Question Borderlands 3 Frame drops

[Liam Spence]

Hi All,

i'm having issues with BL3 where i'm getting continuous frame drops when i'm playing. Even if i just sit in the main menu the drops occur and i'm at a loss as to hats causing it.

System: -
Ryzen 7 3700x
Asus X570-i motherboard
32gb 3600 ram cl16
RX 5700XT
game and boot drive are on a PCIe Gen4 Sabrent 2tb NVME
Corsair SF750 psu

I've been trying all manner of fixes, fresh OS install, driver wipe and reinstall, set CPU priority for BL3, tried to run at all low settings. shutdown all background apps. swapped out my gpu for my old Vega 56.

oddly the game runs fine albeit at medium settings on my old PC which was an i7-990x, 24gb ram, Vega56 and the game installed to a mechanical HDD - but it's too much of a hassle to have to connect everything just to play 1 game.

any help or advice appreciated!

 

[Liam Spence]

To update, new things I've tried:

Replaced GPU with Nvidia and clean driver install - no difference
Replaced my ram - no difference
moved game files to slower SSD - no difference

The only things i haven't tried to swap out are my CPU/Motherboard as i don't have spares just lying around....

ran some thermal checks in the background and cpu is max 70degrees and gpu 75degrees so not aware of any thermal throttling taking place.

Any other thoughts?