

> Give Witcher3.exe high priority in task manager > Tried playing the game for a couple of quests. > Tried starting a new game, I gained 5FPS in the first battle. > Tried playing on ULTRA, HIGH, and LOW.I have the exact same framerate, there's no difference actually. (Borderless windowed, Vsync, hairworks, resolution, details, shadows, Lock framerate, AA etc.)

> Tried almost every combination of Graphic settings in game. > Fiddled with Nvidia Control panel, and most of hte settings suggested online through many youtube videos and forum threads.
STEAM DOWNLOAD SPIKES THEN DROPS INSTALL
> Clean install of newest, and 5 older versions of GTX 970 drivers. > Installed Nvidia Experience and newest driver through it. I'm fairly certain this is the game itself, not my hardware or OS. (tried turning off overlay as well, btw.) Playing through Steam, Game of the year edition. (Checked with Afterburner, and Steam's FPS counter.) There's always micro stuttering present, and it has heavy fps drops whenever I do something besides walking. And other settings were Ultra or High, noticed nothing wrong with it. Prior to lag, I had even hairworks on high. That's perhaps the only strange thing that happened, and it has asked me that again.again chose Local. I chose Local, because it was 2 days newer. (Even the Audio went bad, crackling / lagging.) There were no updates, windows updates or game updates that happened in the mean time.īUT after exiting the game first time, I noticed there were cloud sync errors in Steam asking me if I wanted to use new or old save games. It went to hell, microstutters, full on lag.and MASSIVE fps drop. Up to character level 11, I had no issues.and it ran smooth, no lags or microstutters. Hello, I've been having issues with the game running smoothly despite having a decent computer.

Sudden massive FPS drops / performance issues.
