I’m seeing unstable performance. One minute it will be 120fps and the next down in the 40s. Definitely didn’t expect this. I tried disabling Ambient Occlusion and setting Mesh to medium. Didn’t help at all. Anyone else seeing this?

Yeah I am also getting wild framerate instability.
On an Asus Rog Ally X here which runs an AMD GPU.

Is this potentially another AMD fault?

I too am on the ROG Ally X and even the options menu is jank for me. If I go into the controls screen and just keep scrolling from invert camera x/y it's tanking the FPS.

Level performance is fine, but every time I enter a new area or die/respawn the FPS is dropping all the way before climbing back up to 120fps

*Edit, it's actually not I notice performance drops when I hit the level gong and stuff so I'm not sure what's going on... I'm gonna see if I can tweak settings and come back with an answer

I'm not having any luck figuring this out at all. I've tried forcing a fps cap via RSS. Tried every possible graphics setting. Tried both full screen and borderless. Tried without ACSE or GOG running. Nothing seems to fix this. Performance is just all over the place.

Oh so the 3 of us are ROG Ally owners? ACSE as in Armory Crate? I wonder if other Z1E devices like the Legion Go are experiencing any issues...

If that's the case it shouldn't be impossible for the devs to solve.

I played the game for a couple of hours last night, messed around with every graphics option, resolution and VRAM allocation on the Ally X and it genuinely made no difference to address the drops. They just keep happening.

I'm as far as the desert world now. I'm noticing the drops i) straight after loading a new area, ii) if it's a bigger area like the long hallways with turns I'm noticing drops as it loads later parts of the level, iii) when using the upside down monkey rails, I've noticed that if the camera has to pass through it from the top to under it it's like the alpha/transparency effect is causing a slowdown. I think each time I die and reload the level a slowdown is occuring too.

But I will say these performance drops are severe and disappointing but I'm in a habit with the game now which is every time I walk into a new area I just spin the camera wait a couple of seconds for the FPS to tank and then it climbs back up to 120fps. It's annoying, and there's genuinely no excuse for it with a game as simple as this but I'm still ploughing through the game and grateful to have supported the Devs by buying it! <3

Now, we should only hope the Devs are examining these forum posts or we should try reaching out and seeing will they support us and see can we get our performance fixed.

Ended up refunding this game. If and when they get it working properly on Windows handhelds I'll re-buy it.

Devs are looking into it apparently..
Should be fixed in a few days according to them.

Really? Where did you hear that?

On the Croc Speedrunning Discord, the Devs are in there too.

Oh that is great news! Thank you

I will keep you updated, it seems only Ally users have issues which is bizarre, I'm suspecting RDNA3 issues again.

Thank you. Please do. If they can manage to fix it I will definitely re-purchase the game.

I am too with AMD GPU. And I am experiencing FPS drops. Hope it's fixed soon.

Cheers

ROG Ally or desktop AMD video card?

AMD video card