I’ve been experiencing drastic FPS drops during explosions. I noticed this while playing my first matches after the update in ‘The Great War’ mode. When artillery was falling or there were many explosions on the map, my FPS dropped to 1. I also confirmed this during a test flight with a plane—the moment I destroyed one of the ground vehicles on the map, there was an FPS drop.
try changing directx or messing with the setting for effects
in the worst case you might need to upgrade the potato
i dont have a potato, i played before at 60 fps (limited by me) with movie settings, and is jsut with the explosions, i had been playing the days before and all good
maybe it has something to do with drivers missing an update or one setting in particular thats causing trouble in the newest update¿?, are you sure nothing happened to your hardware recently a change or something that could give a hint?
if this explosion lag happens in other similar games then its probably related to your video card, i used to have another pc before and i had trouble with smoke, whenever smoke particles showed up in any game my fps would become very unstable but once i changed that piece of hardware the problem was gone