what causes certain games to severely drop fps for a few seconds?

WeebLife@lemmy.world to Steam Deck@sopuli.xyz – 15 points –

Certain games such as the re4 remake and stray, will randomly drop to 5 fps for a few seconds, then jump back up to 30-40 fps. These games normally run fine at 40fps but I'm not sure what causes the drops.

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If anyone hasn't seen them, software engineer CryoByte33 delves into such performance issues and provides some utilities to help mitigate them:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9EjXYZUqUs

I've seen ppl talk about that software before but I also saw ppl saying that causes more problems than it's worth. I've been skeptical to try it out.

No harm in trying it out, none of the changes are permanent. I think it's good, even just the swap increase is good as it alleviates memory pressure.