The Witcher 3 FPS drop

[mldvn33]

I have a new build with
i7-6850K
MSI GTX 1080 Seahawk X in SLI
ASUS 34" 3440x1440 monitor with G-SYNC
32 GB of RAM

running Witcher 3 on Ultra with 70-80 FPS normally with occasional lags and FPS drops a couple times a minute, any suggestions?

 

[Dark Falz]

It's a stream heavy game, are you running off an SSD?

Otherwise try disabling shader cache in NVIDIA settings, I found it made Witcher 3 run worse.

 

[mldvn33]

It's a stream heavy game, are you running off an SSD?

Otherwise try disabling shader cache in NVIDIA settings, I found it made Witcher 3 run worse.

Oh sorry forgot to mention, running it on an Intel 750 1.2 TB NVMe PCE-E SSD

And disabling NVIDIA shader cache for this game didn't change a thing either

 

[davidgirgis]

reset Windows.

 

[mldvn33]

Reset Windows? Reinstall windows? Hardly worth that much trouble

 

[Shadyxi]

Try cleaning your PC https://www.piriform.com/ccleaner

 

[mldvn33]

Try cleaning your PC https://www.piriform.com/ccleaner

Yep I use CCleaner all the time

 

[Dark Falz]

Not sure then. Try running a hardware monitor with logging and see if you see spikes or dips in either the GPU or CPU usage, might help you nail down the culprit.

It's usual for Witcher to drop FPS loading new areas, especially in eg. Novigrad.

 

[mldvn33]

Not sure then. Try running a hardware monitor with logging and see if you see spikes or dips in either the GPU or CPU usage, might help you nail down the culprit.

It's usual for Witcher to drop FPS loading new areas, especially in eg. Novigrad.

Yea I have "Open Hardware Monitor" on constantly, the graphs are fairly consistent

It's most prominent during horse galloping actually

 

[Dark Falz]

Well that's normal too. If you are galloping around on Roach then you are loading a lot of new areas, and the game runs slower when it loading new sections into memory.

 

[mldvn33]

Well that's normal too. If you are galloping around on Roach then you are loading a lot of new areas, and the game runs slower when it loading new sections into memory.

Walking through Novigrad now and it's just as bad, even though the FPS counter doesn't show a drop there is still the occasional lag

 

[Dark Falz]

SLI microstutter?

 

[mldvn33]

SLI microstutter?

Is that a thing? Any fix?