Question Starfield Performance Concern

[Omega83]

Hi guys. I am having performance issues when trying to play Starfield. My laptop has an Nvidia RTX 3080 with 16GB VRAM. I tried playing several other games: Baldur's Gate 3 runs as expected, Skyrim SE runs fine with no issues or lag. Fallout 4 runs smooth too. I just now tried Jurassic World Evolution 2, and it is a stuttery mess also...

Update: I enabled Steam Overlay for Starfield, and had it show FPS, CPU, and GPU usage. In game, GPU usage was at 100%, but FPS was anywhere between 10-30. When in game Menu, GPU usage dripped to about 30%, but FPS was over 100, about 140-160. This is really weird as game was running fine yesterday. Help GREATLY appreciated

 

[Colif]

The reason the menus use less GPU and run faster is the quality of the rendering in them isn't as intense as in game.

what make/model laptop is it?
How much ram do you have? What CPU?

 

[Omega83]

The reason the menus use less GPU and run faster is the quality of the rendering in them isn't as intense as in game.

what make/model laptop is it?
How much ram do you have? What CPU?

I have 64GB System RAM and CPU is AMD RYZEN 9 5900HX @ 3.30 GHz

 

[BeardyHat]

Are you on a laptop or desktop? It's possible if you're on a laptop the machine is defaulting to the integrated GPU.