defcombeta: Noticed that my frame rate tanks when i go into the map and then back into the game world. I am running from an sata 3 SSD using an older i7 4770 with 16gb of ram paired to a 1660Ti. ( not upgrading until the intel 10nm next year) the frame rate drop does not change if I alter the textures from high, medium or low . As for my other setting its mix of low and medium the only setting i have high is Screen space reflections to reduce the ghosting trails on the npcs walking about. As for my resolution its 50 percent of 4k using dynamic scaling. should be noted i am running the game with a 30 fps cap since i would take a smooth 30 over an unstable 60 any day. Now it could be my old hardware and the data being streamed to the memory but in game world my frame rate never drops below 30 no matter how nuts the action gets. ( got a big old firefight going out side vics to test )

anyone notice this issue and got a work around for nvidia Cards.

defcombeta: Thanks for the reply, i will look at the cascade shadows i have the quality set to low and range medium.

I also checked my system performance, the CPU never goes past 70 percent load at any time during a half hour of play. that 70 percent is more a spike than a constant. the GPU ranges from 60 to 80 percent load but then jumping into the map it hits 90 and returning to the game world causes a 100 percent load , hence the frame dip for about 5 to 10 secs. It should be noted that the CPU never goes past 60 percent when accessing the map so I do not think the CPU is a bottleneck in this case.