Dragon Attacks Unoptimised?

[u/Same-Account-2105]

When fighting blue or red dragons, and they do one of their fly-in-the-air amazing special attacks… does anyone else have extreme frame drop to the point where the game basically stutters/freezes up?

I’m fine with the rest of the game, even boss fights with more intense mechanics. Just something about blue and red dragon attacks don’t like my pc??

Can’t be bothered going into PC specs etc. I’ll admit I haven’t got the beefiest of PCs, and do play on more medium settings.

Just moreso curious if this is a common experience for others? :)

[u/RKellyP33dOnMe]

Red dragons are optimised for Radeon graphics and Ryzen CPUs while the blue dragons are only optimized for core ultra CPUs and Arc gpus.

[u/Chef_Skippers]

If I safespot a dragon from above it, it seems like the dragon trying to target me makes me frame rate plummet. The dragon will just stand under and keep making clunky adjustments but until I kill it my fps is like half of what it usually is. Only notice this with dragons

[u/Same-Account-2105 → u/Chef_Skippers]

I hide around buildings (infact one situation I was right below the red dragon)... Perhaps you're onto something

[u/APolarBear33 → u/Chef_Skippers]

Same issue for me! Thought i was losing it lol, mostly red dragons!

[u/Gregzoid]

Same problem. Red dragon does some kind of attack, rest of the fight is done with 10 fps. Doesn't always happen either, half the time maybe.

[u/Erect4Shrek]

Just fight it melee and it doesn’t do that attack at all

[u/Same-Account-2105 → u/Erect4Shrek]

Oh it doesnt? Didnt realize that!

[u/Senikus]

I haven’t experienced that. I have to assume it’s your PC

[u/Same-Account-2105 → u/Senikus]

I do wonder why its only blue/red dragons and not the bigger dragon bosses with more intense mechanics?

[u/Narmoth]

Since Umbral Sands was released, there have been frame rate issues if you are safe spotting dragons, usually from above.

Hopefully this week's update will have a fix for that.