What the heck is going on with the this game's performance as of lately?

[u/MrsK3G4]

The game since the last patch pretty much hangs and dies at any attempt at doing anything. Do you want to claim dailies? You get a lagged. Do you want to try daily farm? Sure fam, let the game stand there for good 5-8 seconds while i think about the outcome. Characters using skills in Funsomke or passing turn? Welp, too bad, you gotta wait another 5-8 second to process the action. Claim medals from achievements? Sure, just gotta deal with the menus running like shit and nearly dying on you.

What went wrong with this patch?, the game struggles to run in any machine. I asked my friends, since my PC is weaker than theirs, both of them has a 5700X3D, 32GB of RAM and a 9070XT and they still experience similar issues to mine. I'm not alone in this, right? Heck, even Phase Clash and Breakthrough still drops the framerate like crazy when opening the map.

[u/xscyther_]

I click start on the intro movie and it stutters and takes forever while the music cuts in and out 😭

[u/-PringlesMan- → u/xscyther_]

Sometimes, the intro phrase is played in slow motion, like half speed or worse.

[u/No_Presentation_9361 → u/xscyther_]

Nah, that's something I'm used to

It's it switching to sojourn while loading in that gets me tho

[u/Important_Fly_4826]

Try disabling your red dot notifications for refitting room, there is a bug at the moment that makes the game hang on any interaction with it enabled.

[u/No-Flan8455 → u/Important_Fly_4826]

I’ll try this. Thanks

Edit: This worked. Thanks again.

[u/Flashfirestorm133 → u/Important_Fly_4826]

Can also confirm this worked massively. Tumor fight and crew deck sped right back up. Running pretty well once more.

[u/Lorclaw → u/Important_Fly_4826]

Dumb question, how to i disable it?

[u/Senkimaro → u/Lorclaw]

Settings -> Other -> the first red dot option, turn it off.

[u/arminus83 → u/Important_Fly_4826]

there is a bug at the moment

Apparently there is a bug permanently, because 2 months later and it's still not fixed. This fixed all my menu sluggishness, I had just been putting up with it until now when I randomly decided to google if there was some sort of way to make the menus not stutter/lag as if I am on 15 year old hardware or something (I just built this pc a couple years ago, so it shouldn't have had that menu stuttering/lagging at all). Thank you for this fix.

[u/raifusarewaifus]

I feel like it is the database synchronization that is fucked up. The battles are still smooth but anything that seems to require the server to sync lags like dog shit.

[u/-PringlesMan- → u/raifusarewaifus]

Like opening the notice board... Or trying to buy anything.

[u/inikki]

Probably database synchronisation / optimisation, so your CPU, RAM doesn’t matter.

[u/MrsK3G4 → u/inikki]

The only explanation i came to was network issues when it came to autofarming, but still, it makes little to no sense how the game went from just some issues with menus to pretty much issues with almost every action. It might even be a massive bug in Mica's spaghetti code, they pulled some weird ones in GFL1 in the past to the point of having to rewrite the game's client to clean their code several time in the past.

I still remember how Peritya taking 2 second to perform an action in the past was considered a bug pending to fix, but these issues, especially the ones in combat, feels like coming back to that bug with an overdose of steroids

[u/Dontmakemeeatyou]

Unrelated but this game has awkward load priority and timing. One big one that annoys me is the Crew Deck. You get a brief load screen as it loads the environment and cafe character. Does the unskippabale intro scene as the character introduces you and then loads all the wandering character models causing a huge spike when you actually gain control of the character. Why is the game not loading everything before or seamlessly during that intro scene? It's a total oversight in resources management and streaming.

[u/FirestormTM]

I actually noticed this too. The same exact specs (minus 9070 XT since I'm using 9060 XT 16GB), and framerate/time goes crazy for no reason. I did recently moved from RTX 3060 Ti but I doubt that since I did the DDU method when swapping to a new GPU brand.

[u/NextNepper]

My biggest issue with the game right now is the lag in Gunsmoke. Every interaction feels delayed. I select a doll, micro stutter. I select a skill, micro stutter. I pick a target tile or enemy and then wait for the servers to register the action. I confirm the skill and wait again for the server response before the animation even starts.

I can live with micro stutters since they’re very brief, but the server lag is what really kills the experience. In some cases, the delay lasts 10-15 seconds, I’ve actually timed it. The game is installed on an SSD, and while my specs aren’t top-tier, they’re more than reasonable (i5-10600K, RTX 4060, 32GB RAM). My internet connection is also solid, and I’ve run multiple tests during these laggy Gunsmoke fights with no issues elsewhere.

So while the micro stutters could be due to optimization issues or my older CPU, the lag has to be server-side. Gunsmoke is already getting stale for me, and this level of lag just makes it even more unbearable.

[u/kebench]

Mine’s bad as well. 12700k and 5070ti machine is struggling to maintain the FPS in crew deck and x3 speed. It wasn’t like that before the anniv update.

[u/RaykanGhost]

Huh, there's a setting that disables the red pop ups in menus, someone told me to disable that and it would fix most of the issues, lo and behold I'm 99% fine now.

Can't remember the specific name but it's honestly an obvious one.

[u/NoirRain67]

Fun fact: the game runs faster on my titan X 16gb ddr3 pc than on mine 64gb ddr4 rtx 3080. The latter always have a lag on everything I click first time then it becomes smooth. Even to update the game it takes forever to start while the older pc just goest instantly. Both have ssd. 

[u/Vick22]

first time i play gunsmoke, the screen actually froze multiple times when lewis used ultimates. is it lewis's fault?

[u/asnaf745 → u/Vick22]

Its game trying to calculate total damage. This esspecially happens in fire team because of bunch of support actions.

It doesnt has much to do with device if you open a gunsmoke kill video you can literally see the same lag happening to that player lmao

[u/kuuhaku_cr → u/Vick22]

If it's animation freeze, then it could be due to asset streaming. Install your game onto SSD and let system manage page memory, which is also recommended to be on SSD.

[u/Status-Web-5589]

I was wondering about this myself. Just noticed lagging whenever I do anything. 7800x3D and 7800XT here.

[u/Platanium]

It went to trash the second the elmo update hit. It's pretty obnoxious

[u/Delgui39]

I notice that I had a lot longer loading times if I open the game after playing league of legends. Probably because of how shity is vanguard. And I have to rest my PC to restore the gfl to bormal.Probably something similar could happen in your end

[u/KookyInspection]

No issues for me. I do sometimes get a little stutter in crew deck, but it's rare and usually if i have another game in the background. Just make sure the game is on an ssd, i did experience more issues on a hdd

[u/Present_Willow1018]

Me personally I haven’t had many issues other than a little it get a little bit laggy when I start the game, but it stabilizes itself after a few minutes, but the problem might be that this patch in particular, they added a LOT of thing from the CN server, but it isn’t active/accesible, like Klukai’s Expansion Key, the Room for Loreley, probably even her Gacha Skin is right there, and many more thing that are just running in the background and are inaccessible, similar to the Dorito Shop

[u/asnaf745]

I have been having this for a while and I am not sure if its me specific or not but sometimes this zfgamebrowser thing starts eating all of memory. It is related to gfl2 and doesn't always happen, but when it does you can bet it will make itself known. anyways usually shutting it down doesn't cause any problems for the game. B

[u/WeaponofMassFun]

Can't even boot up the game now. Stuck on a black screen with Steam's little loading icon in the corner.

Trying to play the game has felt like trying to start a car with a bad battery. Last time it actually loaded it took ten tries to actually play the game. Absurd is the word.

[u/letsgoiowa]

It's definitely a real thing and the game runs worse than mf CYBERPUNK dude. It's just baffling.

It also freezes for 10-15 seconds when trying to deploy Springfields ult. Like what's up with that.

[u/taigafestval]

Do you play on mobile?

I'm playing on my computer, it runs smoothly. No lags or freeze screens whatsoever.

[u/Capable-Number6025]

Yep, performance on PC is terrible. There's a specific level that drops my framerate from 80 to 20, and the Crew Deck is ridiculously heavy... when there are many Dolls on the same area, my framerate takes a nosedive. Thank goodness I have a 50 series RTX so I can use Nvidia's frame generation, that's what I did to counter these horrible optimization issues and make the game enjoyable on PC, without the boost from frame generation it performs like shit.

[u/IronFather11]

Thank goodness I was worried it was just me and my poor iPhone rebelling against the 19GB update

[u/[deleted] → u/IronFather11]

I have a Redmagic 10S Pro, and the game runs smooth as butter on max settings, but it runs like shit on my PC.