DISCLAIMER: My wife built my computer (laugh it up, chuckles) and I am computer illiterate, so any delays in my responses are because my dumb ass will need to parse everything through her.
From what I can tell I may need more RAM (?), but I would like to pick your brains before investing into a solution that may be a dead end.
The problem:
Horrible FPS drops and stuttering on large/populated single player missions. Down to like ~7 FPS at times. Otherwise she runs OK. I badly want to buy a the Channel map, but am worried it would be a waste if I can't get Normandy to even run smooth.
Attempts (futile) at resolution:
- Played with all in game settings (water, heat blur, MSAA, SSAA, Shadows, SSLR, Lens Effects, Clutter, Trees, etc...). The only things I refuse to do are screw with textures and the overall "prettiness" of the game.
- played with every setting in my Radeon panel.
- tried every trick in the book that google, and this forum, suggested (override application settings, played with MSAA, messed with anisotropic filtering, messed with Vsync, etc...)
Compy stats:
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600X 6-core
Motherboard: B450 Gaming Plus Max (MS-7B86)
Ram: 16 GB
SSD
GPU: AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT
OS: Windows 10
Thanks for any and all input. It is very appreciated. I can (probly) afford to resolve the issue because apparently my computer is decent, but I can't afford to blow money needlessly.