Main Menu at 3 FPS
Every aspect of Satisfactory started running at 3 FPS for me, and is persistent through the following:
PC Restart
Verify Game Files
Full mod uninstall (Plus verify game files)
Reinstallation
Graphics Driver Reset (Win Ctrl Shift B)
This is something that has started happening in the last week and was running fine before with no changes. It's not a random FPS drop, it's 3 FPS for everything from the main menu to in-game.
My system specs:
Ryzen 9 9900X
RTX 3070 Ti
128 GB DDR5-6000
2TB m.2 SSD (Satisfactory install is on)
Mod List:
Refined Power
Infinite Zoop
Structural Solutions
Industrial Evolution
Digital Storage
Fast Manual Crafting Redux
I know this isn't the Satisfactory discord, but, it is a fairly modded run so I thought I'd ask here in case it does end up having to do with my mods.
Solution:Jump to solution
Figured it out. Had something called w_driver_x1.95 that was running, ended it and it runs fine now. Not sure what it is and it didn't really eat all of my resources, but ending it fixed everything so that's my fix now. :gheroShrug:
14 Replies
So it lags even on the main menu with mods turned off?
I meant to do the debug after posting but I can't find the hotkey now.
>debug
We need more information to help you. Before launching the game again, open the Mod Manager and use the "Generate debug info" option, then send the zip file produced in #help-using-mods. This ensures that your help request won't get buried and forgotten in other, non-help channels!
If you need to access older log files, see https://docs.ficsit.app/satisfactory-modding/latest/faq.html#Files_Logs
It was before I posted, but now that I posted and tried again, it's running smooth without mods?
-# Responding to
Key Details for SMMDebug-2025-06-27-14-24-35.zip triggered by @InvalidSunhmm those are all very common mods
how's your hard drive space?
C: is 130GB/930GB
F: (Satisfactory install) is 130GB/1810GB
Hm, not that then!
When this happened the other day, a graphics driver update fixed it, but there isn't another update for me to install lol
Okay, so after further testing, the game runs fine Vanilla, and it runs fine with Infinite Zoop and Faster Manual Crafting enabled. The moment I add (without anything else enabled) Refined Power, Structural Solutions, Industrial Evolution, OR Digital Storage, my game runs at 3 FPS directly from the Coffee Stain logo
all of those except Industrial Evolution introduce new models and textures, you might be running out of vram. but I wouldn't expect that to happen on the main menu, and I also wouldn't expect it to happen randomly after previously working
That's what I was thinking too, but even in-game, task manager only showed to be using 3-4 GB of VRAM, and the 3070 Ti has 8GB. One thing I didn't test now that I think about it, and I'm at work so I can't test it, is that I decided to reinstall wallpaper engine a few days ago, as I was getting bored of my background. I might try to disable that tomorrow and reply to this then.
Solution
Figured it out. Had something called w_driver_x1.95 that was running, ended it and it runs fine now. Not sure what it is and it didn't really eat all of my resources, but ending it fixed everything so that's my fix now. :gheroShrug: