fps issues (this only happens in sons of the forest)
Recently me and my dad started playing SoTF together in multiplayer and I told him he should try hooking up his laptop to a monitor and he was fine for about an hour and then suddenly during building his laptop froze and he had to restart his laptop. When he booted up the game again he loaded in and his fps was REALLY bad, about 13 fps. This issue only happens in sons of the forest. I tried giving my my setting and all of that stuff and it didn’t fix it. This really sucks because we got the game only 3 days ago and now we cant play without him lagging terribly.. anyone know how to fix and what happened
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been haveing on and off lag some days i can max at 60 other days im geting 40 at min, i wish i had a clue on how or why this happens but i dont even have a start of how tf this is even possible
Same
I figured out my issue though
When my dad crashed one of his files got corrupted causing him to have bad fps
We’d have to manually save the multiplayer files then delete the game
@IRSwastaken Game files are saved on the cloud so you shouldn't have to manually save them
also it sounds more like his laptop switched to his integrated graphics rather than the built-in dedicated GPU when he restarted
hence the bad FPS
wouldnt that effect everything though not just sotf
Did he try to launch another game after SOTF?
yeah he can play cod fine
Yeah but whose to say the integrated graphics didn't switch to the DGPU after he left SOTF?
laptops are weird creatures ngl
fr
is there a way i can like check what one its one (ig or dgpu)
not much of a nerd so im dumb when it comes to pcs 🙏
CTRL+ALT+DELETE to open task manager
and see what GPU is being used
alr
should say like GPU 0 and GPU 1
one will read integrated graphics or intel UHD
depending the cpu
might say radeon if it's an AMD cpu
but the DGPU should say like "Nvidia xxx" or "AMD xxx"
and actually state the gpu
it says gpu 0
he has amd radeon gpu and amd ryzen cpu
it only has 1 gpu option?
see if when he launches a game another one appears
nope still only gpu 0
i launched sotf on his laptop and nothing else appears
Interesting
what's his FPS average?
maybe he doesn't even have a DGPU
or it's not activating cause of power settings on the laptop
after i reinstalled his game, estimated 48 fps
type control panel
then look for power options
then hit this
and select high performance if it's not selected
where should power options be
i dont see it
sorry @IRSwastaken it's Control panel -> Hardware & Sounds then Power options
oh alr
ASUS Recommended
Balanced
Silent
Performance
performance is selected
Heard
click change plan settings to the right of it
and then
then what
should bring up something like this, click the + next to PCI Express
also screenshot what yours looks like and send it here if possible
or just take a picture
so I can see the settings
yours might be different from mine
i cant send it here for some reason so ill send it in off topic
one sec
oh i cant send them there either
@IRSwastaken here
now you can
Those settings right
Click display aswell
Also if possible could you get your laptops model number
you'll have to flip the laptop over because it's most likely on the bottom
on a sticker
but that will tell me immediately if you have the DGPU or not
low qual picture 💀
Lol it's fine
is the model number this
hold on
the GA4 part
Nah
Ehh wait
it could still work
@IRSwastaken type device manager and look for display adapters
alright
now what
tell me what it says
AMD Radeon RX 6705
also look for processors and tel me what it says under there
AMD Radeon(TM) Graphics
6750?
or 6705
oh wait my bad i was reading it from a distance its 6700S
Yeah that makes sense
it is a DGPU
if he's getting 48 fps usually then I imagine it is running on the dedicated graphics
processors says AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS with Radeon Graphics
Idk why it's not showing up in the task manager though
before he reinstalled it was about 20 fps
:guh:
I hate laptops
so much
does he have AMD adenalin on his pc
if not he should install it and update his graphic drivers
ok thanks ill try it in a bit cause hes working rn so if it works thats a miracle 🙏
@Smokey i completely forgot about this but here i am 16 days later, my dad upgraded to a desktop pc and he still has issues on ONLY sons of the forest
Like 13 FPS bad?
@IRSwastaken
SOTF is an intense game so I don't doubt he has FPS issues
also the more your build the lower your FPS goes
yeah
he has better components than my computer, except his gpu and ram
mine still runs fine
i have the 6600 XT he has the 6600 X
so i have the mech he has the challenger
he also only has 1 stick of ram
i believe 8 gigs
i have 36 gigs with 4 ram
so he only has like 2 things worse than me
oh wow after we updated his bios and ram it runs fine
it's the ram
games minimum is 12 gb
also
1 stick of ram means single channel
so slower speeds overall
2 sticks of ram is better than 1
Oh alr, I’ll tell him to get more ram next
He has 4 slots same with me but I have 4 sticks