Possible Fps Help/Fix for Nvidia cards

[A. Corvus Kaine]

Instructions:

"Manage 3D Settings"
"Program Settings"
-Select Dishonored 2-
"Maximum Pre-rendered Frames"
Make sure you have the Control Panel open and not Nvidia Experience :)

I have Nvidia GTX 970, i7-4790, 3.6Ghz and 12GB RAM. I didn't expect Ultra on this game, but we can all agree the optimization screwed everyone over a little bit - I had 40-80fps on Medium, and even the 80fps felt choppy.
After using the Nvidia control panel to change the program-specific settings for Dishonored 2, and changing the maximum pre-rendered frames to 1, my fps is now a constant 60-150, and it feels massively smoother even in the rooftop parts of Dunwall, etc. even on High graphics settings now!
I hope this fix can work for some other users, as it worked for me!

Source

[Boredoms]

Thank you so much. This did the trick. I was getting as low as 22 fps with my 980 ti. Now I'm getting 90+

[Eyeless]

tried it, but it didn't help my stutter issue

[ccclx]

Thank you so much. This is better!

[The Fabulous Slayer]

Better save this topic before I get home. I am having above 30 constantly on my 960 2 GB high, but it still is not comfortable. Thanks.

[Yes?]

Really appreciate it!

[NRieh]

Gonna try this one...

[Skorne]

Thankyou this helped immensely. It's like the game was rendering about 10 frames in advance before which made the mouse horribly floaty and unresponsive, now it's normal.

[Noobzor.CH]

Incredibly useful. Went from low 40-30 fps to locked 90 @1440p with my gtx1080. THANKS.

[Saxxen]

This made a huge difference for me, was dropping extremely low and now getting a solid 60, makes it significantly more playable, thank you.

[Hozomeen]

nothing change ( gtx760

[Neto]

Still couldn't play (game unlocked at 2 am here in Brazil, and today I gotta work, so only at night I'll play), but thank you, I'll try that.

[NRieh]

2x2gb 650M SLI, there IS a fps improvement, but the game froze dead for me with this config. Can't say if that's related.

[Neto]

So apparently the problem is more of NVidia control panel thing than the game itself?

[FabianBlaha]

The problem is in utilization. The game does not use all your GPU power.
I was stuck at about 35% usage until I changed the settings.