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Windows 10
Core i7-9700k @ 3.60GHz
32GB RAM
GeForce RTX 2080 (461.09)
Lenovo Legion Y27q-20 (1440p, 165Hz, G-sync)

I have most of the Trackmania series on Steam (United, Canyon, Lagoon, Stadium, Valley) and I cannot play any of them. The game opens, I can login, I can even get onto a track and start driving a car, but the framerate (even in the loader where I pick Canyon vs Lagoon etc) never goes above ~5, generally sitting at 2. I just fresh installed TM2 games, running on default fullscreen graphics.

Does anyone have any suggestions how to get this working? I have had each of these games working to some degree at random times in the past on this computer, but they keep breaking and I never know what "fixes" them for a few months at a time. I'd really like to find the root cause and solve it once and for all.

Interestingly, I can run the Benchmark in TMU and it gets >200 FPS. But as soon as I open the actual game, back to 2.
CPU is under virtually no load, GPU under virtually no load, RAM not being used excessively.
I've attached the Ctrl+F12 screen values, nothing looks too crazy, but I also don't know what the "normal" values are for anything.

Is it possible that you accidentally have a maximum FPS set in the game settings? (Or in your driver settings?)

Btw, Ctrl+F7 might provide more details as well. (You can right-click a block in the graph to get more details)

maybe its stupid but check the settings in the launcher if anything is wrong. Maybe the game tries to use the CPU integrated graphic unit by some mistake?

@Miss I love you. That was what I needed. This is so funny, you won't believe it.

I used the Ctrl+F7 and right clicked the lag bars and found the lines were going almost off the screen. And they all said something about "Device" or "Inputs". So I sat for about 10 seconds and wondered what input device on my computer could be upsetting the game? Then I realized, I have a USB joystick plugged in that I've been using to play on an Emulator for the last few weeks. I unplugged it and *instantly* the game went back to >160fps.

This explains all my intermittent problems in the past possibly, I often have this USB input connected for weeks at a time, then in the closet for months at a time. I'll have to save this post and refer back to it every time I can't play TM to remind me

Thanks everyone!

Hah, that's awesome! I'm glad you were able to solve this!