V 1.10 FPS Drop Issue (please help)

Welcome to Mass Effect: Andromeda. Have you tried lower graphic settings?

Game seems to have serious memory issues. Especially when one of these drop in hordes are loaded. I get down to a slide show in that cave on Eos where Ketts are hiding. You usually drive through in the Nomad and that's a chore. I used to save and reload after I cleared the cave. That was the only way to turn things back to normal.

It's funny because these scenes aren't even the most demanding as far as objects or effects go. Game runs fine in instances that should put more strain on your hardware. I'd say, it's simply poorly optimised.

I'm running 2x GTX 1080's in SLI, 32GB RAM, Intel i7 6850K and even i get lag in some parts of the game. Just 4, notably. Those lag areas are:-

1) Inside the Angara resistance base at the cave exit just before you hop outside on Voeld.

2) In the war room of the Tempest (try running around the circular table where all the consoles are - can guarantee it will micro-stutter).

3) Opening consoles pretty much anywhere in the game, the buttons stick and lag when moving from menu screen to menu screen.

4) And finally, during the cutscenes aboard the Kett ship (Drack's scouts).

The rest of the game seems fine so i'd put those lags down to poor optimization and memory leaks. It's not the game's engine its just shoddy programming coz i can go for hours on Battlefield 1 (which uses the same engine) and not have a single crash. FYI i play both ME:A and BF1 on ultra settings @ 1440p + g-sync. I've tried SLI on/off, G-sync on/off, V-sync on off and it makes no difference. I always see lags or stutters in those same 4 areas of the game.

The game hogs memory, even with low settings. I usually start fine but after a couple of hours the whole thing slows down, especially after loading into new maps.

My favorite DA:O issue was the low memory threading issue. If you weren't a good deal over min spec, the engine would sometimes get flustered and forget to do things or do them in the wrong order. Play the health poultice animation without expending the poultice or restoring health, and so on.

There's a puzzle in DAI which glitches out in low-memory slow-CPU conditions too, although IIRC you have to be below min spec or multitasking to be hit by it.

As for ME:A, it's never really been clear which systems will be hit by this bug and which won't. My i7/750ti/8GB rig never acts up, for instance.

Well, I might have that too. I'm not sensitive enough to pick up a framerate drop without instrumentation unless it goes below 30. I could do it if I was looking for it, but not if I was playing.

If I had to wager a guess, I would say that your RAM isn't quite up to par. These days, games are typically requiring 16 GBs of RAM, especially modern open world games that stream tremendous amount of assets in the background. 8 GB just isn't enough anymore.

Be like me, get 64 GBs of that shit and be golden until hell freezes over. Also, install ME:A on an SSD. It helps with background streaming a ton.

ntcore.com/4gb_patch.php

Works like a charm for DAO. Suppose no harm in trying.

First some questions:
Are you playing with the lowest default graphics the game allows or have you gone lower via the config file?
Are you playing on a regular monitor or a High Definition Monitor -one capable of 720p plus?

If the answer to both of those is the prior and not the latter then this is not a graphics issue.
So graphics card should handle it just fine or even better than fine.
The amount of ram is fine -unless using mods -still plenty of room there though.
I can run at least three games with 8 GB of ram on a computer built in 2013 along with ME:A.
ME:A uses around 1.5 GB to 2.5 GB of RAM -or more even if using mods but no where near 8GB.
This whole issue is the number of processor threads. -maybe cores but I doubt it.
Just absolutely not the ram.

My 2013 computer is an AMD FX-4350 with 8GB of ram and a Zotac Geforce 750GT and it has the exact same problem.
Stuttering at points: down to 10FPS or even locking up completely.
THE FIX:

SPOILER: Click to show

I fixed it by lowering the resolution scale to 0.80 or even 0.75 -any lower distorts screen but at 0.75 it should remove the stutter.

My other computer listed in signature by comparison runs ME:A smoothly.
That is till I force ME:A to run with only 4 processors and thus only 4 threads then the problem returns.
Again this is a threading issue.

And for correlation using both yours and the OP's processors and mine:
AMD FX-4350
Cores: 4
Threads: 4

AMD FX-8370
Cores: 8
Threads: 8

Intel Core i5-6500
Cores: 4
Threads: 4

Intel Core i7-6850K
Cores: 6
Threads: 12

I could be wrong but this seems more logical a conclusion.

You sure that is not a 4690K?
The default speed of the plain 4590 is 3300MHz while the 4690K is 3500MHz -cant find the K version of the 4590...

Knock that weaker processor down to the default GHz and downgrade the RAM to 8 GB of RAM in the weaker system (4590)...
Then see if the issue shows itself -that could prove or disprove the thread theory.
Furthermore if -IF it is not the threads then I am sure that it is or could be related to the L2 Cache...
The only other major difference on all processors mentioned -aside from shear frequency of the chips.

I would look at the virtual memory of his computer. I bet, like many of you, he has none. He really needs some if he's going to be playing this game with only 8GB of memory.

What do I know though?