Hello,
The team have been investigating this, could you try the following to see if it helps improve your experience?
Let us know if this helps!
Thanks for your patience,
Chizel
Thanks a bunch for your reply!
After your message, I went back and played around a bit further with the various settings to try to identify if one in particular had an impact, and sure enough I found the exact setting: MSAA
With all graphics settings set to "Very High":
If I have MSAA on at all (2x, 4x or 8x) my GPU goes crazy when looking at the right edge of the Wailon Lodge map (the jagged cliffs & water). Looking at other parts of the map like the Museum itself causes absolutely no problems, so this behavior only occurs when viewing specific things. Oddly, despite my GPU completely maxing out and heating up, I do not suffer any FPS issues (FPS stays up at 160ish) - it just goes absolutely crazy in terms of heat/fans & "GPU usage" graphs.
If I have MSAA set to "None" everything works fine. No GPU max out, no heat up, just normal.
With all graphics settings set to "Very Low": Exact same behavior. Enabling MSAA at all causes things to go crazy when looking at that specific region of the map.
No other graphics settings have any influence on this behavior (I toggled them all with every possible setting combo).
It looks like all I have to do for now is disable MSAA! I hope this information helps you with your optimizations. Thanks again for taking the time to respond. Loving the game!
Hey there
On the "Wailon Lodge" map, I noticed that if I zoom out all the way, my computer's fans would go absolutely crazy. It is definitely not a normal "Machine working hard" kind of crazy, but the type of run-away-fps type of crazy. After reviewing some graphs on my machine, it turns out the GPU usage spikes from ~70% to ~100% when this occurs. Framerate itself, however, remains unaffected (typically between 150 and 200).
After some experimenting, it turned out it wasn't zooming out that was the problem, but rather any time some (not all) of the edges of the map are displayed on the screen. For example, the right hand edge causes the problem every time, however the top edge does not (as long as the upper right corner is not also in view).
I attempted to use the FPS Limit to cap the FPS at a reasonable level in case the problem was run-away-fps, however that did not resolve it. Looking at those edges still causes the GPU to completely max out and heat up like crazy.
My GPU is: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 using the latest NVidia driver (572.70 as of this writing).
This isn't game-breaking by any stretch (I can simply avoid the edges) and I absolutely love the game! Thanks TPS!