Why such a difference in FPS between instances/delves and the overland?

Iselin

I don't have the latest and greatest HW but good enough to let me run just about any game with max settings (980GTX, 4770k i7 CPU, 16 GB ram, a good SSD, etc.)

I consistently get 140 FPS in solo instances, 100+ in delves and public dungeons but in cities or just plain overland questing sometimes it drops sub 30 even if there aren't a lot of other players around. I don't get it.

Anyone know what causes this and how to work around it?

max_only

My one guess is draw distance. You can see forever outside but in caves you have a wall limiting how much you need to render. You can lower your max in settings

Iselin

max_only wrote: »

My one guess is draw distance. You can see forever outside but in caves you have a wall limiting how much you need to render. You can lower your max in settings

I'll give that a shot and see how it goes. I do have draw distance maxed.