Dead by Daylight | How To Fix Stuttering / FPS Drops (AMD & NVIDIA FIX)

I will help you fix your stutters are suggest reasons why you're stuttering!

DBD Graphic Settings

Open up "Dead by Daylight" and click on "Options"

Then click on "Graphics" set "Vsync" to "Off" & set "FPS Limit" to whatever you want your FPS to be cap at!

AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition

Right click on your desktop and click on "AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition"

After "AMD Software : Adrenalin Edition" opens up click on "Gaming" at the top, Then click on "Display" under "Gaming"

Make sure "Variable-refresh-rate technology" is "Enabled"

After click on "Gaming" at the top, Then click on "Games" under "Gaming"


Look for "Dead by Daylight" and click on it!

"Enabled" "Radeon Chill" set "Min FPS" & "Max FPS" to "The same FPS you set in Dead by Daylight Graphics Settings" Next set "Wait for Vertical Refresh" to "Always on" after set "AMD FreeSync" to "On"

*WARNING* If you can't read what's on the picture all you have to do is click on it to make it bigger!

Nvidia Control Panel

• Step 1 Right click on your desktop and click on "Nvidia Control Panel"

• Step 2 Click on "Set up G-SYNC"

• Step 3 Click on "Enable G-SYNC, G-SYNC Compatible"

• Step 4 Click on "Manage 3D settings"

• Step 5 Scroll down until you see "Max Frame Rate" set "Max Frame Rate" to "On" set "FPS" to "The same FPS you set in Dead by Daylight Graphics Settings"

• Step 6 Scroll down until you see "Vertical sync" set "Vertical sync" to "On"

Disable Mouse Smoothing

Right click on your "Windows Start Button" & click on "Search"


Type "%Appdata%" in the "Search Bar"


Click on "Open"

Click on "AppData" at the top!


Click on the "Local" folder!


Click on the "DeadByDaylight" folder!


Click on the "Saved" folder!


Click on the "Config" folder!


Click on the "WindowsClient" folder!


Click on the "Input.ini" file!


Type the "Command" into the "Input.ini" file!


Click on "File" at the top!


After click on "Save"


Right click on "Input.ini" then click on "Properties"


Make sure "Read-only" is check marked after click on "Apply" then click "OK"

Mouse Polling Rate *WARNING* Must Read

Open up your "Mouse Program" and set your "POLLING RATE" to "125 Hz" *ONLY*

If you don't have a "Mouse Program" search up the brand of your mouse and download the program! If your mouse does not come with one then "Google Search" "How to change your mouse Polling Rate and DPI" and download a "Third Party Program" that works with any mouse!

Alternative Option & Other Reasons Why You're Stuttering

• Alternative Option > "CPU Bottleneck" The only way you can fix this is to buy a better and faster CPU with more Cores and Threads and a Higher Clock Speed!

• Stutter Reason #1 "Bad Game Coding" only game "Devs" can fix this!

• Stutter Reason #2 "Bad GPU Drivers" only the "GPU Manufacturers" can fix the Drivers!

• Stutter Reason #3 GPU Shader Cache Bug & Game Shader Cache Bug!

[NuT_KillerINsyncc]

great post OP only thing i can add is make sure chipset drivers and BIOS is up to date and maybe disabling ULPS on amd cards

[Toanse[PL]]

Thats sucks situations,,,

[MrHustler]

@HellscapeDMN You only want to "limit your frames 2 or 3 frames behind your monitor" if you are using Free Sync or G Sync doing it with V Sync is pointless & Tearing only exists in video games that support True Full Screen Mode! 90% of games these days don't even support it anymore and if you do get tearing you have a slow monitor!

It's a little strange that you're talking about screen tearing when the guide is about stuttering!

[HellscapeDMN]

Free sync is like v sync but only with new monitors, also did you know people use v sync wrong always limit your frams 2 or 3 frams behind your monitor limit prevent screen tearing

[Isagi Yoichi]

do you know why when i try 360ing my frames drop a lot started happening after the update

[MrHustler]

@cyischill Glad I could help you!

[cyischill]

@MrHustler

Played a lot of games in custom matches and stuttering is slowly disappearing!

Thanks for the response!

[MrHustler]

@cyischill A CPU Bottleneck is having a CPU that has less cores than what the game recommends! The game need 8 you have 10!

Have you tried playing the game for a couple days and letting every single map in the game full load all the games shared cache?

Maybe the GPU driver you have makes the game stutter are maybe the game release a update that causes the stutters there's so many possibilities!

[cyischill]

Hey! Im experiencing some stutters...

I have and i5-13400F and a RTX 4060 Ti.

Would that be a CPU bottleneck? Im not sure what it is. I have tried everything

[MrHustler]

@REVobey It's been a little while since I played maybe there was an update that changed something not too sure you could try putting it in both!