I believe this happened as of the Fortune Island update but I have no clue if it’s being caused by the game or something else (like a GPU driver).
Basically no matter what I do the game stays capped at a flat 30 FPS. Normally I run the game on Ultra with Dynamic Optimization turned on and the frame rate unlocked but this time when I did it just ran at 30 FPS. I then dumbed everything down to Medium and it still stayed at 30 (well, at first it ran at 15 FPS but I fixed that and made it unlocked again at which point it wouldn’t break 30).
Right now I have the game running without Dynamic Optimization and all but motion blur maxed out (because what’s the point in diluting the settings if I can’t peak above 30 anyway) and it runs no better or worse than if I ran it at a lower spec.
Anyone know what’s going on? If all I can get is 30 I’d rather just play on XB1 because at least there I can run it at 4K and 30 FPS.
UPDATE: It runs at 60 if it’s windowed. Is this a bug?
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Just to knock out something simple, you have restarted the game fully right? Every time they push out one of these updates that still wipes GPU settings every time, my PC no longer lets me select 144fps until I completely close out and launch the game again, then suddenly the option comes back. Also, for some reason it defaults to like 24 fps after every update…
Oh yeah, I’ve completely gone in and out of the game a few times and the only way I can get it to do 60 FPS is by running it windowed.
I can even watch the FPS counter drop if I have it on when I turn it on fullscreen. It’s clearly something not hardware-related because the GPU doesn’t report high usage while it’s running at 30 (it only goes to about 30% use when it’s at 30 FPS but when I run it windowed and its spikes back up to 60 the GPU usage also doubles as well).
I know Nvidia pushed out new drivers two days ago, so that might be worth trying to update if you have a geforce card, otherwise maybe try checking the windows store for game updates under downloads and updates (found under the 3 linear dots in the top right corner), then select downloads and wait a few seconds until check for updates pops up and selecting it. This game seems to do really weird things around updates.
It might be vertical synchronisation (v sync) I know in horizon 3 every time I updated my GPU drivers the game would disable v sync and the settings would lock at 30 fps. When I reenabled v sync it gave me the option of 60 or unlocked frame rate.
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Alright, this more or less solved it. What I had to do was enable full-screen vsync from the Nvidia Control Panel and then it worked.
So thanks for that.