BEST Optimization Guide | Dragon's Dogma 2 | Max FPS | Best Settings

[@WhiskeySavage0331]

Update. I hit 198fps... I just killed like 52npc... guess gotta rename my character to Jack Ripper.

[@synergistex7088]

Do you have a guide whom to kill but not suffer from breaking a chain quest?

[@keegandoa]

please let me know @@synergistex7088

[@nekki9228]

Why rename it when you can just create another one on your second save file...oh wait you only have one KEKW XDDD

[@rasky2684]

​@@nekki9228mods allow multiple saves 😏

[@flexingmecha]

Does it matter? They respawn after 7 days other than important npcs.

[@Shini1171]

From what ive seen just put shadows to medium or low with DLSS varying upon it. Helps quite a bit. Hopium they patch fix soon.

[@Stickarms99]

Question: I saw a forum thread on Steam the other day where people were talking about how disabling upscaling entirely actually counterintuitively made the game run smoother. The explanation for this was that DLSS and other upscaling tools essentially take some of the load off of the GPU and makes the CPU compensate for it without significantly sacrificing image quality. With this in mind, knowing DD2's optimization issues are more a CPU problem than a GPU problem, the idea is that taking the extra GPU hit to lighten the load on the CPU will actually make the game run much more stable. Do you think there's merit to this idea? I intend to try it out when I get home soon, to see if it makes performance better or worse or the same.

[@TonyDegrees]

How’d it work.i adjusted my settings and it kept crashing on the menu 😭😭

[@acegh0st]

this actually did seem to make the game smoother on my 10700/3080 at 1440. crazy times.

[@TonyDegrees]

@@acegh0st updated my drivers and it helped a lot 😂

[@acegh0st]

@@TonyDegrees I’m on the newest drivers. I didn’t notice much difference after the most recent update tbh. I think the “Game Ready Driver” for DD2 came out before the actual release.

[@zac8543]

There is merit in the idea but it really depends on the graphics card you are using and a few minior factors that are really not talked about, For example, its a huge impact with optimization. When i run settings "higher" i get better fps. Which in turn would make a person think the gpu is taking more of a load on a cpu bound optimization issue, which what he said in the video Nvidia reflect on+boost would help relieve cpu bound case loads.

[@big_fiji]

Thank you so much! Excellent video, very clear and informative and it helped making my DD2 experience better 😁

[@Camacho4Prez2024]

Much appreciated, man. Totally fixed the framerate issues. Thanks for the vid

[@_N4VE_]

Really? not much for me and my hardware is pretty good. msi 7900xtx/5800x3d

[@Camacho4Prez2024]

@@_N4VE_I didn't follow the video instructions exactly. I still needed to experiment a bit, but his explanation of what everything does was key in figuring it out.

[@_N4VE_]

@@Camacho4Prez2024 tweaking settings i got around 10-15fps gain, but none of that mattered i towns because performance was still choppy and unstable. The game just needs optimization. Outdoors the game has no issues for me and runs smoothly

[@Camacho4Prez2024]

@@_N4VE_ Did my testing in the middle of the capital and kept tweaking until I got good results. Dunno what to tell you. Keep trying or wait until patch

[@mossen98]

Frame gen mod for 4000 series cards is already a thing on my 4080 max settings rat tracing in I'm getting 100 in the big main city and 240 outside it with the mod. It is frame gen obviously a lot of people hate frame gen but the game is super smooth with it.

[@sectionratio5550]

just downloaded it....gave me a massive fps boost! thank you for telling about it :D

[@mossen98]

@sectionratio5550 ofc have fun gaming!

[@ceeka9002]

​@@mossen98 Might i ask what frame gen is and why people hate it? And is it for other cards?

[@mossen98]

@ceeka9002 No dlss frame gen is only supported by rtx 4000 series cards. That being said fsr3 frame gen is supported by all cards. There just is no mod for it currently. Frame generation literally has the gpu generate a fake frame in between frames using the data from the previous and next frame to add more motion. This, in return, adds slight input lag but is very unnoticeable tbh. People hate it cause it's not real frames and was originally only rtx 4000 series cards until amd made fsr3 frame gen.

[@Belerian1982]

my game crash when using the mod.. nos sure why

[@devintaylor7049]

If ivlower all my settings its like im looking into static...

[@joesantoro4964]

If you have an RTX 4000 series card there is a Frame Generation mod.

[@IchigoKurosaki10]

Thanks a lot for the great work! worked perfectly on 3080ti, much appreciated

[@ItachiGamer21]

idk why but upscaling does nothing for me in this game, any setting I'll get the same fps with poor quality image

[@maharaja101]

Afaik the "interlaced" rendering mode that the game defaults to is checkerboard rendering and "progressive" is native. DLSS/FSR performance is about the same as interlaced so you won't see much difference in fps when switching between them. I hope they patch the IQ issues with DLSS soon, I don't remember it looking this bad in any game.

[@_N4VE_]

I’m on a MSI 7900xtx/5800x3d and no, the game does not play well mainly in Town/Cities. Outdoors it’s playable, usually range from 110-160fps, but as soon as I enter a town/city, it tanks to near 40fps 💀 even with FSR3 55-75fps but it’s choppy and all over the place. Tweaking graphics settings doesn’t really make a difference which means it’s mainly CPU bound. Basically unplayable in towns. Hope Capcom can optimize this game cuz other then the performance, the game itself is super fun and immersive! I try not to spend too much time in Town but some quests can’t be avoided 😢

[@buu5561]

This actually helped crazy good :D

[@ImurTuta]

I see a lot of ghosting and artifacts. Not using fsr or dlss and using progressive rendering seems to have fixed 90% of the issue. Idk much about these technologies, maybe someone can explain why this helped.

[@_N4VE_]

Upscaling effects will cause those. Usually isn’t too bad depending on your settings. Sadly FSR doesn’t get me much difference in performance so I’ve been leaving it off. No matter wat you do, FPS in towns will tank hard until they optimize the game more. Might even put the game down until they do so, kinda bummed cuz its a good game when i’m not at 45fps on 7900xtx/5800x3d 😂💀

[@SyntaxWyntax]

Bs bg3 has way more npcs. Its the drm causing performance issues for sure

[@fvf0x442]

DLSS does not work in this game, I enabled and disabled it and I noticed no difference in FPS `-`

[@-b.d]

So my fps is increased now but hud is shaking when i'm moving. Like subtitles, map and other things.

[@-Elysium-]

Mostly every AAA releases these days is the next Crysis

[@dilerdaller]

if youd bother to properly test it you would know DLSS sharpener doesnt work correctly, furthermore theres checkerboarding when using upscalers its bugged out of this world. causes itself to shut off when u enter riftportal.

[@SC0RN-g8j]

idk why but the left Graphics memory is always colored yellow and before watching this video It was Red. So what does that mean for me :D ?

[@miniminz1938]

Thank you so so much for explaining everything exactly the video I needed. I have a problem if anyone can help please. Not sure if its from my side or the game but sometimes I would get light black blinking in game or the scenery in the background would seem to be printed and I can see a leftover print when I move my screen around. Not sure what could be causing it 😞

[@ninth_ix]

this game need update performance issues, rdr2 looks more great graphics than this game but runs smooth

[@Metallic666A]

good job mate, thanks

[@MrWoolyTV]

Im using an Rx 7900 GRE along with a Ryzen 7 5800x I haven’t had a single crash, my fps has been stable around 70 - 100 fps. When I get into certain towns and cities I drop down to around 50 fps. I think Nvidia cards are having issues with this port

[@lowfade556]

no the optimization is dogshit

[@Drubonk]

No crashes here either, 7900xtx. And it seems so from reading about the users with crashes, however a friend with a 4060 haven't had any either. So might be driver versions / overclocking coming into play to

[@TheGwarGaru]

Thank you!

[@riskybiscuit3522]

Bro looks like Thorkel

[@cake869]

i'm getting kinda frustrated with this :/ i have a 3060 / i7-10 and i cant for the love of me get it to run at more than 30 fps

[@RetroPlays1]

I would recommend for any pc In the last 5 years turn off vsynce their implementation is horrible and frame times are all over the place. Use Rivatuner to lock the fps to 45 trust me it's looks smooth and the frame time is smooth as butter. I have the game maxed out with Ray tracing on and it doesn't dip very much at all. I play UW1440p with a 12700k and 7900xt.

[@shadypielover]

How are you going to spend $100 on a $74 game? Just curious, genuinely.

[@EtomidateEnjoyer]

its 100 in canada

[@WhiskeySavage0331]

Ryzen 7 5800x 3080ti 32gb ddr5 ram Monitor is a Samsung QN90C 65" I pay on 1440 with dlss on quality(theres very very minimal noticeable differences in image quality from full 4k) I get roughly 100-110fps in open world. And 90ish in towns. Since i have a tv with far better picture and color than any moniter i do enable HDR... without it the frames are roughly the same sometimes higher sometimes lower.

[@Ash-dj3gb]

I have that set up and get nowhere near that performance 😅

[@WhiskeySavage0331]

@Ash-dj3gb I'm sure there's some other factors that we don't realize. Like which overall card we have. And how well the cpu and ram work together. Especially with cpu heavy games. Also should be noted I have a z690 mobo and I'm overclocked.

[@caarlosgracias]

Really Really Really good video

[@martis400]

just wanna ask. How many fps do you think i could have when playing on 1080p 144hz with 1660 super and i5 10400f. i know its not good. just wanna know what to expect.

[@camoflash7621]

my setup has similar benchmarks to yours (ryzen 7 5800h, rx 6600m) but your processor is 14% faster... You will be able to play 1080p lowest settings, interlaced, shadows on mid (one up from lowest), TAA on and you will get at least 60 by potentially lowering resolution scaling although you might get away with not needing to lower resolution scale with a slightly faster processor. textures will lack detail but you will get used to it. hope this helps!

[@martis400]

@@camoflash7621 thx for answer mate i really wanna buy the game but i thought my pc couldnt run it.

[@ronignino]

That depends. It could run stable 30 FPS. But forget about 60 FPS. This game is really badly optimised on cpu. No matter what I can't make stable 60 FPS . It's only achievable with frame gen but you get a lot of artifacts and stutter from unstable performance.

[@Doomgu4rd]

Perfect, now in Soveran city

[@bamusalako]

i run 90 fps without even fsr in open world, then im in town i put everything low too the lowest possible settings with my rx 6800x and ryzen 7 5800x and with fsr enabled, and i just scratched the 30 fps sometimes, with perma stuttering when i move the camera, that game is utterly broken in this main city

[@BROCKSTAKE]

Is a steady 31 fps good with 70-75 degrees and a steady 60 pushing almost 80-87? Max graphics?

[@BROCKSTAKE]

I just realized I haven’t tried the variable setting….

[@_N4VE_]

what do you mean? and what specifically are the temps for? anything 60< on max settings is playable, but no matter what you do, performance in town/city will always be atrocious for now until they fix it

[@goldenspirit3369]

yesterday i installed AtlasOS and i run this game 4k max settings 60fps+ No fidelity or DLSS!!, my pc is Very low end with my motherboard supporting DDR3L rams!! and my cpu is shit, the only thing i have is 4060RTX. AtlasOS is the goat. but ofc the cities lowers my fps to 30 or less :'(

[@hastur8242]

Did the settings like you said and got up to 25 fps..

[@euirie]

lets goooooooo

[@rasky2684]

If I use fsr3 I loose FPS...

[@unitor699industries]

my problem some parts of the game in the wild are superbright and i already lowered my brightness

[@bernardobarreto1304]

Please help me with my port forward mc server 😪 the video didn't worked for me

[@ss304_82]

I'm playing skyrim for now till DD gets fixed

[@CheebsCheeby]

Good for you?

[@ss304_82]

​@@CheebsCheeby yes good for me if you asked as a question

[@Nyxsenju]

What is your hardware? Im getting 80-230 fps with fsr 3

[@Desolved_Absolution]

Capcom will most likely not fix this issue

[@ateenwholikesvideogames303]

@@Desolved_Absolution Well they will definitely suffer a loss if not fixed cuz the scope the game has is that of a videogame that receives GOTY

[@d3mentia538]

This game runs like total shit 💩 I have a 4070 ti pair with AMD 5800x 12 core cpu some spots of the game can drop as low as 30fps

[@ShinigamiNoLuffy]

the 5800X has 8 cores. I am playin with same CPU and a 7800XT on max settings and also drop to 30 fps but it feels more like 20 fps.

[@AlCaponeUK94]

anyone who paid £50 to play a game with that performance is being robbed. I refunded instantly once I found out it wasn't my system and was actually game optimisation/design. capcom should be dragged through the street for this absolute shitheap

[@ASAFYY]

fuck the hell with this game!!!!

[@Hordentier]

I Play this on 2k and Maximum Settings with FSR 3.0 on Quality and Full Raytracing. 100+ FPS with Ryzen 9 7900X3D + Sapphire 7900XTX Nitro+ and 32 GB Ram. This Game is Worth a Hardware Upgrade.

[@ShadyMike]

Then why are you here big dawg? 😂

[@Hordentier]

@@ShadyMikeWas not meant liek this. More like that People can guess what Hardware is Good. But after the Tests of Gamernexus the Graphics Card doesnt matter much. The Game is 90% CPU bound.

[@atnfn]

DLSS blurrier than FSR? What,... 99% of the time DLSS looks better in games, is this performance guide even worth watching.

[@JohnSmith-j7n]

Depends heavily on the game.

[@-Believeinyourself-]

This is accurate for this game. Trust me

[@infinitebeastgames1010]

And motion blur on. This man desperately needs glasses. Still a decent video tho

[@JCTiggs1]

If you have the game you will see how DLSS is quite bad and looks blurry compared to FSR. Devs have said they are aware of it and working on a fix.

[@chumrocket]

this is not a fps guide as you just told us what those settings do lmao u did not gave us a fps boost settings that doesnt make the game looks bad, try again and delete this video

[@cerealfirst8171]

Not gonna play the game, just wanna watch your vid.

[@tushar01635]

Fortnite optimization plssss fast

[@Yaboi-cs4je]

bruh, that game can run on a potato

[@DJSLANKMAN]

Imagine needing Fortnite optimization after 10 years of it being out 💀 bro must be trying to run it on a game boy

[@Vanilla_Jo]

Everything low expect textures is what 99% of people who play would be using

[@tushar01635]

@@DJSLANKMAN im trying to max out the frames, i only get 200 in game and 350-400 in creative

[@nthnwls6423]

200 fps and you want optimisation? Get out

[@126sebi]

funny that no one is playing in 1080p like me so yeah im cpu bound so this don't help much.

[@Unprotected1232]

Modern hardware should be able to run with 16x anisotropic filtering for what basically amounts to free. Always leave it on.

[@zac8543]

Yea some of the settings he changed, were his "personal preference" which he stated.

[@BenyaminLorit]

Leaving it at Variable frame rate makes it feels so erratic for me especially when you switch between menus to gameplay or if you suddenly go to a demanding area. Best pick a performance target or manually cap with software.

[@RyuHaya]

This worked for me, game says my GPU has a limit of 7gb so don't think its great. Not going below 69fps now though. Edit: It does drop to 50 with a lot of npcs walking around. Not enemies though.

[@Mohamed58290]

Guys you should just buy shared accounts they are extremely cheap and very good for single player sure you can’t play multiplayer but atleast you can play the game for 6 bucks

[@KeenKneeCaps]

Yo when you guys put it in 1080p does it get really grainy for you aswell?

[@oscatMeow]

well unless your monitor is 1080p, going down will always look blurry..

[@valkohir1761]

I mean as a user using a 4080... this is disgustingly fucking sad, horizon forbidden west is more optimized than this GAME, is like they optimization is not in their budget, doesn't matter what ur CPU/GPU is, ur gonna get trash gameplay regardless... they need to fucking fix it, you shouldn't need a MOD to get decent smooth gameplay its pathetic as fuck.

[@killmongr]

Literally just searched for this and saw it was uploaded a few minutes ago. Thank you!!

[@gamerxism]

When I bought this game, I thought I could play it based on my rig of the i7-13700k and 3080 rtx 10gb meeting the recommended specs. I could not even get past the intro because its visual and audio were not in sync. if I try to skip or pause the cutscene it would freeze. Refunded it for now but I’ll wait until they fix this because this is not fair that some people can’t play it but I cannot.

[@Spartans1gm4]

Running this game with low texture filtering with a 3080 is the dumbest shit I’ve ever seen in one of these performance videos. You’re losing a ton of image quality for like 1fps 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@krullexneo]

Anisotropic Filtering should always be set to x16 because it costs nothing, not even 1fps.

[@MojoRisingTV]

thats not the case, not in open world games, and ESPECIALLY not in procedurally generated open world games. Ignorance.

[@Chaoskoch]

@@MojoRisingTV What the hell do "procedurally generated open world games" have ANYTHING to do with this? Do you even know what anisotropic filtering is?

[@krullexneo]

@@MojoRisingTVYou obviously don't know what Anisotropic Filtering is... Calling me ignorant is quite funny, you should go check what it does and how it works. It hasn't been an FPS cost since like 2010.

[@MojoRisingTV]

@@krullexneo based on what i said i "obviously" dont know what it is? You obviously pretend the other person doesn't know what there talking about to justify your own point. I dont care to argue, its known, if you knew better you wouldn't be saying such.

[@MojoRisingTV]

@@Chaoskoch dont care to argue, its known, if you knew better you wouldn't be saying such.

[@chrisdonohue1607]

all high max out ryzen 7 5700x, 49g ram 3080, 10gig .... 70 to 80 fraps at 1080 240 hz

[@shanharlmall]

I run a 1060 lol, I don't see 30fps let alone 80. Memory with FSR at quality is 4.4 / 5.09 :(

[@FaffaV]

When i use FSR my frames drops don't know why.

[@Torsv69]

aren't the minimum requirements a 1070 😭

[@uniqq.9891]

surprised your pc hasn’t blown up😭

[@FiSA01]

you can fix the haziness on dlss by increasing dlss sharpness.

[@EthilTv]

dlss does nothing for me on fps with 4070

[@unknownbenefactor8029]

Stupid CPU heavy games.

[@distion]

You sound a lot like Rendog lol

[@acegh0st]

The game runs like ass regardless of settings with a 10700K/3080. Another game that can't run at 1440 on last gen PC hardware. What happened last January that ruined performance on almost every new game?

[@raulcontrerasolid7698]

Sorry, my english is very bad... If i have a Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-8600K CPU @ 3.60GHz and a GPU AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT, what config i will get for max fps? thanks!

[@ChopPvP]

I laughed when I saw your character. Same hairstyle and class. Our minds must be similar 🤣

[@TroubleChute]

Chad main character

[@omrion667]

They need to stop rendering things you can't see it's a waste of resources.

[@thespoonman5902]

GREAT VID

[@SingedLeague]

has anyone try to run this game on a ryzen 9 6900hs? :X

[@RavenCroftLoft]

Thanks for the vid man. Im having the worse experience and maybe you can help. My rig is a Ryzen 9 5950x 6800xt GPU 16gb Vram, 16gb RAM. Im running the game at 1080p, towns give me like 22-30 fps maybe and I can hit 60 when far far out in the wild. FSR doesnt do anything for me but make the experience worse but is there anything I can do with the hardware I have? this is driving me nuts because the games just not an enjoyable experience for the majority of the play session. The only thing I know I have to do is upgrade my monitor to 1440p to get the most out of my gear but I don't think it would effect my experience this much. Let me know if you have any tips for me man.

[@oscatMeow]

Your GPU is probably too powerful, so if your settings are too low you’re now CPU limited. Jack up all the settings a heap, turn off dlss etc. Otherwise, if you’re already maxxed out it could just be a driver update/look into getting more ram. You should not be having any issues at 1080p on that computer.

[@_N4VE_]

@@oscatMeowa Nah GPU isn’t the problem. It’s just the game is poorly optimized in towns when there are multiple NPCs in an area. Basically the only fix rn is “get the best CPU” until Capcom can optimize the game. I’m on a msi7900xtx/5800x3d and it still tanks fps in town to like 45fps. But outdoors it’s smooth in the 120< fps range and never drops below that.

[@oscatMeow]

@@_N4VE_ I know about all that. but this guy has a really good cpu, and pc overall. and he’s playing at 1080p which would make him CPU bound whether or not the game was badly optimised. His game runs worse than mine. He needs to put the settings UP to put less strain on the CPU. Yes the game is CPU bound anyways, but that’s the only way for it to inprove his situation.

[@_N4VE_]

@@oscatMeow Ahhh i see you’re point. That is totally correct. If he’s at 1080p then playing on high settings will definitely help balance the load as much as it can. My mistake I misunderstood your initial comment lol

[@KevlarPeterson]

I have 6800XT with 7700x and was running it today at 1440p max with FSR3 on around 80+ average with some areas hitting 140+. Lowered a few things and it was average over 100 fps.

[@Bonghitsandchill]

Chute coming in clutch as per usual, thank you!

[@sarkness8317]

how do you fix gb my is bug and it say red flag

[@GratefulVibes]

80 FPSish on a RTX 3070 with a Ryzen 7 5700x

[@ancientseed2607]

That’s more than enough lol

[@lycanlube7484]

Basically the same but 3070ti. Are you running ray tracing? And what resolution are you playing at?

[@MR.L0N3Ly030]

Bro thats more than enough, 3060 can barely maintain 60 fps💀

[@kp00pDestroyer1]

​@@MR.L0N3Ly030he is lying 4090 gives like 60 fps and 40 fps inside towns

[@JohnSmith-j7n]

Wait until you get into the later areas lmao. I was hitting 110 fps in the early game areas and now down to 50 after playing for a few hours.

[@DevilMayCare4]

What settings should i use for my rig? I'm getting only 45fps in towns with npcs walking around but get a solid 60fps in the open world. GPU: RTX 4060 TI 16 GB CPU: RYZEN 5800X RAM: 32gb 3200mhz PSU: 850w And it's on M.2 SSD

[@pandacustoms1347]

i have a bit lower specs but same performance. Gettin 60 in open world but 30-45 in towns. I think it might just be an optimization problem...

[@ryean8212]

NPCs just take too much CPU power

[@kevinmlfc]

Try dlss to performance & cranking the sharpness up to70% to compensate blur Ambient occlusion- ssao Screen space reflections - turn this off as a last resort. Texture filtering - high Grass/tree - low Shadows - low Contact shadows - off Motion blur - off Depth of field - off Lens flare - off Lens distortion - off Subsurface scattering - off

[@coffee7180]

@@pandacustoms1347 the only possibility to get good perfromance in town is to turn on fsr3.

[@WigglyBro]

There's very little anybody can do to improve their frame rate inside of the bigger towns/cities. Even people with better CPUs than you are not really getting more than 60 FPS in areas with a lot of NPCs. We either just have to power through the bad optimization or sit and wait for CAPCOM to patch it.

[@FishYourHeartOut]

They did a update be interested if the settings can change.

[@SwedudeEPIC]

Are there any optimization guides to reduce the microtransactions? 🤣🤣

[@exolciusta]

It's just useless currency like capcom always did...

[@raphaelkieling6896]

Yes, just don't buy it, easy fix