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Progresively worse FPS over time - please help :D

BananekBananek Member, Alpha Two
edited October 3 in Support & FAQ
Hey, with each lag spike or FPS drop, my FPS goes lower and lower, untill its unplayable and i gotta relogin and that helps, but its like I gotta relog every 15minutes :D, i tried some settings in nvidia control panel like changing the size of shader cacher to maximum etc.
Im playing on medium graphics with DLSS balanced.
Got Lenovo legion 5 pro 16IRX10 with RTX 5080 and Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-14900HX (2.20 GHz), 32GB ram.

Im desperate :D please, tell me there s an option to make it playble for me.

Thank you!

Comments

  • gnyk_moonraygnyk_moonray Member, Alpha Two
    I had the very same issues with my 5070 RTX. Setting everything to cinematic, except global lightning and shadows and setting shader cache to unlimited fixed it. I also upgraded to 64GB and manually cleared to shader cache in /users/[username] /appdata/local/nvidia
  • theonsintheonsin Member, Alpha Two
    ⚠ Note: this is likely not your hardware being weak, but a shader/memory leak issue in the Alpha build. Relogging clears it, which is why FPS resets.

    🔧 Things to Try

    1. Shader Cache Clean-up
    - Even if you set cache to unlimited, old/buggy cache files can cause stutter.
    - Clear these folders (safe to delete contents): 
    C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\NVIDIA\DXCache
C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\NVIDIA\GLCache
    - Do this after a driver update or if stutter keeps stacking.

    2. NVIDIA Control Panel Tweaks
    - Low Latency Mode → On
    - Power Management Mode → Prefer maximum performance
    - Texture Filtering Quality → High Performance
    - Disable Background Application Max Frame Rate

    3. Windows & Background Apps
    - Check Task Manager when FPS degradation starts. If GPU memory keeps filling, that’s a VRAM leak.
    - Disable overlays: Xbox Game Bar, GeForce Experience, MSI Afterburner, etc.

    4. Ashes Client Specific
    - Test Borderless Fullscreen instead of Exclusive Fullscreen.
    - Many Alpha testers report Cinematic settings (except Global Lighting + Shadows lowered) give smoother FPS than Medium, since the GPU takes over more load.

    5. RAM Usage
    - Ashes can chew RAM aggressively. Keep Task Manager open:
    - If usage climbs close to 30GB, Windows starts swapping → FPS tanks.
    - Relog clears memory (explains temporary fix).
    - Some testers upgrading to 64GB RAM saw the issue vanish.

    6. Drivers
    - Use latest NVIDIA Game Ready driver.
    - If issues persist, try the Studio Driver — sometimes more stable for beta/alpha games.

    Basically, it’s not you — it’s the Alpha.

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    I would agree with you, but then we would both be wrong.

    ~theonsin
  • VaknarVaknar Member, Staff
    Appreciate the assist here @theonsin !

    As a reminder, you can report bugs in-game via the /bug command.

    You can also open a support ticket here regarding technical issues: https://support.ashesofcreation.com/hc/en-us/requests/new?ticket_form_id=360000558614
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