Poor performance for RTX 2060 laptop

[STA.Svy@toi]

Hi All,

Can somebody advice why would dying light hover around 50-70 FPS only on a RTX 2060 laptop? I have all the setting maxed out, but still get occasional dips to even 20-30 FPS at times which makes no sense.

Appreciate any helpful advice!

My key specs:
CPU - Intel Core i7-8750H
GPU - RTX 2060 (laptop version)
RAM - 32 GB 2666 MHZ

FYI I can run the latest FarCry New Dawn on all ultra and get average 70 FPS, and Anthem at all Ultra as well at 55-60 FPS.

Cheers,
Svyatoi

[Poppi !!]

Newer setup ?

For starters, streamline it ~ bloatware, useless background apps, needless services, disable AV " active/real time scanning " ( when playing ), disable power saving mode, etc., etc..

There are many things you can do to increase your performance.

[STA.Svy@toi]

Hey Stanley, thanks for your feedback, but I don't think its going in the right direction.

As I mentioned, I have multiple recent highly demanding games performing very well on Ultra settings, hence the laptop is unlikely to be the issue (I also spent significant amount of time removing bloatware and optimising it)

My hypothesis is that something is wrong with some of the settings and hoped somebody else who had this problem can share the solution that worked for them.

[Poppi !!]

My apologies ...STA. I must have misread a bit.

With DL, the starting point first to go's have been draw distance and for some others ( like myself ), disabling the game menu Nvidia settings.

[Positiveinflux]

same problem on my asus rog strix II with an rtx 2070, setting refresh rate to 60 instead of 144 via windows fixes it for me. kinda messy of a fix but works here. Hope it fixes it for you

[Poppi !!]

Originally posted by Cheddar Goblin:

same problem on my asus rog strix II with an rtx 2070, setting refresh rate to 60 instead of 144 via windows fixes it for me. kinda messy of a fix but works here. Hope it fixes it for you

To expand on this ~ be sure the refresh rates are synced as well.

Also, DL has an odd native resolution. Might try experimenting with a lower resolution.

[DedZedNub]

Try reducing the View Distance. I have mine set at 1/4 of the bar, most reviewers did similar, down below a half around 1/3. I explain this in more depth after the NOTE area, just wanted to highlight this.

Other things you can do which might help if you want:

-- I'd also turn off Motion Blur (it is blurry enough spinning around fighting, and you still get other blurs for other effects). You'll be twisting so fast, the pixels flying in combat, you'll create your own genuine motion blur. Who needs the fake stuff with an FPS hit, seriously?!

-- Depth of Field is also useless and a major hit to FPS. You will be looking cross-eyed naturally as you try to kill enemies hours straight, DoF fakery isn't worth the FPS loss nor the loss of your eyes before then.

-- Film Grain is a total waste. Known to be a big hit on some cards. If I want Eye Strain, I play longer. Making my eyes tired earlier is not worth FPS.

-- Chromatic Aberration makes you think you are on LSD, kill it. You want eye strain and loss of FPS, Harran will still look like a hot hell hole anyway, so who needs the drugs. When you are going to play a game for hours straight (and trust me you will with DL), get eye strain the old fashioned way, by playing too long not by Chromatic Aberration.

-- Nvidia has special things also. But you have an AMD card I believe, so they will not work for you, so make sure the Occlusion is correct or off.

-- Not much point in any Eye Tracking, and it may be not your type. Known in many games to cause a large hit, especially if you have the other brand video card.

NOTE: In most reviews from back when, the most demanding FPS hit came from the View Distance, pick OPTIONS then VIDEO settings to find it. Reviewers found the normally did not notice the loss in distant view quality (which is minimal actually), but actually noticed a major increase in FPS by dropping it to about Half or even a Third of Maximum.

MORE ON REDUCING VIEW DISTANCE: WHY AND HOW IT WILL STILL LOOK GOOD

-- You may easily Double your FPS by reducing View Distance from MAX to 1/2 Bar or down to 1/3 or 1/4 of a Full Bar (more orange part of bar is more View Distance). I actually have it at 1/4 View Distance and still can't notice the difference. And you can change this on the fly, it will show you the difference as you change the bar in the title page view.

-- Just so you know, you can still see all the way to the Horizon, like buildings, trees, bay, bridge, mountains, etc. It just makes it supposedly less detailed (although I can't tell the difference)

-- You are so busy fighting, most of the time, or scavenging/looting the rest of the time, or looking for ledges for parkour, traps to use in the environment, or chests to scavenge, that you won't even notice the difference. If you are up high, you are looking down for enemies, or across the street for a parkour route. Down low you are looking for enemies, traps, stores, locations to identify. You can still see easily full detail for well over a city block, so who the heck cares, and all buildings all the way to the Horizon.

-- Tip, you can for your own enjoyment pick a different Field of View. I really like the MAX setting they have on their Settings for it, even though I normally do not like 90 or 92 degrees. But it really works in this game at that FOV. But pick the one you like, try various ones out, it is on a slider, but gives numeric value as well.

-- I use only an Nvidia 750 Ti at 1440 x 900, but I'm always up above 60 FPS. You ought to smoke my behind with that gear, although it is a laptop version which can get finicky. You probably already do this, but don't forget to plug in the charger and slap it into Performance Mode with No Sleep if you can, that way your laptop GPU will know it can use as much juice as it wants. That will help it to act like its Desktop brethren if it can.

If all the above doesn't do the trick, and it will help, then has to be some sort of driver issue. You'll probably be able to MAX anything else you want, although do you really need maximum shadows. Otherwise DL is pretty darn optimized normally.

[DAD]

Has it been solved?

[๋]

I had similar issue with RTX3070, fixed it just by turning Borderless Window Mode instead of Fullscreen

[LU-C4]

For most people having issues with this game on laptops (which are a lot, including me), it's a power issue. Your hardware doesn't get enough power to run the game properly, because for some reason, it's being treated as if it were running in the background.

One fix that has worked for me (and a lot of others) is to actually put the game in the background (either through Alt+Tab or the Windows key), click into a different window, then tab back into the game. You might need to repeat this a few times for it to work, but once it does, the game should get the power it needs for the rest of the session. You may still encounter further stutters at some point, but tabbing out and back in once should fix them whenever they occur.

It's not a perfect fix and you probably need a really well-built laptop for this game to run properly, but that's the best fix I know of.


Another thing I've read (though I don't know if it's still an issue, since it was in an old post) is that on multi-core CPUs, the game uses 100% of the first core, while the usage of all other core is evenly distributed. I know I'm not doing a good job of explaining it and I don't know how to fix this (if it's even still an issue), so you might have to look up the issue yourself. It won't affect your frame rate much, but if this issue still persists today, it would shorten the lifespan of your CPU.

[rensoma]

I found how to fix this. I was helped by switching from a discrete graphics card to an integrated one. My specs:

𝗔𝗦𝗨𝗦 𝗧𝗨𝗙 𝗚𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝟭𝟱
𝗔𝗠𝗗 𝗥𝘆𝘇𝗲𝗻 𝟳 𝟰𝟴𝟬𝟬𝗛 𝟴 𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘀
𝗥𝗔𝗠 𝟭𝟲 𝗴𝗯
𝗚𝗲𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗲 𝗥𝗧𝗫 𝟮𝟬𝟲𝟬

[BoulyCaca]

Originally posted by rensoma:

I found how to fix this. I was helped by switching from a discrete graphics card to an integrated one. My specs:

𝗔𝗦𝗨𝗦 𝗧𝗨𝗙 𝗚𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝟭𝟱
𝗔𝗠𝗗 𝗥𝘆𝘇𝗲𝗻 𝟳 𝟰𝟴𝟬𝟬𝗛 𝟴 𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘀
𝗥𝗔𝗠 𝟭𝟲 𝗴𝗯
𝗚𝗲𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗲 𝗥𝗧𝗫 𝟮𝟬𝟲𝟬

So what did you do ?

[StopItStepBro]

I've heard it has less to do with your actual specs and more to do with the fact that it plays horribly on laptop cards. The game plays flawlessly on my desktop at home even though it has weaker specs than my laptop.

[Pablo]

I solved it by changing my refresh rate to 60 in Windows Advanced Display settings.

[serenity.]

Originally posted by LU-C4:

For most people having issues with this game on laptops (which are a lot, including me), it's a power issue. Your hardware doesn't get enough power to run the game properly, because for some reason, it's being treated as if it were running in the background.

One fix that has worked for me (and a lot of others) is to actually put the game in the background (either through Alt+Tab or the Windows key), click into a different window, then tab back into the game. You might need to repeat this a few times for it to work, but once it does, the game should get the power it needs for the rest of the session. You may still encounter further stutters at some point, but tabbing out and back in once should fix them whenever they occur.

It's not a perfect fix and you probably need a really well-built laptop for this game to run properly, but that's the best fix I know of.


Another thing I've read (though I don't know if it's still an issue, since it was in an old post) is that on multi-core CPUs, the game uses 100% of the first core, while the usage of all other core is evenly distributed. I know I'm not doing a good job of explaining it and I don't know how to fix this (if it's even still an issue), so you might have to look up the issue yourself. It won't affect your frame rate much, but if this issue still persists today, it would shorten the lifespan of your CPU.

Damn your solution seriously worked for me! A big thank you!!

[Dovakhinn]

Hello , I have Same problem With Dying Light 1 , I use Ge force Expérience , BUT he said me to use full ultra , i dont do that , and use personnel setting who IS FULL PERFORMANCE So the game is on FULL LOW , i disable V-SYNC and lock at 60fps on Nviadia pannel + ingame ,and when i start the game , i sometime have a drop at 33-40 fps , and stay with that fps 5-6 s before again goes to 60 fps , Every 15s the game do that , It's actually unplayable

MY SETTINGS : Laptop MSI GL63 8SE

CPU : Inter Core i7 8750H ( laptop )
GPU : RTX 2060 6GO ( laptop )
RAM : 2x8 GO 2667MHz
SSD : 1000 Mo/s

When i benchmark that type of Config on youtube , it's said me 70-90 fps on full ultra On Dying light :) So I am so happy when i perma drop too 30 fps

So IF Anyone can answer and give me some tips for Optimise the game or window , I have ofc latest Pilote Nvidia