3 Simple Steps GUARANTEED to fix your HOGWARTS LEGACY PC Performance

[@Scizzz]

Between the last 2 fixes my FPS has boosted and is stable. 1440p. RTX 3080 FTW Ultra. Ryzen 9 3900X @4.2 and 32 GB RAM. Everything on High, Texture Quality Ultra. Playing at capped 60FPS I would drop to around 45 47 in Hogsmead and other zones. Now capped I stay at a constant 59-60 FPS. Uncapped in the same spot I'm staying around 65-67 FPS and ~70-80+ in the less busy areas of Hogsmead. Inside the school I'm getting 100+ FPS. No stutters so far and no GPU 100% spikes causing lag for now. Thanks for this!

[@AlexGavei]

I'll try these tips,however the game has serious optimization problems,I didn't have such a bad experience since Cyberpunk release.I hope the developers say something and gave us a fix patch or something.Because having a rtx3080 and the fps dropping from 60 to 9 and having textures and lighting issues is just killing me.

[@DPDanielPlays]

Oh absolutely! I even say that in the video, the core optimization issue needs to be fixed by Avalanche, and they have been curiously silent since launch. No day 1 patch, no recognition that there are performance issues, nothing. So we just gotta sit tight and hope that the game will run "as advertised" soon..

[@AlexGavei]

@@DPDanielPlays Disabling the G-Sync thing from Nvidia settings panel worked for me.Fps drops are still common in certain areas but atleast i got the lighting and textures issues solved.

[@Darkpeun]

my VGA is RTX 2060 and i saw this in Reddit and it's work for me bro. Windowed Fullscreen Changed all from Ultra to High settings All Raytracing settings off Turn AA to lowest setting Upscale none Nvidia Reflex off V Sync off Max Frame Rate whatever your refresh rate is mine is 240. HDR on (if you have it) FOV - Max Motion Blur, DOF, CA and film grain off. Double check you have dedicated GPU selected in settings. Frame Generation / Upscale options / DLSS I set to all off and didn't feel the need to use them but DLSS might help you more if still struggling depending if your hardware supports it and/or you need to. this is best solution for me so far. i hope this help.

[@iBlackWolfZz]

@@AlexGavei Can you please elaborate on what you did ? I have the annoying texture glitching/flickering issue and i use gsync also

[@AlexGavei]

@@iBlackWolfZz 1-Right click on your desktop. 2-NVIDA Control Panel. 3-Go to Set Up G-SYNC and untick the first option that enabes G-SYNC. 4-Click on apply and the screen will go black for a few seconds. Let me know if worked.

[@decoryder]

Running this game on a 3090 and a system with 64GB RAM - zero issues. On the Wife's system though with 16GB RAM and an AMD RX 5700xt it's a hot mess - lots of stuttering and generally poor performance. I feel sorry for people trying to run this on a laptop. This game needs some optimization patches ASAP.

[@Avomecajo]

Okay, I tried a bunch of stuff and kept having frame drops, so I was sceptical. But damn, actually worked. So much smoother now, thanks. Ryzen 5 5600x + rtx3070 +16gb ram btw.

[@DPDanielPlays]

Same with me bro! I tried everything else, some helped a bit here and there, but still had dips to 8fps. Almost lost hope, but this one actually helped. Still getting dips, but the lowest it goes is like 40fps, so at least it got the game to a "playable" state.

[@kasperski-fr]

I have the exact same config. Hope it works for me

[@khaansulu5695]

@@DPDanielPlays I think it just doesn't like nvidia lol my game was running fine on high-ultra settings before release day, the release day patch drops and so does my fps. Tried the fix and no lag at all now, 70 fps in Hogsmeade and I'm using a R5 3600x, RX 5600 XT and 16GB RAM

[@goblinslayer1542]

bro what average are ypu getting what settings, hogsmeade and castle

[@dany20100001]

what if I have 8 gb of VRAM that's nether less nor greater than 8. Do I use 4096 or 3072 ?

[@khaansulu5695]

Would be 8 or less for 3072, because he said 4096 is if you have more than 8.

[@chris23055]

2070S 8GB. Went for 3072 and it works great

[@ThatLadLegend]

Just a small edit for the path in the description. **C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Local\Hogwarts Legacy\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor** this way you can just do Win+R and paste this in and it will fill your username in automatically.

[@SuperBrooooo]

Ok, believe it, or not, this really helps. On my mid-range laptop (if it is midrange and not low range at this point: i7-9750H / 16 GB RAM / 2060 RTX) the game runs on 40-45 FPS, but shutters as hell. Made these steps and perfectly fine. Thank you so much.

[@OnBrandRP]

I think the final two finally fixed most of my stutters. I still do around Hogsmeade and a bit in Hogwarts but those feel more like hardware limitations. I can now play on all High with fog, population and view distance on medium and DLSS set to Quality.

[@DPDanielPlays]

Glad to hear it worked for you!

[@Bappow]

Whats ur specs if you don’t telling

[@madebyfors9324]

Can confirm this works went from having major dips to bearly having dips All setting are now maxed out getting consistent frames

[@DPDanielPlays]

Great! Glad it worked 🙌

[@jonathanblackwell42]

Tip for finding the local app data folder: in explorer's address bar enter %localappdata% and press enter It'll take you right to it

[@khaansulu5695]

During the 72 hour early access the game was running fine on ultra, then the release day patch comes out and I get constant frame drops, especially in Hogsmeade and random crashes. Update. Just did the first 2 steps since I use AMD, 70 FPS on high-ultra settings in Hogsmeade now, no stuttering at all. Bloody brilliant!

[@chris23055]

Absolutely fantastic. Made a huge difference for me. It was definitely the added code in step 2 that did it, since I already had done the other two steps. Rtx 2070 super, high settings, ultra textures, 1440p dlss quality. 70% average gpu utilization at 60fps. Small drops are barely noticeable while before it was unplayable at places like hogsmeade. Ps. My card has exactly 8gb of vram and I went for the 3072 in settings

[@DPDanielPlays]

Great to hear!

[@MatrixOracleYT]

@@DPDanielPlays 3072 is a good setting for exact 8gb of Vram ? or maybe is better a little more ? BTW I LOVE YOU THANKS

[@kylesandborn4284]

I have the a 2070 super with an i7 9700f. was step 2 that good? Im skeptical of changing code. done everything else and then sum. im doubling my ram to 32gb tonite because that seemed to be the bottleneck.

[@kylesandborn4284]

replying again, I updated my RAM to 32gb from 16gb, with my 2070 super. and now its runs like a dream. The game is taking 14gb ram by itself. It was a RAM bottleneck it seems.

[@chris23055]

@@kylesandborn4284 thanks for sharing. Something really weird must be going on behind the scenes for the game to need THAT much ram. I can understand it for Ultra settings but it was choppy at medium too. With GPU at 55%..... BTW changing that code is completely reversible but seems unnecessary now that you're all set. Enjoy :)

[@firefoxy2023]

2nd step helped a lot! Thanks no more laggy cutscenes and gameplay

[@DPDanielPlays]

Glad it helped!

[@dkat1108]

Great video and the best part it you say "back up your folder" good job all around thanks for the tips...

[@DPDanielPlays]

Thanks a lot! Appreciate the support 🙏

[@pingpongun8519]

Didn't really work for me, but the stutter doesn't bother me that mutch. It's just inside hogwarts and hogsmead so no game breaking

[@DPDanielPlays]

Ugh sorry mate! Try upgrading your DLSS version (if you are running DLSS). The game uses an old version 2.3 something, you can use DLSS swapper program to upgrade it to the latest 2.5.1. That also helped some people. Or switching to AMD FSR2 with max sharpness, for some folks AMD FSR2 runs better than DLSS (even with nvidia card)

[@kronikz_2210]

I mean, hogwarts and hogsmeade are the main parts of the game, so I would say its a bit of a problem. Its especially annoying when you stutter while running through the halls

[@DPDanielPlays]

I feel ya, it totally takes me out of the immersion, which is what I wanted the most from this game -.-

[@EasyRandy]

But it was Guaranteed!!

[@olsonbrandon91]

@@EasyRandy called out lol

[@JustInTimeRSA]

Going to test these out later, thanks! :D Ryzen 7 1800X, GTX 3060 and 16GB RAM. Game has mostly been fine to play all set to Medium with vsync enabled. Hits 60 but depending on where I go/areas it can drop to 35fps. Stutters are also a thing. It's noticeable, but it didn't totally break the game for me. Been happy playing, just wishing for more stability. Hoping these sttings will work!

[@MrLOLFRATZE]

Dont use V-Sync, cap your Fps on 60fps or on the Hz from your Monitor. Its better for the Latency and performance. :) *and have the same effect

[@JustInTimeRSA]

@@MrLOLFRATZE Thanks for the tip! With regards to the above methods, none of them ended up making my game much better. Even after the two small recent updates the game received - I'm getting slightly better performance in some areas but the stuttering continues. Sadge. Not game breaking though!

[@MrLOLFRATZE]

@@JustInTimeRSA by me it helps me alot to Change the "Shader Cache" in my nvidia control panel, from "Auto" to "10gb" with some Optimized settings it Runs AT High/Ultra WQHD DLSS Quality with Sharpness on 2.5 It runs Nearly perfect. The must give us the Exclusive Fullscreen Mode, for Priority for the Task. It will helps alot, didnt know, why They still didn't patch it.

[@firefoxy2023]

Hope this helps low end pc users! Display options Upscale type: FSR 2 Upscale mode: FSR 2 performance It will take away graphics quality but increase your fps to make the gameplay less choppy!

[@DPDanielPlays]

Eh for some people yes. Even for me sometimes FSR2 gives better performance, other times DLSS is a bit better. But yeah try all upscaling options and see what gives you the best results!

[@thomasmorin2811]

Thank you for this guide it fixed my stutter. I have constant annoying stutter in every fight, some times even for a whole second a frozen screen. Now the game is very smooth with a very rare stutter in populated area. Oh and i used to play in High / Medium and now im on Ultra. Thoses tips are really magic ! 10 points to your house my good sir !

[@DPDanielPlays]

Glad I could help

[@davinxy001]

If your graphics card has less than 8gb use PoolSize=3072; if it has more than 8gb use 4096. Mine (rtx 3070) has exactly 8gb so what value should I set?

[@DPDanielPlays]

3072 :)

[@killersleeve382]

@@DPDanielPlays Ty! The wife will test all 3 on stream tonight. Hopefully obs will stop crashing mid stream now. Can’t believe this game is this thicc. A 5800x and a 3060ti should have been sufficient

[@DPDanielPlays]

Oh yeah, these changes actually allowed me to stream again. Before, the whole PC was freezing every minute or so, stream was getting choppy and Streamlabs crashing. This should definitely help!

[@olsonbrandon91]

Good stuff man, I'll try this out for sure.

[@DPDanielPlays]

Hope it works bro!

[@maxschaffels2164]

Rarely trust these to work but this had an immediate effect for me. Before, the game stuttered fairly significantly even when not lagging and lag occurred randomly throughout the day. All gone, maintaining a steady framerate and only some stuttering when entering/exiting menus. i7-7700HQ CPU @ 2.80GHz, GTX 1060 6GB, 16 GB RAM, playing on High Settings & TAA High - No Upscaling.

[@MegaDonaldduck1]

drastic changes here man. thanks

[@DPDanielPlays]

No problem 👍

[@codogholder1857]

i think it would be more important if you explained what all this meant like , what is hardware accelerated gpu , and what does that code exactly do and mean ? what does it affect ? you know all of this info would of been great

[@DPDanielPlays]

I mean you can look up on google what hardware accelerated GPU means. But sure... Hardware Accelerated GPU Scheduling ensures that the CPU won't have to continuously work at churning out the frame data required by the GPU. This helps lower the CPU utilization and improve its clock speeds by a few percent, allowing it to handle processing-heavy tasks smoothly. As for the code, it makes changes to the UE4 performance, below is a link to the exact post that line by line explains what is being modified: www.reddit.com/r/HarryPotterGame/comments/10zeh67/comment/j84fdka/?context=3 And as for the shader cache size... All this option does is allow you to limit how much hard disk space total can be used for the shader cache. Shader caching is a big performance positive, and if your game/application has to regenerate new or missing shaders it takes time. Some games will do this while loading either before the menu or as it's loading level data, you can even be sat waiting for even a few minutes if many shaders are out of date or not present and need to be compiled, some games may only compile shaders on the fly instead and this can give performance drops (stutter) during gameplay.

[@abeart6293]

Im on laptop i5 11 gen 3050ti 16 Giga and IT WORKS AMAZING! Tysm for that!

[@darthmolester]

denuvo is the cause of the system instability in pc..im sure of it...i mean they only can delay empress from cracking the game...sooner empress will crack it anyway...

[@Nadz203]

I recommend not changing Global Setting in the Nvidia control panel!! You could inadvertently cause issues with other games. Instead go to the Program Setting tab and make the change for just Hogwarts Legacy.

[@tomorpedreiro3032]

shader cache file is only in global my friend, otherwise you are correct

[@kristinaro4380]

This fix worked really well until the patch update yesterday :/ now the game is not playable, always crashes directly after the start. Anyone else experiencing this? I now need a fix for the patch haha

[@DPDanielPlays]

That’s weird man! I made a new video with performance after the patch and it’s no change for me. Not better, not worse, and still using the Engine modified file, no issues 🤔

[@m7gh827]

Same here even with 4070 ti. This game needs a patch asap.

[@PureTazr]

Just FYI your C drive is in the red delete stuff to take it to the blue color for a health drive.

[@DPDanielPlays]

Bro I know 😂 I’ve been clearing my temp folders and other stuff daily..it’s just a small Ssd I need to upgrade to 1TB once I decide to reinstall the whole damn thing 🤦‍♂️

[@Master_Orange_TTV]

I am running a RTX3070 Ti and I have to say this made everything much much WORSE :/ I don't understand

[@kerenverna]

Thanks, really help. I play low and dlss in performance too. When the game is a bit lag, i just reboot the pc and open the game again. My pc is ryzen 5, 3600, 16 gb ram, rtx 2060.

[@DPDanielPlays]

Glad it helped!

[@FaelonZ]

It's still stuttering but in a different way now like it's hard capped at 60 fps or something, you can see the visual ticks of the frame rate now whereas before you could not, so it is in fact still stuttering, but the fps isn't dropping down to single digits anymore so far. It's most likely one of those things only controller players will notice since the camera pan is much smoother than a mouse camera so it's more noticeable of extra frame ticks. This probably works for most people, but it's just creating a different problem for me

[@ddbanks8290]

Using the cracked version and can’t find the engine.ini file. Any suggestions? I have no Hogwarts legacy folder in my appdata

[@DPDanielPlays]

Bro no idea about cracked version 😂

[@khristofforov692]

Hogwarts folder, located in phoenix folder

[@Kress_SK]

It helped a good bit here, thx! Now we wait for the proper optimization by avalanche

[@DPDanielPlays]

Eyyy glad to hear bro! Yeah, now we wait for something that actually supports their requirements. I barely get 40fps when I crank up everything to ultra on 1440p (that's WITH DLSS and without RT). I should be able to run this game on ultra 1440p with RT and no DLSS with stable 60fps..

[@floppi77]

This helped me alot (Step 2+3) -- but with Final Fantasy 7 Remake which is also UE4. Tried alot and nothing works really good. Took me from 7fps 1%low to ~50fps 1%low. lol Thank you! ;)

[@DPDanielPlays]

Glad it helped!

[@ahisay7423]

Can u help me what should I put in engine ini for 8gb gpu..4096 or 3072?

[@DPDanielPlays]

3072 bro

[@shadeis9276]

Does your system have 16GB or 32GB of system RAM? Many people point out that if you have 16GB, the game simply will stutter no matter what you do.

[@DPDanielPlays]

I have 32GB, but I think that's why the guide recommends switching nvidia panel shader cache settings to 10GB. I noticed that the game will eat up to 16/17GB of I let it, but with this shader cache setting on, it won't go over 10GB, which leaves still plenty of resources for other processes for 16GB systems.

[@shadeis9276]

@@DPDanielPlays Yeah, I just tested the settings in the video. On 1080p, it's hopeless, I still get 1 fps for 1% lows which creates HUGE freezing and makes the game unplayable. The game just eats too much of my RAM (all 16GB). VRAM seems to be doing fine

[@MrArrmageddon]

@@DPDanielPlays If I have a 64GB of Ram, 12700K and a 4080? Will any of these steps still potentially help me? Or are these for people who mostly have lower amounts of ram or Vram? I already had the accelerated GPU scheduling enabled. But my shader cache is driver default. And I don't really like copying a bunch of stuff into a config file without kind of understand how or why it may help. Even if it's a brief description. But thanks for the video non the less it will help a lot of people. And maybe even myself who knows.

[@DPDanielPlays]

I think from testing the update of the Engine.ini file is what REALLY gets rid of the stutters, more than the other two steps. Here is a link to the guy explaining what each line of the added text means, but to me that's a Spanish village, I have no idea about Unreal Engine. But it might make you feel more (or less) comfortable with updating the Engine.ini file :) And yes, even with your pretty powerful rig it should get rid of the low fps stutter drops ^^ www.reddit.com/r/HarryPotterGame/comments/10zeh67/comment/j84fdka/?context=3

[@shigarumo121]

For me, it didn't changed, after upgrading from 16gb 2400 to 32gb 3600 DDR4.. I still get those fps drops down to 1-8fps, even after I tried several "fixes".

[@cosmin13alex]

Hello guys, I have an issue, i can't find the Hogwarts folder, i find the app data folder, but the game folder not, do you have any solutions?

[@killersleeve382]

What about if your graphics card has 8gb not more or less? Is it 3072 for 8 or less? Or is it 8 or more? 3060ti

[@DPDanielPlays]

3072 unless you have more than 8GB :)

[@mo0qt122]

Didnt worked for me. I have still fps drops from 75 to 1-4. Its horrible and i havent fun anymore to play this game. It was for me the worst buy of a game ive ever did.

[@DPDanielPlays]

Bruh sorry... there was just a patch released, official one. It didn't help me any further, but it might help you? check it out!

[@TwilightTeaTV]

i have the game on steam followed the steps in the video, got to my engine file went to edit it, but i do not have systems settings at the bottom of the page as you do! just wondering if i may have done something wrong or as its on steam maybe its in a different place?

[@DPDanielPlays]

That's weird since I have a steam game as well!

[@Master_Orange_TTV]

This ruined my play experience so badly that I havent been able to touch the game in more the two weeks :( It's completely unplayable after these suggestions. What is weird is that even if I revert all settings and restore my original backed up folder.... the poor performance stays. I was playing comfortably at medium, minor stutters so when I saw this I figured hay maybe with this I can play on High. All options followed correctly, and even went as far as using DLSS Swapper as recommended in comments. This game is now unplayable for me and it breaks my heart :(

[@jn291]

Tried this, 2070 super, i can run almost any game at max graphics but with this I couldn't even get it on low. I did everything I could and got no results, DLSS swapping and everything. Gotta wait for patch which sucks cus i spent 80 dollars on this stinking hot mess of a poorly optimized game 😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@borges3099]

seemed to make a big difference especially around hogwarts for me i7 8700k gtx 1070 16gb..70 fps to 1-3 fps drops before (lol wtf), now im dropping slightly to like 40s but goes back to 60+ quick definitely playable now

[@DPDanielPlays]

Glad it helped! Same with me. I can still see some drops but to low 40s at most, not below 10 like before lol

[@vincentvanschie9559]

Hey I have the same specs except I have a i7 4770. How does the game perform for you overall and on what graphics settings are you playing? I'm considering buying this game but am scared that it doesn't run well so a replay would be appreciated:)

[@DPDanielPlays]

I would wait if I were you for first official performance patch released by Avalanche, and confirmed by users that it addresses the performance issues. Then buy it and don’t have to deal with anything , just set the settings to what the “benchmark” recommends and you’re good to go.

[@borges3099]

@@vincentvanschie9559 medium/low i get roughly 50-60 fps, 70-80 in some areas, on a res a little higher than 1080p. Bit extensive. You might have trouble on a 4770

[@borges3099]

@@DPDanielPlays Any idea when it's dropping?

[@MommyHibana]

i cant see to find that file, i have one that says engine , but not engine.ini any ideas ?

[@DPDanielPlays]

It's the same, you just can't see the file types. If you are in that folder and you see Engine, that's the file you modify.

[@psfriends4234]

I have a 1080ti with 11GB of VRAM, what numbers should I put? 4096?

[@DPDanielPlays]

Yep go with 4096!

[@paulr9211]

You have any tips. So I bought the game 2 days ago and I can’t even get it to start. It just crashes at the prepairing shaders

[@keithboon]

my rtx only has 10gb vram and i notice when vram usage reach 9gb and it start use system shared memory which fps to 3-5fps so should i not follow your part 3 setting you set to 10gb?

[@DPDanielPlays]

The second step is where most people see the biggest change, so you can skip the 3rd step if the 2nd one fixes your issues.

[@keithboon]

@@DPDanielPlays i just tried it still stuttering unless i set texture and view distance to high

[@YugimonZ]

This was amazing. I went from lagging constantly with the lowest setting with barely hitting 60 fps to getting 90 fps with he lowest setting while streaming. THANK YOU!! Avalanche really needs to see this.

[@DPDanielPlays]

Eyyyy glad it helped!!

[@olican101]

I have a 1080, one of the best cards of its time, and still a good card to this day. I am getting literally 7 fps. This game has had ZERO optimisation.

[@DPDanielPlays]

Oh yeah for sure the game needs to get some huge optimization kick

[@ashhhton]

The Engine.ini fix mentioned 6 and 8-10 gb cards, i have a RTX3090 with 24GB. How do i calculate the pool size? Thanks

[@DPDanielPlays]

Use 4096 you should be good to go

[@RoScriptzzz]

my graphics card has 8194 vram should i use 3072 or 4094

[@DPDanielPlays]

I would try both and see which one works better for you! Some report one works better than other

[@aampt9236]

It works in my RTX 3070 and R7 5800X :) Big thanks

[@DPDanielPlays]

Great! Glad it helped :)

[@its_alex1621]

Do you know what I have to enter in the "SystemSettings" with an RTX 2070? 4096 or 3072?

[@DPDanielPlays]

For 2070 I would go with 3072 🙌

[@its_alex1621]

@@DPDanielPlays thanks 🙏

[@heartablaze6029]

I have 1660s with ryzen 7 3800x and i have stutters like crazy i’am considering upgrading my gpu to 3060ti or so would u recommend? Or this game is a lost cause no matter what

[@DPDanielPlays]

3060ti should run the game on Ultra in 1080p, with some RT on med/high...so if you get a good deal, go for it. But if you are getting it specifically for this game, I would wait at least until Avalanche announces first patch that addresses the performance issues, and when the patch comes it's actually confirmed that it worked.

[@shigarumo121]

@@DPDanielPlays I have the 3060ti and basically it could run the game at 1440p on Ultra + DLSS Quality + Raytracing, but these fps drops, stuttering etc. are still there.. Because I have the 3060ti and also no "fixes" helped so far. And it doesn't matter which settings I use, even on 720p Low, the fps drops are occuring.

[@blackhawkcz1895]

Thank you! i have no lag in Hogsmeade which i find crazy!

[@khaansulu5695]

Oh man, Hogsmeade with the million jack o'lanterns right now is lag central

[@DPDanielPlays]

Glad it worked for you!

[@marciechowski]

thanks! Works much better (rtx 3070 and ryzen 3600)

[@DPDanielPlays]

Good to hear! Almost same as mine, Ryzen 3700 and GTX 3080ti. Try also switching from DLSS to AMD FSR2 (with full sharpness). Looks almost better than DLSS and runs a bit smoother for me (even though I have nvidia..)

[@ygg0231]

whats your settings and resolution?

[@DPDanielPlays]

I tried 3440x1440, and 4k. Surprisingly it almost feels like 4k runs a tiny bit better (lol), as for settings, I run no RT, everything else on Ultra except for Clouds/Fog on Medium and Shadows on Medium.

[@rocksfire4390]

just FYI to people, 16gb is NOT enough for this game. the game uses like 10.5gb in town, your system uses 1-2gb. so unless you have nothing else running on your computer....chances are your system is paging ram, which is insanely INSANELY slow and will cause stuttering and can tank your fps while the ram is being switched to and from ssd/hhd. i got 970 gpu, 5600 cpu, 32gb of ram. low settings (medium effects). and yes i do get slow downs but it's 100% because my gpu is 9 years old, not because the game isn't optimized or whatever nonsense people are trying to say. if your hardware sucks, lower your settings. if you want higher graphic settings then suck it up and go fork out the money for the hardware. this game is more ram/cpu bound then it is GPU bound.

[@DPDanielPlays]

Bro this game is FOR SURE not optimized. When people like me with 3080ti that runs Cyberpunk on Psycho with RT full on, and I can barely run this game on High without any RT AND with DLSS on barely at 50fps...there is clearly an optimization issue, not a hardware issue. I have 32GB memory, that's not the issue.

[@shigarumo121]

Ryzen 5600 + RTX 3060ti + 32gb 3600 Ram = From 720p Low settings up top 1440p Ultra and I still get fps drops down to 1-8fps every minute, especially the cutscenes are just diashows. If it runs for you, you can see yourself lucky, but for others, like me, it's unplayable.

[@rocksfire4390]

​@@shigarumo121 starting to sound more like a driver issue in your case, if it's happening on even low settings. i started playing on 6 month old drivers but i did update mine last night just to be sure and it's still running the same. i don't know if you can roll back drivers or update but might be worth giving a try if you feel up to it. hope things resolve soon =(

[@rocksfire4390]

@@DPDanielPlays that's not a optimization issue, that's just a massive bug or (more likely) a driver issue. if it was a optimization issue i wouldn't be able to play on a 9 year old gpu. also my setup gets exactly the same fps amounts in cyberpunk as it does in this game. it does depend on the area, some areas slow down some are butter smooth. my point is they act more or less the same on my hardware/software. so again this isn't a optimization issue and calling it one is just plain wrong and quite honestly not helpful. this isn't something they can wave a magic wand at and make go away. this is VERY likely a driver issue because when cyberpunk came out, it had massive performance and graphic issues that got resolved by driver updates.

[@shigarumo121]

@@rocksfire4390 Well, I first started to play the game with older drivers, but updated every driver which could affect performance, but there was no change. It's only happening in this game, every other game runs fine. Also there was no change after switching from 16gb 2400 Ram to 32gb 3600 Ram. So, either they implemented the nvidia stuff incorrectly and it got buggy, because with AMD FSR it runs better in general - I had to turn off everything related to Nvidia and it just runs with FSR 2.0 on Ultra Peformance - , or it's just simply not well optimized. Bad optimization could also mean, newer hardware may run worse than older hardware and vice versa. Also, I saw a video, where the RTX 3060 12gb beats the RTX 3060ti with only 8gb in performance, even though the 3060 is way slower. Which is another example of bad optimization, because the game just takes memory like crazy, which it shouldn't do, if a game is well optimized

[@plood5182]

I dont have hardware Accelerated option on my computer:(

[@DPDanielPlays]

The second step is what really helped most people, so if you can't complete the 1st step, you should still see some improvementby completing step 2 and 3!

[@BrunoFerreira-fp1vb]

Now you should make a video showing us the real performance after changes. Try to use msi afterburner with frametime graphs.

[@DPDanielPlays]

I can try! A video before these changes, and a video after these changes in the same locations. Good tip!

[@xFaZebRuTaLx]

I didnt backup my config files how do i get everything to reset? I modified engine and another file

[@DPDanielPlays]

Just backtrack, delete the text you added from the Engine.ink file and you should be good to go 👌

[@xFaZebRuTaLx]

@@DPDanielPlays i didnt use text from your video i used it from somewhere else and forgot what i added i also added thing to “gameusersettings” file

[@Eric-jo6ku]

I am not sure why some people have issues running 3080 at 4k perfectly maxed out minus RT at 120 FPS consistently. Perhaps a bunch of outdated drivers?

[@DPDanielPlays]

Na man, latest drivers updated. Not sure either but it’s lagging even at 1080p lol

[@Eric-jo6ku]

@@DPDanielPlays Sorry to hear that ...didn't mean to imply it wasnt a real issue worth attention. It is just baffling. Thanks for posting this should help a lot of people out. 👍

[@FaridRudiansyah]

Graphics scheduling is a disaster. Disable it, Not only fix Stuttering also fix OBS randomly freeze during streaming.

[@bossablossom1573]

I love you. Thank you I was about to refund this game but I saw your video first. Very easy and understandable Thanks again.

[@DPDanielPlays]

Glad I could help!

[@Assonek]

Thanks for the video, I’ll try it soon with hope that it will work for me. I bought the game and from the very start it keeps lagging so bad that it’s impossible to play. So I hope that I’ll finally be able to play it.

[@DPDanielPlays]

That's how I was bro! Almost killed my hype for the game, every minute I got drops down to 10fps (you can see my stream how frustrated I was). I still get stutter drops, but they go from 70fps down to like 45 lowest. I also upgraded the game's DLSS (using DLSS swapper) from 2.3 version which is old, to 2.5.1 the newest, and I switched from running DLSS altogether to running AMD FSR2 with maxed out sharpness. The game looks better than with DLSS and runs smoother. Hope it works for you!

[@Anakin93]

What if i have 8 gb gpu? should i go for 3072?

[@DPDanielPlays]

yep, 3072!

[@lightspeedtv6176]

Will this also help with GTX 1050 ti? :)

[@DPDanielPlays]

It definitely should!

[@bossablossom1573]

After the patch, did you any issue??

[@DPDanielPlays]

No change after the patch mage...same crap

[@bossablossom1573]

The game crashed after recent update sir. Did you get crash too?

[@shigarumo121]

Unfortunatley it didn't helped for me.. Ryzen 5600, RTX 3060ti and 32Gb 3600 DDR4 Ram. I still get those fps drops down to 1-8fps every few minutes, but especially in cutscenes. This was already the 4th "solution" I tried, but nothing worked for me so far. It also doesn't matter which settings I use. Everything from Low 720p up to 1440p Ultra + Raytracing, I still get those fps drops.

[@DPDanielPlays]

Damn bro, are you running DLSS? If you are, try upgrading to a new version. The game runs on an old version and some people have seen a huge improvement.

[@shigarumo121]

@@DPDanielPlays It didn't matter, it happened with DLSS or not. But it seems I found a solution for now. I never went out of the common rooms in the beginning, after the house selection, because of those FPS drops, even in the prologue and also those Diashow cutscenes. In the common room I just had like 15fps at first. But after switching to FSR 2.0. to Ultra Performance with Medium settings and turning off everything related to Nvidia features, helped so far. At least I could watch the cutscenes for the first time - there was still a fps drop at the beginning of the Great Hall cutscene though, but only down to 20fps this time. Hopefully I can run the rest of the game now. As I said, I never left the common room. 😅 It seems, the game has a general problem with Nvidia features, at least in my case.

[@DPDanielPlays]

Well at least sounds like the game is playable now lol, good!

[@AndrewB23]

You can't fix it it's literally just the game optimization, I have a 4090 and 7700x I can adjust it all I want it still stutters

[@DPDanielPlays]

You can't fix the game running smoothly 60fps on ultra with RT on and no DLSS. Agreed with you there, thats pure game optimization issue. But you can get rid of stutters and dips from 60fps down to 5fps, which is what this solution presents :)

[@robqiao]

How do you navigate to the correct folder? Its saved on a hard drive.

[@DPDanielPlays]

You start whenever you windows is installed and then follow the path in the description 👌

[@chrizzy2664]

Now it instantly crashes when i press Play

That did nothing to me 😢

[@COLT-GameplaysandShorts]

I did the first and third step and worked out for me, for now I recommend people to put all the ray tracing stuff off, at makes big difference too

[@Selxis]

Didn't do much if anything. I'm still getting major drops and very unstable frame rates in Hogwarts Castle and Hogsmeade on my RTX 3080 Ti, i7-8086K 32GB DDR4 @3840x1600 w/ DLSS on.

[@DPDanielPlays]

Mmmm try updating your DLSS version then, the game uses an old version (2.3. something). Get a DLSS swapper app and switch it to 2.5.1 which is the latest, some saw a big improvement in performance. If that doesn't work, try switching from DLSS to AMD FSR2, crank up the sharpness to max. It looks actually better than DLSS Qty, and I personally have seen a decent improvement with it as well.

[@Selxis]

@@DPDanielPlays tried both those things. I'm even running the latest release of DLSS (3.1.1). Guess I'll just have to wait for a performance patch.

[@DPDanielPlays]

Damn then I'm out of ideas bro :(

[@Selxis]

@@DPDanielPlays thanks anyway. :) I'm hoping for some performance patches in the near future. Hopefully, with so many affected they're bound to prioritize improvements to performance...

[@agreeable-youth]

None of them worked. Game still runs like shit on a 3070 on medium to low settings in 1080p and it shouldn't be my rig! Early-Access Game.

[@tomasfrancia3263]

If i have 8gb vram its 4096 in the edit for me?

[@DPDanielPlays]

3072 for you mate

[@tomasfrancia3263]

@@DPDanielPlays Thanks!

[@tomasfrancia3263]

@@DPDanielPlays What happens if i use 4096? I feel like it goes better in comparison to 3072

[@DPDanielPlays]

If you tested it out and you feel like it runs better then keep it 4094!

[@jinx20001]

appreciate the effort but has no benefit for me from what i can see, im using a 5800x 3d and 4090 with 32gb ram, the game is plagued with little stutters and unsteady frametimes regardless of using these tips or not, what will probably be the true fix for the game would be a true fullscreen mode, often its being windowed that can effect performance, particularly if people use things like wallpaper engine which may not work as intended with windowed games. have to put this one down to placebo im afraid, many people are so desperate to see performance smoothed out a little they often see what they want to see even if nothings changed. I could be wrong ofcourse and maybe it has a more desired outcome on other hardware, not mine :)

[@DPDanielPlays]

Sorry it didn't work for you mate, but I assure you it's definitely not placebo. You can see my stream, I had literally FPS jumping from 60fps down to 8 in some areas, all the time. Now I still get small stutters for a few seconds but it doesn't go below like 45 fps, so for me it was a huge improvement. One more thing I would recommend for you is trying either upgrading the DLSS version the game is using (DLSS swapper program would allow you to upgrade the version from 2.3.1 that the game is using which is quite old, to the newest 2.5.1). Some people seen a big improvement with this. Or another option is switching to AMD FSR2. I know sounds crazy with Nvidia card, but it actually works really well, and in my case with 3080ti, the game looks better AND runs smoother. I would recommend cranking up the sharpening with that one all the way up, it does look a bit better imo. Just a few more options to try out..

[@ryans3795]

@DPDanielPlays it didn't work for me either with a 5800x and 308ti. In fact, my game just broke altogether. No matter what setting I can't get more than 8fps. The game was stable for hours on end and then bam, 10 fps on low settings with rayteacing off and dlss set to ultra performance. Regardless of settings the game is always using 12gb/12gb vram and up to 17 gb system ram.

[@DPDanielPlays]

Bruh this game needs some SERIOUS patching -.-

[@Ada-Wong.]

I’m gonna try your advice, but do you think once they patch it for PC they’ll make it actually playable instead of having to fine tune everything ourselves?

[@DPDanielPlays]

One can only hope my friend! So sick and tired of paying thousands of dollars for a solid gaming PC and then get this shit when $400 console runs it at 4k with RT on and stable 60fps. Like wtf..

[@Xbob42]

@@DPDanielPlays Yeah it's annoying, but this is definitely NOT a case of the consoles running at 4k/60, not even close lol.

[@DPDanielPlays]

I see people streaming easily with PS5 at 4k, running performance mode with a stable 60. Maybe not RT mode, but performance mode for sure. With a $400 machine, that's a pretty good deal lol

[@Xbob42]

@@DPDanielPlays It's not 4k lol, it's 4k-ish.

[@jose131991]

@@Xbob42 DLSS is also “4k-ish” but still can’t overcome stutter in this game or dead space remake. At least the frames are consistent on console regardless of resolution.

[@DANTESlayz]

stutter and lag fixed now? can we use ray tracing now?

[@DPDanielPlays]

Nope still nowhere near the ability to use RT 🫣

[@thejgamer100]

Turning off hardware acceleration helped me though

[@DPDanielPlays]

Good! Try also switching to AMD FSR2 upscaling from DLSS, I've notice quite a bit of improvement there as well.

[@thejgamer100]

@@DPDanielPlays actually im using intel xess, i've noticed a better performance than fsr and dlss

[@DPDanielPlays]

Oh interesting! I tried Intel Xess, it does perform decent, but compared to FSR and DLSS it just looks like dogshit lol, so I got rid of it..

[@naboo7539]

My game has been crushing what should ı do

[@edwardbrannon4418]

Yeah, but can it run Hogwarts?

[@olafka09]

Why I havent engine.ini file?

[@mikecastillo878]

Has anyone tried step 2 on the Steam Deck? Does it work if you have?

[@fumis1631]

Nope it didn’t work. I have 5700X with 3080, and the game still lags and stutters in Hogsmeade with these settings… I have the DLSS balanaced and everything… the latest nvidia drivers…etc…

[@DPDanielPlays]

Ugh have you tried AMD FSR2 instead of DLSS? (Sharpening to max) that helped a few folks too

[@happosai_sama5298]

Are these also applicable to laptop?

[@DPDanielPlays]

Yep it should work the same for laptops!

[@happosai_sama5298]

@@DPDanielPlays oh ok, I'll give it a try..i'm getting fps drops specially on load screens other than that i capped my fps to 30 medium fsr2 to avoid in-game stutters

[@MunchTooEat]

If I run WeMod does this affect the game?

[@DPDanielPlays]

No clue bro, never heard of WeMod xD

[@Akrymir]

Unfortunately didn't help me at all... still randomly crash anywhere up to ~20 minutes.

[@DPDanielPlays]

Ugh you are one of the few! Try one more thing that helped me. If you are running DLSS, update the DLSS version for the game. It's running an old version (2.3.1), there is a much newer version that runs better (2.5.1). You can do that by getting a DLSS swapper and simply swapping the versions. Or what you might also try is to switch DLSS for AMD FSR 2, (I recommend cranking up sharpness to at least 80% on that one). It almost looks better than DLSS, and even for Nvidia graphic cards, the performance is sometimes a bit better. Let me know if any of these helped!

[@Akrymir]

@@DPDanielPlays I'm on a 4090, so I already updated it to the latest 3.0.

[@Riggs.X]

That helped me a lot I’m on a 1080ti I7,4790 16g now I can run in the castle 🏰 kzbin.info/www/bejne/aYXEo6CJhbynsMU

[@brzimtrco6142]

@@Akrymir you updated dlss to 3.0, wow man how did you do that?

[@Riggs.X]

@@Akrymir try this with this video I linked and disable control flow guard in exploit protection window settings use search bar.

[@UnalloyedMars]

Damn I did this earlier and it didn’t really help. Like it some areas it did, but most areas it still dies and dies terrible lol.

[@Homelanderwasright]

I have very good gaming pc and i had no problems at all.

[@DPDanielPlays]

I and many others have a very god gaming PC too and have problems :p I guess you are on the of the lucky ones!

[@berk401]

8 GB of VRAM or total RAM of the GPU?

[@DPDanielPlays]

Total ram

[@bluntly-]

nah that thumbnail crazy

[@DPDanielPlays]

Represents reality lmao

[@bluntly-]

@@DPDanielPlays what

[@DPDanielPlays]

@@bluntly- went from fps drops down to 5 fps to pretty much stable 60fps without drops

[@bluntly-]

@@DPDanielPlays okay? I'm saying comparing the completely desaturated nearly B&W picture & the completely over-saturated picture is crazyyy

[@christohees9150]

I gave it 1 year and still RTX 2080s i7 8700 16gb ram not even 1440p medium setting can achieve 60fps 30-50 fps with horrible frame drops can't believe I waisted my money on this shit 😢

[@DPDanielPlays]

Yeah two years later, even for Ryzen 9 5900x to get better cpu, even added the frames generation mod…and still the performance is trash.

[@christohees9150]

@@DPDanielPlays yap

[@Daiciyomon_4594]

How about RTX 3060 ryzen 9 5900?

[@DPDanielPlays]

Should work for you the same as for me! If you have 12 GB one use 4096, else use 3072 in the streaming pool size.

[@Daiciyomon_4594]

@@DPDanielPlays i have 16 gb

[@Daiciyomon_4594]

@@DPDanielPlays in hogwarts doesn't lag so much But outside its still the same

[@CalvinKlein2023]

How about for us having 4 gb video card? has anyone tried?

[@DPDanielPlays]

Go with 3072 👌

[@lazymeow3633]

Will this help with my 3060 Ti??

[@DPDanielPlays]

I got a 3080ti and it worked like a charm, it definitely should work just as well for you!

[@lazymeow3633]

@@DPDanielPlays Great thank you, i really kinda regret that I've bought 3060 ti because of this game requires more than 8gb so I'm afraid of the upcoming games to be like that

[@DPDanielPlays]

Nah bro, this game's optimization is poopoo. Don't take this game's resource utilization as the basis for future games. You should be good with 3060ti for at least another 2 years or so...play things on High with some RT on.

[@lazymeow3633]

@@DPDanielPlays Thank you for this advice i kinda thought the same too because I'm only gaming on 144hz 1080p so 8gb should be enough for more 2 years or even 3 depends if i will have to tweak some settings after 2 years, also the 3060 ti is faster than 3060 but i kinda felt sadge when i saw 3060 12gb beating my 3060 ti cuz of the Vram u get me?

[@sparklymoggy82]

Stutters a bit but I've finally completed the game 🙃

[@DPDanielPlays]

I’m 50 hours in and haven’t even unlocked the room of requirement 😂

[@sparklymoggy82]

@DanielPlays I'm a lightweight I used mods it took me about 18 hours to complete 😁

[@DPDanielPlays]

Bro I’m at 60 hours now and can’t even save beasts, or add traits to my gear 😂 taking it slow

[@philbomber4563]

doensn't work at all for me :(

[@dominickampa]

Thx man it works a bit better, bevor i can,t play it:)

[@DPDanielPlays]

Great!

[@DPDanielPlays]

Try one more thing, switch from DLSS upscaling to FSR 2 upscaling. It works for Nvidia cards as well, and in some cases it even looks better than DLSS, for some that helped the performance even more.

[@originalityisdead.9513]

@DPDanielPlays I was having horrendous stuttering and fps drops down to the low 40'S. I checked my bios and my Ram was running at 2133mhz. I've set my Ram to 3600mhz using XMP and it runs near perfect, including in Hogsmeade. I just thought I'd share in case anyone comes across this. I cant beleive it.

[@k4g7]

didnt work for me,