Hello there, hope your all well.
I recently had an issue with low FPS in a game I had not played in a while (FrostPunk on Steam). After playing for a few minutes the game would drop from 100fps+ to about 15-20fps. I discovered that reloading the game or even just loading a saved game would return it to 100fps+ but always after a few minutes it was again back at 15-20fps.
A lot had changed on my system since last playing it, new motherboard and graphics card, lots of game, app and driver updates. I looked across my system for settings that might change the situation but nothing appeared to help. I reported the issue to AMD as I thought it must be a graphics driver problem as anything using just the CPU appeared to run normally.
I then told AMD that it does not appear to be their drivers. I discovered in Avast, going to Performance > Do Not Disturb Mode > selecting the game in question and unchecking the box “Maximise Performance”, returned to game to normal, and in fact it provided a fps boost in most other titles.
Therefore I conclude there is an issue with “Maximise Performance” option in Avast(free). Has anyone else had this issue? Is there a way to stop Avast applying that specific option to every app/game?
My system…
CPU: AMD 3800X (@stock core clocks, infinity fabric @1800)
Memory: 32GB RAM (@3600)
Graphics: AMD Sapphire Nitro+ 5700XT SE
Motherboard: MSI MAG X570 Tomahawk WiFi (bios 1.15)
Storage: Win10 Pro on Seagate Firecuda 520 1TB NVME using PCI4.0, Games on Seagate Exos 8TB