The First Descendant has reached a massive 170,000 concurrent players on Steam. However, many negative player ratings and reviews cite stuttering issues and crashes as significant problems, affecting both PC and console players.
Let’s review our own experiences during play to see if there are any solutions, and check if Nexon has made any comments or released patches to address the stuttering issues and low FPS.
We’ll look at potential fixes and official updates to help solve these problems.
Are there any solutions to The First Descendant's stuttering issues?
We haven’t experienced many permanent issues during play, aside from occasional crashes when the game prepares shaders and FPS drops when turning the character in certain situations. However, these issues seem to be widespread, with numerous comments on Steam forums, Reddit, and Steam’s review system highlighting similar problems.
You may have crashes every few minutes accompanied by the error message NGS e3010503. Unfortunately, we haven’t found a fix for this issue yet. It could be related to a DRM or anti-cheat program built into the game.
The First Descendant is currently in a pre-season beta, so we expected some launch issues, but perhaps not on such a wide scale. We hope Nexon will issue patches and fixes to resolve these problems quickly. In the meantime, let’s explore what we can do now to alleviate these issues.
- Turning off Ray-tracing and DLSS, and lowering the settings may improve FPS.
- Avoid alt + tabbing out of the game, as this can cause issues.
- Disabling Motion Blur can help.
- Press Ctrl-Alt-Delete and check if CPU, Memory, and GPU are at 100% in the performance tab.
- Running the game at 60Hz is recommended for more stability than 120Hz.
- Ensure you’ve downloaded the full game on PS5, not the old beta.
The PS5 version seems to have more problems at the moment, and there are fewer ways to fix them. We recommend running the game in performance mode for better stability. Unfortunately, we may have to wait for patches from Nexon to address these issues on the PS5.
If you have any issue that we haven’t covered here or need more help solving some of these problems, please reach out and we will try to help by updating this article.
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