Juicy Performance on AMD

How to improve your performance on AMD

Introduction

Here are two things you should have in order to make the game run much-much better.

First is Resizable Bar or Smart Access Memory (SAM)

Second is using AMD Fluid Motion Frames 2 (AFMF 2)

Both methods require you to pass a checklist in order to use them.

SAM

SAM is the biggest pain here because you need:

1. To understand if your motherboard even supports SAM. I personaly use B450M Pro4-F R2.0 and it works.
   
2. Make sure your BIOS has the latest update.
   
3. Change certain BIOS settings (more on that below)
   
4. Have at least RDNA 2 GPU, aka RX 6000 series and up.
   
5. Check if your systems drive partition style is GPT and not MBR. If it's not GPT this could require the entire system re-install with additional machinations to make sure your system is GPT.
   This is how you check [www.howtogeek.com]

Tough.

Changing BIOS is not really tricky, but due to many motherboard manufacturers I'm not gonna type how to do it for each and single one of them. So this is so called generic method I took from techarp [www.techarp.com]. There you'll find more info about SAM.

This might look stupid and complicated, but for some reason SAM shines in Dead Space Remake. For me it was night and day difference.

AFMF 2

This one is pretty easy. Your GPU should be RDNA 2 or above.
Here is the link [www.amd.com] for more info and driver.

UPDATED 05.10.2024
AFMF 2 is now officially a part of normal drivers, banger.

After installation navigate to Gaming and select your game.

Enable AFMF 2


Now you are presented with additional settings. Search mode and Performance mode.



I have RX 6600, so I use Standard and Quality. But you can use auto if not sure.

Game doesn't have a built-in FPS locker, so we gotta use Radeon Chill.

Here you are yet again presented with two options. Idle FPS and Peak FPS
I recommend using the same preferred number.

Red or Blue

From here you have a choice of what to do next. I like to call em Fidelity and Performance modes.

Fidelity

Having access to AFMF 2 allows you to get twice the frames and less GPU consumption. Meaning we can improve graphics.

For that we will need a thing called Virtual Super Resolution (VSR) Accessable in Settings --> Display
Bear in mind that this might make you use lower values for Radeon Chill. In my case I used 41 instead of 60 (my monitor's refresh rate is 165 hz. Using AFMF I double frames from 41 to 82 in order to get roughly half of my refresh rate)

Using VSR you unlock resolutions that are higher than your monitor and then scale it back to your native resolution. I have a 1080p monitor, so I select 2560x1440 resolution and use FSR 2.0 along it with high settings. You gotta make the game fullscreen btw.
In two very demanding and open areas of the game I get GPU utilization close to 100%, but desired frame rate nonetheless.


You can experiment and drop FSR Mode to Quality and lower graphics to Medium.
Or use Radeon Image Sharpening to improve quality a lil bit.
Game looks great with this imho.

Performance

Now for all you FPS hungry people I present another way to get juicy frames.

Instead of increasing your resolution, we'll be decreasing it, but scale it back to the original one you have using Radeon Super Resolution.
The reason why you want to use this instead of built-in FSR 2.0 is because on resolution of 1080p and below FSR 2.0 causes visible artifacts on holograms, video calls and font. It just makes them look really bad.

You gotta make the game fullscreen and choose resolution lower than your native. If you setup everything correctly, you'll see this in AMD's Overlay (Ctrl + R by default)
(sorry for bad image quality, had to take a photo due to Radeon Overlay refusing to let me screenshot it in-game)

Same settings as before but I turned on Variable Rate Shading to boost performance a lil bit more. Same areas, but In the first case I get desired results, in second one not so much. It's still fine tho.



AMD thingy showed me an average FPS of 114 which is pretty impressive imho.

That's it!

Enjoy your Dead Space. This method works in other games too btw. So make sure to get your deserved generated frames everywhere.

[Dzarmer]

Glad something helped!

[Dark Side Cookies]

Stupid comment limit...

I tried following this guide. SAM was already enabled. Enabling AFMF and trying different frame rates did nothing. Using Chill just introduced tearing. What finally made gameplay smooth was enabling Super Resolution and setting the in game resolution to 1600 x 900, as the OP did. With Vertical Sync enabled in game, framerates stay at a constant 60 fps with no tearing, and the game runs buttery smooth except for slight hiccups during loading triggers, at times barely noticeable. Without VSync I get horrible tearing, but I'm able to push the framerate beyond 200 fps, so it may be possible for other systems to do this if you really wanted to. It could just be my old, crappy monitor. I'm fine with this since pushing framerates too high can lead to funkiness in many games anyway (it can mess with loading or mission triggers and the AI).

Anyway, thank you OP for the recommendation to use Super Res. Now I can piss my pants from all the spoopy gameplay.

[Dark Side Cookies]

My system:
Ryzen 5 7600X
32GB RAM
Radeon RX 6700 XT w/ 12 GB RAM
System and game installed on m.2 SATA drive
1080p 60Hz monitor

Despite exceeding the recommended specs, stock performance in Dead Space Remake is horrible. Constant stuttering and freezing, making it absolutely unplayable during loading triggers (ie practically every doorway) and hoard attacks. I tried so many optimizations and "fixes" but at best I only got it to be somewhat playable if I moved really slowly.