The Ultimate DBD Optimization Guide (2024)

[@KytoYT]

If you're having any issues, join my Discord server and hopefully a member or I can help! Check description for FAQ discord.gg/kyto

[@notb1ufffy]

why does my nightlight say "There was an error while installing the pack: Failed to create pack destination folder when trying to download packs

[@Jackyaboy]

@KytoYT Yo dude what is that wallpaper? Where can I get it?

[@ignorta_2104]

it says the invitation is invalid

[@wraithje]

Does texture impact fps? In most games it doesn't, as long as you have enough vram for your preferred setting

[@BeniaminG_]

This is as quick as a otz tier list

[@grug8543]

Nah it’s not over 5 hours

[@NeroMust]

Fr​@@grug8543

[@jenzii]

Compared to Otz videos this is just a youtube shorts

[@dubrasri9723]

@@Walterwhitebeochbro what💀otz is literally one of the most dedicated dbd content creator what are you talking about. His videos are long because he talks about things in details. In his game he’s chill and all. Doesn’t take the game « too seriously », it’s quite the opposite actually. What he is serious about is the overall quality of life of the game

[@WyattOShea]

you're an L@@Walterwhitebeoch

[@Taytanchik]

Loved how the video preview was only a screen saying "close DBD" - that's another way to optimize your DBD experience 😁

[@Felixbucket]

Just to note: BHVR will not ban for anything mentioned in this video. However, the only thing that could potentially get you banned is custom icons because EAC might pick it up and initiate a ban. Reshade is whitelisted in EAC so that will never be a problem

[@jjrulez1596]

@viperpit-lr2rp are you talking about the fact of Reshade being whitelisted? cause if so then you can look it up, or if you're talking about the 1st half of the comment, its been publicly stated by BHVR that they won't manually ban people because of custom icons

[@WorstDBDPlayer]

custom icons won’t it’s just switching pngs

[@blackestmamba]

Custom icons are no risk, been using custom icons for over 4 years now

[@carlsmith5519]

& Even if you do get banned there is a high likelyhood of getting unbanned if you just explain what happened. They have measures to retroactively check what or how someone got banned.

[@jjrulez1596]

@blackestmamba they aren't 0 risk, but they are low risk, it's like speeding by like 3 mph, realistically you won't get pulled over and given a ticket, but, there is still a chance.

[@StoutNDank]

Thank you Kyto, I’ve tried messing with this so much back on my old potato computer, and then my PS4, you’re the best man!

[@Swickyy.]

Right as I’ve seen the notif, I clicked. Appreciate you bro

[@vicjo_]

17:27 the point remains the most instructive and most importantly thank dude 👍

[@randumber5]

For anyone wanting the console setting timestamps its 9:53 16:02 39:25

[@youtubefnaf]

Thx man

[@NeroMust]

Cool

[@J-Walt]

What is at 39:25? He says monitor settings and then to icons which you can’t change on console

[@skall4131]

The only helpful thing there its 9:53 lol

[@DarylMCDeath]

where can i change that?@@skall4131

[@comicalman4554]

Ok so really funny story custom icons have a true 0% ban rate because when bhvr tried banning them people got mad at them for not banning actual cheaters so they backed down from banning custom icons real quick.

[@officialcafemojo]

This video is honestly unreal. I have a relatively expensive computer with a 3070 but have only been able to really run the game in low settings. This is life changing. SO simple, directly to the point, easy to understand and clear. I'm not a boomer but I DO NOT have the kind of knowledge to have just done all this without this video. THANKS KYOTO!

[@DaffyM4318]

I have a 3060ti and I run the game at max settings and 120 FPS. You should check your PC to see if everything is fine, brother.

[@EddoPanamenyo]

​@@DaffyM4318what do you think could be the problem?

[@heysoupra]

@@EddoPanamenyo DX12, animation quality (aka screen space reflections) shadow quality. Those are wild guesses of what could be happening, i tried every setting possible throughout my 3k hours of "experience" and seen MUCH difference when lowering animation quality (which gave me 40fps drops sometimes, on a 75hz monitor with V-Sync, for a comfortable 30 fps when a gen pops or a survivors gets downed (from my killer games), unplayable sometimes. Could be anything tho, try and tweak a few things, you'll learn much from it !

[@casedistorted]

You should not be getting low setting performance with a 3070, I have a 3070 ti at 1440p and I get 120 fps on high or ultra settings, you may need more RAM or a better CPU? I am running a 5800X with 32GB's of RAM, and the game stutters a lot on a normal HDD, putting it on an SSD def fixed all the stutters I used to get. Make sure you do not run -DX12 on launch parameters, Kyto does have a lot of helpful info but he seems to not know what a lot of settings do, and -DX12 will not make your game smoother in most cases, it will actually make it worse.

[@stroggers]

1070gtx and i have ultra on 1440p. you got a messed up rig mate

[@pedrokot]

thank you so much! i went from playing with 65% resolution with spikes to 100% with stable FPS and antialising!! :D

[@EclypsoLemonade]

>-NVIDIA filter sliders-< Sharpen: Intensity - (20% - 30%) Ignore Film Grain - 15% Colour: Tint Colour - 0% Tint Intensity - 0% Temperature - 0 Vibrance - 72% Brightness/Contrast: Exposure - 23% Contrast - 39% Highlights - 31% Shadows - (-28%) Gamma - 53%

[@AndreasLyUs]

I think its important to have shadows on to see the shadow of the killer (or survivors in some cases) when the killer mindgames while looping. It will depend on the map and which way the lightning comes from.

[@schwi3098]

Make sure you turn Anti-Aliasing off, because having it on makes the windows of houses like on haddonfield more blurry making it harder to track the killer

[@ZenTunE-]

Yep. And overall it makes the game loook like 720p, disable that shit.

[@heysoupra]

I disagree, don't put it to 3 or 4 if you hate the "bluriness", but with the new implementation of FSR just max out the sharpness value and you're good to go. Plus if you're using Reshade you should never have any trouble with AA, i tested each value (in the gameusersettings) and the artifacts that you can see when disabled i find them way more infuriating than the so-said bluriness. IMO. FSR is a gift from the old Gods, use it.

[@ZenTunE-]

@@heysoupra This game has good rendering, it barely has any artifacts, I don't see what there is to be bothered by. A bit of edges may be aliased, but you said it yourself, slap on something less agressive like SMAA in reshade and problem solved. It's a competitive advantage even, where as sharpening an already blurred image does nothing in that regard. There's a reason competetive games don't force AA. If anything, postfx sharpening makes the game look grainy which isn't looking too pretty either. Of course if you can afford to run 150% resolution scale then the stock AA starts to be comparable. You do you, but this game absolutely does not need such an agressive AA method like the stock TAA is.

[@casedistorted]

if only they added TAA or DLSS to the game.. but it took us 7+ years to get resolution options and v-sync in-game so I don't have hope.

[@ZenTunE-]

@@casedistorted But the game has TAA? That's the whole problem here

[@Flickem69]

June 2024 this is still working. Than you so much!!❤❤❤

[@Danidripxy]

I just wanna say, I'm playing this game on a hp laptop with 8g ram, and it went from a constant 13 fps to consistent 40-50 fps, thanks a million lol.

[@freecomboes]

ty kyto ur literally so amazing

[@AndreasLyUs]

*DO NOT ENABLE RESIZABLE BAR ON GLOBAL PROFILE AS SHOWN IN VIDEO* It will decrease performance in many older games and some newer ones. The Resizable bar section is just completely false. If it says YES in the System information, it means your GPU, CPU and Motherboard is compatible and is enabled in the bios. The driver will use this feature in SELECTED games (by nvidia) to get up to 10% better fps. However, nvidia doesnt really update the driver list of games that uses resizable bar, and thats where Nvidia Profile Inspector can be used to force enable Resizable bar on any game (note in many older games you will actually loose fps with this feature). If the System information says that Resizeable bar is not enabled, it means your GPU, CPU or Motherboard is not compatible or the feature is disabled in the motherboard bios. Using nvidia profile inspector in this case wont do anything. So guys; If your system supports Resizable bar, use nvidia profile inspector to enable the feature for Dead by Daylight (ONLY DBD! Or else this can decrease performance in other games). Compare the performance with an without Resizable bar to see if it helps performance or decreases it.

[@VnikXum]

Totally agree!

[@JoseRodriguez-yj2xp]

thank you so much for this, it helped me tremendously and my eyes are at ease after changing the shades. love your content and always will, keep it up!

[@E.S-SMS]

thanks so much for the update to the old settings guide

[@ZenTunE-]

6:28 This is just the graphics preset in the ingame settings. Low is 0, Ultra is 3. I doubt it does anything if you have set the scalability values manually and have it read only. 20:21 Nice that you said this, I often see people recommending "Prefer Maximum Performance" globally and it makes me cringe. That would just up your gpu clocks and therefore power draw in desktop applications for no benefit.

[@TCOfrank]

It seems nvidia filter no longer recognized the game prior to the recent ver 8.2.0. Now its very hard to see from dim brightness and its not good at all.

[@zhante2093]

for real

[@asteria_era]

true, made me get reshade and honestly its much better

[@muhannad4204]

@@asteria_era Will I get a band if i use reshade?

[@asteria_era]

@@muhannad4204 im p sure reshade is whitelisted for the anticheat so no

[@renarenacat]

Some graphics settings like ambient-oclusion settings doesn't do anything for DBD and changing it on global setting can fuck some games (especially old ones) so I wouldn't recommend to change. Low latency mode is kinda broken and can add more latency depending on your setup of vsync,gsync and other things that mess with frames. You don't need insanely low latency for DBD anyways so off is fine imo.

[@medikgon]

this is the first time ive followed a tutorial like this with 0 problems, well done man!

[@Lucius_Ortorius_Castus]

i have a problem the file saved dosnt show to me Why ?

[@Mufireael]

amazing video guide on optimizing your machine and dead by daylight for the best possible performance! I really appreciate it!

[@AlexCoopa]

Thanks Kyto! Finally upgraded my PC so hit a lot of these up and it is crisp! I do not like reshaders as I like the dark horror game feel, but performance and graphics has been amazing. Thanks

[@mamps5663]

my game has never looked better and never played smoother, you are more than my hero.I WILL start a cult for you and YOU will be our god.

[@slashie101]

Hi I've been sharing this video a bunch to people who have frame rate issues and it's always been super helpful to them!

[@ryanxslayeryos4941]

My game looks and feels so much better this is actually insane thank you!

[@LifeisHard1010]

Man casually made one the best optimization videos out there

[@CYBERPSYCHOPATH]

The Ultimate DBD Optimization would be for Behaviour to return any semblance of atmosphere and ambiance to the game. It's been half a decade since this game felt anything like a "horror" game - all in the name of balance and competition. Reject modernity, embrace the immersive asymetrical slasher.

[@LaitBrostick]

As a french person who don't know a sh*t about informatic it's quite difficult to follow instructions as list elements on Nvidia are classed different because of different name usage. But i guess i did it correctly, i do not have ended up configuring things and will make an edit if i fck up lmao

[@LaitBrostick]

Edit : i forget to post it but i did all things correctly and it works perfectly

[@Benjiking1st]

The Nvidia's Filter has been removed this uptade of castlevania so its bad

[@devanshu4103]

its working again after update

[@Benjiking1st]

@@devanshu4103 just with the nvidia control panel I think

[@devanshu4103]

@@Benjiking1st no no today i updated it from epic and i tried alt+f3 and its working for me without doing anything else (its not showing now no game detected idk exact sentence that)

[@salad7284]

it works again now ,it was a bug ,ive talked with support of both ,it wasnt removed ,the nvidia just thought the laoidng screen at the startup was the game itself

[@Benjiking1st]

@@salad7284 yeah it work lol tks

[@qhoil]

28:33 For future reshade reference (on where to put files) Local Disk > Program Files (x86) > Steam > Steamapps > Common > Dead by Daylight > Dead by Daylight > Binaries > Win64

[@RegenTinte80800]

25:56 I feel that its important to mention that you should edit the balanced plan and put a 0 in the "Turn off hard disk after" option. Even if you don't have a Hard Drive, it's still a good idea.

[@Nmb_Infinite568]

How do ytbers make the red blood and scratch marks pink?

[@Daddydutchq2z]

"This is your QUICK and easy guide"

[@L11nX]

There is option - capture third-party overlays in OBS game capture. When you check it, it will allow you to see applied Nvidia filters in your stream.

[@HokeyBugle]

A higher frame cap than your refresh rate is still beneficial as it lowers your frame time. You can then keep Vsync on to avoid screen tearing but that does hurt your frame time slightly. Great video

[@wyvernn6673]

0:58 kyto, you legend

[@BoosterDrk]

Nvidia Filters are visable on OBS you just have to tick a box when you add the source of the game so that it records overlays.

[@appleleptiker]

1:21 It is impossible to get banned for that.

[@casedistorted]

Thanks Kyto. Behavior finally f'ing did it. They killed the Nvidia Filters.

[@bathwaterrr]

easy anti cheat did it, not behavior

[@salad7284]

it works now

[@Katejsej]

This is really the best video I have ever seen about gaming optimization.

[@TheRealLuu]

Btw guys, the mouse smoothing options go in "Input.ini" and not "Engine.ini".

[@youngfxx8437]

Kyto...this actually helped me so much. I can now have insane graphics AND insane performance. If anyone is wondering whether or not they should watch the full video, YOU SHOULD!! YOU ARE A GODSEND THANK YOU!!

[@GamerJace112]

30:01 I can’t open it because it says I don’t have permission to open it

[@VudoBrey]

PS for the direct X 12 option Even if you are on a low end pc try it if your gpu supports it. Im on a 7 years old laptop with 940mx(imagine it like gt 1030 for laptops) and because my videocard supports dx12 I decided to try it. The game runs much much better and when I tried the sm3 option, the dx12 ran better. I havent tried the other direcr x 10 option but because my game runs good I wont touch it Also I recommend the smaller hud because I play on 720p and it makes the hud look like 1080p lol

[@Burncore22]

Lol I just thought about a better performance setting and you upload a video like a blessing

[@DonInfeCteD]

So much work in this video. Thank you so much and keep up the good work👍

[@Araphex]

FSR on console is actually pretty good. I'm glad they added it. Also, these tips are great for any games. I didn't know half of this stuff. I typically had my PC running at high performance in game mode, which is why I always stuck to console because my CPU was probably screaming. Now, I can probably go back to PC gaming. Thanks!

[@madake]

even with 60hz monitor 120fps will give you a smother game. 60hz doesnt mean >60fps is not better. there are a lot of videos outthere testing many senarios vsync,gsync etc. have a look but dont limit your fps to 60 if your monitor is 60hz

[@RealBranden]

So am I really the ONLY one that gets a virus warning when downloading reshade and then microsoft defender just procedes to automatically remove the reshade setup? Defender claims theres a: HackTool:Win32/Malagent!MSR file in there.

[@KytoYT]

see if you can download it from here: reshade.me/downloads/ReShade_Setup_6.1.1.exe

[@RealBranden]

@@KytoYT Same outcome unfortunately, I'll have to settle with nvidia filters. Really appreciate the response though 😊Absolutely splendid video all in all man, just know a lot of people appreciate you and the work you put in for this!

[@KytoYT]

@@RealBranden No worries! If you end up wanting to use reshade in the future, just join my discord server, dm me and i’ll try to help!! discord.gg/kyto

[@丷]

npc

[@ThatOneWeirdo06]

Went from 90 to 120 fps with this - thank you!

[@alexjune6414]

If you turn off enhanced pointer precision in windows doesn't that already turn off mouse smoothing/acceleration? Also thank you. Disabling the intro video and the News is so nice. There are so many popups before I can even queue for a game it's frustrating.

[@i_Newell]

There was literally not a single thing in here a console player playing on a T.V can make use of lol.

[@jakkage]

My goat dropped the best DBD optimization tutorial in the history of dbd

[@kingcoon3090]

what computer do you have? trying to see if it’s like mine or not. i have a 4070 ti super with i-13600k cpu

[@KytoYT]

4090 and 14900k

[@kingcoon3090]

preciate it! still working on it rn

[@BrobjeV]

17:41 if that happens just alt+tab to second desktop and run manager from there

[@Dan.2004]

set your fps to 120, even on 60hz to reduce input lag.

[@oscarpiastriluvr]

Last time i checked to download re-shade for The Sims 4 it had been taken down, so be aware of that anybody planning to use

[@VannoTypeR]

Il est remarquable de constater comment certains joueurs PC dépendent de béquilles pour jouer et surpasser les autres, alors que les béquilles sont initialement conçues pour pallier un handicap 😉

[@slpstang08]

Holy crap dude, my game looks so much friggin better! Awesome video. Thank you! Also the game runs so much better now. Used to be little janky but now its smooth as butter.

[@deviljin_x]

i've watched like 20 other guides and i still can't get this game to run smoothly i have a 4090 and a 7800x3d with 32gb of ram

[@hafizhanjar]

same like me, but when i watch streamer they run so smoothly

[@jodieodinson1905]

changing graphics option will NEVER get you a ban if we are not talking about mods...

[@oaesthetic]

hey, do the new sg.GlobalIlluminationQuality and sg.ReflectionQuality make much of a difference in fps?

[@Synthgamer]

You kinda broke my settings a little. Some games dont want to even run. I tried starting my Batman Arkham Knight and it says it would not play because it cant run with a remote desktop setting. How could I fix that?

[@KytoYT]

Remote Desktop was never mentioned in this video so that’s unrelated, but if you think this video is the issue, just go back to your restore point you made at the beginning of the tutorial

[@sonicjaxon8107]

hey so recently i updated my graphics driver and now my dbd will crash after every game or if im lucky like every third game right after i join back to lobby. Sometimes it rarley crashes on start , is there any fix to this and "-dx12" makes dbd not start at all

[@ggfield]

How do you close the "reshade is now installed successfully" prompt? It really annoying

[@Siristhisyourcar]

I think I rather keep it to the point that it's a horror game and not a pretty Chinese version

[@Skarfar90]

If you run the game at 4K (or higher), you won't need strong antialiasing. 0-1 should be good for settings.

[@Dewtys_real]

awesome vid man set everything to 0 and resolution quality to 20 its like 50 fps rn :D

[@bonhomie6275]

FSR is upscale like DLSS but by AMD. it a really good addition to the game

[@zath6425]

DBD HAS MOUSE ACCELERATION BY DEFAULT?!?! Holy shit thank you I thought I was going insane playing Slinger.

[@koldjrive1905]

if you're experiencing game crashes it could be reshade. my game would crash after every game, but once i turned it off my game stopped crashing

[@KytoYT]

were you using DX11 or 12?

[@SiBORG.]

Awesome video! Very much appreciated!

[@abyss.92]

Advanced system settings -> performance settings-> you said if you're on low end pc to click adjust for best performance then check a few boxes. when I check the boxes it changes to custom instead of adjust for best performance. which is better, do you think?

[@Birdcotw]

None of this helped console players 😂

[@stupiddumb4307]

Dbd on console is garbage

[@Savagesmokerr]

@@stupiddumb4307no your just bad 😂 pc is for handicaps and speds

[@sebysebyt12]

​@@stupiddumb4307what

[@owenwilliams1857]

Tuff

[@Timothee_Chalamet_CMBYN]

@@stupiddumb4307I have dbd on both my ps5 and my Pc and I actually think PS5 looks better than the pc one. Maybe I need a gaming PC though.

[@Psychadelico]

Just fyi Kyto, the script to reduce the size of the HUD also affects the skillcheck size, which really sucks. Great video btw :D

[@KytoYT]

does it really? :0 that makes sense but kinda sucks 😔

[@rencokudonut5511]

Thanks kyto just got dbd on my new pc and now i have custom icons THANK U

[@Grugszz]

can i have some help what setting makes the perks/icons look good cuz they look really bad

[@cringe1462]

the program is called "nightlight" - it has a lot of perk and icon packs. i really recommend you get springey's "deluxe portrait" packs because they make survivor and killer icons look cool as hell.

[@sheeeeesh3628]

Hopefully I can use this guide when they maybe one day fix DBD. I haven't been able to play on pc since October.

[@Mondman-gc2qk]

i needed this video for backup to downlode & update reshade 3 time alr

[@eldrixxx]

Best part about this video is that he never recommends something he hasn't tried personally.

[@victorsaramento9333]

Fantastic video, thnak you for sharing

[@skrtiee]

please help. i downloaded reshade & customs icons and some optimizations tweaks no problem but for some reason every time i launch dbd my character saved slots (like skins/perks/items) are from before i installed everything. for example i started playing a new character since installing these mods and i didnt play them before this so now every time i launch dbd i have to re-equip everything onto that character (skins/perks/items). its not a big issue but a bit annoying re-equiping everything on every launch. please help someone.

[@yeehaw4775]

I’m no stranger to reshade because I use it for the sims, never even thought about using it for dbd too

[@muradbadalov4863]

is it all the same, now that the game engine has changed?

[@footedrocket6535]

Similar. There are a few added things in the notepad section that you need to be aware of, but it still "works" as long as you full in some gaps

[@drakeg36]

I run window mode because i have a Samsung Odyssey G9. Native resolution is 5120 x 1440 and DBD doesn't really support it so i play one half of the screen with the game and the other half with my stream or whatever else i need up, such as discord. Thats a reason to run window mode.

[@OnlyMarcoS1]

dang, yesterday I just was seeing your old videos about that.

[@caramel4350]

yo bro i followed this guide and it was fire 🔥 but how did u get ur taskbar like that? i’m a nerd like that mb

[@inexturnal4138]

Can you get banned for altering config sensitivity settings? I'm troubled because the lowest killer sensitivity setting is way to high for me to play.

[@OnlyMarcoS1]

probably no? behaviour should not even know about our sensitivity,

[@cringe1462]

ABSOLUTELY NO! You cant get banned for this! I have the same problem. what you can do is, in the same folder as "gameusersettings.txt" file, there is "input.txt". There, find a like that reads like "AxisMappings=(AxisName="LookUp",Scale=-1.000000,Key=MouseY)" and "AxisMappings=(AxisName="Turn",Scale=1.000000,Key=MouseX)". You can tune the numbers here to change killer sensitivity (same goes for survivor too, but its a different setitng a bit lower). For example, the normal 5% sens with 1.0 scale gives you the 5% sens, but with 0.5 scale it would give out 2.5% sens.

[@erebus0001__ttv]

omg thank you for this vid you made it so that i can stream dbd again

[@HamzaNazrul]

What about xbox pc users? 😅 No offense to you am your huge fan i have started watching your content from past 1 month ❤

[@paperlapap1]

after i did all of this everything else on my pc started laging while dbd was running and my gpu usage was at 100% the whole time. why is that?

[@redfireanimation5202]

Thanks for including Epic Games players

[@sebysebyt12]

U won't get banned for change settings in %localappdata% only if u change in game files like cheaters or icons

[@WOUBZY]

As far as I'm aware a value of 4 does literally nothing, resolution quality is also ,to the best of my knowledge, confirmed to do nothing.

[@bekobkero7087]

As a console player i only change the tv settings to the highest brightness it works like a charm especially in mid witch map spot survivors more easily and survive the nightfall more easily not bumping into walls

[@FemboyKaiSaku]

@@Walterwhitebeoch not everyone can afford a good PC

[@FemboyKaiSaku]

@@Walterwhitebeoch a cheap pc is not better than a ps5 though. My cheap pc can barely run among us lmao

[@Mytea1]

very detailed and nice guide! 😊👍