Dying Light is extremely laggy and is unplayable.

[クラウドStrxke]

Hey guys,

I need help. I just bought Dying Light today as its on sale. However, it is unplayable. At the main menu, it is terribly laggy to the point that it shows only 11 fps. It's tremendously hard to select "OPTIONS" then "VIDEO" and when I was finally able to do so. I changed everything to LOW or OFF and it didn't appear to have any changes.

I even had the game ran OPTIMIZED via NVIDIA GeForce Experience and the same thing persists.

As the game starts, it is fast at the very start where you see the publisher but at the main menu, the game is extremely laggy, its unbearable.

I have played other games with no issues such as Nier Automata, PUBG, Starcraft 2 and other new games.

I have an Asus ROG GL552VX with the following specs below.

i7
20GB RAM
Integrated Intel® HD Graphics 530
NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 950M with 2G GDDR5 VRAM

Any help is extremely appreciated.

[Poppi !!]

Once again, be sure your GTX is assigned as the designated GPU, not the integrated chip.

[𝔇ave]

Also make sure drivers are up to date and try disabling geforce experience

[𝔇ave]

BTW 950m is pretty weak for dying light.. But it shouldn't be 11fps..

[SuaveSlob]

Pleeeeeaaaasse don't use Nvidia Experience optimization, it's no good and can actually slow your game down. I would recommend turning your view distance all the way down, turn off ambient occlusion, chromatic abberation, and anything else you can flip on and off to see if it's slowing you down.

[クラウドStrxke]

Thanks for responding guys.

@_StanleyTweedle_ yes it is the designated GPU. It's just very odd because when I go to OPTIONS>VIDEO it doesn't detect the resolution and changing anything there doesn't have any effect or whatsoever.

@Dav3 yes, the drivers are up-to-date. Made sure of it. I don't really have problems with other games just this one which is really odd for a 2015 game.

@JackFr0st94 yeah tried it without Nvidia optimization and it is still the same. I've disabled everything on VIDEO and there were no improvements or changes for that matter.

I'm closing to giving up and might just request a refund from steam. :(

[DELTA1]

Put everything on low or off then after that go to documents then go to dying light then go to out then go to settings then copy the file into notepad just drag it into an open notepad and then go all the way down to the line that says resoulution and change the 2 numbers to 800,600. This solution worked for me.

[クラウドStrxke]

@DeathStrike1

Thanks for this. I will give it a shot and see how it goes.

Appreciate all your responses guys. :)

[クラウドStrxke]

I've tried everyone's suggestion and it is still the same.
No changes or whatsoever.
I was wrong. It wasn't running on 11 fps. It was running on 1 fps!
Changing the resolution to 800x600 improved to 3 fps!
So yeah, I'm requesting a refund from steam.
Thank you all for your help! Greatly appreciate it.

[DedZedNub]

Ok, the integrated Intel HD GPU is what is nuking you here. I used to run an Intel HD 2500, and all the Intel HDs of 2500 model or later truly run the same speed, I always tied the 530.

Dying Light no matter what settings is going to give you 11 fps at the menu and dip down as far as 7 fps in game. 7-15 max and it will be almost always 9-11 and feel much, much worse. Even at 1024x768, I think I even tried if possible 800x600, it's no way.

This was one of the games that broke my Intel HD's back. So I got an Nvidia Geforce GTX 750 Ti. I believe there is a more modern one like it now something like 1050 Ti or 1080Ti. What I liked about it was -- don't even really need more than one slot, only needs a 300 Watt and truly less power supply, and gets all power right off the slot no auxiliary power cable needed to hook up, plus cools fine with its fan and is whisper quiet.

But, yep, I always could play a ton of games at up to 1360x768, Skyrim, so on on the Intel HD 2500, on an i5-3.4 GHz, and the system requirements sites were always saying nope, and they were 95% of the time dead wrong.

But Dying Light will crush an Intel HD GPU guaranteed. Even on lowest settings, it's unplayable. I know, I tried, I failed. It did exactly what yours does, it will run, but not in a way that will be other than a slideshow.

Yeah, at a few moments it will dip down even to 1 fps, but that's usually LOL when turning around or loading new stuff. Planetside 2 also would lag it out with both a GPU/CPU limitation noted.

See the problem is that when it gets that slow, the GPU is sapping almost all the CPU power since it uses the CPU to do a lot of tasks. So everything gets nuked.

Just checked, the 1050 Ti also needs only 300W power supply and 75watts off the slot probably, check NewEgg or BestBuy or Amazon to see if it has the same sort of needs and size as the 750 Ti. If you want an easy to install and more than good enough card, anything that can do it like the 750 Ti, and there is one that is slightly better in the 10xx series that is its replacement, is a nice way to go. Short Card, powered by slot voltage easily, 300 Watt is probably at least what even any off the shelf computer in the last 4 years has anyway, even if never upgraded. Should easily be under $200, maybe even as low as $100.

[クラウドStrxke]

HI @DedZedNub,


Yeah, I'm using a laptop. So I couldn't upgrade. Nevertheless, I won't upgrade for a 2015 game such as Dying Light. It's just sad that my friend's laptop is able to run the game even though her laptop is inferior in specs than mine.

Thank you for the info though. This is really helpful but at this point. I'm giving up on Dying Light. Might as well play it on a console.

I'm asking for a refund now from Steam.

[±[TheMoonProject]±]

@The Black U need to explore more for this problem in google. Case i have laptop
i5-3317 , AMD 8730m 2 GB , 8 GB RAM = i have from 25 to 40 FPS(It's lower spec than yours). My laptop says that it doesn't use all GPU memory, around half of it. And also i need to say that if i could get better CPU - i will get much more FPS. Maby u need to set MAX Performance on Battery controller.
If u have Windows 10, lastest update, u can see the GPU performanse in Task meneger. Maby it can help u.
P.S. you should play this game, it's awesome!

[FluffyPinkDecoyBunny]

For some reason it sounds like the game is trying to run of the integrated GPU and not the actual GTX 950m.

As far as I can tell, the 950m should give just as good performance (hopefully slightly better) than a GTX 570. My younger brother is still using one of my old GTX 570 cards and he can play Dying Light on a resolution of 1680x1050. He likes to have the view distance all the way up and everything thing else medium-ish settings. He does have ambient occlusion, chromatic abberation off. He pulls a good 30-40fps for the most part.

Your laptop should be able to run games just about as well as his computer can. Make sure your laptop is setup for high performance in the power options and you have it plugged in when you're playing.

Also, I'd suggest removing the GeForce Experience program. I've had issues with it in the past and I stopped installing it with any driver.

[NightCrawlerZ69]

I do not know if this will help you? But around a Year ago I had the same problem and I have a Intel I7 4770 CPU 16gigs or Ram and had a 2 NVIDIA Strix GTX 4gig 960 video cards and at one point not even playing the game at the "Title Screen" the Graphics would CHUG?
So in Steam I made another drive because you can have more then one place or Harddrive that your games are installed to! And because sometime you might have to reinstall Windows for what ever reason and I hate to Loose Movies, Games or what ever so I have Windows on a Small Harddrive!
Anyway sorry for the Short Story! I Installed Dieing LIght on my Main C: Harddrive and WOW what a Difference! Like Dieing LIght And Day! It might of just been my Computer or Who Knows? But I have been Building Computers for 20 Years and 1 thing I have Learned is that When in Dought give it a Try!
If you do know want to Redownload Dieing Light then just make and Steam games folder and Copy the game to that Harddrive and you might have to set it as Default drive It has been Awhile since I have done it and I will go test it to justy see the difference or even if I had it on C: and Moved it to another Drive.
Sorry if I am making this sound confusing I am about to Start Playing Dieing light again! I almost finished the first part of the game and got the addon and Got into a Space Game that you can Play while it was being made!

[DELTA1]

laptops are not meant for gaming my friend. desktops are.

[DedZedNub]

Whoops I didn't see that you had an NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 950M with 2G GDDR5 VRAM in there. It might just then be trying to run on the Intel HD GPU like another said, and not notice the 950M. I apologize for missing that.

Looks a tad weak, but should do better than the Intel HD. The Nvidia Drivers usually have a way to force that the card or chip is recognized, but a lot of times it is not for certain games. Might want to check what you can do on that. I'd think you have a chance to do better. But hey if it is too hard, then refund.