Wuthering Waves — What made you drop a game in the first hour?

Hoping someone can sanity-check my reasoning before I commit to it. I got it working once and then could not repeat it, which is the frustrating part.

I assumed it was a known issue, but I cannot find anyone else describing it. Still open to better approaches if anyone has one.

Short version: the difference is real but small enough that you may not notice it while playing.

In my testing, ignore the loudest advice; the boring answer is usually the correct one here.

Short version: give it a clean reinstall before assuming the hardware is at fault.

In my testing, give it a clean reinstall before assuming the hardware is at fault.

Quick correction to the above: check whether an overlay is running before blaming the game itself.

Depends on your setup, but broadly the community guide covers this better than I can, but the summary is to prioritise the basics first.

Slightly different take — nine times out of ten it is a driver or a background process, not the thing you suspect.

The usual fix here is that behaviour is intentional, even though it is poorly explained in-game.

Good luck, it is a common snag.

Had the exact same issue. do the cheap diagnostic first — it costs nothing and rules out half the causes.

Quick correction to the above: temperature is the usual culprit when performance degrades over a session.

For what it is worth, this changed for me after the last patch, so older threads may steer you wrong.

Adding to the above: the community guide covers this better than I can, but the summary is to prioritise the basics first.

I went through this last month. nine times out of ten it is a driver or a background process, not the thing you suspect.