Robo Recall lag problem laptop

Lokken86 · 13 Jun 2020 at 16:21

Hey guys.
Thought I'd give VR a go on new laptop. It's a dell g5 15 se with 4800h and 5600m running on the Oculus rift CV1.
The game starts perfectly fine iv got high settings and in the first few moments it's got 20/40% performance headroom then all of a sudden it drops to 1fps and - 1500% headroom. Temperature is OK iv got performance mode on and a cooler pad for extra cooling.
I'm not having any issues with other games. I tried lone echo 2 trailer which has more advanced graphics then this, Farlands, all the demos provided by Oculus and put on Crow the legend for the kids without a hitch.
Any ideas?

melmac · 15 Jun 2020 at 14:25

Robo Recall is a lot harder on performance than people think. Try lowering the settings in the game especially pixel density.

Lokken86 · 15 Jun 2020 at 16:36

melmac said:
Robo Recall is a lot harder on performance than people think. Try lowering the settings in the game especially pixel density.

Thing is it starts fine then goes to just 1fps. You'd think a navi gpu albeit a laptop one with 36cus would get more then 1fps. It has similar performance to a desktop rx590. Also I tried on lowest settings and it was the same.

melmac · 17 Jun 2020 at 15:58

Lokken86 said:
Thing is it starts fine then goes to just 1fps. You'd think a navi gpu albeit a laptop one with 36cus would get more then 1fps. It has similar performance to a desktop rx590. Also I tried on lowest settings and it was the same.

Are you running Oculus Tray Tool with any super sampling?

Lokken86 · 17 Jun 2020 at 16:12

melmac said:
Are you running Oculus Tray Tool with any super sampling?

No its all at default 1.0.

melmac · 17 Jun 2020 at 17:36

Lokken86 said:
No its all at default 1.0.

Did you try the obvious things like updating the chipset driver on the laptop to the latest and then updating the GPU driver to the latest?

A game starting off ok and then dropping massive framerates like that is sign of GPU throttling and is typical of a GPU struggling to run a game. If you return to base and restart a level does the performance return to normal, like when there is nothing happening on screen?

Lokken86 · 8 Jul 2020 at 02:36

I'm not sure how but I've got it working now. Either it was a driver issue or it was fixed by reinstalling the game. Anyway it runs very well so I'm happy now.