Clan boss stuck at Hard — what am I missing? (follow-up)

Long-time lurker, first proper post. The patch notes hinted at this but never actually spelled it out.

I compared notes with a friend and we got completely different outcomes on similar hardware. If someone has a link to a proper explanation, I will take it.

This is the bit people miss — the community guide covers this better than I can, but the summary is to prioritise the basics first.

Counterpoint: that behaviour is intentional, even though it is poorly explained in-game.

Same boat here. do not copy someone else’s config wholesale — start from defaults and adjust to your own setup.

Worth checking first: temperature is the usual culprit when performance degrades over a session.

Not the answer you want, but the trick is to change one thing at a time and actually note the result before touching anything else.

Let us know which part worked.

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

That fixed it for me, at least.

Had the exact same issue. nine times out of ten it is a driver or a background process, not the thing you suspect.

This comes up a lot, so: ignore the loudest advice; the boring answer is usually the correct one here.

Others may have a cleaner method.

Adding to the above: the safe move is the reversible one — you can always undo it if it makes things worse.

Report back once you have tried it.

Not the answer you want, but do not copy someone else’s config wholesale — start from defaults and adjust to your own setup.

Speaking as someone who got it wrong initially, ignore the loudest advice; the boring answer is usually the correct one here.

Agreed on most of this, except ignore the loudest advice; the boring answer is usually the correct one here.