Massive FPS spikes after new season update

Summary

Hi, after today’s new season update our map (Infinity Tower Tycoon 6586-8735-3733) started experiencing massive FPS issues. Many players from our community have reported performance problems. After joining the map and claiming a plot, players experience severe FPS drops from around 100 to 0–5 FPS, and the game freezes for a couple of seconds. For the rest of the session, FPS remains reduced by about half.

Even on high-end PCs, the game is very laggy. FPS drops occur regardless of the device being used.

This issue did not occur before the update.

What steps should we take to address this problem?

Please select what you are reporting on:

Creative

What Type of Bug are you experiencing?

Stability

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Join our map via a public lobby (6586-8735-3733).
  2. Monitor your FPS to observe performance drops.
  3. Claim a tycoon plot while watching your FPS to see even larger drops.

Expected Result

Stable FPS for players, as it was before the new season update.

Observed Result

Massive fps drops, game freezes

Platform(s)

PC, Consoles (old gen/new gen), Mobile, Switch

Island Code

6586-8735-3733

Video

Additional Notes

Most of the lag occurs when the tycoon is loading and props are spawning.

hi @DaaV1996 ,

In the UK using European Servers we get high ping rates in Fortnite look at your users need to see networks stats.

From Epic Fortnite Support

Steps to Show Network Stats in Fortnite

  1. Launch Fortnite and enter the main menu.

  2. Open the menu in the top-right corner and select the Gear Icon (Settings).

  3. Navigate to the Game UI tab (usually depicted by a computer display icon).

  4. Scroll down to the HUD Options section.

  5. Locate Net Debug Stats and toggle it to On.

  6. Apply the changes.

Once active, your ping, packet loss, and upload/download data will appear in the top-left corner of your screen during a match



The reason for my high ping rates is due to putting 40.00 on my PC, Xbox One and Switch 1 automatically Epic games Launcher download on all devices at the same time.

Hey,

You can see that debug stats are active in those videos, and neither we nor our players are experiencing any packet loss. This seems more like a stability issue. Around 50 people in our community Discord are reporting the same problem. I can send more videos, but it all points to massive FPS drops.

Uploading another video to showcase the problem even more.

same thing for my map, unplayable

Hi @DaaV1996

The problem is most obvious in the PC version. The Android mobile version seems to be quite stable.

The PC version does stall a lot like in your video.

When starting the game quite smooth then reaching the traffic round outside the performance is choppy on PC and this does not occur on Android.

The FPS seem between 25 to 30 ms, on my PC and Android but the choppy stalling.

There is a new known problem that may be relevant to why Android and PC are different

v40.00 Known Issues - New Verse material code may cause hitching and hanging on some platforms

Nice game and works well on consoles

FORT-1076704 has been added to our ‘To Do’ list. Someone’s been assigned this task.

Hey, yeah, check that too. For some people it’s fine, but for others it’s pretty bad (would say for most of them). We’ve received reports from every platform. Sharing our hitch rate, there’s definitely some kind of issue after update.