Performance has significantly decreased after the NVMe upgrade in Forza Horizon 4.
Performance has significantly decreased after the NVMe upgrade in Forza Horizon 4.
hello. since i switched to an nvme drive and installed the game there, forza horizon 4 functions properly for about five minutes. after that, it drops to around eight frames per second with only 20% gpu usage, and the average fps at full resolution stays between 70 and 90. once this performance dip happens, it recovers for a couple minutes before the issue starts again. during those times, the terrain won’t load and the game disconnects online. in the task manager, my gpu usage spikes to 30-40% while my cpu hits 100%. i’m running the game at maximum settings with an rtx 2070, which worked well for hours before this problem appeared. it shouldn’t have caused the cpu to reach 100% even on this hardware before the nvme switch. any advice would be appreciated. at least i’m uploading a video to youtube showing the task manager and multiple car configurations—report says it’ll take about 50 minutes to upload. my specs include an xeon x5675 cpu, dual socket 56 ram, rtx 2070 (not overclocked), and i’ve tested it without issues before. this seems specific to forza horizon 4 since other games i’ve benchmarked have been stable. red dead redemption 2 is also on the nvme drive and ran perfectly at max settings. no texture popping or stability issues have been reported. the gpu and cpu didn’t overheat after some checks, though i initially thought a pcie-to-nvme swap might help. thanks ahead for your support—your video will be attached once uploaded.
The video highlights the issue... I'm sorry for the poor performance; I haven't fully configured OBS yet to achieve stable FPS. You can still check the audio and the FPS counter in the top right to see what's happening.
Are you getting a fresh setup of Windows or are you simply duplicating files? I'm concerned a clean install could damage your GPU drivers. If you haven't already, consider reinstalling your GPU drivers. Your GPU performance seems inconsistent even before this system's usage.
this is a clean install of windows. because my rig does not boot from nvme naively i installed windows using vmware esxi and hardware forwarded the nvme drive to the vm.(this is done on the actual hw not another computer) after install i installed all the drivers on a clean reboot bare metal.. i have the original drive before the upgrade. the game was installed on the sata ssd before. for the lols i moved the game from the c drive to my 2tb seagate drive where it was housed before with the same problems i'll see if my original ssd stil boots to test it out real quickly again. some people are saying its a cpu bottleneck but like i've said.. this just started. also the benchmark tool in fh4 says my gpu is a bottleneck. my cpu "can" pull 140 fps in this game and all the frames are gpu limited
your samsung 970 pro nvme is connected via pcie 4x to nvme, operating at pcie gen 2 which allows up to 2gbs per second.
But that shouldn't be the issue... I handled this before successfully. The main change was reinstalling it after a week and swapping in an NVMe drive. I also booted the game on an HP Z600, which has two 58-core CPUs but fewer RAM slots. It worked fine there too—no NVMe drive used. I tried to restore the old SSD, but Windows reported it as missing. So I re-downloaded the game since the Microsoft Store doesn't offer a verification option like Steam does.
When you improve one part of your system, parts that aren<|pad|> can still lag. This creates a bottleneck. Your drive is sending data faster than your processor can process, causing the problems you're facing now. You can't boost performance in one area without matching it across the whole setup. It's a recipe for trouble. With Intel processors, I usually stick to mid-range options like the I7-4790K for comparison, unless you're not running heavy background tasks such as streaming. For a budget Intel build, I wouldn't compromise on performance for gaming, even if it means sacrificing some specs. Your CPU falls far short of what the card offers, making it outdated—your task manager is warning you with a 100% usage alert. Link: Xeon X5690 vs I7-4790K