So I've recently reinstalled UT4 and enjoying some games in the evening, not hardcore playing.

However used to run very smooth at 120+ FPS (more than enough since I use a 60hz monitor for working purposes).
Usually got installed the nVidia DCH Driver - Studio, yesterday I updated drivers to Game Ready ones (the classic invidia drivers).
Result? FPS dropped to 25-30 max with same exact graphic settings. I tried everything and after reinstalled old drivers now it's capped to 60 FPS.
I tried everything and obviously all the ingame graphic settings. Doesn't matter... won't go any higher.

Apparently the GPU goes idle, it's like is ignoring the game partially. I can tell because playing from a laptop the CPU fan is active while the GPU one runs extremely low.

Any ideas? I know it's a very generic question but maybe someone knows...

Sounds like you have vsync enabled

Tried also to disable it. Although I believe with or without it I shouldn't have this kind of issues with such old game.

Here my specs (it's a laptop workstation):

Operating System
Windows 10 Pro 64-bit

CPU
Intel Core i9-9900k

RAM
64,0GB 2.666Hz

Graphics
Generic PnP Monitor (3840x2160@60Hz)
8190MB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

Storage
953GB Samsung SSD 970 PRO 1TB NVMe m.2
931GB Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB Sata


It should be widely over any requirements.

This post was edited by Darkal on Oct 24 2019 07:32am

your specs doesnt matter if you got vsynch enabled, your system caps the fps to 60.

It dropped at 25 fps with the new Game Ready Drivers without VSynch activated. As I said seems like it's ignoring the GPU.

GPU works fine every day when I work with graphics and 3D, so shouldn't be an hardware issue.

UT4 doesn't like your system specs. Downgrade.

Ddu then install

I9 and a 2080 and uses a generic 60hz monitor

Rip

"Generic" 4K 100% sRGB 100% Adobe RGB working monitor. That's a workstation which work on color calibration for graphic purposes.

Gaming is an extra...

Also, is a notebook. Maybe I'll buy an extra monitor for gaming purposes but I haven't much time for that recently...



Seems it works with other drivers. Sticking to 200 FPS right now.

This post was edited by Darkal on Nov 4 2019 04:25pm