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Heavy, constant, low fps (15 or less) situation, then falling behind prompt appearing at different times of the match, actual delay reaching up to minutes sometimes, details below, any help is really appreciated

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30 days ago
CPU: AMD Ryzen 4700u
GPU: Radeon Integrated Graphics
RAM: 8 GB DDR4
SSD: NVMe
OS: windows 11 pro
HP
Notes:
1. the game used to work just fine back in 2022, the issue appeared after my return in the recent months.
2. APM tracker Disabled
3. Graphics settings lowest
4. the game stopped sending me to the loading screen of a match (Multiplayer) after its start, instead, i just stay in the lobby room, need to press alt tab to go to the actual game battle, tho, it was fixed after modifications done in Note #5
5. ATI comp was tested, didn't make an fps difference but it did fix the issue where now the game actually sends me to the loading screen of the actual game, however, the game still sends crash reports after each match that i spec or play
6: the game doesn't consume all my ram, cpu, gpu, ive got a stable internet connection
7: ive tweaked my windows with the following: stopped many of the telemetry services, location services, and other stupid services; stopped windows update.
8: GPU and cpu drivers are up to date
9: turned off the steam overlay and did most of the things on the performance optimization guide from the wiki
10: restarted my laptop
11: did kick it a bit, didn't work either.
12: sometimes it happens after 30min of a large team game, sometimes after 20min in a small map, sometimes it doesn't happen in a not very small map at all, even though that match was close to 40 min! happened today.
TIA!
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29 days ago
Hi,

falling behind means the simulation on your laptop can't keep up.
Generally this game is CPU bound, and it's mainly single-thread performance that matters.

The more units there are on the field, the heavier the burden on the CPU.
Any kind of AI also takes up some of the CPU.

If your laptop is considered "too old" or not, I can't say.
But, it is indeed plausible that something has changed (engine or game-side) to require a strong computer.
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Happens to me too. Ryzen 7 on kubuntu.

Sometimes luaui crashes, and the games pickup, returning to normal fps.
Someone said it have something to do with small map rendering...

If i use the dedicated gpu (nvidia) the game shows random fps lag (going from 100 to 2-3) for a few seconds.
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27 days ago
Hi all
Yes, Windows 11 with only 8 go .... I think this is a great weak point
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27 days ago
BRrankmuffa, that sounds like a different issue. But, perhaps an easier one to solve if you can figure out which lua widget/gadget is acting up and/or under which circumstances.

> 6: the game doesn't consume all my ram, cpu, gpu, ive got a stable internet connection
Not sure how you measure how much CPU zero-k is using, but if it uses ~100% of one core then you are probably hitting the limit.

Personally I have found that it helps to close the web-browser when playing in large teams, but YMMV.
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Never mind all that. After a bunch of testing turns out my GPU was throttling to save energy.

In Adrenalin, Performance and then Tuning, setting "Tuning Preset" to "Rage" and the fans never going idle solved all my performance issues in ZK or otherwise.

Final edit.

Swapped my 7900 XTX out and my 2070s back in. Everything runs like butter. Fucking AMD.
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17 days ago
i deleted everything related to luaui and config. Its good now.
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16 days ago
Thanks to everyone who gave suggestions
my FPS issue has been solved to a great extent after resetting my windows, here are some details that i found to be relevant:
1. Updating Windows, i stopped windows updates for a while (didn't even update to 23H2), i updated to 23H2 after the reset (didn't touch 24H2 because it is horrible)
2. security updates.
3. removed windows bloatware and spying services that were still on eventhough i opted out from
after these, I launched zk to get a whopping 50-60 fps when a match starts (previously only 30, seriously) and a late game fps of around 20 - 30 (8-15 fps previously, dropping to the falling behind prompt which has been gone ever since), though i recently faced noticed fps dropping to 15 in certain games, so i uninstalled some apps (dropbox, powertoys[though i doubt it have anything to do with it] and onedrive) this seemed to be a fix for the issue, so my 2 suspects are dropbox and onedrive, ill keep experimenting to find out the exact issue.
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