Sorry for the late reply, i have only just seen this. For your Info i have found the issue, which was ASRock A-Tuning Utility, simply uninstalling the software does not fix the issue, not having installed the software in the first place, or a brand-new installation of Windows will fix it. I have not...

I have run it several more times with system reboots inbetween, same result everytime.

I'll come back to this later today, something a cropped up, work stuff...

Hi,
How many benchmark runs have you done? if this is only your first or second, i recommend that you run it a few more times.
If the issues still continues then let us know.

3 times now, i'll run it a few more with system reboots in-between.

I have been having issues with performance on Cryengine since 5.6, 5.5 is working fine. i get a lot of CPU hitching and low performance, Running the Woodland demo does give me warring messages in the CVar Dump in 5.6 that i don't get in 5.5, see here https://forum.cryengine.com/viewtopic.php?p=25837...

5.5 Woodland Time Demo: Average FPS: 82.74 Max FPS: 187.62 Min FPS: 24.06 ============================================================== TimeDemo Play Started ,Level=woodland (Total Frames: 14903, Recorded Time: 252.97s) Run Finished. Play Time: 180.11s, Average FPS: 82.74 Min FPS: 24.06 at frame 4...

Unfortunately we cannot reproduce this issue consistently enough for verification. Please make sure to provide exact Hardware, Driver versions for hardware and Windows build/updates. (A DXDiag will suffice). If you have already done so, it is not necessary to provide again. We will continue to moni...

New patch, 5.6.2, i don't know if it was intended to fix this problem but it has not.

This is now with a clean windows install.

An update on this issue would be appreciated, thank you

Thanks.

DxDiag and Editor.log attached.

Is the resource compiler converting in the background?

I don't know, how would i check that? i can't see anything like that in the Task manager, the CPU load is usually high in game.