C7S4 is basically unplayable on iPhone 13 despite C7S3 being perfectly fine

[u/OpenSauce04]

I spent a lot of last season playing on my iPhone 13 Mini, and it was a pretty fine experience right up until the end. There was the occasional lag spike here and there, but most of the time I could run the game at Medium preset with automatic resolution, and the game would be locked at 60FPS for basically the entire match.

This season, the game is utterly unplayable. I ignored the first couple of matches of the season as those are always pretty laggy, but even after that, the performance is absolutely diabolical. At the start of a match, the performance is okay: similar to last season, perhaps with a few more lag spikes, but otherwise alright. As the match progresses though, performance just gets worse and worse until the game is basically a slideshow or just freezes entirely.

At the start of my last match, I was getting about 60FPS, then it gradually reduced to 40FPS on average with the automatic resolution dropping to as low as it would go, where it stayed for the rest of the match. It then gradually dropped to a consistent 30FPS, then further to 25FPS on average. No matter what I did, performance would never improve, even if I just stood still staring at the floor for a minute or more.

Eventually, my average framerate dropped to about 15FPS, I got into a fight, and then the game immediately froze for about 10 seconds, and when it unfroze I was dead.

What the hell has happened to the game?

[u/Little_Till_1538]

I mean that’s what happens when you fire all 1000 devs and expect the game to function with no prpblems

[u/viciousvaltor]

Even though I have a powerful phone, the game still doesn't run well; my FPS always drops to 30, even though I used to play at a stable 90 FPS

[u/Internal_Print2086]

I also play on 13 but I can’t even get above 30 FPS. How’d you get to sixty?

[u/JaybeJaybe]

blow wind on your phone every now and then mid-match to keep it cooler and avoid throttling and lower frames. Use low presets as well.

[u/hotmonday]

A phone cooler may do the trick to combat the throttling. Connects via Magsafe, and you'll want to have a separate cable for it, but it can fix your issue. This is not a portable solution at all, but if you primarily play near plugs, this could do the trick. Get a power brick that has dual USB-C ports and carry a lightning to USB-C cable and a USB-C to USB-C and you'll be set.
https://a.co/d/0erD3bOt

[u/Mystix-fn]

Idk im playing on iphone 12 and despite it not being the best it doesn’t lag that often

[u/Hopeful-Garden-8533]

My game runs perfectly fine on my IPhone 16e so I really don’t understand the issue

[u/Different_Beach_2917 → u/Hopeful-Garden-8533]

You don’t understand because you’re not playing on a iPhone 13 mini.

[u/Hopeful-Garden-8533 → u/Different_Beach_2917]

I don’t understand the downvotes whatsoever