Shadow of Mordor FPS Drops

NecroNightFly

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Aug 13, 2016
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While playing shadow of Mordor I get fairly frequent frame drops at random times and I've tried everything I can think of. I've fiddled with v-sync settings, turned down graphics to lowest and limited the game at 30 fps and nothing seems to be stopping the frame drop. I think I might have a CPU bottleneck because the frame drops seem to mostly happen when I traverse the map but I don't know how to test that. Any feedback is greatly appreciated :D.

specs:
CPU: Pentium G3258 OCed to 4.0GHz
GPU: Sapphire RX 460 2gb
RAM: 8gb


EDIT: I ran MSI afterburner and it turns out that I do have a cpu bottleneck
 

010010

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Jun 29, 2016
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Lower resolution to test CPU i believe and try playing while the CPU is not OCed; it may be causing stability issues. Also what RAM do you have?
 

NecroNightFly

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Aug 13, 2016
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it's 2x4 DDR3-1600 RAM but the processor downgrades it to 1333 and I can't remember which brand, I'm pretty sure Kingston or Corsair

edit: I just tried downgrading to 560p but frame rate still drops and restored CPU to default clock and the issue still occurs :/