[Gameplay] New Swain Drops FPS Like Crazy

Rajin Kajin ·2/7/2018, 9:13:59 PM·9 votes·5,672 views

So, my pc is a total dinosaur. It barely holds 60 fps at the lowest graphics settings. For some reason, though, Swain drops my fps like crazy. It's like his character model is fully tessellated. It's super detailed, his cape is super fluid. My pc literally cannot handle it. I know that's "my fault" and all, but I cannot be the only person experiencing this. Riot always talks about how they try to support older pc's. Zoe's a new champ and she doesn't have that problem. Maybe they just forgot to scale back his model on low settings? Idk. All I know is I just lost the hell out of a ranked game because swain dropped my fps from 60 to 15-20 simply by walking into frame. I know it's him, because my pc never has this problem, and because I have my full usual frame rate unless he's on screen. My frames honestly don't drop that bad in a five v five teamfight during baron. Like I said, I'm on the lowest possible graphics settings, and my pc can manage 10 or 15 frames on high. Do you guys have any idea what's wrong? Riot, are you listening? Is this the new norm, are all new champs going to be like this now, or is it just a bug?

  1. Play on a low spec pc. (I guess, idk if higher end stations have this problem)

  2. Play against swain. (Idk if the summoner controlling swain experiences the lag, or if his team does)

  3. Have swain walk into your frame.

  4. Lose the game because you drop fps for no reason. Wohooo

14 Comments

lXeratu2/9/2018, 10:35:14 AM2 votes

Hello, I had this same problem I was vsing a Swain and whenever he came into frame my fps dropped by 5ish but everytime he cast an ability my fps dropped an insane ammount to the point where it was unplayable so once that game finished I decided to go into a practise tool game and picked swain and spammed my abilities as much as I could but my fps did not drop at all. So is it only an issue when vsing a Swain?

dictatonto2/8/2018, 11:11:43 PM2 votes

Same problem here. I play on laptop and fps are always low, but at least constant. As soon as I see swain, they go down to like half of the fps I had before.

RiotRiotAthanatos2/7/2018, 10:13:25 PM1 votes

Hello there!

We have a tool that lets us get more detailed performance info from your games. If you add a setting to your game.cfg file.

Cfg file is in C:\Riot Games\League of Legends\Config

You will need to add it under the [Performance] section.

LiveProfile=1

If you have that section included in your game.cfg, when you finish a game, it will generate a log that we can use to analyze the performance. You can find that log here: C:\Riot Games\League of Legends\Logs\Performance Logs

With a format like "2017-12-06T22-05-40_PerfDump.rpd"

If you set up that LiveProfile setting and generate any logs like that, we could use them to look more into the issue.

KGCycro2/8/2018, 5:14:41 AM1 votes

same here my frames drop extremely hard even if I put everything off or low, swain swag is too much.

Matsuei Hadou2/8/2018, 7:08:06 AM1 votes

perma ban swain now, it is op it drops my fps xd gg

opakq2/8/2018, 12:26:08 PM1 votes

I’ve been getting the same thing, usually when I play, I’ll get occasional frame drops to about 50 but most of the time it stays at 60. But the other time I was playing against the new swain, and my frame rate keeps on dropping as hell to about 20-30 FPS whenever he is near me or in my vision frame. I even tried setting the visual settings to lowest quality possible but it was still lagging. Hope riot fixes it soon.

Butt Ρlug2/8/2018, 11:00:26 PM1 votes

Same issue here..

ExPOOHx2/9/2018, 4:58:15 AM1 votes

Hi I'm from Ian and in the same problem the developers of LAN, they are simple mortals :

here the issue in my community

https://boards.lan.leagueoflegends.com/es/c/ayuda-y-soporte/OZElIWAm-bajon-de-fps-al-estar-cerca-del-nuevo-swain

SavkE4562/7/2018, 10:00:32 PM1 votes

Same here but i don't see the rioters posting about it

Grindy4082/9/2018, 11:00:08 AM1 votes

Same issue, dropping various settings did little to improve the situation

Jacksky762/7/2018, 10:02:25 PM1 votes

Happens to me too. Have potato GPU at ~60 fps drops at 20 when swain appears. Getting a new GPU soon but it would be nice if they did something about it in the meantime.