Very bad performance on Monoliths

Technical Support
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Hi!

I love this game, the problem is that it is unplayable in Monoliths. Im getting 1 second freezes each 20 seconds in Monoliths. I’m playing a Thorn Totem Spriggan Druid build and right now I have to play in 1080p rescaled to 1440p in AMDVirtualResolution and using FSR so I can play, and I still get drops to 20 fps.
I have benchmarked and the GPU and CPU is always below 50%. I have tried setting high priority to the game, drivers are updated, game is launching as admin… I have also switched to full offline mode and this issue persists…
All the settings are set to Very Low. I have verified game files, and my Rig is not low end at all
6650XT AMD 8GB VRAM
i3 12100f
32GB RAM
m2 SSD with a lot of Space, the game is installed here

I have seen many other posts about this and Devs seem not to care, they don’t respond to the posts. The game is unplayable for me in the endgame so I may have to switch to POE2 or Diablo if this issue persists. In a mono with many enemies I always get 20fps with the settings detailed above.

Could a dev try to fix this? Thanks!!

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I have submitted numerous reports. Is there at least any hint from the developers saying they are looking into this? I have seen that people with 4080/4070 High end cards also get bad performance on Monos

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RX7700S, Ryzen 7 7735HS, 16gb here. Same issues. Fps drops to around 30 in some fights when CPU and GPU usage arent even reaching 50%. I have tried many solutions from giving priority to certain threads, to using launch commands on steam. Nothing works.

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Yeah. Its not good. I have 4090, 13900k and 32Gb RAM @6400Mhz, playing with 4k 120Hz monitor and I had to cap frames to 60 for it to be playable. Fps still drops below 60 in monoliths. And the power plan is set to maximum performance. Ive also lowered all graphics to medium and the game is installed to nvme drive. Maybe some optimizing required from developers side?

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I am having the same issue on a brand new gaming laptop. I get FPS drops from 60 → 30 regardless of settings, very low / very high graphics doesn’t make a difference. GPU/CPU not being fully utilized either.