Performance guide for 60 fps on Ryzen 3600 + RTX 2060 Super

[Sunbather]

So I don't have to update 4 different entries of my guide whenever I find a new trick, the only updated guide will now be found in the guides sections here on Steam. E.g. I have found a new trick that when overclocking your CPU is actually lowers the power consumption.

Here's the link:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2954682772

I'd appreciate it if you left a like so the visibility of the guide goes up. (I gain nothing by it.)



Original Post

EDIT: Video proof is now up! As I am saying below, game struggles with lightning and reflections. So a rainy night mission will cause your fps to drop to 50 or even 45. As shown in the video. Then again, a quick and messy combat situation won't cause a single drop of frames.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rDgCS-7UJ0


Played for 2 hours now, and all in all, the game is fantastic. I have never experienced such gruesome hand-to-hand combat. The animations are fantastic. The story very, very intriguing so far. And the level design is among the best.
All the more deplorable that the port got released in such a bad state. The game is literally murdering my CPU. Then again, it is only a 15 hour game, so I guess my CPU can handle 15 hours of stress test over the next few days.

Here is a quick and dirty performance guide. I mostly achieve 60 fps with these settings. Rainy night scenes and flashlights will drop the fps to 50 though. Stutters happen but not that often. And they are not huge. For a second or two the fps goes down to 40, then goes up again. Especially when transitioning to a new area. The cutscenes are surprisingly smooth though!


My system:
Ryzen 3600
RTX 2060 Super
2x 8GB @3200 mhz
Game on NVMe SSD


1 Install your latest GPU drivers.

2 optional Before you start your game, copy a proper “oo2core_9_win64.dll” file into the game directory of The Last of Us. I took mine from Warframe. Google this fix when you need further info about it. I cannot confirm if this actually helps since I never tried playing the game without it.

3 Now start your game and WAIT for the shaders to load. Despite the reports here, this only took me about 30 minutes.
Maybe this is because of step [2], maybe this is because the hotfix that got pushed out earlier today (Wednesday).

4 While your shaders load, you can already adjust your graphical settings.

DISPLAY
EDIT: Resolution --- 1920 x 1080
V-Sync --- OFF
Framerate Cap --- 60 [important to get a stable experience and protect your hardware]
Scaling Mode --- DLSS Quality or FSR
Field of View --- leave it at 0
Motion Blur --- 0
Chrom. Aberrat. Int. --- 0
Film Grain Int. --- 0
Gore --- Default

GRAPHICS

Animation Quality --- Medium
Draw Distance --- Medium
Dynamic Obj. LOD --- Medium
Characters LOD --- High
Environments LOD --- Medium

Dynamic Obj. Textures --- High
Characters Texture Quality --- Medium
Environ. Texture Quality --- High
Vis. Effects Texture Quality --- Medium
Texture Filtering --- 8x
Texture Sampling Quality --- High

Ambient Shadows Quality --- Full Resolution
Directional Shad. Res. --- Medium
Directional Shad. Distance --- High ***
Image Based Lighting --- On ***
Spotlights Shadow Res. --- Medium
Point Lights Shadow Resol. --- High
Bounced Lighting --- On ***
Screen Space Shad. Qual. --- Medium
Dynamic Screen Space Shad.--- On
Contact Shadow Quality --- Medium
Screen Space Ambi. Occl. --- On
Amb. Occl. Denoise Qual. --- Low
Screen Space Direct. Occl. --- On
Screen Space Cone Tracing --- On

Screen Space Reflections --- On
SSR Accuracy --- 50
SSR Distance --- 50
Glossy Reflections Qual. --- 25
Real-Time Reflections Qual. --- Medium
Real-Time Clouds Shad. --- On

Screen Space Sub-Surface Scattering --- OFF
Refraction Quality --- Full Resolution

DoF --- OFF
Motion Blur --- OFF

Volumetric Effects Quality --- Medium ***
Lens Flare --- Half Resolution


These settings are optimized for smooth gameplay AND keeping the game immersive! The game seems to struggle a lot with lightning and reflections. So if you don’t get the desired framerate, settings marked with *** will give you further boost. Especially the Volumetric Effects.

I am currently uploading a video to Youtube as visual proof and also visual guidance.

[El Tello]

This seems pretty useful, thanks! I never heard of the oo2core_9_win64.dll "fix" but some googling suggests that it will fix shaders compilation although there was a small update today so they might snuck this one on there, who knows. Will test it later on my brothers pc.

[⎝⧹TrM⧸⎠]

the oo2core_9_win64.dll can be downloaded from nexus

https://www.nexusmods.com/thelastofuspart1/mods/11?tab=description

is anyone wanted to get a version from a good rep site

[OutR@gE]

looks great except ..Texture Filtering --- 8x, why? doesn't effect performance. should be x16 on any card.

[Sunbather]

Originally posted by OutR@gE:

looks great except ..Texture Filtering --- 8x, why? doesn't effect performance. should be x16 on any card.

Well, yes and no. It used to have no impact whatsoever. Nowadays it can have an impact. Also, it does affect your CPU and your poor CPU is already murdered by the game. So since there is no discernable difference between 8x and 16x, I left it at 8x.

[Sunbather]

Originally posted by ⎝⧹TrM⧸⎠:

the oo2core_9_win64.dll can be downloaded from nexus

https://www.nexusmods.com/thelastofuspart1/mods/11?tab=description

is anyone wanted to get a version from a good rep site

Yeah, thanks for that. I had Warframe already installed, so it was the easiest way for me. But for other people, the nexus link is great.

[TeRRoR]

Originally posted by Sunbather:

Played for 2 hours now, and all in all, the game is fantastic. I have never experienced such gruesome hand-to-hand combat. The animations are fantastic. The story very, very intriguing so far. And the level design is among the best.
All the more deplorable that the port got released in such a bad state. The game is literally murdering my CPU. Then again, it is only a 15 hour game, so I guess my CPU can handle 15 hours of stress test over the next few days.

Here is a quick and dirty performance guide. I mostly achieve 60 fps with these settings. Rainy night scenes and flashlights will drop the fps to 50 though. Stutters happen but not that often. And they are not huge. For a second or two the fps goes down to 40, then goes up again. Especially when transitioning to a new area. The cutscenes are surprisingly smooth though!


My system:
Ryzen 3600
RTX 2060 Super
2x 8GB @3200 mhz
Game on NVMe SSD


1 Install your latest GPU drivers.

2 optional Before you start your game, copy a proper “oo2core_9_win64.dll” file into the game directory of The Last of Us. I took mine from Warframe. Google this fix when you need further info about it. I cannot confirm if this actually helps since I never tried playing the game without it.

3 Now start your game and WAIT for the shaders to load. Despite the reports here, this only took me about 30 minutes.
Maybe this is because of step [2], maybe this is because the hotfix that got pushed out earlier today (Wednesday).

4 While your shaders load, you can already adjust your graphical settings.

DISPLAY
V-Sync --- OFF
Framerate Cap --- 60 [important to get a stable experience and protect your hardware]
Scaling Mode --- DLSS Quality or FSR
Field of View --- leave it at 0
Motion Blur --- 0
Chrom. Aberrat. Int. --- 0
Film Grain Int. --- 0
Gore --- Default

GRAPHICS

Animation Quality --- Medium
Draw Distance --- Medium
Dynamic Obj. LOD --- Medium
Characters LOD --- High
Environments LOD --- Medium

Dynamic Obj. Textures --- High
Characters Texture Quality --- Medium
Environ. Texture Quality --- High
Vis. Effects Texture Quality --- Medium
Texture Filtering --- 8x
Texture Sampling Quality --- High

Ambient Shadows Quality --- Full Resolution
Directional Shad. Res. --- Medium
Directional Shad. Distance --- High ***
Image Based Lighting --- On ***
Spotlights Shadow Res. --- Medium
Point Lights Shadow Resol. --- High
Bounced Lighting --- On ***
Screen Space Shad. Qual. --- Medium
Dynamic Screen Space Shad.--- On
Contact Shadow Quality --- Medium
Screen Space Ambi. Occl. --- On
Amb. Occl. Denoise Qual. --- Low
Screen Space Direct. Occl. --- On
Screen Space Cone Tracing --- On

Screen Space Reflections --- On
SSR Accuracy --- 50
SSR Distance --- 50
Glossy Reflections Qual. --- 25
Real-Time Reflections Qual. --- Medium
Real-Time Clouds Shad. --- On

Screen Space Sub-Surface Scattering --- OFF
Refraction Quality --- Full Resolution

DoF --- OFF
Motion Blur --- OFF

Volumetric Effects Quality --- Medium ***
Lens Flare --- Half Resolution


These settings are optimized for smooth gameplay AND keeping the game immersive! The game seems to struggle a lot with lightning and reflections. So if you don’t get the desired framerate, settings marked with *** will give you further boost. Especially the Volumetric Effects.

I am currently uploading a video to Youtube as visual proof and also visual guidance.

What resolution are you using? 1080p?

[Gorlami]

We are rocking almost the exact same rig. Thank you my friend!

[Sunbather]

Originally posted by TeRRoR:

What resolution are you using? 1080p?

Sorry, what an idiot I am! Yes, 1080p resolution but it is downscaled with DLSS. Then again. DLSS nowadays looks the same as native resolution.

[Sunbather]

Originally posted by SgtDrPepper11:

We are rocking almost the exact same rig. Thank you my friend!

Just be aware that lightning and reflections are very badly optimized. So while you WILL get 60fps most of the time, a rainy night mission will have you go down to 50 or even 45 occasionally.

[Arokhantos]

Originally posted by ⎝⧹TrM⧸⎠:

the oo2core_9_win64.dll can be downloaded from nexus

https://www.nexusmods.com/thelastofuspart1/mods/11?tab=description

is anyone wanted to get a version from a good rep site

If you dont trust it you can upload it to virustotal altho nexusmods probably already does this .

[Sunbather]

Video is now up. See OP in the beginning of the post.

[TheGonk]

have a 6700 xt and 2700x.cant get over 35 fps no matter what setting I use.

[Cait Sith]

Originally posted by ⎝⧹TrM⧸⎠:

the oo2core_9_win64.dll can be downloaded from nexus

https://www.nexusmods.com/thelastofuspart1/mods/11?tab=description

is anyone wanted to get a version from a good rep site

I did what the op said. You replace the dll file, restart your pc, open the game and let it cook. The shader build took only 20 freaking minutes and I had zero crashes.

Before it took like an hour and the game crashed a lot while doing that. Also, no performance gains on my end, but stability is good now.

[ChickenBalls]

wow 1080p with dlss
so whats it downscaled to? 540p?

[Maverick81PL]

Originally posted by ChickenBalls:

wow 1080p with dlss
so whats it downscaled to? 540p?

720p like in Uncharted