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    Frame drops in the dark zone only

    Does anyone experience extreme frame drops in the dark zone? I've been playing the game to the point where you are allowed to visit the dark zone with not one issue. However if I spend more than about 25-30 minutes in the DZ my fps drops down to 20-22 and stays there until I exit the DZ or restart the game itself. Once I leave the DZ or just simply open the map it jumps back up to 90+.
    I'm running it on an i7-4790k with a strix 980ti and 32gb 1866 ram.
    Any suggestions?
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    Originally Posted by kinderjoker Go to original post
    Does anyone experience extreme frame drops in the dark zone? I've been playing the game to the point where you are allowed to visit the dark zone with not one issue. However if I spend more than about 25-30 minutes in the DZ my fps drops down to 20-22 and stays there until I exit the DZ or restart the game itself. Once I leave the DZ or just simply open the map it jumps back up to 90+.
    I'm running it on an i7-4790k with a strix 980ti and 32gb 1866 ram.
    Any suggestions?
    I assume you have checked your cpu/mobo, and gpu temps while gaming? provided everything looks good, you can try turning down some settings and see if it has any major effect next time you enter darkzone, object detail and draw distance for cpu along with shadows. For gpu things like ambient occlusion and really almost any other setting in graphics, including shadows (they rely on both cpu and gpu pretty heavy). The other thing is have you noticed games taking longer to load or close? if your using a SSD as a boot/cache drive it could be possible it is causing issues. The newer SSD have a SLC cache or a better Dram cache so performance degradation is not as likely.
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    Yes was also getting as low as 10fps.. My whole team got it last night.. I dont think it is on his side it's a server issue.. I can run around in the open world all day without issue its only the dz that is dropping frames..
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    Originally Posted by kinderjoker Go to original post
    Does anyone experience extreme frame drops in the dark zone? I've been playing the game to the point where you are allowed to visit the dark zone with not one issue. However if I spend more than about 25-30 minutes in the DZ my fps drops down to 20-22 and stays there until I exit the DZ or restart the game itself. Once I leave the DZ or just simply open the map it jumps back up to 90+.
    I'm running it on an i7-4790k with a strix 980ti and 32gb 1866 ram.
    Any suggestions?
    I had the same yesterday. I was literally teleporting inside the DZEast while I was farming for Liberty. I managed to fix it by turning DX12 on and enable latency. My specs ryzen 2600 gtx 1060 6gb 16gbram
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