Hey all, I'm getting unplayable performance in Gas Station Simulator on a PC that is well above the recommended system requirements. I can barely even get out of the attic room you start in because I'm getting no more than 10 FPS. Changing graphics and display settings makes no difference - It as choppy and unplayable at Low settings as it is at Epic. What's the deal? How can I improve performance?

Here's what I'm running on:

Windows 10
GOG Galaxy 2.0.45
GSS Version 1.0.1.42166 Dev
DirectX 12

CPU: Ryzen 5 1600AF 3.2GHz 6-core
GPU: Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti 8GB
RAM: 16GB 3200GHz DDR4
m.2 NVMe SSD
1440p Resolution

No other applications running in the background and GSS given high priority in Task Manager.

I've seen a number of people on Youtube and the Steam forums with less capable hardware complaining that they're only running at 60 FPS, while I would honestly be happy if I could even get to 30.

I think the game requirements are pretty normal. I can play it quite smoothly (60fps) on my modest computer (i7 3770, 16GB RAM, GTX 1070 8GB, Windows 7 SP1). I have only detected some jerks when a new scenario is loaded. This may be due to heavy memory consumption of the graphics card (more than 6GB). If the game consumes 6GB at 1080p, memory consumption at 1440p should exceed 8GB by far.

Try running the game at 1080p to see how it works for you.

I even tried lower resolutions than that - down to 720p still produced the same jerky results.

I'm thinking this is not an issue with the Gas Station Simulator at this point, but some underlying issue. I've tried a number of other games that are performing equally as bad (The Witcher 3, Prey 2017, Elite Dangerous) where there is no difference in performance between Low and Ultra settings or different screen resolutions. However, several other games (DOOM 2016, Skyrim, Fallout, Metro Exodus, Hellblade) all run at 60-144 fps at ultra settings. I've yet to figure out why some games are working fine while others are unplayable regardless of graphical settings.

At this point you need to consider what might be a problem systemwise. Having had some experience with this, I'd suggest you check the rate that your RAM is running at. Simply Ctrl-Shift-Escape to open up the t ask manager then click it over to performance, and click on the RAM entry. It should tell you how full your RAM is and a bunch of other details like how much is pooled and so forth, including the speed it's running at. Make sure it's running at the speed that the actual RAM sticks are meant to be running at.

I had a problem with that myself which was causing lots of performance issues in games that relied heavily on RAM Throughput, and my motherboard had automatically set the RAM speed way lower then it needed to be, so I had to pull the sticks out, look up their models, and determine the speed they were rated for and manually set the motherboard to run the RAM at that rate. It fixed a LOT of problems.

No you wouldn't, or if you are, then why did you waste so much money on your computer? You should have just bought a NUC for 200-300.

You need to start doing diagnostics on your computer. Benchmarks, https://testufo.com , CPUZ to check your timings for RAM and how your CPU/GPU is running. Learn how to test bottlenecks, I'm sure there's 100's of recent videos on youtube to choose from. 1600AF was pretty popular about a year ago, I'm sure there are setup guides for that to maximize the potential and also figure out where it should be in benchmarks.

Cinebench, Aida64 Extreme, FurMark, CPU-Z.

https://old.reddit.com/r/allbenchmarks/wiki/index