Fix confirmed. No ~50fps dips in big cities anymore.

CosmoDayZ, may I ask what GPU you have? In case you running AMD GPU it could be related to this
https://feedback.bistudio.com/T160463

I really hope they will make it happen.

even in your first video you can see how awful the grass and trees look when you turn on plant smoothing

eyes hurt from such graphics - there is no such thing on nvidia and everything is perfect there

I also opened support ticket to AMD. Let's see if I get any meaningful answer.

I made similar test I posted earlier. This time I was looking at a big base in cherno and with 21.9.1 fps dipped as low as 20-25 (unplayable) whereas 20.4.2 gave me 50-60 (tolerable). When looking at the other direction fps was 80-90 on both.

I don't know exactly what you mean but sound a bit like foliage smoothing and I turn it off.

In T160463#2234730, @Alexmsk wrote:

20.4.2 was the best last driver and there were no lags in the cities - but the old driver with its minuses and it makes no sense to use it now, and everything that comes after 20.4.2 suffers from lags to this day - I checked each driver after 20.4.2 and they all lag - this is a very long problem that does not solve in any way, but I still hope that it will be "fixed soon"

Below is two videos recorded at the same spot.

• only clean install of 20.4.2 driver was done between videos
• I've tested several versions after 20.4.2
• fps drops on both but not as badly with older driver
• GPU and power usage drops a lot more with newer driver
• GPU frequency also drops to ~1100Mhz with newer driver but I guess recording keeps it up in the video
• not server related, happens on any server
• happens around big cities when looking to certain direction, never in forests