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I played the game just fine on Epic setting at 40fps. I close the game and open it up again and I get 15fps on good. So I reinstall the game and Windows now detects it as a trojan virus. UPDATE: I allowed the game from the Windows defender menu. However it only registers as a virus with "VolleyShot Pre-Alpha Demo.exe" but not "VolleyShot.exe"  

UPDATE2: I'm not sure if this was the problem or just solved it but I changed the resolution scale and the game runs well now.

I do not know why Windows is flagging the game as a virus for you. This is something I take very seriously. I have scanned all demo files, as well as my development files, and have not found any virus.  I even re-downloaded the game from itch and scanned that - nothing. This leads me to believe that there may be something else on your system that is infecting VolleyShot.

I highly recommend downloading a trusted third party virus protection suite and performing a full scan of your system. Let me know if this helps!

As a follow up, apparently it is not uncommon for AV software to pick up Unreal Engine 4 games as a false positive. But this doesn't explain your frame drop, so I still recommend a system scan with something like Avast.

Thank you for the additional information. After doing some research, this appears to be a false positive for the program used to generate that shortcut executable. It is harmless, but it isn't needed for the game so I will remove it in the next update anyway. If it makes you more comfortable,  you can delete it and run the game directly with the VolleyShot.exe in the WindowsNoEditor folder, like you mentioned. Thanks for helping to solve that, but I still don't know how to explain your drop in FPS. Is that still occurring?