Hi everyone. Issue has been resolved! Turns out I just had to update my NVIDIA Driver. Thank you to everyone who provided advice and a special thank you to AxelRyman in Robin and Zephyr’s Discord server for teaching me how to run the game off the NVIDIA Graphics Card specifically.
Checked and I’m running at a nice, crisp 11 FPS (after I reset all the graphics settings back to default). What I might do is uninstall and reinstall the game to hopefully get rid of all the crap I put in the files
As someone already mentioned, update your GPU drivers. Nvidia releases frequent updates for them and they do have a huge impact on performance across the board, we're talking it can take a game from unplayable like this up to perfectly fine and beyond just by a driver update. Barring that, I'll add what I can here as well. The RTX 3050 isn't a particularly powerful GPU, and it's also a laptop rendition as well so it's even less powerful than the Desktop equivalent. That being said, I don't think Metaphor is a particularly demanding game, so something else is at play here if it's not the graphics drivers. I presume you have the laptop plugged into a power source/charger? If you don't have it specifically configured, laptops can go into a "low(er) power" state when not plugged in and running on battery in order to preserve battery life. Does the laptop get hot? You should probably use a tool like "CPU Temp" or "GPU Temp" and get some temperature readouts. If things get hot, thermal throttling can easily kick in and ruin any game performance. It's also generally unhealthy for the laptop. If heat is a problem, you may need to air dust it, perhaps even open it and clean out any dust buildup. Worst case, you'd need to apply new thermal compound to some of the components but this is arguably uncommon unless it's a really old system. i9 Intel CPUs, especially in laptops, do get notoriously hot so I would take the time to investigate this for sure. Lastly, there are some of the other possible things to check: any external monitors plugged in? Background apps running that could be draining resources? Any additional USB devices or anything plugged in that isn't necessary? Let me know if any of this helps and/or what you find.
Glad it was driver based as I was basically playing this game on the equivalent of a Steam Deck (Ryzen 7 7840U) and it was quite playable there. I should hope that an RTX 3050, even a laptop version, would have a playable framerate
i wish i could help but i never had issues i have worse hardware, but maybe the fact that i play on an 1080p monitor and play in borderless window mode stopped problems from even showing up also, tho probably irrelevant, whats your ram?
Hi everyone. Issue has been resolved! Turns out I just had to update my NVIDIA Driver. Thank you to everyone who provided advice and a special thank you to AxelRyman in Robin and Zephyr’s Discord server for teaching me how to run the game off the NVIDIA Graphics Card specifically.
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I have comparable specs on my HP tower PC and haven't seen any framerate drops in Metaphor.
Checked and I’m running at a nice, crisp 11 FPS (after I reset all the graphics settings back to default). What I might do is uninstall and reinstall the game to hopefully get rid of all the crap I put in the files
@@jaffinator2166 also check if your graphic card drivers are updated. it might help.
@@Flutterdark_in the process of doing that
As someone already mentioned, update your GPU drivers. Nvidia releases frequent updates for them and they do have a huge impact on performance across the board, we're talking it can take a game from unplayable like this up to perfectly fine and beyond just by a driver update.
Barring that, I'll add what I can here as well. The RTX 3050 isn't a particularly powerful GPU, and it's also a laptop rendition as well so it's even less powerful than the Desktop equivalent. That being said, I don't think Metaphor is a particularly demanding game, so something else is at play here if it's not the graphics drivers.
I presume you have the laptop plugged into a power source/charger? If you don't have it specifically configured, laptops can go into a "low(er) power" state when not plugged in and running on battery in order to preserve battery life.
Does the laptop get hot? You should probably use a tool like "CPU Temp" or "GPU Temp" and get some temperature readouts. If things get hot, thermal throttling can easily kick in and ruin any game performance. It's also generally unhealthy for the laptop. If heat is a problem, you may need to air dust it, perhaps even open it and clean out any dust buildup. Worst case, you'd need to apply new thermal compound to some of the components but this is arguably uncommon unless it's a really old system. i9 Intel CPUs, especially in laptops, do get notoriously hot so I would take the time to investigate this for sure.
Lastly, there are some of the other possible things to check: any external monitors plugged in? Background apps running that could be draining resources? Any additional USB devices or anything plugged in that isn't necessary?
Let me know if any of this helps and/or what you find.
Hi there, wanted to wait until I test tested to get back and say it was indeed a driver update issue. Game is running far smoother now!
Glad it was driver based as I was basically playing this game on the equivalent of a Steam Deck (Ryzen 7 7840U) and it was quite playable there. I should hope that an RTX 3050, even a laptop version, would have a playable framerate
i wish i could help but i never had issues
i have worse hardware, but maybe the fact that i play on an 1080p monitor and play in borderless window mode stopped problems from even showing up
also, tho probably irrelevant, whats your ram?
@@Flutterdark_ 16 GB
@@jaffinator2166 ok ram should be fine then, i also only have 16gb