Game Metro Exodus exhibiting performance issues following extended play sessions.
Game Metro Exodus exhibiting performance issues following extended play sessions.
Greetings
I recently purchased Metro Exodus and experienced significant frame rate drops almost immediately. This issue occurred even when playing The Division 2 or Call of Duty Warzone, but only after prolonged gameplay—around three hours. My movement with the mouse causes pauses of approximately one second, particularly when moving forward. I’ve attempted to resolve this by disabling various graphics settings and switching to DirectX 11, but the problem persists.
Metro Exodus is installed on my hard drive, and my PC specifications are as follows: Ryzen 5 3600, RTX 2070 Ventus, 16 GB RAM at 3200 MHz (G.SKILL), and a 1 TB hard drive. Temperatures are stable across all components. Notably, games like Grand Theft Auto V, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, and Shadow of War do not exhibit this stuttering behavior.
Thank you for your assistance.
It’s strange. During the construction of my computer, I experienced this issue with pauses, and I resolved it by employing the ISLC (Intelligent Standby List Cleaner), created by Wagnardsoft – the same company behind DDU (Display Driver Uninstaller). However, you mentioned that you don't encounter any stuttering while playing GTA V, CS:GO and Shadow of War... Are you utilizing the Ray Tracing settings? I possess an RTX 2070 and experience significant performance dips when those features are enabled, which is disappointing.
Utilizing the newest Nvidia software and activating DLSS has resolved a previous issue, resulting in noticeable FPS improvements when RTX is activated. Furthermore, I advise uninstalling outdated drivers via DDU in safe mode before installing the latest version on your computer.
Yes, some games don’t exhibit stuttering issues. I suspect a mechanical hard drive is the cause because it's not particularly quick, as you understand. I tested the game with and without Ray Tracing, but the problem persisted in both scenarios. Despite enabling DLSS, I experienced severe pixelation when viewing intense scenes like fires or bright lights—I’ve read that this could be linked to a slow hard drive. However, I plan on purchasing an M.2 solid-state drive and installing Metro Exodus directly onto it.
My Metro Exodus installation, utilizing a 7200 RPM hard drive, operates smoothly and without interruptions. I trust this resolves your difficulty, although I suspect you might encounter similar stuttering issues with other games—particularly expansive titles such as Grand Theft Auto V—if the problem stems from your hard drive. Experiment with the ISLC solution to determine if it offers a remedy.
I obtained the ISLC file, and the process went without a hitch. However, occasionally it would stutter when I eliminated an opponent or initiated a saved game load. Once, it experienced severe lag, but after reloading the save, it returned to normal operation. My settings within ISLC are all set to their default values.
However, using strategies within Warzone doesn't seem to make a difference for me.
This seems unusual. Warzone is performing smoothly on my system, and it’s located on a traditional hard drive. I also tested it on an M.2 NVMe SSD, but the difference was minimal. My computer configuration is somewhat comparable to yours: a Ryzen 7 2700x running at 4.1 GHz, paired with an Asus ROG B450 Gaming and 2x8GB of G.Skill Trident Z 3000MHz RAM, along with an MSi ARMOR RTX 2070 8G graphics card. I have one SanDisk 240GB SSD, one M.2 NVMe Adata XPG Spectrix S40G 500GB SSD, and one Seagate 1TB 7200 RPM hard drive. Both Metro Exodus and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare are stored on the HDD, while Red Dead Redemption 2 is exclusively on my M.2 SSD. I've found that utilizing ISLC has effectively eliminated those bothersome pauses for me.
Additionally, I observe that when I am playing Warzone, my hard drive activity reaches 100 percent.
Could you identify what's causing the 100% hard drive activity? Please examine your task manager and report which process is responsible for this high usage.