[2021] Chaos Wastes Performance Issues/FPS Drops

Heroes,

We’re investigating the reported performance issues since the release of Chaos Wastes.

To support our investigation and help us solve this as promptly as possible, please tell us:

• What sort of FPS are you achieving?
• Have you made sure your mods are disabled? This is important!
• Your PC’s specifications?
• Your Windows version? ‘Settings’ → ‘About’ → ‘OS Build’
• Was Sienna played? Which career?
• Was there lit lamp oil involved?
• Which locations do you notice this the most in? Screenshots of the worst offending areas appreciated!
• Did your FPS drop after using power-ups, or right from the start?

Thank you!

PLEASE DON’T POST CRASHES OR UNRELATED ISSUES HERE. THANK YOU!

I’ve edited the post to ask for your Windows version, because: A recent Windows 10 update is trashing framerates and causing games to stutter | PC Gamer

Please

• What sort of FPS are you achieving?
  Usually 55-60, but suffering heavy drops in some particular areas.

• Have you made sure your mods are disabled? This is important!
  My mods are enabled, but I don’t use either of the mods marked as causing severe performance drops

• Your PC’s specifications?
  GPU: AMD RX 580 8gb
  CPU: AMD Ryzen 3600
  16 GB RAM
  HDD

• Your Windows version? ‘Settings’ → ‘About’ → ‘OS Build’
  Windows 10, OS build: 19042.928

• Was Sienna played? Which career?
  Nope

• Was there lit lamp oil involved?
  Nope

• Which locations do you notice this the most in? Screenshots of the worst offending areas appreciated!
  In the following spots:
  -Righteous Stand, in the 1st grimoire area. When looking in certain directions, my FPS tanked from 60 to 30-40.
  -Holseher’s Tower (Chaos Wastes): When looking at the center of the tower, my FPS tanked from 60 to 30-40
  -Arena of… Courage? The final map of the second expedition right now: My FPS were permanently lowered to 30-20. Map was cursed by Nurgle (purifying torch Curse)

• Did your FPS drop after using power-ups, or right from the start?
  No power-ups involved. In the first two cases, FPS tanked when looking in certain directions. In the last case, it was constant.

Gonna add to this Arena of Determination? The arena of the third expedition. Permanent low FPS there, 30-40 fps constantly I think.

The post auto-locked without me noticing, my bad.

Substantial optimisation coming soon™

Once I know more, I’ll let you know.

Many players have seen substantial improvements with the release of patch 4.4 but I appreciate some are still having problems. I’m closing this and creating a new post shortly, as a lot changed with 4.4 and I think it’s important to keep pre-4.4 and post-4.4 performance issues separated!