strange fix that might help. download DL2 to C drive

[Megamalistic]

for some reason i had extremely bad frame stuttering and delay when starting the game until around 5 minutes of play and after i had gotten a few kills (first few kills always stuttered) but recently moved DL2 to my C drive. no stutters even 5 seconds in now and not even on the very first kill of a session

[devil_505]

Maybe the game was on a harddisk before and now you moved it to a SSD.

[Megamalistic]

Originally posted by devil_505:

Maybe the game was on a harddisk before and now you moved it to a SSD.

it was on a D drive built in internally, thing is most games work fine on a D drive but this one needs the C drive

[Pungent]

No offence, but if you don't even know how or why changing your install location could have improved performance (and the fact that drive lettering is irrelevant), maybe handing out technical recommendations isn't something you should be doing.

[Megamalistic]

Originally posted by Pungent:

No offence, but if you don't even know how or why changing your install location could have improved performance (and the fact that drive lettering is irrelevant), maybe handing out technical recommendations isn't something you should be doing.

No offense but yes indeed it does the C drive has a more direct pathway to the computer's main files used for program running, however a rough 90% of all games don't suffer any lag because of how minuscule it is, the reason this change doing so much makes 0 sense to me is because i understand that difference. the lettering can be random but usually the C drive is where main computer files are stored like system 32, but the D drive (aka what most computers now default to calling the secondary drive) has to send files through the C drive in order to make the signals required to start certain 3D programs that run games using your graphics card and VRAM. most games suffer little more than milliseconds of delay from this but for some reason it effects DL2 so badly the first 5 minutes of play are stutter filled if you dont install the game on the same drive as the system files. see i didnt go into that deep of an explanation because all it explains is that i know what im talking about and still cant figure out why this small change made so much difference.

[Megamalistic]

Originally posted by Pungent:

No offence, but if you don't even know how or why changing your install location could have improved performance (and the fact that drive lettering is irrelevant), maybe handing out technical recommendations isn't something you should be doing.

let me rephrase because that was probably too long for you to read, i know tech pretty damn well, its just that this change usually doesnt make this much difference

[Pungent]

So, going by your logic, if a system had the OS installed on a 5200RPM HDD, and the game was installed on a 7GB/s m.2 nvme drive, you could improve performance by migrating the install to the HDD?

Ok, so: system drive = fast, non-OS storage drive = slow

Got it. If only I had known this golden nugget of wisdom, I could've saved hundreds of dollars and just stuck to a large HDD instead of buying a bunch of SSD storage.

[Megamalistic]

Originally posted by Pungent:

So, going by your logic, if a system had the OS installed on a 5200RPM HDD, and the game was installed on a 7GB/s m.2 nvme drive, you could improve performance by migrating the install to the HDD?

Ok, so: system drive = fast, non-OS storage drive = slow

Got it. If only I had known this golden nugget of wisdom, I could've saved hundreds of dollars and just stuck to a large HDD instead of buying a bunch of SSD storage.

not necessarily because like i said 90% of all games you wont notice a difference, for some reason its just drastic in DL2. pretty much if a game is giving you issues for no good reason attempt installing it on a system drive yea.