Is DBD poorly optimised these days? How well does it run?

[Sir Penguin the Brave]

Hello folks,
Every time I play dbd these days, especially on the newer/reworked maps, there are so many optimisation/framerate issues that it becomes frustrating. Lowering my graphics settings do not change this performance in any way. I'm genuinely concerned for the health of the game because the newer maps are nowhere near optimised - so it seems.

I only have one sample left of old DBD - Swamp maps. I have absolutely no issues on either of the swamp maps, regardless of settings. I used to enjoy playing on Red Forest too, but obviously that was reworked lately and is now giving off framerate issues.

I really dislike how I can be in a chase/chasing someone, and don't feel like I can concentrate on that because the framerate just drops in certain areas or directions

Then we have the stutters. Sometimes the game will just badly stutter. It's such a strange problem, because it tends to last for a significant amount of time before it will calm down. The stuttering is almost unplayable - does anyone else get these issues?

It's not my pc, I have a good pc which has recently been cleaned up and made fresh again. I've had these same issues for a long time before and after I did work on my pc, and I am convinced I can't be the only one who feels that the game is just very poorly optimised?

[Billy Loomis]

Hello, I have same issue. In chase, the game is stuttering and FPS drops no matter if I play killer or survivor. I desperately trying to solve this but without any success...
I think it could be some gpu issue because with my old gpu nvidia 1070 game was smooth.
Currently I have i5 11400f + RX 7700 XT.

[Rabbit]

With a i9-10900KF and 1080ti (that was kinda ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up when I got it honestly), it 'runs' pretty fine for me but DBD gets my outside-of-pc thermometer hotter than almost any other game I play these days even the ones that are pushing my system to the limit. I'm not sure if it's a coincidence or what, but something doesn't feel right at least.

[Sir Penguin the Brave]

Originally posted by Boon: Safeword:

With a i9-10900KF and 1080ti (that was kinda ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up when I got it honestly), it 'runs' pretty fine for me but DBD gets my outside-of-pc thermometer hotter than almost any other game I play these days even the ones that are pushing my system to the limit. I'm not sure if it's a coincidence or what, but something doesn't feel right at least.

I mean, I'm sitting here with a 9900K and a 2080Ti and I'm getting these strange issues. At the risk of sounding like a broken record, it just feels like the maps are poorly optimised most of the time nowadays :(

Either I'm an FPS ♥♥♥♥♥ and am noticing the difference others don't, or I'm getting bottlenecked by my CPU (which I don't imagine is the case since it's still good albeit older now)

[Facu]

Yeah, it happens. I got an upgrade in the pc, cause previously i had a 1060 6gb, to a 3060 of 12 but still sometimes i got those instances where the fps drop not by much but enought to notice.

[aloan]

R5 5600 & RTX4060

Insanely laggy & stuttery, devs ignored my support requests.

[Cody]

i5 13600k @ 5.2GHz, 3060 TI, play at capped 120 fps

[aloan]

Originally posted by Cody:

i5 13600k @ 5.2GHz, 3060 TI, play at capped 120 fps

Try going into dvarka (Alien map)

Go inside the chip and look at the rest of the map, no way your fps would stay at 120

[Farewell]

Feel like i'm playing one of these '23 releases with no optimisation

[aloan]

Originally posted by it wasnt programmed to harm the :

Feel like i'm playing one of these '23 releases with no optimisation

The only optimized game this year was RE4:REMAKE, capcop always makes stable games somehow lol

[Night Stalker⛧]

They only care about DLCs and more cosmetics

[poop goes the weasel]

I cleaned my entire pc and changed a bunch of stuff after coming back to dbd after almost half a year of not playing consistently and the fps drops and server lags and stutters, rubberbanding and what not are horrible. The game is unplayable for me as of today. It's literally so devastating. It had it's peak moment in 2020-2021 for me with minor lags even with an old laptop. I think if no optimization changes will happen soon, this game will have an even smaller player base....

[aloan]

Originally posted by The Entity:

I cleaned my entire pc and changed a bunch of stuff after coming back to dbd after almost half a year of not playing consistently and the fps drops and server lags and stutters, rubberbanding and what not are horrible. The game is unplayable for me as of today. It's literally so devastating. It had it's peak moment in 2020-2021 for me with minor lags even with an old laptop. I think if no optimization changes will happen soon, this game will have an even smaller player base....

Agreed, developers literally started rejecting all my support tickets labeling them as "solved"

They do not give a damn about AMD users which have it worse and now NVIDIA sucks as well..

The bigger issue is, the vast majority of streamers and players of this game are barely knowledgeable enough to report this problem or spot a difference between 30fps & 120fps, every time I replied to a tweet, they'd reply that my PC sucks and that they face no problems lol.

[Cody]

Originally posted by aloan:

Originally posted by Cody:

i5 13600k @ 5.2GHz, 3060 TI, play at capped 120 fps

Try going into dvarka (Alien map)

Go inside the chip and look at the rest of the map, no way your fps would stay at 120

I don't have any issues, also 32GB RAM at 3200MHz

[MuszD]

even newer games have not so much CPU/GPU usage than this Game

[aloan]

Originally posted by MusDiz:

even newer games have not so much CPU/GPU usage than this Game

RTX4060 & R5 5600 4.8GHZ

Can't go above 70 in some maps i used to get 120fps at


my gpu is at 50% & cpu is at 30%