Performance tips

[bb 80]

Hi.
could you give some pointers on how to optimize this game. Even on middle graphics it runs pretty hot. Or maybe point me to a thread or vid or whatever with a good explanation.

[Blueberry Muffins!]

I get good results on a 1060 3GB through Proton setting the game on 1080p, dedicated fullscreen, DX12, Ultra view distance, high textures, medium effects, high foliage, DFAO and SSGI disabled, low antialiasing, low post-processing, low shadows.

I could wish for better shadows but with a card this weak there's going to be compromises somewhere, there's times when the frame rate gets noticeable as is. It's just not enough to make me plop for a new-gen CPU yet, even though they're cheap now.

DFAO and SSGI are juuuust out of reach for my rig, I can play with them but the frame rate stays enough below 60 that I can feel it and I dislike that more than I like the added beauty.

[Goldi_Toplitz]

Hey you!

If it runs "pretty hot" first make sure that the issue isn't something else, make sure your fans are clean and in working order and the airflow in general is good.

Otherwise limiting FPS instead of running on "Unlimited" may also help calm your system down.

In general, it may also help if you share your basic specs: CPU, GPU, RAM and VRAM. Maybe we even have somebody with a similar system around.

[rhwilson1953]

Touching a bit on Goldi's (nl_toplitz) post in case you don't know how to get the info she asks for.

There are two ways to determine your full system specs.

The easiest is by going to the top of the Steam window click on Help, in the drop down menu click on System Information. right click on an empty spot in the Steam - System Information window and select Copy all text to clipboard. In the Steam discussion REPLY box, right click on an empty space and select Paste. This works for both Apple and Windows computers.

The second but a little more involved and works for Windows computers only is using the DirectX diagnostics. Press the Windows key plus the R key, in the Run popup type dxdiag and press Enter. Here you can examine each tab or select Save All Information. Save All Information will open a Save As box with the title DxDiag.txt, I suggest you append the date behind the DxDiag so it looks like DxDiag <insert date here>.txt then select Save.

To keep from pasting a wall of text here you can open your saved DxDiag.txt file and choose Select All and Copy. This is regular ASCII-Text, you can open it with almost any text editor. But because it can be very large, please do NOT post it here directly. You upload it to https://pastebin.com/ instead (copy and paste all text from the text file), and then just post the link you get from pastebin here. If it is too large for pastebin to handle in one file you will have to split it in half and post both links here.
If pastebin is not available in your country use http://rentry.co and post the link to it here please. The page works like pastebin.

FYI, you can use the above for the Steam System Information text, too.

[bb 80]

Hi, so I already limited the game to 60 fps.
My specs are
- AMD Ryzen 5 1500X Quad-Core Processor 3.50 GHz
- Radeon RX580 8GB
- 16GB Ram

Thanks you all!

[rhwilson1953]

Originally posted by bb 80:

Hi, so I already limited the game to 60 fps.
My specs are
- AMD Ryzen 5 1500X Quad-Core Processor 3.50 GHz
- Radeon RX580 8GB
- 16GB Ram

Thanks you all!

You don't say if your OS and all the drivers are up to date. If you had followed my instructions that info and much more would be included. And no, neither of the methods gives out any personal information of any type.