Performance took a nose dive after duplicating the metahuman guard

[Landshark]

More of an observation, but getting to the part where we add the 2nd guard and noise distraction, the moment I duplicated the original guard my level editor performance went downhill super hard. I can still ‘fly’ around the level with the camera just fine, but moving the metahuman player and enemy objects in the level editor now has several seconds of delay/lag (for example trying to use the transform tool on a metahuman object in the level editor). I can move other objects around just fine though

I’ll have to fix this, because it’s so bad I don’t think I’ll be able to complete the tutorial without things taking 20x longer from this point forward.

I tried updating graphic drivers, reboot, etc. I think it has something to do with the metahuman characters, but not sure. Deleting the duplicate BP_EnemyGuard2 didn’t change anything.

My computer specs:
Windows 11 Pro
64Gb DDR4
Nvidia RTX 3090
AMD Ryzen 9 5800x

[Landshark]

I found some interesting results while changing the LOD settings for all my metahumans.

My player character was defaulted to 8 max LOD, but was set to automatically change. When I dropped it down to 4, forced 4 LOD, all of the gameplay stutters went away. But I still had stutters in the level editor when manipulating other metahumans.

So I tried dropping both the player character and the enemy to LOD 1 forced, and it’s a LOT smoother in the editor now, but still stuttery/slower than it was with just 1 metahuman.

Weird thing is the editor was fine with the original player character metahuman and enemy metahuman at their default LOD (8 for player and 1 for enemy). The moment I duplicated the enemy metahuman and added them to the level, ever since then performance has tanked. Even removing the 3rd metahuman from the level the performance remains the same/poor.

I really think this is all tied to the metahumans somehow.

Changin the engine scalability settings does nothing for performance. I can set it to low or high, makes no difference.

[Tuomo_T]

Keep in mind that Metahumans are still considered an experimental feature and that there are going to be issues. That said, I don’t have anything else to suggest that you haven’t already tried.