Patch Notes and PC System Specs

Not doing well on the 2nd planet (starts with an E?).

Played through the first planet using the game's auto-detect settings, which was a mixture of ultra and high (@1440p). Everything went well for the most part; I generally stayed between 50 and 60 fps, with some minor dips below that.

Now that I'm on the 2nd planet, performance is in the toilet. At the same auto-detect settings, the opening cut-scene drops to 10 fps, and the gameplay has me anywhere between 17 and 50 fps, depending on what's on the screen. I tried dropping the settings to all high, with AA off,  lowered the ambient occlusion, and that gets me 22-60 fps, depending on what's on the screen (I can stare at a wall and get higher frames, obviously). The issue isn't so much the low frames, but that it's constantly jumping around everywhere and isn't stable at all.

2x980 Ti SC in sli
i7-4790k, stock
16 GB RAM
Samsung 850 EVO SSD
144 hz 2560x1440 G-sync monitor
Win 10 Home

so an update and in need of some assistance, i tried the trial for a few hours and for the most part the game ran well on ultra and on high yet i keep experiencing noticable choppiness in gaming and cutscenes and i wonder why otherd it seems are doing well.

I'm sure I'm stating the obvious here, but make sure you apply a decent amount of thermal paste. GPUs don't have heat spreaders, so you need to apply enough to cover the entire die.

Can't get passed the start menu its so slideshow-y.

Running a 1060 6GB, 8 GB ram and the 8230 for a processor.

It might be my graphics driver but I can't get it to update.

edit: and apparently Nvidia Control Panel says I don't have an Nvidia card installed... :/

GTX 950 is close but not below minimum.
The minimum GPU for this game is GTX 660 and GTX 950 is a little bit faster.

Demanding != Unoptimized

Make sure you turn on triple buffering if you are going to use vsync or your framerate will suffer.
GTX 950 should work well since I am getting 40~100fps on my GTX 960M and it's below both GTX 950 and GTX 660.
While graphics preset makes stuff easy, it's best to customize the settings based on your GPU capability and your liking.

Texture quality and texture filtering do not cost much performance but provides significant visual detail boost.
Shadow quality, ambient occlusion, effects quality, render resolution can cost a lot of performance so adjust accordingly.

Team Green members, Nvidia just released the Game Ready driver.

Great, whats the version number? Do you have a link?

To give my pc rig the best chance to avoid low frame rates and graphics tearing then before I launch Origin I restart into the Administrator User.  Then I Right Click the Start icon > Run > type msconfig, run it, and open the tab that allows me to  disable all nonessential drivers. In the Windows system folder I open the prefetch folder and trash the saved files there, except for the reboot(?) folder. I then run CCleaner to remove all temporary system and software temp files, then run Auslogics disk defrag (especially if I just downloaded and installed the game). Then restart into the administrator user and I'm good to go with a refreshed pc system to run Origin and launch the game. I found it really helps.

Did someone test the game with Nvidia game ready drivers? Any gains in performance?

Does anyone else's game restart your PC after the cutscene right after using the tram for the first time? After waking up in cryo bay. It didn't do it before the last patch, but now it does.

OK, solved it. I'm using the latest Nvidia drivers and turned HDR to "off" just to be sure.