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No recreation is ideal, and Helldivers 2 isn’t any exception. Particularly within the period of dwell service gaming when a title is up to date usually with new content material, issues can and do go fallacious. Even earlier than video games turned a whole lot of GB in measurement and supplied 1000’s of hours of gameplay, even the most straightforward titles had their share of points, and generally they will seem in probably the most random of locations, as is the case with this one.
U/Umgak took to Reddit to share a video that reveals their body fee dropping after urgent the Esc key to open the principle menu. This menu is used to shut the sport however is how one can entry the choices, your pals checklist, or see the newest data concerning the present Main Order and the every day Private Order, so it’s a button that’s pressed steadily.
The video reveals that the body fee was hovering round 110fps and abruptly dropped to 70fps as soon as the Esc key was pressed. Different gamers additionally identified that the PC’s utilization was excessive for simply being stood on the ship, with u/christianlewds saying “Let’s not even point out the little gem of engineering that’s having 50% CPU utilization standing alone within the foyer,” with u/Acrobatic_Pumpkin967 noting that Helldivers 2 is “Nonetheless the one the sport that makes my CPU sweat and GPU run max followers.”
This challenge quickly caught the eye of the builders, with the Helldivers 2 Neighborhood Supervisor Twinbeard taking to Discord to say “We’re working within the Esc. and opening the Social menu crash!”
One other consumer in Discord known as Rei was capable of persistently reproduce this challenge and has attributed it to their associates checklist being non-public and setting it to public would repair the problem as soon as restarting the sport saying,
“I can reproduce the Esc bug flawlessly if I’ve my good friend’s checklist set to non-public/good friend’s solely in Steam. Setting it to public and restarting the sport doesn’t trigger the sport to begin lagging within the menu anymore. It’s a must to restart the sport every time when altering the setting.”
Rei then went on to notice that “pausing after which alt-tabbing will ultimately trigger the bug after a couple of minutes or so. Appears I used to be capable of resolve that bug by setting my PSN associates checklist to Public as nicely, now I’m not capable of set off the bug in any respect. Crossplay On, Body Restrict Off, V-Sync Off.”
In case you are experiencing the identical challenge, you possibly can change your Steam good friend privateness settings by going to clicking “your username in Steam > Edit Profile > Privateness Settings > Mates Listing: Public.”
It looks like an odd challenge to trigger such efficiency dips, however generally points are attributable to probably the most unlikely issues. The excellent news is that Arrowhead Sport Studios is conscious of it, so hopefully this will likely be addressed within the subsequent patch. Sadly, this might take some time because the builders have determined to spend extra time between updates to make sure that the choices aren’t reactionary and are finest for the sport. That is the correct option to make in the long term but it surely does imply points like this may go unaddressed for a very long time.
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