Vulkan fps boost gone after a while

[x0r13]

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After trying out the new -vulkan I got a very noticeable fps boost from around 100fps to ~170fps. I played a few matches, and everything was fine (after the stutter from shader creation is gone). Yesterday, the fps boost was gone, and it was back as vulkan wasn't used. I was back at ~100fps, but vulkan was shown in windowed mode, so I guess it was in fact used (also, shaders were being created).

I completely removed steam and all games, reinstalled steam and csgo and tried again. FPS were good again, so I was happy. Today, the same as yesterday happened. FPS are back at 100fps. I deleted the shader cache, and they were re-created, but FPS are still bad.

Any idea what the problem is? Also, is there at least a way to somehow reset steam/csgo without uninstalling everything?

[x0r13]

Little update, since this is really weird. I was playing a match (with my low 100fps) when suddenly everything started lagging like crazy. FPS shown where around 100-120 but it felt like 5fps. So I ALT + F4 out of the game and reconnected, and I'm back at 200fps+ ? I tried everything before, but nothing worked.

But that weird lagging happened in two other games as well, out of nowhere it's a slideshow and I have to completely close the game and reconnect.

EDIT: Another thing I noticed: When that lagging happens during a game, and I press ESC to bring up the menu, the fps are instantly back to normal, butter-smooth. As soon as I return to the game, it's lagging again.

[ilievi187]

maybe someone from your team or oponents using other kind of software :)

[x0r13]

Why would anything another player might have on his client side affect mine? To me it looks like the FPS cannot be correctly synced anymore

[CommanderAlchemy]

@x0r13 Could this issue be related? #2901
Does it stutter for you or is it smooth just fps gone?

Feels like this is the same issue

[x0r13]

@CommanderAlchemy No, I haven't experienced stutter in the main menu (but I have limited fps in menu to 60 anyway). My problem is simply that my fps are instead of ~170 all of a sudden 90-110. I can't find a cause for this. Restarting my PC or re-installing steam does not help. Also deleting the shader cache does not help.

Yesterday, the fps were good again (I do not know why) and I was able to play 5 matches without any problems. Today it's back to low fps again.

The other problem I mentioned was extreme lagging/stuttering during a game, which was only in gameplay, and went away when bringing up the menu via ESC key. As soon as I returned to the game it stuttered again. This was reproducible every time I brought up menu and exited it. I had to restart the game to get rid of it. This issue happened four times so far. It appears all of a sudden during game, but I have no way to reproduce it. Yesterday it did not happen.

[lionblaze55]

@kisak-valve apologies for the ping (I am sure you are busy) but when you have the chance I think we can close this as a duplicate of #2901. Word for word same issue it seems. @x0r13 if you can close the issue yourself and/or re-post on the aforementioned ticket, that would be great!

[kisak-valve]

Issue report transferred to #2901 (comment). Please continue the discussion there.