Bug #1060

DLSS Lowers Framerates Instead of Increasing Them in Splitgate: Arena Reloaded

Status:	New
Priority:	Medium
Added by:	StudioNirin on December 23, '25
Assigned to:	Unassigned
Due date:
Reported for:	Release 1.0 - Season 1.0

Steps to Reproduce

1. Run the game in Practice Range
2. Settings are on 'High' preset, DLSS off
3. FPS is around 190
4. Change DLSS to on, Quality preset
5. FPS drops to around 165

Explanation

Turning on DLSS is actually lowering framerates instead of increasing them.

Running an RTX 3090. 4k 240hz monitor.

I was happy enough running at 120fps but I was messing around in custom and was fiddling with the graphics options. Never really used DLSS before (only recently got the 4k) and I was suprised to see that turning it on made the framerate drop from ~190 to around 165.

FSR got me to about 180, so it was better than DLSS but worse than just running without any super resolution.

So I was better off just... leaving them off. Which seemed odd, and the internet agreed.

The internet also kept saying it was likely due a CPU bottleneck, which makes no sense cos I was able to get higher fps without DLSS turned on, so the CPU was fine. Also my cpu is a Ryzen 7950x and was barely even warming up. Barely hits 20% utilisation.

I checked GPU utilisation. Without DLSS I was getting 190fps at 95% utlisation. With DLSS turned on I was getting 165fps also at 95% utilisation.

I went into a couple other games I have on steam and turned on DLSS in those. Generally meant going from around 150fps to 220fps no problem. Made a lot more sense.

I have checked steam files and updated my gpu drivers but didn't seem to make any difference. It's definitely specific to splitgate2.

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