Dying Light Random FPS drops/low FPS

[Vaprek]

Im at my wits end with this game. After trying all the forum suggestions and disabling nvidia, lowering view distance to 0, and optimizing nvidia control panel. I still have sub 30 fps drops and stutter with this game.
Other games work just fine and benchmarks are usually at 60 FPS.
Is this just a poorly optimized game or only other thing I could think of is my gfx card, which is decent enough for this game.

PC:
ASUS Rog Strix
i7-9750H 2.6Ghz
16 GB DDR 4 2666Mhz RAM
GTX 1650 4 GB GDDR 5
512GB SSD

[Maxoduke]

引用自 KadenShayden：

Same issue here. On Lenovo L340 Gaming with a gtx 1650 and i7 9750hq with no luck. I upgraded to 16gb ram thinking that was an issue but it didn't work :(

KadenShayden, try this:

引用自 Maxoduke：

So, I found another workaround.

Keep all the settings for this game in Nvidia Control Panel default.
Launch the game and Turn Off 2 things: Vsync and Fullscreen

Now, restart the game, load the map, go to settings again and turn on Vsync and Fullscreen.
You just gotta launch the game in Windowed mode and with V-Sync off. After loading the map, you can turn them on.

When you're done playing, again turn them off and exit the game.
It works for me everytime.

[Bum]

引用自 Maxoduke：

引用自 KadenShayden：

Same issue here. On Lenovo L340 Gaming with a gtx 1650 and i7 9750hq with no luck. I upgraded to 16gb ram thinking that was an issue but it didn't work :(

KadenShayden, try this:

引用自 Maxoduke：

So, I found another workaround.

Keep all the settings for this game in Nvidia Control Panel default.
Launch the game and Turn Off 2 things: Vsync and Fullscreen

Now, restart the game, load the map, go to settings again and turn on Vsync and Fullscreen.
You just gotta launch the game in Windowed mode and with V-Sync off. After loading the map, you can turn them on.

When you're done playing, again turn them off and exit the game.
It works for me everytime.

That's a hell of a solution. I just uninstalled the game. I'll try this later in the week when i get my new drive and reinstall it. I'll report back

[AffenNecher1710]

hey guys,
little late, but here's what helped me get constant +100 fps:
btw i got a gtx 1660ti and a i7 9th gen but i had like 8-30 fps in Dying Light which was rediciulous

how i fixed it:
1. CTRL ALT DEL task mgr
2. go to details
3. right click on "DyingLightGame.exe" and set Priority to "High" or "Higher than usual"
4. Change Game Settings to -> Windowed Full Screen mode
5. check your fps, i got 120 fps after priority settings

before you play, check every 1-2 minutes in your task manager if the priority settings is still on High, because sometimes it changes back to "normal"

you can also do this with steam, nvidia gforce experience, etc ...

hope it works for yall aswell

[comiljou]

引用自 St1ckyGreeN^：

hey guys,
little late, but here's what helped me get constant +100 fps:
btw i got a gtx 1660ti and a i7 9th gen but i had like 8-30 fps in Dying Light which was rediciulous

how i fixed it:
1. CTRL ALT DEL task mgr
2. go to details
3. right click on "DyingLightGame.exe" and set Priority to "High" or "Higher than usual"
4. Change Game Settings to -> Windowed Full Screen mode
5. check your fps, i got 120 fps after priority settings

before you play, check every 1-2 minutes in your task manager if the priority settings is still on High, because sometimes it changes back to "normal"

you can also do this with steam, nvidia gforce experience, etc ...

hope it works for yall aswell

Thank you, this worked for me!

[Solko]

引用自 comiljou：

引用自 St1ckyGreeN^：

hey guys,
little late, but here's what helped me get constant +100 fps:
btw i got a gtx 1660ti and a i7 9th gen but i had like 8-30 fps in Dying Light which was rediciulous

how i fixed it:
1. CTRL ALT DEL task mgr
2. go to details
3. right click on "DyingLightGame.exe" and set Priority to "High" or "Higher than usual"
4. Change Game Settings to -> Windowed Full Screen mode
5. check your fps, i got 120 fps after priority settings

before you play, check every 1-2 minutes in your task manager if the priority settings is still on High, because sometimes it changes back to "normal"

you can also do this with steam, nvidia gforce experience, etc ...

hope it works for yall aswell

Same exact problem with a gaming laptop which comes with the GTX 1650: huge fps drops for no apparent reasons. At this point it really seems like a problem related to this particular GPU and Dying Light.

The "raise process priority" fix seems to be working for me too, but damn, this is annoying ...

[Luna_Moon]

I figured out with someone who plays Dying Light random FPS drop at least for streaming.
Make sure you have Nvidia Vertical Sync and Borderless Screen. Make sure your capped frame rate limit is 60-100 fps in game settings if any higher it will frame chop at least for streaming if not try this if chopping anyways.

[SAM]

Go to task manager when Dying Light is running and right click on DyingLight, go to details. From there, find "DyingLightGame.exe" and right click on it. Change the priority to high.

If it doesn't save the priority, get a program called Process Hacker 2 as it allows you to set a priority and save it permanently.

[SAM]

引用自 St1ckyGreeN：

hey guys,
little late, but here's what helped me get constant +100 fps:
btw i got a gtx 1660ti and a i7 9th gen but i had like 8-30 fps in Dying Light which was rediciulous

how i fixed it:
1. CTRL ALT DEL task mgr
2. go to details
3. right click on "DyingLightGame.exe" and set Priority to "High" or "Higher than usual"
4. Change Game Settings to -> Windowed Full Screen mode
5. check your fps, i got 120 fps after priority settings

before you play, check every 1-2 minutes in your task manager if the priority settings is still on High, because sometimes it changes back to "normal"

you can also do this with steam, nvidia gforce experience, etc ...

hope it works for yall aswell

Process Hacker 2 lets you save the priority, just in case that helps u

[adrian_rada2000]

OK, had the same issue with seemingly random stuttering, even in interior levels, although FPS never dropped below 60, but after applying the following workarounds which I've found here and on other various forums, the issue seems at first to be solved, played yesterday for like 1h without any problems.

Unfortunately I'm not sure which one(s) fixed it.

0. Installed latest nvidia game ready driver (460.89)

1. NVIDIA Control Panel > Manage 3D Settings > Program Settings > Dying Light > leave all to default value

2. STEAM > SET LAUNCH OPTION for Dying Light : -nologos -high -useallavailablecores

3. After launching game , changed DISPLAY MODE from FULLSCREEN to WINDOWED and back to FULLSCREEN

4. In game video settings :
shadow map size - medium
nvidia pcss - off
chromatic aberation - off
vsync - on (too much screen tearing with off, even when limited on 60FPS...if set to unlimited, my GPU usage went to 99%)
everything else ON or to maximum value

My rig :
GeForce GTX 1060 6GB, Driver Version 460.89
Intel Xeon E5-1650 0 @3.2GHz
32 GB RAM (DDR3 ECC)
display 1920 x 1080 60Hz

[Captain Todger]

Open Documents > Dying Light > Out > Settings > video.scr (use notepad, as Windows might try to open it as a screen saver instead)

Find the following line: DisableDWM(1) and change the 1 to a 0 in the parenthesis. Save and re-launch the game. I've found that I have a much more stable framerate with this.

Failing that, if you use a PC that has a hybrid graphics setup (i.e Nvidia Optimus or equivalent) you can output the game's video to an external HD monitor via HDMI (provided your dedicated GPU is the device outputting to it).

Let me know if either works!

[Pandora's Actor]

well its certainly the game. my rig has a 2070 super and a 3800xt sure i have 16gb of system memory. but it should be good enough to play at 1440p 120+ fps but i dont. i hover sometimes around 70. sure with max settings and all but i shouldnt have such low fps.

so if i have a problem its certainly not your rig either. even though its much slower than mine its still decent for 60 at 1080p as long as you dont have every setting max.

[*****player]

Greetings. I have been dealing with this problem for a while running Dying Light in a laptop with i7-10750H and RTX2060. I tried all the usual recommended settings (max performance level and preferred GPU in Nvidia control panel) without success. What really made a difference was choosing CPU for PhysX in the Nvidia control panel and choosing max performance for integrated graphics in the advance power settings configuration panel. Hope this helps others because this great game still deserve to be played in 2021.

I almost forgot, I also deactivated the mic (Realtec) for desktop applications in Windows 10 configuration panel in order to disallow Steam to use the mic. It seams it had an issue with the game.

[Khang]

*FPS DROP / STUTTERING FIX :
For those of you experiencing FPS drop with the game despite having a much stronger graphics than requirements, then you might have a BOTTLENECKING CPU PROBLEM !!!

FIX :
1. Open MSI Afterburner. Display all CPU Usage
2. Run the game
3. If you have for example CPU1 always running higher than 80% but the other cores are just somewhere 20-30%, then that CPU is the problem.
4. Open Task Manager --> Details --> RIGHT CLICK Dyinglight.exe --> Set affinity --> Turn off that CPU, click OK --> Back to the game, check if that CPU is actually off or not (usage <10%) --> Set Affinity again --> Turn on that CPU, click OK --> PROBLEM FIXED !!!
*PAY ATTENTION : In Set affinity menu, CPU0 is CPU1 and CPU1 is CPU2, don't get confused !

***TRUST ME, I'VE TRIED EVERYTHING AND THIS ONE HERE IS MY LIFE SAVIOR. GOOD LUCK & HAVE FUN !

[deeper]

引用自 Khang：

*FPS DROP / STUTTERING FIX :
For those of you experiencing FPS drop with the game despite having a much stronger graphics than requirements, then you might have a BOTTLENECKING CPU PROBLEM !!!

FIX :
1. Open MSI Afterburner. Display all CPU Usage
2. Run the game
3. If you have for example CPU1 always running higher than 80% but the other cores are just somewhere 20-30%, then that CPU is the problem.
4. Open Task Manager --> Details --> RIGHT CLICK Dyinglight.exe --> Set affinity --> Turn off that CPU, click OK --> Back to the game, check if that CPU is actually off or not (usage <10%) --> Set Affinity again --> Turn on that CPU, click OK --> PROBLEM FIXED !!!
*PAY ATTENTION : In Set affinity menu, CPU0 is CPU1 and CPU1 is CPU2, don't get confused !

***TRUST ME, I'VE TRIED EVERYTHING AND THIS ONE HERE IS MY LIFE SAVIOR. GOOD LUCK & HAVE FUN !

Great that you found a fix, do you mind listing your specs, it might prove useful to some?

[Trackerlist]

i had the same problem with the game, i have a gtx 1050 ti, i5 7400 and 16gb ram 2400mhz, the game is installed on my ssd and everytime i went into a cutscene, the FPS dropped from 60 to 26, i tried most of the stuff i found here but nothing really worked, what i did was just lock the fps from 60 to 120, now my game is running at 70 fps, and then i locked it again to 60 fps and it's running fine