I am sorta new to the game and picked it up on the free weekend but ran into a issue with huge performance drops when looking to the middle of a room or when having 2 or more allies on screen at the same time i.e dropping from 165 to 40 fps.

Rigs quick spec sheet of devices tested on.

My Laptop: Low and High Settings
i7 14650HX
MSI RTX 4070
32 Gb DDR5 5600m/t
1tb 990 Evo M.2 SSD

My Desktop 1: Low and High Settings
Ryzen 9 9900X
PNY RTX 4070 Ti
64 GB DDR5 6000m/t
2tb 990 Evo Plus M.2 SSD

My Desktop 2: Low Settings (with 60% render resolution)
i7 9700
Yeston 3050
32 GB DDR4 2666m/t
1tb 990 Evo M.2 SSD

Someones pc who we got this working on: Low
Ryzen 5 5500
PNY RTX 4060
16Gb DDR4 4000 MHz

I spent the last few days testing stuff and trying to find a fix and I know I wasn't the only one having the issue but I found a fix that seems to be working for me using whats below.

1. Fresh install
2. Updated Drivers
3. DiD yOu ReStArT yOuR cOmPuTeR?
4. Pray
5. Clear Cache
6. Potato Pc?

for some reason Dx11 on gunfire is just not happy on 40 and 50 series cards, I found a fix that worked with me.

try DxVk it forces the game to use Vulkan below is a link

github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/

simple instructions on windows (I used 7z)
- open the Tar archive and go the the x64 folder.
- put the d3d11.dll & dxgi.dll in the folder with the exe (example : SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Gunfire Reborn\)
- run game
- profit

:)

and showed results huge results but not a complete fix and may see some slight stutter when extreme clutter on screen...

cards tested Msi 4070, PNY 4060ti 16gb, Yeston 5060

After for testing and help from some old forum post about similar issues this seem to be a straight forward fix, found in 2024 was a issue with game bars presence editor... disabling it also improved performance.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/devnotes/gamebar-presencewriter,

disabling that will also possibly solve the micro stutter.

easiest way would be to turn it off in Registry Editor.

Location:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsRuntime\ActivatableClassId\Windows.Gaming.GameBar.PresenceServer.Internal.PresenceWriter

Change the permissions on the folder so the user or admin account is the owner. Double click on "ActivationType" and set the value to 0.

below are some stuff I found in the forms of alt ways of doing this.

"Another way would be to go to the file like he does in the video, but instead of renaming it you need to add a new user called "everyone", set the type to "deny", click show advanced permissions and then only check "traverse folder / execute file". This will prevent the program from launching when windows tries to open it. But when running a corruption scan it won't report any errors and try to create a new file, since the original file with it's unchanged name is still there." - forgot who I found this from will edit when I find the original post.

"You can also include in your Gunfire launch properties to "taskkill /f /im gamebarpresencewriter.exe" and it will kill the running process when you open the game. Windows won't re-open it. Then you don't have to modify files in System32". - redditor commented

https://www.reddit.com/r/blackdesertonline/comments/16ajlwe/psa_disable_gamebar_presence_writer

https://www.reddit.com/r/GunfireReborn/comments/1oi2xpq/performance_issues_after_new_update_on_40_and_50

https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/mlfcsc/a_guide_to_dxvk_on_windows

https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/app/1217060/discussions/0/6610810473928437634

https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/app/1217060/discussions/0/601918959992084632

https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk