtering 16x, All layers use Anisotropic, Nvidia Relfex Low Latency Off, Sharpening 100%, Enable VRS On, Film Grain Intensity 1.00 and Enable Depth of Field On.

With my old CPU, I'm happy to get 30+ fps and smooth game play in most places. I haven't looked at my listening post framerates recently, but they're probably in the 30 to 45 range and smooth. I think there's only been one update so far that came out on May 28th. The 1.0.2 patch is still waiting for Bugthesda approval...

 

[Geldric]

What I did to test was to load my Watchtower save without loading the Watchtower mod. Once I loaded in (on a planet) I still had low fps so it wasn't due to Watchtower but one of the many driver/software updates for my AMD GPU*.

I'm coming up on almost 2 years with this PC and I still haven't figured out the Adrenalin settings; although I can make my GPU fans sound like a vacuum cleaner

Long story long... I set the Adrenalin settings to performance for Starfield and then used the in-game settings to hold around 90 fps.

From a YT video I watched, I set the overall quality to MEDIUM and then the following settings to LOW
Shadow Quality
Particle Quality
Volumetric Lighting
Grass Quality
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GTAO Quality had very little impact on FPS so it is set to ULTRA

I choose to run at lower settings to keep the room our PC's are in somewhat cool or at least reduce the heat load.

*I should add I initially ran Starfield at 1080 but have since replaced my monitor and am running at 2560x1080 (3440x1440 native)