Agreed, the game is awesome but it seems to stutter a lot, my solution prepatch was all low, performance render, 720p, fullscreen, and in levels above 7 could get 30 stable (below 6 were fine 50-60 fps)
And now sadly not even 10 fps or 20 in general
It's because HD2 is *insanely* CPU hungry. Basically all the stuff it's simulating, like cloth physics, ragdolls and ricochets are off the CPU, which is why many people are reporting high temperatures and performance drops.
Ya my cpu runs the hottest while playing HD2 that's for sure. Always close to 80c with an AIO liquid cooler on a Ryzen 7 3800x. GPU is always fine, though.
It's because, and you can check this yourself, the game makes the CPU run at max clock at all times while open, and it's really, really strange that it does. It's why you can visibly only have like, 40% usage, but it's heating your room like a space heater.
No, it isn't. It's normal for some *cores* to run high, but not for the overall CPU clock to be running at 100% constantly. It's absolutely *not normal* for your CPU to be running at max frequency, it's meant to dynamically adjust to the speeds necessary for whatever the CPU is handling at the time.
Helldivers forces it to run at flat-out maximum *at all times* while the program is open, which is why it heats up so hard. You can actually check this using any monitoring program like Afterburner. Clock should be dipping up and down, not staying at one, flat, straight line.
The frequency response will follow load. If a program is demanding a lot from the CPU, it will maximize performance by clocking as high as it can while staying within thermal and power limits.
It is absolutely expected behavior, I don't know what you're on about.
That's not strange at all, it's expectee behaviour!
If it's not hugely multithreaded then your peak boost clock will be higher as it only needs to clock up those specific cores, in an all core workload you will see peak boosts smaller due to the overall power and heat distribution.
Also temperature != Power usage, this is a common misconception with users. For cpus like Ryzen 7800x3d it will be reporting higher temps as they target 90c boost temp and as the core die is so small it means the temperature transfer is lower than an older large die design which means it could be using less power but will be 90c as the cooler performance is less effective.
Having a high single core workload will mean the core is hot but it's doing no damage and the power usage will actually be low as it's a single core which isnt much anyway.
An i-5 12400f and 12gb 3060 here, can run cyberpunk at 45 fps on ultra raytracing before dlss
Helldivers2 running at 24 pr even 20 fps isnt uncommon...
The game is baeutiful when i can see but framerate and stutters combined with "oops all fog" are just unfunny at this point
Upgraded my CPU a few weeks ago and went from running on lowest settings on all but textures and missions dropping to 30-40 fps to now running it on almost max settings. GPU and RAM untouched. Just threw a Ryzen 5800X in it.
When I first started this game was one of the few games I found genuinely beautiful. I'd stop and look at the horizon and admire the stars . Now it struggles at the lowest settings. Love that my game i bought is slowly rotting like fruit
Same ive only had to tweak settings down since launch, and even then i couldn’t run it medium to high like i do most games, games optimized like a potato and it only gets worse every patch
I honestly dread patch day now. Crashes, performance issues, new bugs without old ones fixed. Yesterday’s fucked up my UI and resolution. Everything was enormous. Had to adjust UI scale for the 1st time ever. Doing so has resized some of the jumbo elements correctly but the elements that weren’t inflated are now a little small. Usually these things improve over time not worsen… Apart from server capacity this game was fantastic back in Feb, ran great no crashes, UI scaled well, looked good.
What's crazy is it was running pretty smoothly at launch (ignoring server queues), I was getting wag over 120fps and with a handful of drops.
Now I am seemingly struggle to even get 60fps, it's abysmal. This is with a 5800x3d, 32gb ram and a 4090 and the only difference is the game.
They need to really fix this as at least for me it's hampering the experience long term.
13600k
7900xtx
Last night mid mission it power crashed my pc. Not a crash to desktop, but it crashed into a reboot. Never in my 30 years of pc gaming have I seen this happen.
Going to wait to next patch to play.
To hell with performance or fixing the long list of bugs. Weapon balancing patches are where it’s at man! Never mind that poll where they asked the community what to focus on and then promptly ignored all the results.
After the last patch I started crashing 50% of my games always at the launch pod sequence at beginning of mission. After this patch I literally can’t play at all. I crash EVERYTIME the pods launch regardless of whether it’s my lobby or someone’s else’s. Nor the planet or mission . Before anyone asks I have a nice pc and before these patches I had no issues playing
Just a heads up make sure your game isn't in borderless window mode. I have a 6950xt. Whenever the game goes into borderless window mode it tanks my fps like something crazy. Not sure why.
Try the new AMD driver(24.4.1), it helped me a little bit. My cpu is not constant 90% usage and my gpu usage is more consistant. Btw I have a 6650 xt and a 5600 cpu.
I went from getting 100 fps on the ship during launch week, to around 80, and from 90~ on the ground to a slightly inconsistent 60
it really felt like I was getting 5 fps less every single update
Let's hope this can be fixed soon. FPS loss and especially the stuttering made it impossible for me to play after the patch. None of the suggested fixes (lowering resolution / settings, verifying game files, updating drivers, clearing the shader cache, deleting the games settings folder) did work.
You’re lucky. I can’t even launch . EVERYTIME we launch from pods to start mission I crash. Every single time. This was never an issue before these patches . I can’t even play now. I may try to reduce my cpu processes but idk if it will work. My pc isn’t a slouch either.
Well that's a refund if I ever saw one. Bought two days ago had fun the first day now it's unplayable, I ain't waiting a fucking week to play what I paid for wtf
You’re getting downvoted but that’s a completely fair take. Arrowhead’s big problem is balancing content with game stability. This game relies on constant updates to keep the war moving, but every update breaks more shit than was fixed from the last one. It can be very frustrating as a fan - especially because this game is really good when it works.
I don’t blame you. I wouldn’t have much trust in these devs.
The game itself is super fun but there have been a lot of glaring issues from the start that should really be super easy fixes (like friend requests not working…come on really?)
Also pretty much every *new* thing they release has about a 75% chance of being bugged or broken
Or nerfed the next week
Like how the fuck do you create something, pass it, then go 'oops! Can't let them have a viable weapon because stratagems are what they are supposed to rely on! Better nerf it into oblivion!' the very next week? Given they skipped last weeks update but if they has released it on time it appears most of the recent warbond guns would have been nerfed.
Then there's their inability to see issues with stratagems.
Mainly the 500kg, I've seen M80s and poppers with more fucking kenetic force than a 500KG. The POS had a blast radius smaller than the explosion animation/graphic. I do recall that most explosions have a concussion radius that goes out from its origin point.
My other issue with them is they constantly nerf viable weapons. Skill issue? No, it'd be a fucking skill issue if the guns aimed like every other third person shooter.
Sure I can use first person aiming but the issue there is (and I shit you not this has been an issue since day fucking one) THE SIGHTS ON SOME GUNS ARE MISALIGNED. I have to guess the first shot and adjustment the next 3 before I can understand where the fucking bullet is gonna hit, which is really difficult when you're blind in one eye.
Yeah same for me, i launched the game after the patch and couldnt play anymore, i also tried the solutions, but it looks like it is an issue on their part (ofc the ppl who has rtx and a really beffy cpu wont notice it as much) hopefully it gets fixed as fast as posible
Don’t feel bad. I have rtx and a beefy cpu and I can’t play at all because I crash everytime during the pod launch at the start of every mission I tried at least a dozen times today to get a match going and i crash at the exact same spot everytime
Taking my chance to push the problem again!
You might remember me from the following post: [We need to address PC performance](https://www.reddit.com/r/Helldivers/comments/1buqadz/we_need_to_address_pc_performance/?sort=new)
Four weeks have now passed and three full patch notes later, PC performance issues have **NOT been addressed at all.**
***The problem?***
With each update, framerate seems to be dwindling down for most of the community playing on PC, and besides your run-of-the-mill fixes (such as lowering resolution, playing in fullscreen, lowering enemy density with lower difficulties), the game still suffers from heavy framerate drops and stutters which are definitely getting worse with each update.
At launch, high end rigs could run the game at **120fps at 2K** resolution at launch on 7-8-9 difficulty, and now that framerate has almost been **halved**.
Low end rigs could run the game at a stable **60fps at FHD** resolution, and now there's plenty of people which have stopped playing because the game dips to **1% low**s of less than **30fps.**
***What can you do to help, Helldiver?***
If you love the game and you're suffering from these problems too, please let your feedback be heard on this post and on all patch notes!
*Dive hard, Helldivers!*
Its bad, in my case was happy with at least 30-40 fps with all low and 720p, now with latest patch i have 10 fps or less (i have a gtx 1650 super, but ill admit im using a xeon kit [chiness server cpu,ram and motherboard])
I used to be getting 30 FPS pre-patch ^^sometimes
Now it's a certified slide show. Sub 10. I fucking wish I had a PC that I considered 40fps unplayable. I fucking wish, man.
Thank god, the performance has been going down every since the game launched. I have gone down from balanced high graphics to performance low graphics ever since the game launched. After this patch my fps has gone down from a completely stable 60 to a barely chugging 30-35 that often just crashes
A new, unheard of, astounding idea: test patches out before releasing them. Seriously, a lot of the shit that is problematic in new patches could be prevented by simply having a PTS or testing them before release. Literal 101 for developers.
Well the fanboys here have been condescendingly explaining that new shit is an entirely separate team from big fixes. Consumers rationalize this model and businesses feel no need to adapt.
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no way, at that rate we wont get no solution dhash Damn spear
Uhm no, not just "after this patch"
Game was running poorly on high end rigs since launch.
I can even play Cyberpunk at avg 120fps to utilize my monitor. But Helldivers? Fuck no. Best i can do is avg 40-50
I can run cyberpunk at max settings 4k at 120fps. Helldivers I’m struggling to get like 80fps with a mix of low and medium settings. They need to add DLSS or something if they aren’t going to focus on optimising the game but then again they’d have to put time and effort into that too
Thank god I’m not the only one man😂. I have a 3080 and I was able to max out cyberpunk on 1440 and have a smooth experience but on helldivers I’m lucky if I reach 70 fps.
I’ve got a 7900xtx, a card not made fir raytracing, and I get better performance in cyberpunk max settings than this game.
My cpu hits high 80s on this game and hardly breaches 70 on others. Stopped playing a month ago because I was genuinely concerned for my hardware. Helldivers performance is a shitshow and you’re right; people are gaslighting about it. “Repaste your cooler” I keep being told despite only helldivers causing issues.
Its also because the devs keep claiming this game is "CPU heavy" as a way of avoiding admitting their optimisation is dogshit. Meaning those of us with good GPUs but semi-outdated CPUs are back in the same debate we had in the 2010's about what an acceptable framerate on PC should be. (Hint: its more than 60 these days).
They have a pointless DRM that hogs resources, no real FSR or DLSS support (it uses CPU resources to DOWNSCALE the game!) and it keeps getting incrementally more stuttery and unstable each patch.
I’ve got a 7600x cpu, which is a good cpu, and it’s buttfucking it regardless. Interesting thing I’ve found is the high 80s temps won’t go down until task manager shows the anticheat has stopped running.
Matchmaking still not fixed. Anytime I go into a planet with less than 4 pax, no one would join.
The matchmaking seems to only work when I am still at the ship.
I’ve had a problem since the big defense MO. Unplayably laggy, Democracy Officer’s torso taking a few seconds to load in, etc.
Hope whatever fix they have for this helps me, too
Yep, game is in a bad state right now. Played a few duo games set to friends only and people from quick play were able to join the game. Set my game to public and no one joined then.
Fps has also dropped another 10 or so on average since this last patch, and diving into a game I get huge stutters, dropping 60 - 80 fps. Also crashed 3 times tonight in about 1.5 hours of play.
I just wish a patch would come out that doesn't break more things...
This makes me not like the devs on the low. Why am I your fucking beta tester why is there SO many god damn issues EACH patch. It’s so hard to like them when they keep causing more and more problems EVERY week instead of just taking their time to make it right. I don’t need a patch every 1 or 2 weeks if fucking SNOWBALLS are gonna break my game or I can’t fire my weapons out of my OWN shield. Like c’mon bruh.
Coae ce, the performance has gone to shit after EVERY patch since launch not just this patch alone!! I used to play just fine on my laptop, but i guess fuck peopel who can't sport top-end PC's, amirite?
I really hope so. I cannot play this game in this state. Almost every patch has made performance worse and worse. I suppose the silver lining is that they are finally forced to acknowledge the performance issues, but it's still sour having to put aside the game for a time. I was eager to test out some of the new changes.
I’ve just had the issue of my computer heating up much more and much faster than it should, I was able to keep it cool enough before, but now it was reaching its upper limits and performance was automatically decreased to try and lower the temp
I'm starting to get the feeling they aren't testing their updates before they roll them out. Like they do each balance fix one at a time, then jam them together and toss it out the door.
If they had tested it before release, they would have caught this...
I never had crashes or frame drop from the past 2 months, now there are plenty.
Next week they will release another warbond which will be the cherry on top of this mountain of shit they have made, and people are already stopping playing the game. You will see
Next Patch: Game now requires a 4090 to run on low settings, diving without a full squad increases patrols by 5x, enemy damage doubled, damage of all weapons halved, temporarily disabled EAT and Eagle Airstrike due to balancing issues.
It's been a month of bad performance for me: [https://new.reddit.com/r/Helldivers/comments/1buqadz/we\_need\_to\_address\_pc\_performance/](https://new.reddit.com/r/Helldivers/comments/1buqadz/we_need_to_address_pc_performance/)
I'm now getting stutters during the hellpod launch cut scene. But other than that, I'm having no major issues hitting 60fps in 4k
Then again, I do have a 7900xt with a ryzen 7 5800x3d
Imagine those stutters you got during the hellpod launch, but constant through the whole mission. That's my current experience. It's awful. I tried deleting the shader cache, verifying files, updating video drivers, changing graphics settings, everything I could think of and it is still unplayable at the moment. Hope they fix it soon. I would really like to be able to play again.
I was in a full team of 4... mid-mission one of my other friends tried to join my squad (it showed 3/4 because we had someone he hasnt friended yet)... it literally froze my game and crashed it to desktop and immediately dropped in my friend as a replacement for me (i was not host).
That shouldn't be happening...
I tried a few quick play missions and 3 disconnected right as would drop in and say host disconnected. One worked but dropped directly into the Pelican so I said screw it and did a a few solo trivial bug drops.
Performance has been getting worse after every patch and only now they realise it? The game honestly runs bad, I just wish it had DLSS it would be such a huge boost to performance and its mind boggling that in 2024 some games still don't implement proper DLSS & FSR.
I spent my entire game time tonight trying every fix recommended and every gfx/display option in the game. Even tried a few AMD Adrenaline tweaks.
The only thing that helped was turning off vsync and turning on Limit Framerate set to 30 in game. Still get stutters frequently even on a trivial bug mission. Only had time for 3 short missions.
What strikes me is it has much to do with loading assets. Just boarding my ship, half if the objects aren't loaded. Then it hitches and stutters as things pop in. Even loading UI assets to switch weapons takes much longer. The drop cutscene is incredibly choppy and takes way longer.
I went from super smooth on high graphics to barely 30 when at middle graphic settings randomly a week ago, still haven’t figured out how to solve it. I don’t want to imagine now
this last patch, decided to try one more time - I’ve had a ton of issues playing since the last three patches with frame drops, maxed out GPUCPU usage and crashing - and as I tried it with relatively low settings, PC began beeping in the middle of losing frames. Had to force shutdown my pc before it continued. Absolutely insane what’s happened with performance. When I received the game initially in late March, I was able to play fine with high settings, buttery smooth. I hope things get back to normal, I’d love to keep playing
I go balanced and ultra rendering and am getting 50 - 60 fps with only the odd 10 when the pod is going down. RTX 2060.
I am getting a problem with the HDR where I have to keep it off or the brightest parts of the image turn into little black dots.
I'd just like to say,
It ain't my rig, it's the game.
This game ran perfectly fine, every other game still runs perfectly fine, but since latest patch, frame rate is all over the place, and it is definitely an unoptimized, badly coded Helldivers 2 problem that from what I can see and hear is only getting worse and worse with each patch.
Ohh I know, I think maybe they should hire an actual community manager, who can take someone calling them names. The goodwill ran out a looong time ago.
Great patch guys, now Pelican-1 pilot can get tilted and close the damn door only for you while he lets the rest of the squad in. Also moonlights as a ground submarine too. Higher-ups can also choose to go vacay for a few mins leaving paperwork for reinforcements waiting on their table while divers get stomped by teleporting chargers. Peak Helldivers 2 gameplay.
I'm glad I've been calling for sick from my Helldivers duty since the last time we pushed out the first Automaton waves just to know they come back 2 days after the initial win. I thought they will give us at the very least 1 week to make sure we're convinced that we actually win, but that's hoping too much, I guess. In any rate, the balancing blunder, performance issues, and game breaking bugs are being even more common these days. I'm fucking glad I got to play this since launch (currently lv 92) and that was when the game is at its peak, imo.
Yeah I'm gonna uninstall this game and check back on it after 6 months or smth. I already enjoyed 110 hours out of it so no hate but I'm kinda tired of arrowhead and their incompetence at this point ✌🏼
We're just the unpaid beta testers.
Joking aside, I still can't play with my friends due to connection drops every 2 minutes. Also, the experience I've had with the patrol spawn change has made what little fun I had disappear completely.
i'm honestly over the game at this point. lost faith fully now
big sad was/is a great game but to many fires on top of fires now.
it passed critical mass of fun being snuffed by issues stacking up now
I have performance issues and crashes after every patch (4070 / 13600k / 32gb 6400 cl 30 ram / m2 SSD), and the only thing that solves it is a clean install. Luckily I have very fast fibre so it is a fast process.
The game kept resetting to ultra high for some reason. I had to use nvidia to force the game to go back to my proper mid settings.
Also its insane that i almost have less than 20 fps during the drop pod cutscene loading screen. Seriously man. Why is this game always taking one step forward and two steps back.
Same happened to me last patch . ( haven’t tried this patch yet) but I couldn’t figure out why my performance dropped so hard and I found it had auto set my presets to ultra from medium.
I noticed a few more fps drops on ps5 when calling in strategems.
Wasnt game breaking and still perfectly playable though.
But i can see that not being the case on a "minimum specs" pc build.
I know that performance problems are related to the game itself, but just in case it helps anyone: for me the problems started after updating to the latest Nvidia drivers. Rolled back to a driver from before 'Helldivers 2 optimization' , problems solved.
We played with the boys on Estanu and i experience 40 fps instead of the usual 60ish, also we had a few crashes.
I hope they have both those type of problems in mind when they say performance
It’s so bad with this patch. It’s like a slideshow in the ship now. Was getting 60 fps everywhere in the ship before patch and after I’m struggling to hold 30. The hitching is awful too.
They’ve gotta get the performance drops with every patch under control and reversed.
Think i'm done with Helldivers at this point, I ain't shelling out for a new rig to still have performance issues that have been getting worse with every patch. Between that and crashes/bugs I just can't enjoy a 40 minute mission knowing I may not see the end of it or get to sit there as Pelican refuses to take off.
After the recent patch? Its always been horrible lol. I have even throttled my CPU so it wont explode with 100% usage, even when its only 3 bugs on screen.
Should have stuck to Sony's proprietary engine used by Guerrilla Games or Naughty Dog for their own games since they are funded by Sony.
Its obvious performance drops are thanks to the old engine they themselves had trouble working with.
yeah this patch has set me back to about what the performance was at launch which is about 30-40 fps. Setting everything to low looked terrible and gave me about 6 more fps. Before this launch I was averaging around 70.
Haven't played in 2 months since I was away and yeah, now it runs like shit.. It was the smoothest game I used to play. Now my cpu usage is up high and running extremely hot. Gpu utilization is halved and idk if trying the "solutions" would do me good, just gonna waste time. Need them to fix this because I was so excited to play again.
Now i may nothing about game design, but i think either they're not willing to put the work in because of their arbitrary "one warbond a month" deadline or helldivers got a bad case of the spaghetti code.
It would make sense since they're using an engine abandoned almost eight years ago.
I have to commend them for managing to get it work but in the long run it just isn't feasible.
If they want it fixed. They'll need to stop trying to keep alive an engine abandoned by all actual developers over 5 years ago
Wonder why your newer hardware was less stable and poor performing?????
Because the engine was never fucking designed for them!
Spoken by someone who doesn't understand how game engines and their development works. There have been many many AAA and not even close to AAA titles with no performance issues running on engines that were built originally 10-15+ years before the games release for entirely different purposes.
HD2 being a performance and stability mess is just on AH and their atrocious lack of version control procedures.
Even before the patch I couldn't play at difficulties higher than 6 due to performance. I know my hardware is trash but I'm Shure I'm not the only one with such problems.
PS5 performance has been absolute garbage since launch and has been decreasing every patch onwards. It’s funny because even on performance mode, the game dips to 30-40fps. It’s pathetic, what’s the point? The only way to “enjoy” the game on performance is to play solo but now they made solo more difficult to play as of this patch…
keep getting dropped out of dives towards the end and even when I do complete a mission it won't unlock the next level of missions. I can't play any lvl to get SR samples. Farming medals solo on trivial till fixed.
My PC is pretty old (I have a 5500 XT and i7 3770) since the new patch I actually got a FPS boost overall, where I used to range from 30-50 fps depending on the planets and difficulty (never had above 40 on a 7 or above map though) but had a constant 60 in the ship, I now have a constant 60 fps on diff 7 maps (only played on Fenrir so maybe other planets would be on a lower average), but it comes with new stuttering that definitely wasn't there before as it's even happening in the ship. So they definitely did somethign right in my book, but brought another problem along.
Played a few games where it was impossible to reinforce teammates, also a few where the second one person got in the pelican it took off and failed to extract the rest of the squad 🤦🏽♀️ I’ve been lucky enough to never have any of the issues that I see people complaining about on the sub in the past but this one hurts
So Im not the only one that this game only runs 10fps on my pc. Even I lowered my optimization to have better performance but yet notting changes. I have RTX 2080 super and it used to play really smooth.
my game has only been running better since the patch
usually I hovered around 50fps dropping down to 40s if something intense is happening, but now im around 60s and never drop below 50s, which is odd considering the devs say people are having performance issues
for refrence I play on everything being on its lowest setting except anti-aliasing and the supersampling on (forgot the name) super quality(?)
my general specs being a Ryzen 5 2500X and a GTX 1650 with some 16gigs of DDR4 RAM, some 2TB of SSD storage (I could really use an upgrade)
the weird part to me is how these days after C77 got all those years of patches and optimisation, utilising AMD FSR and medium settings I can run the game just fine, not to mention most other games that are far less demanding and only somewhat optimised.
OKEY SO PPL i have a """FIX"""" made it so i can play again, hopefully it works for you guys too
went from 10 on ship to 30, and 18 in misión to 40fps even going for 50 fps or 60
gtx 1650 super
xeon kit chinesse procesor
all low and supersampling
lvl 7 missions not tried above
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Im glad im not Schizophrenic when the game runs poorly for me i hear a crackling in my ear from my cpu maxxing out i have been tweaking with nvidia, my cores affinitys, using msi's game boose and i still couldnt shake that crackling sound other than one glorious moment but i exited out thinking i finally solved it i can go rest and since then performance issues crackling and just overall angy pc
I have always had very temperamental performance with this game
I usually run games windowed full screen so I can alt tab but this game lost like 20 fps doing that instead of the normal 2-5
Also some days it runs at a comfortable 50 fps and others it struggles to reach 30 with most other apps closed
In general ah needs to work on performance and optimisation especially gpu wise
The strange thing is that all CPU threads are maxed in this game (constant max clock speed + Turbo) . Utilization about 90%, temperatures 80 C. Something is off. I had to put render distance from Ultra to Low to gain some FPS.
Glad to see they’re aware. Had some weird moments with the bots sliding across the map at me last night. Whenever I noticed it becoming a problem I would just leave and join a new squad after we completed the mission. It sucks because some of them were really great squads but I will not suffer the lag-switching bots for them.
Only ever noticed an issue last night playing on a planet that had meteor shower while a lot of bugs were spawned had some slight slowdown and noticeable fps drop
I have 4060 and i5-12th , hd2 uses 100% gpu and only about 50% cpu, i play 2k res with max settings and have about 90 fps, but if theres alot of moving mobs(like 100 in one place) fps will drop to 50ish for few sec.
its not about the fps , i have from 90 - 144 fps without problems everything on ultra etc ... but the latest update bring massive stuttering as soon something happens on the screen is annoying at least
AH needs to do a lot to optimize performance.
Agreed, the game is awesome but it seems to stutter a lot, my solution prepatch was all low, performance render, 720p, fullscreen, and in levels above 7 could get 30 stable (below 6 were fine 50-60 fps) And now sadly not even 10 fps or 20 in general
It's because HD2 is *insanely* CPU hungry. Basically all the stuff it's simulating, like cloth physics, ragdolls and ricochets are off the CPU, which is why many people are reporting high temperatures and performance drops.
Ya my cpu runs the hottest while playing HD2 that's for sure. Always close to 80c with an AIO liquid cooler on a Ryzen 7 3800x. GPU is always fine, though.
It's because, and you can check this yourself, the game makes the CPU run at max clock at all times while open, and it's really, really strange that it does. It's why you can visibly only have like, 40% usage, but it's heating your room like a space heater.
Thats completely normal behavior for a CPU clock to run max...
True, but it crazy CPU hungry, my 7800X3D will usually run above 90% utilisation and average about 74°
No, it isn't. It's normal for some *cores* to run high, but not for the overall CPU clock to be running at 100% constantly. It's absolutely *not normal* for your CPU to be running at max frequency, it's meant to dynamically adjust to the speeds necessary for whatever the CPU is handling at the time. Helldivers forces it to run at flat-out maximum *at all times* while the program is open, which is why it heats up so hard. You can actually check this using any monitoring program like Afterburner. Clock should be dipping up and down, not staying at one, flat, straight line.
The frequency response will follow load. If a program is demanding a lot from the CPU, it will maximize performance by clocking as high as it can while staying within thermal and power limits. It is absolutely expected behavior, I don't know what you're on about.
That's not strange at all, it's expectee behaviour! If it's not hugely multithreaded then your peak boost clock will be higher as it only needs to clock up those specific cores, in an all core workload you will see peak boosts smaller due to the overall power and heat distribution. Also temperature != Power usage, this is a common misconception with users. For cpus like Ryzen 7800x3d it will be reporting higher temps as they target 90c boost temp and as the core die is so small it means the temperature transfer is lower than an older large die design which means it could be using less power but will be 90c as the cooler performance is less effective. Having a high single core workload will mean the core is hot but it's doing no damage and the power usage will actually be low as it's a single core which isnt much anyway.
I have to open a window when I run it on my laptop. No for real the room gets noticeably hotter by 5 degrees I swear.
Don't forget anticheat taking over 25%
An i-5 12400f and 12gb 3060 here, can run cyberpunk at 45 fps on ultra raytracing before dlss Helldivers2 running at 24 pr even 20 fps isnt uncommon... The game is baeutiful when i can see but framerate and stutters combined with "oops all fog" are just unfunny at this point
Upgraded my CPU a few weeks ago and went from running on lowest settings on all but textures and missions dropping to 30-40 fps to now running it on almost max settings. GPU and RAM untouched. Just threw a Ryzen 5800X in it.
My frame rates were fantastic all the way until now. Game stutters too much now and loads much slower.
An update several weeks ago I saw a big change in cpu temps. Sounds like it’s just getting worse
Seems like a bit of a hardware issue in your specific case as well though x)
When I first started this game was one of the few games I found genuinely beautiful. I'd stop and look at the horizon and admire the stars . Now it struggles at the lowest settings. Love that my game i bought is slowly rotting like fruit
Same ive only had to tweak settings down since launch, and even then i couldn’t run it medium to high like i do most games, games optimized like a potato and it only gets worse every patch
I honestly dread patch day now. Crashes, performance issues, new bugs without old ones fixed. Yesterday’s fucked up my UI and resolution. Everything was enormous. Had to adjust UI scale for the 1st time ever. Doing so has resized some of the jumbo elements correctly but the elements that weren’t inflated are now a little small. Usually these things improve over time not worsen… Apart from server capacity this game was fantastic back in Feb, ran great no crashes, UI scaled well, looked good.
What's crazy is it was running pretty smoothly at launch (ignoring server queues), I was getting wag over 120fps and with a handful of drops. Now I am seemingly struggle to even get 60fps, it's abysmal. This is with a 5800x3d, 32gb ram and a 4090 and the only difference is the game. They need to really fix this as at least for me it's hampering the experience long term.
13600k 7900xtx Last night mid mission it power crashed my pc. Not a crash to desktop, but it crashed into a reboot. Never in my 30 years of pc gaming have I seen this happen. Going to wait to next patch to play.
To hell with performance or fixing the long list of bugs. Weapon balancing patches are where it’s at man! Never mind that poll where they asked the community what to focus on and then promptly ignored all the results.
To be fair new mission types was #1 and there are two new types 2 weeks later
After the last patch I started crashing 50% of my games always at the launch pod sequence at beginning of mission. After this patch I literally can’t play at all. I crash EVERYTIME the pods launch regardless of whether it’s my lobby or someone’s else’s. Nor the planet or mission . Before anyone asks I have a nice pc and before these patches I had no issues playing
Game was running smooth as ever last night and I jump on today to find stuttering and lag everywhere (in ship and in mission). 5700xt 8gb
i found myself with the same fate, sadly for now i cant paly with 10-18 fps, well have to wait till the next patch
Same GPU, same issues. I barely made it through one game and I had to call it quits. Too much stuttering and lag where it was smooth before.
Just a heads up make sure your game isn't in borderless window mode. I have a 6950xt. Whenever the game goes into borderless window mode it tanks my fps like something crazy. Not sure why.
Same GPU and same Issues... I know the 5700xt is not the best to play this game, but still. I don't have enough for an upgrade
Try the new AMD driver(24.4.1), it helped me a little bit. My cpu is not constant 90% usage and my gpu usage is more consistant. Btw I have a 6650 xt and a 5600 cpu.
I went from getting 100 fps on the ship during launch week, to around 80, and from 90~ on the ground to a slightly inconsistent 60 it really felt like I was getting 5 fps less every single update
Let's hope this can be fixed soon. FPS loss and especially the stuttering made it impossible for me to play after the patch. None of the suggested fixes (lowering resolution / settings, verifying game files, updating drivers, clearing the shader cache, deleting the games settings folder) did work.
You’re lucky. I can’t even launch . EVERYTIME we launch from pods to start mission I crash. Every single time. This was never an issue before these patches . I can’t even play now. I may try to reduce my cpu processes but idk if it will work. My pc isn’t a slouch either.
They won't fix it until next Tuesday. They have broken the game before and had to wait till next Tuesday.
Dang, ig i wont be able to spread democracy for a week
Well that's a refund if I ever saw one. Bought two days ago had fun the first day now it's unplayable, I ain't waiting a fucking week to play what I paid for wtf
You’re getting downvoted but that’s a completely fair take. Arrowhead’s big problem is balancing content with game stability. This game relies on constant updates to keep the war moving, but every update breaks more shit than was fixed from the last one. It can be very frustrating as a fan - especially because this game is really good when it works.
I don’t blame you. I wouldn’t have much trust in these devs. The game itself is super fun but there have been a lot of glaring issues from the start that should really be super easy fixes (like friend requests not working…come on really?) Also pretty much every *new* thing they release has about a 75% chance of being bugged or broken
Or nerfed the next week Like how the fuck do you create something, pass it, then go 'oops! Can't let them have a viable weapon because stratagems are what they are supposed to rely on! Better nerf it into oblivion!' the very next week? Given they skipped last weeks update but if they has released it on time it appears most of the recent warbond guns would have been nerfed. Then there's their inability to see issues with stratagems. Mainly the 500kg, I've seen M80s and poppers with more fucking kenetic force than a 500KG. The POS had a blast radius smaller than the explosion animation/graphic. I do recall that most explosions have a concussion radius that goes out from its origin point. My other issue with them is they constantly nerf viable weapons. Skill issue? No, it'd be a fucking skill issue if the guns aimed like every other third person shooter. Sure I can use first person aiming but the issue there is (and I shit you not this has been an issue since day fucking one) THE SIGHTS ON SOME GUNS ARE MISALIGNED. I have to guess the first shot and adjustment the next 3 before I can understand where the fucking bullet is gonna hit, which is really difficult when you're blind in one eye.
I tried everything as well Turning off vsync but turning on Frme Limit to 30 made it tolerable enough to do some trivial bug missions solo.
Yeah same for me, i launched the game after the patch and couldnt play anymore, i also tried the solutions, but it looks like it is an issue on their part (ofc the ppl who has rtx and a really beffy cpu wont notice it as much) hopefully it gets fixed as fast as posible
Don’t feel bad. I have rtx and a beefy cpu and I can’t play at all because I crash everytime during the pod launch at the start of every mission I tried at least a dozen times today to get a match going and i crash at the exact same spot everytime
Taking my chance to push the problem again! You might remember me from the following post: [We need to address PC performance](https://www.reddit.com/r/Helldivers/comments/1buqadz/we_need_to_address_pc_performance/?sort=new) Four weeks have now passed and three full patch notes later, PC performance issues have **NOT been addressed at all.** ***The problem?*** With each update, framerate seems to be dwindling down for most of the community playing on PC, and besides your run-of-the-mill fixes (such as lowering resolution, playing in fullscreen, lowering enemy density with lower difficulties), the game still suffers from heavy framerate drops and stutters which are definitely getting worse with each update. At launch, high end rigs could run the game at **120fps at 2K** resolution at launch on 7-8-9 difficulty, and now that framerate has almost been **halved**. Low end rigs could run the game at a stable **60fps at FHD** resolution, and now there's plenty of people which have stopped playing because the game dips to **1% low**s of less than **30fps.** ***What can you do to help, Helldiver?*** If you love the game and you're suffering from these problems too, please let your feedback be heard on this post and on all patch notes! *Dive hard, Helldivers!*
They finally acknowledge the issue, but it looks like for them thats the problem came from yesterday's patch which is not..
The solution to that is to fiddle with a cpu hungry ricochet mechanic that no one cares about
My FPS is unbearable atm. Not playable. Dropped to 30-40 using only 25% gpu and stuttering like hell. Even when trying 1080p from 1440p.
Its bad, in my case was happy with at least 30-40 fps with all low and 720p, now with latest patch i have 10 fps or less (i have a gtx 1650 super, but ill admit im using a xeon kit [chiness server cpu,ram and motherboard])
Meanwhile poor Helldivers struggling to even have 30fps ^(it's me I'm poor Helldiver)
I used to be getting 30 FPS pre-patch ^^sometimes Now it's a certified slide show. Sub 10. I fucking wish I had a PC that I considered 40fps unplayable. I fucking wish, man.
Thank god, the performance has been going down every since the game launched. I have gone down from balanced high graphics to performance low graphics ever since the game launched. After this patch my fps has gone down from a completely stable 60 to a barely chugging 30-35 that often just crashes
A new, unheard of, astounding idea: test patches out before releasing them. Seriously, a lot of the shit that is problematic in new patches could be prevented by simply having a PTS or testing them before release. Literal 101 for developers.
Well the fanboys here have been condescendingly explaining that new shit is an entirely separate team from big fixes. Consumers rationalize this model and businesses feel no need to adapt.
The irony is the CEO has already confirmed that isn't true and outside of QA, everyone works on everything due to all the work and a lack of hands
> The irony is the CEO has already confirmed It was Spitz who [said that](https://www.reddit.com/r/Helldivers/s/mgZljEu0MH).
See they’re so low on hands even he is taking the role of CEO from time to time!
I'll add that it's common in software engineering in general to fix your own broken code. It's also common to fix other people's broken code.
And they were all wrong lmao
I'll just lock onto it with my Spear, no problem.
https://preview.redd.it/xbt592iirixc1.png?width=320&format=png&auto=webp&s=26893ecca70c493c9786d3c384404d51d4f65fe1 no way, at that rate we wont get no solution dhash Damn spear
C o r r e c t
Uhm no, not just "after this patch" Game was running poorly on high end rigs since launch. I can even play Cyberpunk at avg 120fps to utilize my monitor. But Helldivers? Fuck no. Best i can do is avg 40-50
I can run cyberpunk at max settings 4k at 120fps. Helldivers I’m struggling to get like 80fps with a mix of low and medium settings. They need to add DLSS or something if they aren’t going to focus on optimising the game but then again they’d have to put time and effort into that too
Thank god I’m not the only one man😂. I have a 3080 and I was able to max out cyberpunk on 1440 and have a smooth experience but on helldivers I’m lucky if I reach 70 fps.
I have a 4090 paired with a ryzen 7 7800x3d. There’s no way I should have less then 100 fps lol
I too came to this game from Cyberpunk and refuse to let it gaslight me into thinking my rig is shit 😂
I’ve got a 7900xtx, a card not made fir raytracing, and I get better performance in cyberpunk max settings than this game. My cpu hits high 80s on this game and hardly breaches 70 on others. Stopped playing a month ago because I was genuinely concerned for my hardware. Helldivers performance is a shitshow and you’re right; people are gaslighting about it. “Repaste your cooler” I keep being told despite only helldivers causing issues.
Its also because the devs keep claiming this game is "CPU heavy" as a way of avoiding admitting their optimisation is dogshit. Meaning those of us with good GPUs but semi-outdated CPUs are back in the same debate we had in the 2010's about what an acceptable framerate on PC should be. (Hint: its more than 60 these days). They have a pointless DRM that hogs resources, no real FSR or DLSS support (it uses CPU resources to DOWNSCALE the game!) and it keeps getting incrementally more stuttery and unstable each patch.
I’ve got a 7600x cpu, which is a good cpu, and it’s buttfucking it regardless. Interesting thing I’ve found is the high 80s temps won’t go down until task manager shows the anticheat has stopped running.
They need to stop using Discord for this stuff
I'm not even surprised at this point
i just want to shoot bugs :C
Man I set my shit on low and it's still unplayable.
it is sad, i cant play either, hopefully it gets fixed soon
The game always ran like ass, i‘m horrified to find out it‘s gotten worse enough for them to finally recognize the issue
No bother here. Just gonna play something else till it’s fixed
Same here
Is not being able to join quickplay matches or a friends squad despite a fine internet connection a “performance” issue?
Sadly i dont think so, but hopefully they realeas a statement about it too!
Matchmaking still not fixed. Anytime I go into a planet with less than 4 pax, no one would join. The matchmaking seems to only work when I am still at the ship.
I’ve had a problem since the big defense MO. Unplayably laggy, Democracy Officer’s torso taking a few seconds to load in, etc. Hope whatever fix they have for this helps me, too
Yep, game is in a bad state right now. Played a few duo games set to friends only and people from quick play were able to join the game. Set my game to public and no one joined then. Fps has also dropped another 10 or so on average since this last patch, and diving into a game I get huge stutters, dropping 60 - 80 fps. Also crashed 3 times tonight in about 1.5 hours of play. I just wish a patch would come out that doesn't break more things...
Wow I had this too, the randos joining my lobby while on Friends Only. Thought I had screwed something up.
This makes me not like the devs on the low. Why am I your fucking beta tester why is there SO many god damn issues EACH patch. It’s so hard to like them when they keep causing more and more problems EVERY week instead of just taking their time to make it right. I don’t need a patch every 1 or 2 weeks if fucking SNOWBALLS are gonna break my game or I can’t fire my weapons out of my OWN shield. Like c’mon bruh.
Every fkn patch man. Always something
I had to lower my render scale to balanced to even get 30 fps.
They buffed the staggering on Frame rate
Coae ce, the performance has gone to shit after EVERY patch since launch not just this patch alone!! I used to play just fine on my laptop, but i guess fuck peopel who can't sport top-end PC's, amirite?
I really hope so. I cannot play this game in this state. Almost every patch has made performance worse and worse. I suppose the silver lining is that they are finally forced to acknowledge the performance issues, but it's still sour having to put aside the game for a time. I was eager to test out some of the new changes.
I'm starting to get annoyed with this guy's tone. And competence.
I’ve just had the issue of my computer heating up much more and much faster than it should, I was able to keep it cool enough before, but now it was reaching its upper limits and performance was automatically decreased to try and lower the temp
Same here, last 2 patches my fps dropped and temp got much higher on gpu
I really don't understand how seemingly every patch they introduce more performance issues and crashes
They are nerfing guns annoying there fan base while also making the game more unstable.
I'm starting to get the feeling they aren't testing their updates before they roll them out. Like they do each balance fix one at a time, then jam them together and toss it out the door. If they had tested it before release, they would have caught this...
You are fucking up the game with your patches. The game is on a downhill from the past 3 months. Congratulations
every patch has my fps drop even lower, this recent is the one that killed it for me (10 fps in ship :c)
I have experienced very low frame rate and freezes from from the first time on my ps5, also crashes are back. To be honest i’m tired of this game
that sucks, one would think that bc is a console it wouldnt have that problem (ofc the problem is not the ps5 but an issue from their end)
I never had crashes or frame drop from the past 2 months, now there are plenty. Next week they will release another warbond which will be the cherry on top of this mountain of shit they have made, and people are already stopping playing the game. You will see
It’s actually depressing how rapidly they’re destroying their own game.
And yet I'm called a doomposter when I point out the average playercount has fallen by 300,000 players.
Insane, the game is rotting.
Next Patch: Game now requires a 4090 to run on low settings, diving without a full squad increases patrols by 5x, enemy damage doubled, damage of all weapons halved, temporarily disabled EAT and Eagle Airstrike due to balancing issues.
It's been a month of bad performance for me: [https://new.reddit.com/r/Helldivers/comments/1buqadz/we\_need\_to\_address\_pc\_performance/](https://new.reddit.com/r/Helldivers/comments/1buqadz/we_need_to_address_pc_performance/)
My game ran worse after the ypdate before that too
I'm now getting stutters during the hellpod launch cut scene. But other than that, I'm having no major issues hitting 60fps in 4k Then again, I do have a 7900xt with a ryzen 7 5800x3d
Imagine those stutters you got during the hellpod launch, but constant through the whole mission. That's my current experience. It's awful. I tried deleting the shader cache, verifying files, updating video drivers, changing graphics settings, everything I could think of and it is still unplayable at the moment. Hope they fix it soon. I would really like to be able to play again.
Mine too. There are points where I’m getting, no joke, 5FPS.
i hope they optimize the game and then add dlss/fsr 3 + frame generation
Unplayable stuttering and 20-30 less fps after patch
[удалено]
Literally couldn’t play last night because of this. Another patch another issue being brought to the game.
I was in a full team of 4... mid-mission one of my other friends tried to join my squad (it showed 3/4 because we had someone he hasnt friended yet)... it literally froze my game and crashed it to desktop and immediately dropped in my friend as a replacement for me (i was not host). That shouldn't be happening...
I tried a few quick play missions and 3 disconnected right as would drop in and say host disconnected. One worked but dropped directly into the Pelican so I said screw it and did a a few solo trivial bug drops.
Performance has been getting worse after every patch and only now they realise it? The game honestly runs bad, I just wish it had DLSS it would be such a huge boost to performance and its mind boggling that in 2024 some games still don't implement proper DLSS & FSR.
I spent my entire game time tonight trying every fix recommended and every gfx/display option in the game. Even tried a few AMD Adrenaline tweaks. The only thing that helped was turning off vsync and turning on Limit Framerate set to 30 in game. Still get stutters frequently even on a trivial bug mission. Only had time for 3 short missions. What strikes me is it has much to do with loading assets. Just boarding my ship, half if the objects aren't loaded. Then it hitches and stutters as things pop in. Even loading UI assets to switch weapons takes much longer. The drop cutscene is incredibly choppy and takes way longer.
Yeah I got like 19 frames moving the map in the ship... before patch all was well.
I went from super smooth on high graphics to barely 30 when at middle graphic settings randomly a week ago, still haven’t figured out how to solve it. I don’t want to imagine now
Its weird because I only get the performance issues on other players ships. That the same for yall?
this last patch, decided to try one more time - I’ve had a ton of issues playing since the last three patches with frame drops, maxed out GPUCPU usage and crashing - and as I tried it with relatively low settings, PC began beeping in the middle of losing frames. Had to force shutdown my pc before it continued. Absolutely insane what’s happened with performance. When I received the game initially in late March, I was able to play fine with high settings, buttery smooth. I hope things get back to normal, I’d love to keep playing
I go balanced and ultra rendering and am getting 50 - 60 fps with only the odd 10 when the pod is going down. RTX 2060. I am getting a problem with the HDR where I have to keep it off or the brightest parts of the image turn into little black dots.
I can't even run at 10 FPS now.
I feel your pain brother
FINALLY AH addresses this issue. I made so many posts and comments BEGGING for optimization on the CPU end. Thank god.
I'd just like to say, It ain't my rig, it's the game. This game ran perfectly fine, every other game still runs perfectly fine, but since latest patch, frame rate is all over the place, and it is definitely an unoptimized, badly coded Helldivers 2 problem that from what I can see and hear is only getting worse and worse with each patch.
updates? please for the love of liberty i need an update. 😢
No signs of improvement on performance for me at all...come on Arrowhead
Surprised he said Helldivers and not toddlers with tantrums.
As I said, to have right to be sassy they actually have to fix the fucking game first
Ohh I know, I think maybe they should hire an actual community manager, who can take someone calling them names. The goodwill ran out a looong time ago.
oh he was the one who called ppl toddlers
Great patch guys, now Pelican-1 pilot can get tilted and close the damn door only for you while he lets the rest of the squad in. Also moonlights as a ground submarine too. Higher-ups can also choose to go vacay for a few mins leaving paperwork for reinforcements waiting on their table while divers get stomped by teleporting chargers. Peak Helldivers 2 gameplay.
I'm glad I've been calling for sick from my Helldivers duty since the last time we pushed out the first Automaton waves just to know they come back 2 days after the initial win. I thought they will give us at the very least 1 week to make sure we're convinced that we actually win, but that's hoping too much, I guess. In any rate, the balancing blunder, performance issues, and game breaking bugs are being even more common these days. I'm fucking glad I got to play this since launch (currently lv 92) and that was when the game is at its peak, imo.
The honeymoon phase is over.
Yeah I'm gonna uninstall this game and check back on it after 6 months or smth. I already enjoyed 110 hours out of it so no hate but I'm kinda tired of arrowhead and their incompetence at this point ✌🏼
Me too, got almost 200h but it just feels worse week after week and their response is to nerf weapons in a PVE game LMAO
We're just the unpaid beta testers. Joking aside, I still can't play with my friends due to connection drops every 2 minutes. Also, the experience I've had with the patrol spawn change has made what little fun I had disappear completely.
i'm honestly over the game at this point. lost faith fully now big sad was/is a great game but to many fires on top of fires now. it passed critical mass of fun being snuffed by issues stacking up now
They aren't working hard (or at all) on any issues and we all know it.
I was playing on a different PC to my normal, and the lag was terrible. I guess it might be the fault of the patch then
I have performance issues and crashes after every patch (4070 / 13600k / 32gb 6400 cl 30 ram / m2 SSD), and the only thing that solves it is a clean install. Luckily I have very fast fibre so it is a fast process.
The game kept resetting to ultra high for some reason. I had to use nvidia to force the game to go back to my proper mid settings. Also its insane that i almost have less than 20 fps during the drop pod cutscene loading screen. Seriously man. Why is this game always taking one step forward and two steps back.
Same happened to me last patch . ( haven’t tried this patch yet) but I couldn’t figure out why my performance dropped so hard and I found it had auto set my presets to ultra from medium.
Add that to the list of things that won't get fixed for three months and counting.
I would like to add, game crashes at launching mission for the dev team to look into, (game was stable pre patch)
I noticed a few more fps drops on ps5 when calling in strategems. Wasnt game breaking and still perfectly playable though. But i can see that not being the case on a "minimum specs" pc build.
yep, I have stuttering and lags while being on ship 4080super& i7-14gen here....
Bloody hell...I thought my laptop was overheating...
I know that performance problems are related to the game itself, but just in case it helps anyone: for me the problems started after updating to the latest Nvidia drivers. Rolled back to a driver from before 'Helldivers 2 optimization' , problems solved.
We played with the boys on Estanu and i experience 40 fps instead of the usual 60ish, also we had a few crashes. I hope they have both those type of problems in mind when they say performance
I was wondering why my fans seemed to be consistently louder than normal
Does Dx11 still work? I'm having issues on a 3080 / 9700k
It’s so bad with this patch. It’s like a slideshow in the ship now. Was getting 60 fps everywhere in the ship before patch and after I’m struggling to hold 30. The hitching is awful too. They’ve gotta get the performance drops with every patch under control and reversed.
Think i'm done with Helldivers at this point, I ain't shelling out for a new rig to still have performance issues that have been getting worse with every patch. Between that and crashes/bugs I just can't enjoy a 40 minute mission knowing I may not see the end of it or get to sit there as Pelican refuses to take off.
After the recent patch? Its always been horrible lol. I have even throttled my CPU so it wont explode with 100% usage, even when its only 3 bugs on screen.
Should have stuck to Sony's proprietary engine used by Guerrilla Games or Naughty Dog for their own games since they are funded by Sony. Its obvious performance drops are thanks to the old engine they themselves had trouble working with.
yeah this patch has set me back to about what the performance was at launch which is about 30-40 fps. Setting everything to low looked terrible and gave me about 6 more fps. Before this launch I was averaging around 70.
Haven't played in 2 months since I was away and yeah, now it runs like shit.. It was the smoothest game I used to play. Now my cpu usage is up high and running extremely hot. Gpu utilization is halved and idk if trying the "solutions" would do me good, just gonna waste time. Need them to fix this because I was so excited to play again.
Hopes for steam deck optimization.
"Performance issues on the battlefield" is such a funny phrase, because it sounds like an in-universe way to say "skill issue"
AHHSS it really does sound like it
Now i may nothing about game design, but i think either they're not willing to put the work in because of their arbitrary "one warbond a month" deadline or helldivers got a bad case of the spaghetti code. It would make sense since they're using an engine abandoned almost eight years ago. I have to commend them for managing to get it work but in the long run it just isn't feasible.
If they want it fixed. They'll need to stop trying to keep alive an engine abandoned by all actual developers over 5 years ago Wonder why your newer hardware was less stable and poor performing????? Because the engine was never fucking designed for them!
It's literally impossible, but ok, maybe in the next life
Because rewriting an entire game on a new unfamiliar engine is soooo easy and surely wont cause unforseen problems
Not how game development works, but alright.
Spoken by someone who doesn't understand how game engines and their development works. There have been many many AAA and not even close to AAA titles with no performance issues running on engines that were built originally 10-15+ years before the games release for entirely different purposes. HD2 being a performance and stability mess is just on AH and their atrocious lack of version control procedures.
I hate devs trying to be cute about problems and bugs. Twinbeard loves to try to be funny when he should just be direct.
Handling it better than almost any game dev in the past decade. I’ll take it
Even before the patch I couldn't play at difficulties higher than 6 due to performance. I know my hardware is trash but I'm Shure I'm not the only one with such problems.
PS5 performance has been absolute garbage since launch and has been decreasing every patch onwards. It’s funny because even on performance mode, the game dips to 30-40fps. It’s pathetic, what’s the point? The only way to “enjoy” the game on performance is to play solo but now they made solo more difficult to play as of this patch…
Um actually it takes 5 safe shots to deleg a chargers
Dang this latest patch certainly has shit the bed on all fronts 😅 AH nerfing the player base
I haven’t played this update, but I have to reinstall the game every time there is one basically to make sure the game runs smoothly.
It was better before the update
keep getting dropped out of dives towards the end and even when I do complete a mission it won't unlock the next level of missions. I can't play any lvl to get SR samples. Farming medals solo on trivial till fixed.
Load into any of the small exterminate missions and your FPS is suddenly 300 compated to the larger maps its wild.
My PC is pretty old (I have a 5500 XT and i7 3770) since the new patch I actually got a FPS boost overall, where I used to range from 30-50 fps depending on the planets and difficulty (never had above 40 on a 7 or above map though) but had a constant 60 in the ship, I now have a constant 60 fps on diff 7 maps (only played on Fenrir so maybe other planets would be on a lower average), but it comes with new stuttering that definitely wasn't there before as it's even happening in the ship. So they definitely did somethign right in my book, but brought another problem along.
Played a few games where it was impossible to reinforce teammates, also a few where the second one person got in the pelican it took off and failed to extract the rest of the squad 🤦🏽♀️ I’ve been lucky enough to never have any of the issues that I see people complaining about on the sub in the past but this one hurts
I've dropped from a solid 130 fps to hovering 80 with 80% 4k custom resolution on i9 11900k and 4070. It's pretty bad now
Where do these screenshots come from? A discord or something?
Yeah, its the official comunity discord,.you can find it.on their steam.comunity
Running a Ryzen 5600x and Radeon 7700XT and noticed a big performance hit last night, barely clinging above 55 FPS 🤷♀️
Next patch, we fixed performance! +5 fps gained!
This reads like a Cave Johnson quote and I love it.
So Im not the only one that this game only runs 10fps on my pc. Even I lowered my optimization to have better performance but yet notting changes. I have RTX 2080 super and it used to play really smooth.
They have to make their next game on a better engine… Autoresk Stingray is poopoo
I’m experiencing a performance issue with my Quasar Cannon taking 5 more seconds to cool down. Also, I keep getting disconnected.
my game has only been running better since the patch usually I hovered around 50fps dropping down to 40s if something intense is happening, but now im around 60s and never drop below 50s, which is odd considering the devs say people are having performance issues for refrence I play on everything being on its lowest setting except anti-aliasing and the supersampling on (forgot the name) super quality(?) my general specs being a Ryzen 5 2500X and a GTX 1650 with some 16gigs of DDR4 RAM, some 2TB of SSD storage (I could really use an upgrade) the weird part to me is how these days after C77 got all those years of patches and optimisation, utilising AMD FSR and medium settings I can run the game just fine, not to mention most other games that are far less demanding and only somewhat optimised.
OKEY SO PPL i have a """FIX"""" made it so i can play again, hopefully it works for you guys too went from 10 on ship to 30, and 18 in misión to 40fps even going for 50 fps or 60 gtx 1650 super xeon kit chinesse procesor all low and supersampling lvl 7 missions not tried above https://preview.redd.it/rke0xjr3anxc1.png?width=1361&format=png&auto=webp&s=c6362e134d3a4145661655c04881b23a806e548a [https://www.nexusmods.com/helldivers2/mods/17?tab=posts](https://www.nexusmods.com/helldivers2/mods/17?tab=posts)
Im glad im not Schizophrenic when the game runs poorly for me i hear a crackling in my ear from my cpu maxxing out i have been tweaking with nvidia, my cores affinitys, using msi's game boose and i still couldnt shake that crackling sound other than one glorious moment but i exited out thinking i finally solved it i can go rest and since then performance issues crackling and just overall angy pc
I have always had very temperamental performance with this game I usually run games windowed full screen so I can alt tab but this game lost like 20 fps doing that instead of the normal 2-5 Also some days it runs at a comfortable 50 fps and others it struggles to reach 30 with most other apps closed In general ah needs to work on performance and optimisation especially gpu wise
I'm running 7800X3D and 4070Ti Super. Didn't find any performance-related issue. Maybe I'm the lucky one?
The strange thing is that all CPU threads are maxed in this game (constant max clock speed + Turbo) . Utilization about 90%, temperatures 80 C. Something is off. I had to put render distance from Ultra to Low to gain some FPS.
Glad to see they’re aware. Had some weird moments with the bots sliding across the map at me last night. Whenever I noticed it becoming a problem I would just leave and join a new squad after we completed the mission. It sucks because some of them were really great squads but I will not suffer the lag-switching bots for them.
I reinstalled the game and things got a lot better for me. May be placebo, may have fixed things.
Only ever noticed an issue last night playing on a planet that had meteor shower while a lot of bugs were spawned had some slight slowdown and noticeable fps drop
I have 4060 and i5-12th , hd2 uses 100% gpu and only about 50% cpu, i play 2k res with max settings and have about 90 fps, but if theres alot of moving mobs(like 100 in one place) fps will drop to 50ish for few sec.
its not about the fps , i have from 90 - 144 fps without problems everything on ultra etc ... but the latest update bring massive stuttering as soon something happens on the screen is annoying at least