How To Fix Your Crashing or Performance Issues

[Womb Kiddy]

I was crashing constantly and couldn't even last more than 5 minutes without it crashing on me. I did some research and it seems Dragonwilds is using UE5 which is known to have a handful of issue, specifically this one being a D3D and DirectX12 issue. I have fixed my crashing with this method:

1. Download MSI Afterburner
2. Set "Core Clock (MHz)" to -50 [Make sure to Apply changes]
3. Close MSI Afterburner and load up Steam
4. Go to your Library and open the RuneScape: Dragonwilds page
5. Click Manage [It's the cog wheel / settings button]
6. Click Properties
7. Make sure you are in the General page and find the Launch Options
8. Enter -dx11 which is a DirectX11 launch of the game
9. Load up the game and enjoy without crashing

If you wish to switch back to DirectX12, close the game, change the launch option
to -dx12, and restart.

If you are still having performance issues, go into the game settings and copy these settings:
- Video -
Quality: Low
Frame Rate Limit: 60
Upscaling Mode: DLSS
Upscaling Quality: Auto
Display Mode: Full Screen Windowed
Sharpness: 10
VSync: Off/unchecked

Slowly raise Quality and Frame Rate Limit to a point that seems fine for your graphics card. To me, there is not a big difference in quality but Frame Rate will be a more noticeable change in "smoothness". I just kept quality low and frame rate to 120; I'll probably only raise frame rate again later.

Hope this helps!

[Elevations]

I'm glad that my previous suggestion from your other thread has seem to help you

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1374490/discussions/0/614286717396986503/?ctp=2

I would have at least appreciated an acknowlegement though and where the original fix came from:

https://www.reddit.com/r/DarkAndDarker/comments/1djuywi/update_and_fix_on_game_being_unplayble_due_to_gpu/

[Noxsa]

don't make people use afterburner, to fix a dx or game problem, i'v had a few peeps asking me to fix their PC, and breaking hardware with OC tools "afterburner" in this case is real, and i know most know how to not break stuff, but you be amazed how many that don't know and blindly setup OC tools like people say, and we all know, PC's are NOT the SAME, what works for you may or may not work for someone else.

SO, please add a warning to your post.

[Elevations]

Originally posted by Noxsa:

don't make people use afterburner, to fix a dx or game problem, i'v had a few peeps asking me to fix their PC, and breaking hardware with OC tools "afterburner" in this case is real, and i know most know how to not break stuff, but you be amazed how many that don't know and blindly setup OC tools like people say, and we all know, PC's are NOT the SAME, what works for you may or may not work for someone else.

SO, please add a warning to your post.

While i agree with your general advice and not every PC has the same problem, everyone has different hardware you are correct with that statement however, i'd like to clarify this is not a DX or game problem this is an unreal engine 5 problem. And if you actually bothered to click the reddit link i posted the OP says:

"For some reason the engine causes overheating on some GPUs (which are otherwise working perfectly fine) ranging not only from older GPUs like my 1080 ti but also to newer ones like the 3080 in other UE5 games. "

Again its unreal engine 5 not the game

[sorello]

Thank you for helping the Steam community out! This fix worked worked for me after numerous installs and reinstalls beforehand.