Certain games such as the re4 remake and stray, will randomly drop to 5 fps for a few seconds, then jump back up to 30-40 fps. These games normally run fine at 40fps but I'm not sure what causes the drops.
what causes certain games to severely drop fps for a few seconds?
3 years ago by WeebLife to c/steamdeck
TJmCAwesome 5 points 3 years ago
Second for cryoutilities, it helped for horizon zero dawn on my deck.
TJmCAwesome 3 points 3 years ago
Zero dawn works perfectly. It even gets quite good graphics and fps. I loved playing it on deck. I actually much prefer it because of the gyro aiming with left trigger and the back buttons.
Hopefully forbidden west comes out for steam before I die of old age đ
SmallAlmond 6 points 3 years ago
I feel like that is shader compilation happening on the fly, it should dissapear after an hour or so (when it all compiles).
SmallAlmond 1 point 3 years ago
Oh, yea you're right, it shouldn't freeze your game
tVxUHF 3 points 3 years ago
Maybe the long-standing SMT bug? Basically, when two threads on the same core are running, and one of the threads discards its cache, due to this bug, the cache is discarded for all the threads on the same core. This causes a temporary FPS dip.
A proper fix is due in SteamOS 3.5, but you can also turn off SMT by installing PowerTools Decky plugin to see if it helps.
More info: https://www.pcgamer.com/...
Cyzor 2 points 3 years ago
If anyone hasn't seen them, software engineer CryoByte33 delves into such performance issues and provides some utilities to help mitigate them:
HusnainJaved11 -1 points 3 years ago
It is not True. The Official Platform announces this FPS Drop severely is fake
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You might try cryoutilities and see if it helps. Sometimes drops like that are due to the system having to reallocate RAM/swap or other system resources, causing a drop. A lot of the cryoutilites addons are meant to reduce the frequency and severity of those drops, so it might help.
Otherwise your best bet is to enable logging of your performance data through mangohud, and whenever you have a fps drop check the logs/charts and see what happened.
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