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WARDOGSWARDOGS · PC · version Early Access Season 1 and Early Access Season 2

Frame rate drops the longer a match runs on PC

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On PC, the frame rate starts normal and keeps falling during a match (for example from about 140 to 90 fps), and some players also get stutter that grows worse the longer they play. Switching the display mode to windowed fullscreen and back restores it for a while. Reports began in mid-September and continue after the Season 2 update. No acknowledgement from Team17 found.

Lifecycle

Reported · stage 1 of 5

44days open

Since first report

  1. Reported (reached) · now
  2. Confirmed (not yet)next
  3. Acknowledged (not yet)—
  4. Partial (not yet)—
  5. Patched (not yet)—
In current stage 44d
Workaround none yet
Game
WARDOGS
Platform
PC
Affected version
Early Access Season 1 and Early Access Season 2
Kind
Bug
Confirmation
Unconfirmed
Patch status
Unpatched
First reported
Last updated
Latest fix or workaround
None on the record
How we label issues

Kind

  • Exploit: Repeatable and clearly advantageous to the player using it; essentially cheating.
  • Bug: Everything else: crashes, launch errors, broken features, visual or audio faults.

Confirmation

  • Confirmed: A developer or official account acknowledged it, an official known-issues board lists it, it appears in official patch notes, or 100+ corroborating posts on X were actually counted.
  • Unconfirmed: None of the above yet. Press articles are reports and never confirm an issue on their own.

Patch status

  • Unpatched: Known and open; no fix has been claimed.
  • Reported as unpatched: Players credibly report it persisting, including after a fix claim that never appeared in patch notes.
  • Partially patched: Official patch notes list a fix, but credible later reports say it still happens, or the notes only cover part of it.
  • Reported as patched: A developer, official account or player says it is fixed, but no official patch notes list it.
  • Patched: Official patch notes (a Steam news post or the publisher's patch notes page) list the fix, and nothing credible says it still happens.

Active means still affecting players: Unpatched, Reported as unpatched or Partially patched. Patched and Reported as patched issues are closed.

Estimated impact runs from 0.1 to 9.9 with one decimal. xploitr sets it from the rubric below. Factors: advantage to other players, reach, play blocked or progress lost, frequency, and whether a reliable workaround exists. Patched issues keep their historical impact.

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Impact bands

  • 0.1–2.9 Low: Cosmetic, audio, text and UI glitches with no effect on play.
  • 3.0–4.9 Moderate: Narrow gameplay bugs or small exploits, rare or with a workaround.
  • 5.0–6.9 Elevated: Bugs most players in a mode notice: hit registration, desync, balance-breaking damage.
  • 7.0–8.4 High: Widely abused competitive or economy exploits; crashes many players hit.
  • 8.5–9.9 Severe: Launch blockers, widespread progress or item loss, exploits that break the game for everyone.

Each issue has a dated timeline of updates (report, acknowledgement, announcement, fix, workaround). Update summaries are our own words; quotes and excerpts are the source's words, or our English translation when marked.

Estimated impactEstimated impact 4.0 out of 9.9, ModerateOur estimate from how many players it reaches and what it costs them.

Updates · 7

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  1. Report

    Sep 19: a player gets 5-second freezes that get worse as the match goes on.

    Community report · Steam · Forum reply ·
    “it get worse and worse as the game goes on.”
    Community report · Steam · Forum reply · Open source
  2. Report

    Oct 24: a player with 64 GB of RAM says memory use builds until the game crashes every 2 to 3 hours.

    Community report on reddit ·
    “i keep getting a memory leak that crashes my game every like 2-3 hrs”
    Community report on reddit · Open source
  3. Report

    Oct 26: a player's stutter grows the longer they play and lasts until a restart; they suspect a memory leak.

    Community report · Steam · Forum reply ·
    “the longer i play the worse the stuttering i get”
    Community report · Steam · Forum reply · Open source
  4. Report

    Oct 27: a player has had constant frame drops since the Season 2 update; Season 1 and the betas ran fine.

    Community report · Steam · Forum thread ·
    “Ever since season 2 update, Ive had constant fps drops.”
    Community report · Steam · Forum thread · Open source
  5. Report

    Oct 27: a player says the drops are back after a week without them.

    Community report · Steam · Forum reply ·
    “Fps drops from 180fps to 60fps every other second.”
    Community report · Steam · Forum reply · Open source
Sources · 77 CommunityCommunity reportSteam · Forum thread+ 6 similar community reportsHide
Community reportSteam · Forum thread
“When I start a new game in Wardogs, my FPS is around 140. But over time, it keeps dropping lower and lower with every minute I play.”
  • Community reportSteam · Forum replyOpen
    “I start playing with over 100 FPS, but then it starts to drop, and GPU usage drops along with it.”
  • Community reportSteam · Forum replyOpen
    “it get worse and worse as the game goes on.”
  • Community report · redditOpen
    “i keep getting a memory leak that crashes my game every like 2-3 hrs”
  • Community reportSteam · Forum replyOpen
    “the longer i play the worse the stuttering i get”
  • Community reportSteam · Forum threadOpen
    “Ever since season 2 update, Ive had constant fps drops.”
  • Community reportSteam · Forum replyOpen
    “Fps drops from 180fps to 60fps every other second.”
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