So I’ve had Civ VI since it launched and the game used to absolutely fly. I’ve got an 8086K @ 5.3 GHz, 32 GB of DDR4-3333 @ Cas 14 and an overclocked Aorus 1080 Ti running on a 4K monitor.
I decided to run the Gathering Storm benchmarks a couple days ago and realised that not only have my frame rates gone from 80-90 FPS to 20 FPS or so, my AI benchmark has gone from 31 secs to over a minute sometimes.
First thing I did was disable the 2K Launcher and that got my AI timings down to 45 secs or so and gave me one (ONE!) video benchmark at around 80-90 FPS again. Since then I’ve deleted the whole game and reinstalled, performance is even worse now, deleted my video drivers and done a clean re-install… nothing seems to help.
I’ve got plenty of spare SSD space, CPU runs cool, various CPU benchmarks show no reduction in performance. I ran a bunch of 3DMark tests and those are showing a ~10% reduction in score from three years ago, but that’s because I must’ve heavily overclocked for those tests and made sure nothing was running in the background and now I’m just running the benchmark.
Any ideas what the issue could be?
TL; DR: My system seems fine but Civ 6 performance has gone to hell and I can’t seem to fix it.
I decided to run the Gathering Storm benchmarks a couple days ago and realised that not only have my frame rates gone from 80-90 FPS to 20 FPS or so, my AI benchmark has gone from 31 secs to over a minute sometimes.
First thing I did was disable the 2K Launcher and that got my AI timings down to 45 secs or so and gave me one (ONE!) video benchmark at around 80-90 FPS again. Since then I’ve deleted the whole game and reinstalled, performance is even worse now, deleted my video drivers and done a clean re-install… nothing seems to help.
I’ve got plenty of spare SSD space, CPU runs cool, various CPU benchmarks show no reduction in performance. I ran a bunch of 3DMark tests and those are showing a ~10% reduction in score from three years ago, but that’s because I must’ve heavily overclocked for those tests and made sure nothing was running in the background and now I’m just running the benchmark.
Any ideas what the issue could be?
TL; DR: My system seems fine but Civ 6 performance has gone to hell and I can’t seem to fix it.