Water Maps are Unplayable

Submitting a major bug report here that has been ongoing for at least 6 months and is still not fixed. Have submitted multiple dxdiags / warnings, etc - still nothing. Submitted another recently.

Water maps are simply unplayable, regardless of the computer setup. My own system has a 5800x / 3080 with 32GB ram / NVME. Others I play with have 2070s, 1000 series, various CPUs. All of us are experience the same issue anytime a water map is played.

We have however narrowed it down to happening only on water maps - specifically as soon as we or AI are building docks/boats.

My framerate starts around 130 on 3440x1440 and ends up grinding down to less than 10. Usually about 15-20 minutes into the game. This happens both with and WITHOUT mods, on official AND custom.

A few minutes after slowdown, the red message of “You may be experience low FPS - trying turning down settings, etc…” appears. Then it’s just a slow motion slideshow with game clocks not matching up after a while.

Game files verified, mods deleted, etc - all the generic stuff, drivers up to date, windows, etc… Game is broken.

Thanks

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Thank you for bumping this issue @_Yak. I’ll do the same on my end and we’ll have someone take a look. Defeinitely have you/your friends/anyone else experiencing this contact support with DxDiags and warnings.log files. Certainly the more info we can get, the better, but also the more reports we get helps us resource appropriately. Much appreciated!