Any Performance Tweaks?

[The Curator]

As topic says.

I get quite bad FPS (30-50 most of the time, except in doors i guess).
And lowering the graphics and stuff doesn't really yield any difference,
i mean i have to turn off a ton to get like 10 more fps.

I think it might be a CPU issue cause of this, else i would expect to see a bigger boost.
Though i haven't tried the Texture Size as it has to be changed before entering the game.
From reading it doesn't seem to be my issue as i got a 4GB card?



Specs:

I5 760@3.8ghz (Yes it's old, i blame this on many things;P)
R9 380 4GB (nothing special but should handle most stuff decently?)


I can find some random info on tweaks but it seems to be quite vague.
Some that might be for older versions of the game,
others that aren't really proven.

So might as well ask here to see if there are anything super duper thing i am missing;U

[The Curator]

why would playing the game in window mode improve the fps?
unless you have Vsync which acts differently depending on Game vs Windows handling it.
(I got Vsync disabled as i don't want the stutter as i don't have 60fps constantly,
nor do i want the input lag as i use mouse)

[𝔇ave]

most ppl get worse performance in windowed mode ..so i wouldnt recommend that.. lower your view distance and turn crap like motion blur off.

[Deadeye]

Originally posted by Momzit:

Originally posted by Ðavз:

most ppl get worse performance in windowed mode ..so i wouldnt recommend that.. lower your view distance and turn crap like motion blur off.

It's a program that makes your game boardless, not windowed, it nakes your PC use less resources.

Link of the app please.

[The Curator]

Maybe i didn't try turning Motion Blur off,
i remember i tried all kinds of stuff, i expected a lot from turning off the Nvidia things (Ambient ♥♥♥♥).

That weirdly enough didn't really do much, maybe 5fps where i tried it,
the view distance did a bit, think i turned it all way down (didn't even see any difference lol).

Turned of AA as well, as i guess it's post process which i dislike anyhow.


As for the borderless stuff.
Just making it clear, making a game borderless (aka window mode), does NOT mean it uses less resources.
If anything it should actually be the reverse, cause in Fullscreen the Game got exclusive right to the GPU for displaying (which is why you can get tearing etc, cause if the Games allows it, the GPU doesn't care).

But in Windows, the Game has to tell Windows that it wants to draw something, and then Windows will handle it, and Windows will simply render it when it wants to.
And as Windows is always "with Vsync on" that's why you normally can't get any tearing in Window mode.

(Think there are some exceptions though, don't know when or why though).

So in a nutshell, window mode involves one extra step for displaying the game.
(Now if a game Does improve with this, something is really wrong with the Game, or the GPU driver, cause this should Not be the case as far as i know).

// Now that's a Wall of Text;D

[upcoast]

Turn your View Distance slider to 0, maxed shadow is too much lower that . You don't need to monkey around with bordered just put it on Full Screen.

Your cpu and gpu are sufficient for 1080p but how much system ram do you have?

Ps, https://www.techspot.com/review/956-dying-light-benchmarks/page3.html

Even in the early days of DI the 380x is a mid range card and 50ish fps is about all you should expect but you can lower in game settings to bump up your fps a little.

I had the R9 280x which is identical performance of the R9 380x.

Realistically by todays standards the R9 380x is down there with the GTX1050ti more of a MED settings card.

[dpanter]

Your CPU is decent enough, should be fine if you have 8GB RAM or more.
The graphics card is a little on the slow side perhaps.
It'll run fine for sure, and your system is in line with the recommended requirements. 50 fps isn't bad at all. ;)

This guide is a really good place to start, see what settings are worth bothering with.
https://www.geforce.com/whats-new/guides/dying-light-graphics-and-performance-guide

[Pim]

Dying light is more of a cpu intensive game then GPU, considered i get high cpu usage on my laptop i7 7700HQ

[Nathan]

Disable useless/ugly effects that only clutter visuals like motion blur, depth of field, chromatic aberration, film grain.
Lower view distance all the way down, it's the biggest performance killer.
After that you can play with textures and shadows at high/max if you want
Maybe even Ambient Occlusion (SSAO, not HBAO+ or HDAO+, I forget which)
Go to
C:\Users\[USERNAME]\Documents\DyingLight\out\settings
video.scr
Open with notepad, in there you can set up a custom resolution

Resolution(960,540)
Fullscreen()
Monitor(0)
TextureQuality("High")
VisRange(1.00, 1.00)
Shadows("High")
ShadowMapSize(1024)
SpotShadowMapSize(1536)
NvidiaEffects(0,0,0)
GrassQuality(0)
VSync()
ExtraGameFov(9.00)
AmbientOcclusion(1)
MotionBlur(0)
AntiAliasing(0)
DisableDWM(1)

Just google whatever aspect ratio you have to get a full list of resolution options you can try that won't look too stretched, and try out different ones that will give you whatever performance boost you want.
Remember to set the video.scr file to "read-only" after editing it.

[granátová samovražda]

So if anybody is looking for the proper file to edit these settings on a macbook/macos, then it's at

/Users/ {your username} /Library/Application Support/Steam/steamapps/common/Dying Light/DW/out/Settings/Video.scr

also, if you modify the file, you'd better off setting it as read only (no write access) as the game overwrites it otherwise.

[SkepticJoker]

Originally posted by granátová samovražda:

So if anybody is looking for the proper file to edit these settings on a macbook/macos, then it's at

/Users/ {your username} /Library/Application Support/Steam/steamapps/common/Dying Light/DW/out/Settings/Video.scr

also, if you modify the file, you'd better off setting it as read only (no write access) as the game overwrites it otherwise.

Great now people are going to waste their time reading through this discussion, only to find out it's from 4 years ago. Because you wanted to let them know how to change settings on a operating system they probably aren't using. Good Job.

[Xzit]

Originally posted by SkepticJoker:

Originally posted by granátová samovražda:

So if anybody is looking for the proper file to edit these settings on a macbook/macos, then it's at

/Users/ {your username} /Library/Application Support/Steam/steamapps/common/Dying Light/DW/out/Settings/Video.scr

also, if you modify the file, you'd better off setting it as read only (no write access) as the game overwrites it otherwise.

Great now people are going to waste their time reading through this discussion, only to find out it's from 4 years ago. Because you wanted to let them know how to change settings on a operating system they probably aren't using. Good Job.

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