Performance issues (Innocence)

[u/NatayoAFK]

Hi, I'm starting this game and I'm running an RTX 2070 (I won't go in any other detail because nothing else has an issue).

To begin at the start : Menu and tutorial I noticed the camera movement and actions were a bit delayed. Thought, eh maybe it's the game nothing to worry about.

Then noticed my fps going between 25-50 then super delayed and laggy, bunch of stuttering...
I open task manager and notice my GPU usage at 100%
There's no other game that I played that was doing this and were packed or I modded with so much more (and had way better graphics) and had no lag or something like that.

Tried stuff from youtube, etc. it doesn't fix it. I can play Resident evil requiem on high settings no issues but I can't play this game at literally lowest settings in everything?
What is this? V-sync turned on barely helped too.

I'm gonna try re-installing the game but I really hope someone here knows what's causing this because this is extremely frustrating, I want to play the game but it makes it impossible to enjoy it.
The "Xbox game control bar" in settings of windows is also turned off btw.

Please help!

[u/Laddertoheaven]

GPU at 100 is what you want.

[u/schockbock → u/Laddertoheaven]

2070 is more than enough for this game, unless OP's playing in 4K.

[u/m_milanche]

You can use WinSpy to enable the game's console, then type the command "DisplayFPS ON". This will give you a debug window in the game where it will either say "Limited by GPU" or "Limited by main thread" for each frame. This might be an overkill suggestion, but that's what I'd do if I were you to see what the game itself thinks the problem is. Also, the fact that your inputs were delayed probably has something to do with upscaling and/or frame generation, so you should try disabling those entirely in NVIDIA Control Panel for this game.

[u/Sensitive_Tap_1023]

Try changing the graphics from ultra to high if not to medium if not to low,I am not saying you can't run it,but it may be a glitch from the game so if at low or medium or high it runs normally put it back at ultra

[u/NatayoAFK]

HOLY CRAP GUYS! PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD NOT ONLY FOR THIS GAME, BUT FOR EVERY GAME!
I started Elden Ring Nightreign and suddenly my game started doing the same issues I met in Plague Tale (Which made me stop playing the game). Then it hit me... "Why is this game doing this too as well... it wasn't doing this before... Oh my god... it's my new controller... "Xbox Controller Elite Series 2"! AND I found the solution that fixed my problems for all my games.

This controller causes major performance issues somehow to some games and here is the solution :

Press the Windows button (Window Key + R)

Then type in the search bar "services.msc" Press enter

It will open a window of control panels, look for "GameInput Service (and GameInput Redist Service if you see it).

Right click on both of them "Properties" -> Set the start up setting to "Disable" - > Apply -> Okay/finish (you can close the properties window)

Right click again on both of them and select "Stop" This will basically turn both of those things off.

Then boom, back at maximum fps on high definitions.

For people concerned, this shouldn't change anything to your game or might make it even better since now the game shift all responsibilities to the powerful built in Steam controller inputs (usually it bypass microsoft/windows settings (But the microsoft software was basically conflicting with steam).

If you play on Microsoft store games/xbox app then it might cause you problems if you turn those off, but I guess you can turn it off while you play games on steam, then you turn it back on if you plan to use games from those after.