Hey @MortenJessen! Before the recent 64-bit update, I was actually on older Nvidia drivers (I'd wager about a few months old.) Although, I'm now on the most recent drivers (531.41) as of a few days ago since it was a troubleshooting suggestion. And for what it's worth, while that hasn't improved my FPS at all, it also hasn't created any additional issues on my end.

Hi JackieKo, Definitely, I can confirm that I've tried adjusting resolution settings, fullscreen/windowed/windowed settings, set the frame limiter to the max of 200, turned off antialiasing, reduced shadow settings, and downloaded the most recent Nvidia drivers as of last night. I've also done a fresh install of the game and runtime components, including DirectX and VC++. I've provided Dxdiag reports in several different tickets as well as screengrabs of my CPU usage, framerate, and CPU/GPU temperatures and loads. My most recent open ticket with support is Ticket# 39098567. Help me JackieKo. You're my only hope.

Heh. I think the conversation has veered a little off the rails. Fact is, I'm still experiencing really shockingly poor FPS performance out of this title, and I'm just about resolved to end my subscription and walk away for the time being. My machine is dramatically over the recommended specs, and it's really frustrating that despite a week of trying out dozens of troubleshooting strategies, nothing has improved the situation. I'll log in again with the next major update to see if things have improved any, but this does leave a sour taste in my mouth.

Thanks for the feedback and suggestions to you both. I did switch from a balanced power profile to a high-performance power profile as per your suggestion, OwenBrooks. Unfortunately, no effect. And I certainly am experiencing relatively low CPU usage on my end as well, Ritsi. It is pretty frustrating as we both have machines that should be able to run this game without any performance issues. I tried repairing the local files via the steam launcher as it was one of the customer service rep's first suggestions, but I'll try a full reinstallation to see if that also gets me anywhere later tonight.

The problem isn't so much that it dips but that it stays sustained at about 20fps while I'm doing group content. Is that really the kind of performance I can expect from the game? I know the engine is pretty ancient at this point, but I also have an older machine with an i7 6700k a gtx 980 and 16gb ram, and it runs this game much better overall, especially after the 64-bit upgrade. This makes me think that something weird is going on with my newer machine that's giving me this performance problem.

I've been experiencing some awful FPS dips to as low as 20-50 fps sustained (especially during group content and whenever I open menus such as inventory or character sheet.) I'm running an i9 10900kf RTX 3070 32G ram. I've tried just about every combination of graphics settings, including fullscreen, windowed fullscreen, and windowed. Different graphics settings, different resolutions, refresh rates, &c. CPU/GPU usage and temps are well within normal ranges. No thermal throttling is going on or anything. This machine is only a few months old. I play plenty of other games with zero problems. Does anyone have any idea what the situation might be? I've been back and forth with customer service, but so far nothing has worked. I'm starting to think I'm just going to have to unsubscribe and maybe check back in a few patches to see if performance has improved at all. Any help would be greatly appreciated!