Sony and Arrowhead Game Studio's Helldivers 2 PC players are just starting to recover from the PlayStation account debacle when tragedy strikes again. PC players are reporting terrible performance and numerous issues in Helldivers 2.
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The Helldivers subreddit has multiple posts reporting performance issues, frame drops, crashes, and more. Numerous players say they had no issues playing the game on high settings and hitting 60+ FPS, but now they have to drop to medium settings to get a stable framerate. Regardless of the root cause of the performance issues, players have been quick to voice their outrage.
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While no one is sure what exactly is causing the performance issues, it seems that the new update is the culprit. Some users are reporting that opening the menu causes the frame drops, while others say that using the FAF-14 Spear is the issue, but some even report getting frame drops as soon as their ship appears on screen.