Dealing with fps issues with the modloader on newer displays

This guide aims to help people who are having issues running mods with newer displays

Introduction

Risk of Rain 1 has some amazing mods and I highly recommend giving them a try from with the risk of rain modloader.

However the modloader seems to have an issue where displays with 120hz or 144hz will have low fps. On my new system it stuck around 40 fps and the game itself felt slowing down.

There is a solution to this is which is to lower the refresh rate of your display to 60hz which brings the fps back to 60.

However I am lazy so I got irritated with having to manually switch between 60hz and 120 after playing and closing the game.

This guide will explain how to make this process as seamless as possible. You'll need to download one application at the very least and two for a full seamless experience

Common Steps

• You need to have ROR 1 and the modloader installed obviously
  
• Download ChangeSceeenResolution. This will let the command prompt and .bat files change refresh rate without having to open settings. Run it once but you won't see anything because there is no GUI.
  
• find where you have downloaded 'ChangeScreenResolution.exe' and copy it's directory. I keep it in my downloads folder and that's probably where it is when you download it. Right click and select properties to see and copy it's directory next to the location line.
  
  
  
  
  After this there are two different things you can do. If you don't want to download anything else refer to the first one I've listed below but if you don't mind using another application refer to the second. I would recommend the second method.
  
  
  
  
  

.BAT Files method

• Open Notepad and copy paste the directory in it and add this to it - \ChangeScreenResolution.exe /f=60 /d=0'
  
  
  
• Save this file to desktop(or anywhere else you want) but not as a txt file. it should have '.bat' at the end. When you run this .bat file by double clicking it, your display's refresh rate will change to 60 hz. Be sure to run this before starting Risk of Rain.
  
  
• Repeat these same steps with a new text file but instead add this after your directory - \ChangeScreenResolution.exe /f=120/d=0'. If your display is '144hz' or higher than type that instead of '120'.
  
  This will change your refresh rate back to 120hz or whatever max hz your display supports.
  
  
• Run the first file before playing ROR1 and run the second one after closing ROR1.

Playnite Method

Playnite is a custom game launcher and library manager that collects all games from Steam, Epic, GOG, EA, etc into one place. It also lets people run scripts automatically before running a game, during it or after closing the game. I highly recommend this method since you only have to hit play when it's been set up.

• Install Playnite and set it up. It's fairly straightforward and will ask you link steam and whatever else you want. If you managed to install the modloader you won't have issues.
  
  
• Either add the modloader as a custom game or delete 'risk of rain.exe' from the game directory through file explorer and rename the modlauncher as 'Risk of Rain.exe'.
  The latter only helps if you want steam playtime tracking for ROR1 itself and linked Steam in Playnite.
  
  
• right click on the game/select more and then click on edit. Navigate to scripts and copy paste the directory to two boxes labelled 'execute before starting a game' and 'execute after exiting a game'.
  
  
• Add this to the first box: \ChangeScreenResolution.exe /f=60 /d=0'
  
  And add this to the second box: \ChangeScreenResolution.exe /f=120/d=0'. If your display is '144hz' or higher than type that instead of '120'
  
  
  
• Select save and just play when you want. Your refresh rate will switch to 60hz before the game launches and back to your max refresh rate when you close it.