Stuttering and Freezes Despite Stable Performance Metrics, Especially With 15+ Players

Summary

Players are experiencing noticeable stuttering, skipped frames, and brief freezes despite normal FPS, ping, and Verse ticks per second. The issue is especially noticeable on lower-end devices and becomes more frequent with 15+ players.

Some players also report that rapidly switching between weapons triggers or worsens the stuttering, though this has not yet been independently confirmed.

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Creative

What Type of Bug are you experiencing?

Assets

Steps to Reproduce

Steps to Reproduce

Join the island, preferably on a lower-end device.

Play normally in a session with 15 or more players.

Observe intermittent stutters and brief freezes during gameplay.

Some players also report that rapidly switching between weapons triggers or worsens the stuttering, though this has not yet been independently confirmed.

Expected Result

Smooth gameplay and weapon switching when FPS, ping, and Verse ticks per second remain stable, without unexplained interruptions to player movement.

Observed Result

Gameplay briefly freezes or skips, sometimes making players appear to stop momentarily. The reported performance metrics remain normal despite these visible interruptions. Players have also reported these interruptions while rapidly switching weapons.

Platform(s)

Pc

Island Code

5791-2777-2631

Video

Additional Notes

The issue is particularly noticeable at:

0:00–0:30

1:00–1:30

5:33–6:30

10m vid https://youtu.be/AAe0PAg3m3A

Hi @iicq-og, is this still happening after today’s update?

hi @iicq-og ,

There is still a bit of lag falling to 21 FPS on Samsung Android G10, but the network ping does go up at the same time (UK GMT 17:00)17September 42.20.

This took a while to load, may be look for United Kingdom in Metrics. probably ok no big lock ups and much better than videos

This thread shows massive hitches. This just disappeared after the network/server after 48 hours this was 40.00

Massive FPS spikes after new season update - General / Issues and Bug Reporting - Epic Developer Community Forums

Thanks

Hey Flak, hope you’re doing well! I’ve spent the last couple of days testing and gathering player feedback. The issue has improved significantly. It still happens occasionally and is noticeable at times, but it’s nowhere near as severe as before, which is great.

However, we’ve encountered a new issue which is pretty big since the latest update: proximity chat and voice chat are breaking. I believe a few other people have reported the same thing on the forums.

[CRITICAL] Proximity voice chat completely broken since update 40.20

We are using middle east servers

Yes, we are aware of that, you can follow along for updates here: [CRITICAL] Proximity voice chat completely broken since update 40.20 - #14 by Bug-Reporter

Thanks !

FORT-1154614 has been ‘Backlogged’. This is an issue that is in a queue to be addressed.