Performance / FPS tips "POST ARMOR UPDATE"

Couple tips to make Cruelty Squad run better, this game has a few but very odd performance bugs, some recording software tips too (not advanced at all)

Tip 1: CruS most elusive FPS bug

Cruelty Squad's strangest performance bug:

Be sure to have game and operating system set to native monitor resolution together with operating system font scaling at 100% (Windows OS), this is the most elusive performance bug the game has, for some reason if any of these are mismatched it is likely to cause performance issues, mind that some computer systems experience different degrees of this problem depending on these settings, and some systems appear to not suffer from it.
On windows just type "change display resolution" on the search bar thingy to see these settings mentioned above.
*One last note: the game appears to not like running on lower resolutions, but this is pure speculation as of now, i have no evidence of this being true yet.

To put it bluntly Cruelty Squad is the planetary alignment of videogames, if something is not aligned it won't run well due to completely unknown reasons, it's probably just Godot idk.

Tip 2: Game settings

On the settings menu there are 5 things that can impact frame rate, these are reflections, performance mode, game resolution (obviously), fullscreen check box and NPC population (Civilians) density slider, here are some examples on how to adapt the game for your computer:

*If you have a potato PC performance mode will help you, but if you have a regular computer performance mode is going to lock you in 30 FPS mode (this is bad).
*Reflections is GPU dependent so if your computer can run it that's fine.
*Fullscreening is something you have to test on your own, some computers run better while off and others do not.
*Civ slider has a massive impact on performance even on beefy computers so you may wanna turn it down, a good value is usually 35-45% on the slider, this is a good sacrifice between not playing in a ghost town and actually having the game run well.
*Game resolution: try to keep it in line with tip 1 if possible, the only exception for this rule is for potato PCs.

Tip 3: External software

*Anything that hooks to the game or is running on the background can impact the game performance, i know this one is kinda obvious, but if your game is running kinda crap look for something running on your pc and go checking by closing it to see if the game runs better.

*For recording software mind what you are using, MSI afterburner recording kills the FPS in this game, while OBS recording has minimal impact on it, this tip is not very specific, but if you are trying to get game footage or something else and you are running into problems like this, try recording with another software.

*Also be sure to have your pc HDDs/SSDs and any other hardware a check, clean up some space to see if the game runs a bit better, well im not a software/hardware person but after i uninstalled a bunch of junk and cleaned up my storage both the game and my PC are a bit faster, again this one is obvious but never have your storage above 80% or whatever.

Tip 4: FPS limiting software

Cruelty squad starts to run a bit crusty past 240 FPS, so limit it with something like RivaTuner or whatever you like to use for this job.
It's highly recommended to match the FPS limiter to your monitor's refresh rate, not so sure about adaptive frame sync monitors since i don't have one.

Tip 5: Mod fixes

DX made a patch to fix the stutter most players have been suffering after the armor update, thx DX!
Also i got info about this mod from a comment in this very guide, thanks!
Warning: exercise caution with any external links you may find on this guide.
Mod link: https://crus.cc/mod/stutter_fix/


Another thing, modding this game isn't exactly straight forward so here is a guide by another big shot in the CruS community that will help you with any mod related thing.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2609814184

Tip 6: OBS decrusting guide

There are many recording software but I don't have time to try them all so here are my tips for recording Cruelty Squad with OBS as it has by far been "the most reliable or most compliant with CruS", didn't put too much effort into this but i think it's easy enough to understand, sorry if it's very basic.

Source capture tab, lock video capture at your native monitor resolution.


do the clicking




select that thing, it stops OBS black screening when changing game resolution or alt-tabbing.


these last 2 images you kinda are on your own if you don't understand the basics of OBS, go look for a tutorial on YT or something.



that should be all, hope it helps.

[StewieSizzurp]

I had an issue where the refresh rate on my monitor would lock at 60 fps whenever I went onto the application and stay that way after I closed it. That 100% font scaling is no joke

[delta]

If you have an AMD card, turning on the FPS overlay built into Adrenaline gives me a huge boost in fps and way less stutters. Feels a lot smoother to play. maybe someone else can try this to confirm it's not just a weird thing that only works on my system lol

[HUEVO]

thx for the tips

[wget]

this mod fixes any sort of stuttering for me (it forces everything to load on level start): https://crus.cc/mod/stutter_fix/

[bea]

one fix i can recommend is to check your monitor's refresh rate and change it to a full number (no decimals), the game ran like shit to me until i changed my refresh rate (i changed it from 59.somethingHz to 60Hz and its total night and day)

[Cruelty]

install stutter fix mod on crus.cc

[bel]

yeah ive been tryin alot of shit its really weird, first time i shoot it stutters then never again

[yobel]

have seen this issue but haven't experienced it myself outside of neuron activator, idk how to solve it

[bel]

yeah my game gets insane fps drops when i shoot for whatever reason lol