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Enginefall low FPS and stuttering: what helped players
What you see
Frame rate falls to around 5 to 15 FPS and the game stutters badly, especially when other players build or raid near your base, even on a powerful PC.
Usually the servers, not youReported
A moderator of r/Enginefall, writing as "we", said the team knows about performance problems. Restarting the game after opening the map, and windowed mode, are the workarounds they gave.
What players try
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Restart the game after you open the in-game map
A moderator of r/Enginefall, writing as "we", said one of the known issues appears to be when opening the in-game map, and that restarting the game usually resolves it.
Reported - 2
Try windowed mode
The same reply said playing in windowed mode also seems to help with performance.
Reported - 3
Force close the game and rejoin the session
One player said this seems to work, and that the more cars you pass through, the more lag you get in a session. The original poster did not confirm it.
Reported - 4
Turn shadows off and check the game is using your dedicated GPU
A player who reported very poor performance said that after installing the demo, turning shadows off and making sure the GPU was used, it became more stable, though it did not fully solve it.
Reported
What we know and don’t
On 16 June a player posted that when others build near their base, or raid it, they get 5 to 15 FPS and heavy stuttering. A moderator of r/Enginefall, danju92, replied that the team is aware of various performance issues and working to resolve them, that one known issue appears to be opening the in-game map, that restarting usually fixes it, that windowed mode also seems to help, and that they had also noticed AMD having issues with the Anti-Lag 2 features. The account has no visible staff badge, but it is listed as a moderator of the subreddit.
The complaints are widespread. On Steam, players with an RTX 3080 Ti and an RTX 5090 reported frame rates of roughly 24 to 40 in busy sessions, and another player reported a CPU reaching 95°C. Nobody there found a fix. On Reddit, a player with an RTX 5080 reported the same low frame rate and said frame generation was not applying.
The studio’s own fixed-issues channel on the official Discord lists two related fixes: “Red Dot attachment can be applied to the T4 Shotgun and cause movement lag” (18 June) and “Shotgun + sight = lagging” (14 July). On 24 September, the day the closed playtest opened, players on the official Discord described performance as “pretty good” and said it “already feels better” than the last playtest, and one reported 70 to 80 FPS at 4K on high settings with an RTX 5070 Ti.
The complaints above come from the June demo, so they may not describe the September playtest. The team’s own statement is the only account of a cause, so treat the workarounds as things that helped some players, not guaranteed fixes.
Sources: r/Enginefall, “Bad performance? Anyone else?”, r/Enginefall, “FPS / Frame Gen”, and the Steam thread I Enjoy This Game More Than I Should…but performance is booty cheeks.
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Last checked September 24, 2026. Source: r/Enginefall, "Bad performance? Anyone else?".
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