Hello,
since the last update i noticed some serious problems with the game performance.
I have a MSI-Gaminglaptop with an Intel i7-7700HQ CPU, Intel HD Graphics 630 GPU(onboard), Nvidia GTX 1070 GPU and 8Gb Ram and got just 50+ FPS with many drops down to 30 all the time. I reinstalled the game and now got only 30FPS with drops down to 12 no matter which settings i used. I tried to check if something was wrong with the hardware, updated/rolled back drivers and so on but nothing helped. Also searched for a Virus but everything is clean.
I opend the taskmanager to see what my system is doing while playing. There where no tasks open that used alot of CPU/RAM but when i saw the GPU i got suspicious.
Sea of Thieves somehow tries to use the onboard graphics and the main one at the same time because the taskmanager showed a usage of about 50% on both. I got the idea to start Sea of Thieves on my second screen (big TV) only conected to the main GPU.... Boom! 150+ FPS on lowest settings and 80+ on highest.
I put it in windowed mode moved it to the laptop screen and switched into fullscreen mode again. FPS dropped to 40. I moved the game back to the TV and the FPS started climbing to 60 first and right at the moment where the taskmanger showed 0% usage of the onboard graphics it went to 80+.
It would be nice if this problem is getting fixed somehow.
Thx ;).
[Update]
I found a solution for the problem. In Nvidia Control Panel under 3D Settings there is an option called "Open GL-rendering GPU". I switched it from automatic to the Nvidia GPU and now get almost stable 60 FPS on my laptop screen (40+ lowest, 80+ highest on "Mythical").
I hope this helps anyone with the same problem :).
See you on the Seas ;).
[Update II]
Fix doesen't work anymore.
