Why I have so many fps drops on FH3 with good system

[Kaloyn_Nikolov]

So i have a Forza Horizon 3, but when i start the game i have so many fps drop first sec- 100 fps, second sec- 3 fps, third sec- 5 fps, etc. And the weirdest part is that I cover the minimum system req.

specs:

i5 2500

r9 380 4gb

8 gb ram

My game setting: lowest 720p

Can someone tell me whats wrong

[Levent]

FH3 is CPU intensive. I am guessing game is also running from HDD?

[Kaloyn_Nikolov]

Just now, Levent said:

FH3 is CPU intensive. I am guessing game is also running from HDD?

yes

 

[WhitetailAni]

1 minute ago, Kaloyn_Nikolov said:

yes

 

That is your problem. The HDD can't load the assets fast enough and you get stutters and frame drops.

To fix this, you should buy an SSD. If you have one, move the game to the SSD if you can.

[Kaloyn_Nikolov]

Just now, FakeKGB said:

That is your problem. The HDD can't load the assets fast enough and you get stutters and frame drops.

To fix this, you should buy an SSD. If you have one, move the game to the SSD if you can.

ok

 

[Chris Pratt]

11 minutes ago, Kaloyn_Nikolov said:

So i have a Forza Horizon 3, but when i start the game i have so many fps drop first sec- 100 fps, second sec- 3 fps, third sec- 5 fps, etc. And the weirdest part is that I cover the minimum system req.

specs:

i5 2500

r9 380 4gb

8 gb ram

My game setting: lowest 720p

Can someone tell me whats wrong

It's important to remember, as well, that minimum specs are a guideline, and mostly just imply that you can get it to run, but not necessarily *well*. The recommended specs are what the devs consider necessary for a good play experience.

[FRD]

Probably because it's a open world game it's harder for the HDD to load up the surroundings quickly. And since you're racing through the world, it needs to load it quicker then let's say a third person game.

Do you have something like GTA V and does that run fine?
FH3 does have some pretty decent graphics. I think your i5 sadly is a bottleneck since it's kind of old and has 4 cores, 4 threads.

[KingTdiGGiTTy]

FH3 is also very RAM intensive, so 8GB might not always be enough

[rkv_2401]

8GB of RAM isn't enough to play FH3 properly, because the port is pretty poorly optimized. It would work well on 16GB of RAM, and FH4 should be fine on your PC - I used to play both on an old computer of mine - i5 3450, 16GB of RAM(FH3 stopped working when I went back to 8 temporarily), and a GTX 1060 3GB.

[Levent]

2 hours ago, rkv_2401 said:

8GB of RAM isn't enough to play FH3 properly, because the port is pretty poorly optimized. It would work well on 16GB of RAM, and FH4 should be fine on your PC - I used to play both on an old computer of mine - i5 3450, 16GB of RAM(FH3 stopped working when I went back to 8 temporarily), and a GTX 1060 3GB.

I disagree. 8G RAM is enough if game and pagefile is on a SSD. I ran it perfectly fine on my 3570K (@4.5ghz) and HD7850 (1080p-medium high mix) for years, that being said, upgrading to 16G ram reduced stutters.

[rkv_2401]

7 hours ago, Levent said:

I disagree. 8G RAM is enough if game and pagefile is on a SSD. I ran it perfectly fine on my 3570K (@4.5ghz) and HD7850 (1080p-medium high mix) for years, that being said, upgrading to 16G ram reduced stutters.

Hmm, hadn't thought of that before. From my perspective, it was a game that ran fine on my desktop w/ 16GB of RAM and a hard drive, but when one of my sticks failed and I had to manage with 8GB of RAM for a couple of days, it was a stutterfest. FH3 wasn't playable on my laptop(specs in sig, had an SSD) either, but FH4 was - and can be played even on a laptop with 8GB RAM and a 5400RPM HDD -