Enhanced Edition fps issues? [Solution inside!]

[Yes, Your Grace]

What's that about?

I myself alongside with many other people noticed that after EE update there were microstuttering and microfreezing and/or big fps loss.

What was the problem?

I had ~40 fps with ultra settings. Setting the game to lowest settings didn't improve fps not even by 1. Alongside with that there were microlags, which made 'smooth' experience stutter.

Any fix?

Here's the one thing that helped me, and it doesn't involve hardware/drivers tuning.

• 1. Find ConfigDefault.xml in Steam\SteamApps\common\Risen 3\data\ini\
  
• 2. Find this line:
  

  <Window Top="0" SafetyFramePercentage="0.0" Right="1024" RefreshRate="0" Name="Risen 3 - Titan Lords" Left="0" FullScreen="false" FPSLimitToRefreshRate="true" FPSLimit="0" Center="false" CaptureCursor="true" Bottom="768" AdapterNumber="0">
      </Window>
  
  (just search word 'fps')

• 3. Change this:

  FPSLimitToRefreshRate="true" 

  into this:

  FPSLimitToRefreshRate="false" 

That solved the problem for me. Now on my midrange (i5 4430, GTX 770 2gb, 8gb ram) rig I get 70+ fps.

[Woeful Wraith]

Holy crap Batman! It works!

You win the frickin' internet dude, thanks.

[AtOm]

I also tested this and it works,went from light stuttering to silky smooth gameplay 80-90 fps,thanks for taking the time to find and write this up.

[BDK]

Thanks! I haven't played the game since EE came out and it was running like complete garbage. Why do developers enable such a stupid "feature" anyway? Bah. Now it runs smooth as butter again.

Oh and btw, my refresh rate is 60 but the game defaulted to 30ish. So dumb. After this edit, game is running 60 fps at all times.

[Hattori Hanzo]

Thanks.

[Yes, Your Grace]

You're all welcome, guys.

[Dalekman]

Great fix thanks ..................

[N0rthernL1ght]

Thank you very much. Very helpful, even 1.5 years later. That doubled my framerate from 30-40 to 65-100. Awesome fix.

[Boevaya Krevedka]

Nice one,seems to help!Thanks!

[Yes, Your Grace]

Originally posted by N0rthernL1ght:

Thank you very much.

Originally posted by Magnus Anatolius:

Nice one,seems to help!Thanks!

You're welcome, guys! Hope you enjoy the game.

[✮ Cyborg ✮]

O yeah, thanks man!! I was worried that the game is run 35 fps on low or ultra stettings. Now thanks to you I have 90-120fps on ultra :) I3-7350k and RX 480

[BDK]

Bump for all the new players who got a copy from Humble .. ;)

[Rico]

\Steam\steamapps\common\Risen 3\data\ini

In ConfigDefault.ini lower value of effects. This also can increase fps.

Effects_Small="1750.0" Effects_Medium="3750.0" Effects_Large="6250.0"

[محمد عباس علي شهي]

Thank you for the tweak it runs a bit better now but my pc is low spec so it isn't brilliant anyway....

[He-Man]

I keep v-sync on so I don;t get screen tearing. For me, the problem seems to be the shadows. If I turn it down to medium, the framerate because nice and smooth. The problem is that the shadows on medium look awful.

[Shryce]

Good tip! Thanks !