I’m pretty confident the game isn’t tied to framerate, and also the game is almost always GPU bottlenecked from what I’ve heard. From what I’ve watched of the game, it has a ton of compute shaders and other shader work. In particular, weather is apparently a large cause of framerate issues, particularly temperatures. That’s because (I’m betting) the game is computing temperatures on the GPU and using that to draw snow and other things on the terrain and also structures. I’m pretty sure they know what they’re doing. They just did too much, and now they need to try to optimize it.