Dying Light 2 stuttering, lags etc.

[Zombie CSGOSKINS ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥]

Hello, a few months ago I didn't have any performance problems, now when I came back to the game after a break, it slows down and lags terribly even on the lowest settings and I can't play, I reset my computer to factory settings and updated the processor and graphics card drivers, hoping it would help, but it didn't help. Does anyone have the same problem or has anyone managed to solve it?

[Kuma]

Try optimizing game settings with Nvidia App.

After that if the game is still lagging more than it should with your system specs check if components aren't overheating and limiting performance or something similar.

[Zombie CSGOSKINS ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥]

Originally posted by Kuma:

Try optimizing game settings with Nvidia App.

After that if the game is still lagging more than it should with your system specs check if components aren't overheating and limiting performance or something similar.

I have the Nvidia app and Dying Light 2 is optimized. When I enter the game, i.e. I enter the campaign, and when I move the mouse suddenly the fps drops to 1, after a few seconds this is no longer the case, while when I run around the map there are drops, e.g. from 70 to 60, and there are even stronger drops, e.g. from 70 to 50, and the graphics card usage also drops from about 95 to 60%.
The Nvidia overlay in the game says that the GPU temperature is around 73 degrees and the usage is 90-99%, and the usage will drop to 60% if the game suddenly experiences FPS drops.

[Zombie CSGOSKINS ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥]

Now my game crashes when I turned off Nvidia optimization!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Kuma]

The crashing could be related to the nvidia overlay, turn it off to test. You can use PresentMon to monitor temps and usage without relying on nvidia overlay.

You really need more info like cpu temperature, it could be that CPU is overheating, slowing down and that would be causing the gpu usage to drop as to wait for it, or it could just be that your cpu is bottlenecking the gpu in general, without more specs is hard to say.

[kreeg]

Try reinstalling your video drivers and using Display Driver Uninstaller. This will create a clean driver installation.

https://www.wagnardsoft.com/content/Download-Display-Driver-Uninstaller-DDU-18093

[florissol]

Originally posted by kreeg:

Try reinstalling your video drivers and using Display Driver Uninstaller. This will create a clean driver installation.

https://www.wagnardsoft.com/content/Download-Display-Driver-Uninstaller-DDU-18093

Do not use this app ! I tried it once and I barely could recover my video card. It just stopped working at all.

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ddu is the way to go though

[kreeg]

Originally posted by florissol:

Originally posted by kreeg:

Try reinstalling your video drivers and using Display Driver Uninstaller. This will create a clean driver installation.

https://www.wagnardsoft.com/content/Download-Display-Driver-Uninstaller-DDU-18093

Do not use this app ! I tried it once and I barely could recover my video card. It just stopped working at all.

That’s odd.

Software bugs don’t always affect everyone. I’ve used DDU for about 15 years without issues on various different NVIDIA and AMD GPUs, both in pre-built and custom PCs.

From what I’ve seen, the only people who run into problems usually didn’t follow the simple instructions.

[Spicy Messiah]

Originally posted by Gracz Zombie:

Hello, a few months ago I didn't have any performance problems, now when I came back to the game after a break, it slows down and lags terribly even on the lowest settings and I can't play, I reset my computer to factory settings and updated the processor and graphics card drivers, hoping it would help, but it didn't help. Does anyone have the same problem or has anyone managed to solve it?

What kind of hardware are you working with?

I know that Direct X 12 with Raytracing is brutal on my 3080, but I can run everything 80-120 FPS 1440 with a mixture of medium and high settings. Removing raytracing made a huge jump up in my overall performance, although a SSD is necessary.

[Zombie CSGOSKINS ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥]

Originally posted by Stealth Moose:

Originally posted by Gracz Zombie:

Hello, a few months ago I didn't have any performance problems, now when I came back to the game after a break, it slows down and lags terribly even on the lowest settings and I can't play, I reset my computer to factory settings and updated the processor and graphics card drivers, hoping it would help, but it didn't help. Does anyone have the same problem or has anyone managed to solve it?

What kind of hardware are you working with?

I know that Direct X 12 with Raytracing is brutal on my 3080, but I can run everything 80-120 FPS 1440 with a mixture of medium and high settings. Removing raytracing made a huge jump up in my overall performance, although a SSD is necessary.

I have GTX1060 6gb and AMD RYZEN 5 1600, 2xHHD, 16GB

[Zombie CSGOSKINS ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥]

Do you think I should try DDU?

[Spicy Messiah]

Originally posted by Gracz Zombie:

Originally posted by Stealth Moose:

What kind of hardware are you working with?

I know that Direct X 12 with Raytracing is brutal on my 3080, but I can run everything 80-120 FPS 1440 with a mixture of medium and high settings. Removing raytracing made a huge jump up in my overall performance, although a SSD is necessary.

I have GTX1060 6gb and AMD RYZEN 5 1600, 2xHHD, 16GB

You're on the lower end of spec, under recommended and I know for a fact the game runs slower on HDD versus SDD. That's about all I can tell you. Your card doesn't support DX12, so you shouldn't be suffering from or using Raytracing features, and you can't utilize DLSS to help stabilize FPS either. I wish I could help more but it's hardly stable on my rig and I'm over recommended by an entire generation of GPUs.

[florissol]

You will regret to use DDU. ...I personally followed the advises of others to use this program, and I thought that I would have to buy new video card. OMG ! Or if it works for you like for others I do not think it will solve the problem.

I found on net people say to run the game as administrator, disable Steam overlay, close backgrounds processes, give the high priority to DL 2 process ( in task manager ).

One posted that he lowered fog and shadows. Try to run the game in window mode borderless. Lock the max fps.

[florissol]

Originally posted by Stealth Moose:

Originally posted by Gracz Zombie:

I have GTX1060 6gb and AMD RYZEN 5 1600, 2xHHD, 16GB

You're on the lower end of spec, under recommended and I know for a fact the game runs slower on HDD versus SDD. That's about all I can tell you. Your card doesn't support DX12, so you shouldn't be suffering from or using Raytracing features, and you can't utilize DLSS to help stabilize FPS either. I wish I could help more but it's hardly stable on my rig and I'm over recommended by an entire generation of GPUs.

He (she) is not on lower specs, is above of minimum requisits. Well, I see now, you mean under recommended. Read on Steam page :

Minimum:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS *: Windows® 7
Processor: Intel Core i3-9100 / AMD Ryzen 3 2300X
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1050 Ti / AMD Radeon™ RX 560 (4GB VRAM)
Storage: 60 GB available space

The card user has is GTX 1060 6 Gb. AMD Rysen 5, 16 Gb RAM. My friend has the same card with Intel CPU though and run the game without problems. Besides GTX 1060 supports dx 12 but not Ray tracing ( right ). OMG, what you saying !

Precisely, try to set in launch option for game on Steam : -dx11. To see if it runs better with dx11.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/is-directx-12-and-the-gtx-1060-6gb-compatible/69f4b070-1085-4a32-87b2-3af589f2eb03

[Kuma]

Originally posted by Gracz Zombie:

I have GTX1060 6gb and AMD RYZEN 5 1600, 2xHHD, 16GB

Looking at benchmarks even from 3 years ago with the same specs as your system this game should run at around 40fps 1080p with low settings DX11. If it is going far below that then it could be something else, otherwise its normal.

You could try enabling FSR for an extra bump in performance, as it upscales the game from a lower internal resolution.