The Division 2 Optimization, Easily Gain Performance Without Downgrading Visuals

[@stickkey]

These videos are extremely useful. It takes a lot of work to compare each setting and you're saving us the hard work. Thanks for your work!

[@OnceIHadAPony]

It does take lots of hard work, and can be tiring on the fingers no joke. A+

[@samrodriguez4163]

literally spent an hour trying to get it right the other day then just happened across this lmao this guy is the goat

[@robertnicoll9712]

I'll +1 that comment. Comprehensive, through and well tested.

[@joaopaulocamaraa]

i have a gtx 1050(4gb), intel i5 8300h , Ram 8gb 2666hz. Am i able to play this game?

[@Tsino07]

Im 600th like bro

[@michaisn703]

Optimal settings at 15:59

[@LJRossPhoto]

Thank you!

[@TheFN19]

You da real MVP

[@bm8516]

B O I

[@firstjayjay]

Thank u

[@rheawen8111]

Hero

[@PookaBot]

Love that you guys have been doing these. "Tweak Guides" used to be a big thing but you don't see people do them much any more even though there are more pc gamers than ever.

[@rztrzt]

The nvidia geforce site use to have some really good performance guides doing graphs for every possible setting.

[@ekiM2K]

Do you know of anyone still doing them? HUB only does new releases and majority of my games are a year+ old now and I don't plan to buy.

[@PookaBot]

Sadly I don't. I'd love to do some myself but I can't afford to buy all the games lol. TweakGuides.com was the big site back in the day but they haven't done much since. It's worth checking out PC Gaming Wiki sometimes, though. The don't have extensive tweak guides, but game entries often have tweaks like how to fix the FOV, disable intro movies, etc.

[@MekanikKommandoh88]

Michael Wentworth Digital Foundry occasionally does similar videos for new releases.

[@ekiM2K]

@@MekanikKommandoh88 New releases, not helpful for me...

[@Relossz]

These performance optimization videos are the best. Keep it coming guys!

[@MrOboehobo]

Yes, I play at 4k with a 1080ti and care more about a clean image than super high settings. These videos have been really helpful for optimizing demanding titles. The AC:O guide was great and really helped my stabilize my framerates. The content on this channel requires a ton of work, these guys are some of the best in the tech community, and really glad the videos are always helpful and professional.

[@TT-pr9bx]

Been playing Div 2 for last 18 months and I don't know how I missed this video. Your work and presentation are amazing and you lay out what everyone needs to know to squeeze out more FPS. Still playing on a flashed Vega 56/64 and I was getting ~60-70 fps on Ultra. After making some of the recommended changes - it's 90-100fps and still looks amazing. Will recommend this video to anyone and everyone.

[@Dragonkindred]

Another industry leading video. Not only do you give us a chance to see the game in action (at different settings), but you arefully explain what the different options do for you. Awesome work.

[@JosephCaramico]

I know this game relies more on gpu than cpu, but in future videos of this series it would be nice to see performance difference with settings that are more cpu bound. With assassins creed odyssey there were a couple settings you found little to no performance difference in, but in the comments people said thats because those settings are more cpu heavy and on a cpu bottlenecked system it would make a larger difference.

[@sabin1981]

Yeah, +1 on this. It's all well and good saying "there's no performance difference on our $700 CPU" but the fact is... not everyone has that. Most of us are using more accessible CPUs, like the Ryzen 5 or the i7 6/7/8-series, and games like ACO often choke hard on those.

[@sausje]

@@sabin1981 Honestly Sabin, a €320 Ryzen 7 should be counted towards being accessible. I've yet to find a game that brings this CPU to it's knees. Though I did make the jump from 1080p60 to 1440p144 when I did the upgrade. My old 2600k wasn't sufficient enough at 1080p60 anymore :(

[@ryndaman619]

this game make my CPU usage 100%, its make my GPU usage drop to 0 for a sec make it freeze a bit feel unplayable

[@Quarantinoo]

Good job guys! Only we can change Volumetric Fog from ULTRA to MEDIUM and Local Reflection Quality from Very High to High and we have 30% boost :D

[@sabin1981]

Sounds like the same thing that was present in Assassin's Creed Odyssey with the clouds... change volumetric clouds from ULTRA to MEDIUM and gain a staggering performance boost.

[@Quarantinoo]

@@sabin1981 Yea, that's right. Exactly the same option graphic :)

[@jerrymichael2551]

@@sabin1981 thanks for your comment. I didn't need to watch the whole video.

[@sabin1981]

@@jerrymichael2551 Haha, it's all good :) The vid's worth watching though, I like HUB's optimisation vids.. even if they do seemingly cater to the higher-end gamers rather than mid-range :D

[@el-chubbo]

Man I love these performance videos as I game in 4k, keep them coming.

[@driller1787]

couldnt agree more! so damn helpful!

[@wilhitman1]

yea these videos are really appreciated - so many settings - Thank you a lot for your time.

[@LashleyAFC]

@Melanie L Ultra is never worth the performance hit.

[@chrisduncan4406]

@Melanie L some prefer 4k over 2k or HD. These guides show you how to get the most out of it, without downgrading visuals. It's a fairly easy concept to grasp.

[@AvatarOfManuel]

@Melanie L I absolutely disagree! Lowering the resolution is the biggest reduction of graphical fidelity possible, at least for my eyes. I would easily sacrifice a lot of other options before turning down resolution. Having about 45~50 fps in The Division 2 on Ultra in 4k, maybe this guide helps me getting around 60 fps?

[@Flapdr01]

On my 4670K 4.2 GHz the beta was very much cpu limited in the open world looking at certain directions. I guess when you test with a 5GHz 9900K everything seems gpu limited.

[@mateuscampello]

Yeah, my friend with an i3 7100 couldn't play it, so we kept playing Division 1. HUB, please do a CPU benchmark of this game, it's pretty CPU heavy. And if you could, I would appreciate the i7 2600k in the benchmark :)

[@DJ_Dopamine]

Try using DX12 mode. Supposed to cut down on GPU load and driver overhead. Not tried it on DX12 yet but heard good things.

[@WeeManXL]

The game wants to have three cores+ht/smt enabled, you should use at least a quad core with ht/smt enabled for stable and smooth gameplay. Keep in mind that you graphics card will shift load on the cpu as well of you have less gpu vram for the system memory has to make up for it. Top tip: Xeon 1230v3/1231v3 are dirt cheap in most country's and are providing 4770 performance.

[@boingkster]

Hate to say it but if you're cpu limited you really should plan an upgrade. Glad I did, went from an FX8370 to Ryzen 1200, then 1700X when a good used deal popped up. If you don't have 6 to 8 threads at 3.5ghz or more then modern games start becoming limited.

[@tyr8338]

are you using dx12? it helps a lot with cpu bottlenecks, my i7-4770k @ 4.2 GHz is not a bottleneck in benchmark when using dx12 contrary to dx11 mode where I was cpu bottlenecked.

[@Prodrummer1603]

Thx for this guide. With the Quality HUB Settings and a resolution of 2560 x 1440p (165hz) i can achieve 88fps AVG with my GTX 1080 and never drop below 75 FPS. With the Ultrapreset i would drop below 60 Sometimes

At 4k max settings but vol fog to medium, shadows and spot shadow res to high was over a 20fps boost. With your suggested local reflection quality to high i might have my final settings along with AA, vignette, chrom abb etc off. Great video, confirmed what i had dialled in with one more suggestion. You really are one of the best tech/gaming channels out there. You deserve way more subs, both of you keep up the fantastic work.

[@Najvalsa]

When I played the open beta I had a ~25% FPS increase going to DX12 with my 290 and X5670 and much better frametime's. I also didn't notice a visual difference between the High and Ultra presets (with the post processing effects turned off and AF maxed out) except for the near 20% FPS increase which for me was the difference between being sub 60 FPS average and above 60 FPS average. But this is an awesome guide for getting the best of both worlds between High and Ultra. Cheers!

[@issamthemorrocanjackass2403]

same on rx 570 i think it s only amd card

[@PLAYER_42069]

Can confirm. I have both a 1080ti in one rig, and a 390x in another and using DX12 on the AMD rig greatly increased fps even with a weaker CPU. It's because of the async computing AMD does better than Nvidia.

[@atwinparadox2]

This was extremely useful! I've gained a ton of performance without really affecting quality that much. I appreciate the effort that went into putting this together!

[@WGAPGaming]

Great video guys, cant wait to test this game on the GTX 1660 when it arrives today. dx12 was better when i tested both beta's on my other cards, looks to be the same on release

[@logirex]

dx12 offers a lot better fps but also horrible microstutters. on my old gtx 1080 anyway.

[@hotterthanhotmailathotmail3305]

enjoy console settings !

[@Flapdr01]

​@@logirex In the beta, running with ingame fps limit and freesync dx12 seemed a lot smoother than 11 on my system.

[@Jinny-Wa]

@@logirex Same with 1070ti

[@thetechoasis2179]

@@hotterthanhotmailathotmail3305 that card will play 1080p Very High @ 80fps without even trying

[@mrp7874]

If anyone is having stuttering issues while running around. Try lowering 'extra streaming distance' for me, when this option is on 10 and I run around my cpu hits around 90% and when set to 0 cpu load is around 55% This is very much a cpu dependent setting and can cause stuttering. This is all while running around though keep in mind. Standing still there isn't really a difference on cpu loads.

[@Ylex]

THANK YOU! This is exactly what i needed.

[@Drenamow]

This solved my stuttering actually. Thank you so much, since im actually struggling to run the game but i still want to play it. And you solved it!

[@glen3231]

what specs do you have, I want to buy this game but don't have the recommended specs, I want to know if I could play this game with these fps boosts/fixes.

[@Drenamow]

@@glen3231 not sure about them currently as im away from my computer but its a GTX 1060 3 gb. Sorry for the late reply. Oh and 8 gb RAM

[@smiley_gamer1239]

Drenamow how many fps do you get and do you play on low

[@artyboy1377]

Thanks for the guide, i just bought the game and was playing it for 3 hours straight using your optimization settings on my 2080Ti/3440X1440 rig and its plays very well running at 60-90fps average with the lowest drops to high 40s/mid 50s only at certain sections (just a few seconds). The game looks good despite the settings not being all maxed out. I also used your optimization guide for Metro Exodus and had very good average framerates while not losing much in graphics quality. It doesn't even matter that I have RTX Off because RTX Global Illumination is hardly discernable.

[@joaopaulocamaraa]

i have a gtx 1050(4gb), intel i5 8300h , Ram 8gb 2666hz. Am i able to play this game?

[@vlonebored]

Cant appreciate enough on the effort you guys put on these videos. Have to love this channel

[@ThinkingFingers]

Terrific guide. I'm using the HUB Performance settings on my RX 570 and it runs as well as medium but does look noticeably better in most areas. Thanks a lot.

[@TenkawaBC]

My numbers with a RX570 strix 4GB, OC'd to 1400Mhz / 8000 Mhz RAM are: 60+ FPS 1080 Ultra 40-50 FPS 2k Ultra 20 FPS 4K Ultra 26 FPS 4K High. The biggest hiccup is VRAM

[@JebesNikove]

Amazing vid just what I needed, got Division 2 today so this will be super usefull !!

[@JellyRoger_XIII]

I'm testing this amazing game with my old rig (4690K) + the brand new RTX 2060 by Zotac and WOW.....1440p almost all maxed and stable 60fps. Further test needed to not get some stuttering, that's why i lowered to High a couple of shadows settings, but have to say that this Game looks stunning and it's amazingly already well optimized. At least for my RTX for sure. Thank you for the vid guys, i will test stuffs also from your nice advices !

[@BorrietheBlade]

Outstanding video. I have a high end card and I can make 1 change to my settings and gain that 20% boost in performance without sacrificing quality. Thank you.

[@Hachi501st]

BRO!!! i changed like 2-3 settings that you suggested down by one setting and i went from 79fps avg to 108fps avg. thank you so much!!! im playing at 1080p with a 8700k, 32gb ram and rtx 2070 8gb. so amazing, thank you again brother. love from Canada

[@jsd4979]

How can I like this video multiple times?lol ...great worked!

[@BeRitCrunk]

Great guide. I've been missing tweak guides like these, and your 'preset' here is sound. Only bought me about 5 more frames, but with (practically) no visual loss on all cases, and a little visual gain in one setting. Thanks for sharing.

[@strainjar]

My performance got a lot worse since the release, how about you?

[@pubz9456]

same.

[@clayy5188]

I think I like this side of your channel even more than the benchmarking side as today's games tend to be very demanding even on high end hardware. I play at 3440x1440 on 1080 ti and I often have drops below 60 fps on max settings in AAA titles, so this kind of videos are gold to me because i can enjoy almost the same image quality without loosing fps and time calibrating the game settings. Thank you and keep up the good work!

[@ZDY66666]

I think you've missed a key issue ...players care about flat 60 at ALL times in this action PvP game. Not testing huge fire (or others types) scenes for contact shadow settings and particle effect is s big loss...A few areas in Div 1 can give big drops in frames with large particle effect enemies. Which is why I actually ran it at medium to achieve stable 60 even if that happens. And the contact shadows only had no effects because the benchmark is pretty much just outside, meaning it's pretty much the same stressing as Sun high or sun low. Using the benchmark is good for most settings, but should have tested specific scenes

[@mmmcrispyful]

Thank you for this comment. In-game benchmarks can be extremely misleading for testing various settings and The Division 2 is no different. I certainly saw an uptick in performance by reducing contact shadow and particle effects to medium, and was really disappointed to see the results mentioned in this video. This game can be very taxing on the CPU as well, something that the early levels and in-game bench do not demonstrate. For anyone using the recommended settings, while still better than the presets, will still encounter drastic fps drops just by progressing further in the game. Which is why you end up seeing such a large disparity between reviewers and gamers in terms of performance.

[@oropher1234]

Some players care about a flat 144, you know. He cannot adress the needs of people. He can only adress facts, at least that is the best way of doing this. Nevertheless testing more stressing parts of the game is important, and for that matter you are right!

[@ZDY66666]

@@oropher1234 yea, but 60 is seen as the standard these days and 144 is seen as the more enthusiast grade. Regardless, I really doubt on these suggested settings, that older /current mid end GPU like 1060 or 580 could always hit flat 60 in various scenes. The outdoor scenes are simple because it's just sun ray contact shadows

[@ZDY66666]

@@oropher1234 the worst part is he didn't test particle levels. Because some units that use fire for example, can drastically drop frames, and it would be in a combat situation too, so that makes it even worse.

[@TheNextDr]

I didn't even think about looking for a video like this. I had been playing around with the settings myself ever since I got a decent PC. Glad KZbin recommended it. Thanks for making this!

[@m-zurowski]

This video was so satisfying to watch! GREAT JOB!!! Hope there will be more videos for upcomming games ! (yeah Cyberpunk - I'm talking about You!)

[@Posit_Zero_Blue]

...am I crazy for saying I can't see a difference in anistropic filtering between 16x & 2x @ 11:20 ?

[@Nekrosmas]

DX12 give better performance for both Nvidia/Radeon, but the Day 1 patch seems to broke it and causes multiple crashes. DX11 is probably a safer bet before Ubisoft fixes the whatever that is causing it.

[@pantzman]

I am only lvl 7 and have not experienced any crashes yet using DX12 (Vega 56 1640core/950mem and pre launch 19.2.3 drivers).

[@juanmajg3113]

@@pantzman i have same problems. Only crashes in the game with dx12 with my vega 56.... i hope ubisoft give us a solutions

[@cbz21]

Played over 30hrs now with no crash on dx12.

[@RedEvileK]

Played about 11h dx12 RX 570 8GB without any crashed.

[@kevlar218]

I have issues with DX12 as well. After playing for 3-4 hours the game starts to stutter and have pop in issues with loading textures. Restarting the game fixes everything for another 3-4 hours. I never had this issue in any of the betas so not sure what they changed.

[@GBAwatercooler]

Very good, Awesomw job. Thank you. I have a 2600K @4500mhz with a RX580 4Gb. HUB Quality at 1080p works great. 95% of the time over 60fps 100% of the time above 50fps. Great! Thank you!

[@turtlehats7671]

Dropping the Resolution scale to 85% has a huge FPS gain and i can't really see any difference @ 1440p

[@ThinkPositiveDude]

dude....you're awesome :)

[@enkilqc]

Yes do this people, you save tons of memory. I play on 1080p on a 24'' and i cant see any difference with 100%

[@PinkyBrick]

My game consistently stutters My Pc parts are an i5 7400 Gtx 1060 6gb and 8gb ram Do I need to upgrade something ? Sorry I don't know much about pc every other game has run perfect

[@GBAwatercooler]

@@PinkyBrick only 4 cores on your i5, probably holding back your VGA, try to verify and monitor it with msi afterburner ... even being a good overall cpu, it will cry at these new AAA Ubisoft games that uses all available cores. See if you can test an i7 7700 (no need for the K version) it would be much better. For example. I run here a 2600K cpu, much older but OCed with 8 threads with an rx580 4gb. Due to higher thread count my CPU is fine for the job at 4.5Ghz. GPU power is around the same as yours but as I have less Vram your card should work better. I got good fluidity at 1080p HUB Quality. If you do not it is indeed due to your CPU having only 4 cores without the hability to OC. Also, 8gb for this game i think is not fine. 16gb should do better. Afterburner would tell it too.

[@sirfajruladha6963]

Thanks man. Really improved my fps on rx 580🤙🏻

[@odinKoS]

I was waiting all week for this guide. Please keep up this series! Excellent work, HUB!

[@nukeclears]

Game runs really wonderful, good job AMD for helping with the optimization.

[@scottroberts6820]

To mirror some previous comments: Thank you! These videos are incredibly useful and do require an immense amount of work and we appreciate it. The only thing you could do better and the one thing that would put this over the top, is if you provided a Google Docs, Google Sheets, or some similar link to your graphs or data to reference after we've watched the video. Alternatively, you could even provide timestamp links for each setting, but I assume this would be even more time consuming for you.

[@zseko77]

Which settings reduce cpu load?

[@ValkenDnB]

zseko77 I want to say object streaming is one of them

[@sabin1981]

I really wish these kinds of optimisation videos would cover that. So far "benchmark!" videos actually cover CPU-struggling settings.. it's always about GPU.

[@Skullord222]

having 16 gigs of ram instead of 8 en enabling the framecap at 60

[@WeeManXL]

Vsync will do, or the frame cap at 60FPS

[@Skullord222]

vsync is only interesting if you notice screen tearing, otherwise it has no purpose

[@kamikatze13]

@ 12:38 how is object detail (meaning amount of objects drawn, as in the footage example) related to VRAM usage in any way? if anything, it impacts the amount of draw calls and thus api overhead, which may have adverse effects on cpu usage - but not VRAM. If "object detail" meant "mesh quality" then maybe you'd see an impact on VRAM, but then again, mesh size is usually so small it is insignificant to VRAM usage.

[@joeyrosenbaum6893]

So I play on a 1080 and I've had the dx12 renderer have far more stutters down to basically a freeze. As well as commonly getting stuck on invisible walls far more often with dx12 for some weird reason

[@Jtatnell]

I have a 1080 too and I was getting a lot of CTD with dx12

[@androkles04]

Great video. I found that with the new AMD driver (19.3.2) I got a boost of almost 30 fps switching from DX11 to DX12 (in 1080p). And then using this video I've been able to squeeze everything out of the game for the most optimal balance. Thank you for the hard work.

[@kenshiwis]

No word on resolution scaling at 85% for FPS boost?

[@KatimaGaming]

Wow thank you so much for this. Very useful Running on a 980TI here so slim pickings on my end. Th eonly annoying thing with experimenting is it takes forever to restart the game LOL. Thanks again!

[@wile123456]

Maybe I'll watch again in one week when youtube has finally processed 4K

[@wadoryujh]

awesome, loved this guide when it first came out, now with somewhere between quality and performance, with an 85% render scale and radeon image sharpening. I've gone from 47fps HUB quality, to 60. looks amazing. these guides are some of the best on youtube by far.

[@heysie56]

has an i9 and generalises on cpu intensive settings to have no impact...

[@SgtRock4445]

Nvidia reset my graphics settings to back to Ultra, so I'm back for 16:00 Still works like a charm. Thanks Tim.

[@Wizardoo]

DX12 causes the game to frequently crash. The game was not optimized for DX12.

[@MetalFolf]

I get an extra 30fps with dx12 and never crashed

[@sharnapankhurst8351]

You guys absolutely rock, have been having some low fps issues so will try these custom presets

[@antisocialbutterfly959]

Cant wait to play this game. will use these settings i think

[@kg4135]

Thanx man, it really helped a lot. Gave me a 12 fps boost averaging 61fps (DX12 ), was getting only 49fps average before (DX11).

[@fidamdsaini8452]

Lol I forgot The Division 2 was released until I saw my KZbin notification, checked my email for AMD Rewards and there it was. Gonna download now.

[@JayyBlaze216]

How do you like it so far?

[@messemaker22]

followed this with a 9900k on 4.7ghz all core 16gb ddr4 4000 mhz cl16 and a gtx 1070 OC @ 1950 mhz and started on ultra and only changes the ones giving more then 5% on either lows or average and went from 68 fps to 71 fps... im guessing these numbers depend on architecture aswell. first time i followed a guide like this but it seems rather pointless on my rig and i will have to do some testing myself.

[@chaoticpreface6665]

Having the latency mode turned on will impact fps. Turning off have a 30 fps boost by turning it off. Using a 1070ti

[@Ludak021]

1080p i5 9600, 1070ti, turning it off does nothing (that I can see with fps counter). (dx11)

[@pubz9456]

@@Ludak021 use dx12?

[@Ludak021]

@@pubz9456 yes, now I do, I tried it and it is better with dx12, i think that latency off now has effect. Tho I must admit aiming IS better with it ON...

[@pubz9456]

@@Ludak021 what's your fps usually

[@Ludak021]

@@pubz9456 I am vsync at 72fps (72Hz monitor) I followed this guide and chnaged settings in ultra, well, lowered occlusion from ultra to high, switched to dx12, disabled latency improvement and now it's 72 fps. It used to be ~65~72, tho 65 was in bigger fights only while they are still "bigger". (1070Ti)

[@jameslewis2635]

Thumbs up to the devs for giving us access to all the options, not a thing that has been universal by any means in similar titles. For me it is a sign that they truly care about their PC port rather than what has been seen before with titles created primarily with consoles in mind. By the way, when the game has a lot of options like this any chance on a link in the description to a list of the settings in the video descriptions. This would be an easier reference when setting up the game itself as when using the Tomb Raider guide I kept having to stop and restet the video which was a bit painful as it takes different time frames to talk about a setting and then to impliment it.

[@beezysgs]

I'm tired of everyone doing optimization guides and benchmarks with an i9 cpu. Some of us actually are cpu limited and more and more gsmes run like crap these days if you don't have a high end cpu.

[@Jotagames07]

Bizzy SGS So true man

[@dershorty8032]

Ryzen 5 2600??? For 130€ in germany

[@beezysgs]

@@dershorty8032 plus a new motherboard, plus new RAM.

[@ProjectFraz]

Sounds like it's practically upgrade time

[@PingWhisper]

First time watcher, and I must say this is extremely useful. Thank you for your insight.

[@queegfivehundred8197]

Tim, did you happen to see the NGON interview with the engine developer for this game? In particular, I'm curious to hear your thoughts on his contention that at resolutions above 1080p you can get a noticeable performance bump with minimal graphics degradation by setting an 85% resolution scaling. kzbin.info/www/bejne/qX6km4mioK6jkM0

[@d3nyd]

I'll back this up with experience. I can see NO difference at all between 100% and 85% at 1440p, and it's nearly a 20-30% performance increase on my machine.

[@sirramsay1034]

Really useful! Thank you for taking the time to test every setting of the game! I hope you will do a lot more of those videos!

[@yongeeren4537]

Thanks for making a video for this game...

[@chuchof3tt669]

really appreciate the work you guys put into this kind of videos … as a working adult sometimes it's hard to test every setting, even more so if there's a lot... however your examples and comparisons are extremely useful and thoughtful... def keep em coming and i'm sure gonna check that Patreon channel you guys have!! Greetings from Puerto Rico!

[@tzuno2068]

Antialiasing?

[@tyre1337]

This channel is a god damn godsend when it comes to game settings, monitors and laptops.

[@CrazyBlueTv]

Should have tested with an AMD and Nvidia card...

[@SpykeHellboy]

damn this is a dream like video for guys like me with older rigs. i'm trying to find the best balance in terms of perfomance and quality using a fx 8350 and a gtx 970.

[@razaan5644]

Downloading the game as I'm watching this video

[@Unreal3man21]

Thank you so much for this comprehensive guide. I've been looking around for something like this for a while now. I'm sure this took a lot of time to put together, we appreciate it! Subbed!

[@princeofadown]

Thank you so much for the tips. I was having some annoying stuttering, but now the game runs much better.

[@meramsey]

Thanks for taking the time to do these guides! Greatly appreciated

[@aldamon1]

Wish you'd go into the TAA implementation in this game. We have no AA control in settings. TAA is set to 3 by default in the config file and it's incredibly blurry. Setting it to 1 creates jaggies everywhere. 2 seems to be the best setting (and I believe it was set to in TD1).

[@Jefafa73]

Love these videos! Your time and effort put in really shows! It would be awesome if you could show maybe a few cards benchmarked with your different custom settings to see the fps gains and at different resolutions.

[@alexanderson4497]

Only thing I would argue is Volumetric Fog, Ultra may not look like a huge difference from High to Ultra but when you're actually moving around and you see the shifts in lighting cause of the nice weather changes then you really learn to appreciate it being at Ultra. If you have a decent rig I would put it up to Ultra, the Division 2 is a very nice looking game even at lowest settings however, Ubisoft really put in the work to make the game look extremely detailed.

[@University_of_Shawn_Ryan]

Freaking Kudos bro! Will be applying these on my new rig on Friday!

[@DJ_Dopamine]

Thanks for this. I got the game yesterday and I'll try these optimised settings!

[@spyderlogan4992]

An outstanding presentation with all the details. A 'benchmark' seminar on how to optimize this game. I wonder (at this typing)why the 8 thumbs down. There's a lot of information that clearly took an enormous amount of time to assemble in an orderly well thought out narrative. This is probably the first of a kind where the settings are analyzed in this manner. Very Well Done!

[@msnehamukherjee]

This game is optimised really good. I can run this game at all max on my 1060 with 50-60 fps on Dx12.

[@Jinny-Wa]

720p?

[@msnehamukherjee]

@@Jinny-Wa 1080p IT is a fucking 1060 not a GT 1030.

[@emreb2043]

I can barely run this game at medium to low settings with a 1060 6gb overclocked lol wtf kind of magic are you running?

[@msnehamukherjee]

@@emreb2043 DX12. With DX 11 I too get 30-40 fps. DX 12 is almost double of that with less drops. Also your Ram timings and CPU OC comes into play. I have heavily tightened RAM timings and OC'ed my FX 8350 to 5.0GHz.

[@emreb2043]

RedIndianRobin I mean I have Ryzen 5 2600 with 16gb ddr4 running at 3000mhz so idk man I think I’ll try DX12

[@8bitkoopatroopa750]

It really worked at least i got better temps (Rx Vega 64), from 80-85 C° to 60-65 C°, i haven't checked the fps counter since i have the v-sync on and the game still looks great Great video

[@joaopaulocamaraa]

i have a gtx 1050(4gb), intel i5 8300h , Ram 8gb 2666hz. Am i able to play this game?

[@Macho_Fantastico]

Probably said this before but this is one of the best graphical breakdowns I've seen, easy to understand and explains his reasoning. Bravo.

[@Dia1Up]

An FYI, I got this game with my Vega 56, even with these settings I couldn't get 60 fps, with a very odd bug when I turned the camera, the fps would drop to below 30, and then slowly creep back up when I stopped. It was a studdery low fps mess. I swapped to Dx12. Runs like pure butter on almost max everything. I'd love to see others test it, or if it's just my rig

[@enollis1829]

idk why but I always hate those sharp shadows. they don't look realistic for me. most shadows always are blurry except when it's extremly close to the source perhaps. and at 7:04 the one i'd definitly choose is medium or high at max. the ultra preset looks off and unnatural and actually very wrong. as the shadow would gradually get blurry. dik if there is someone who knows things about shadows and in that case feel free to tell me I'd stupid but until then medium and low were the most realistic for me

[@pmedwards42]

Great video. Your recommended quality settings improved my average frame rate from 48 to 61. i5-8600k @ 4.9ghz, 16gb ram, GTX 1080.

[@IIArrivalII]

Did you download the latest nvidia drivers ? Your FPS shouldn't be that low.

[@elmSTREETnasty]

I was getting horrible performance and quite a few crashes with DX12 in the alpha, closed and open beta. Might have to give it a try now tho.

[@KelvinMercer]

please keep making these optimization video

[@joaopaulocamaraa]

i have a gtx 1050(4gb), intel i5 8300h , Ram 8gb 2666hz. Am i able to play this game?

[@KelvinMercer]

João Câmara i doubt it man. this game is VERY poorly optimized. i have a gtx 1060 6gb 8gb dd4 ram and an i5 7500 and i had to turn off uplay overlay nvidia overlay and every other bg software that u might use when playing games just to make this game playable with 40-50 fps (still fps drops sometimes) so i definitely don't recommend this game for a 1050ti and 8gb ram.

[@pidjohn]

Kelvin Mercer how do I turn all that off ?

[@WeeManXL]

You guys are the best, thanks to you my game runs way smoother now even though the framerate didn't change that much at first glance. Awesome!!!

[@PyromancerRift]

The 1% low moving around like the average FPS is admirable. Most of the time the 1% low caused by stutters are repeated (or just don't move by a lot) no matter the graphics quality you chose.

[@jotawayhijo]

This kind of videos is the real reason why im suscribed to Hardware Unboxed. GJ and keep doing it in the name of the PC comunity please.

[@almightydonut]

How have I not come across this before? This is awesome!!!! Subcribed!

[@MarioRNR94]

Man, you just make my game run smooth and looks GREAT. This kind of videos took you a lot of effort, but we really appreciate it. Love you!

[@Darkcruzer23]

This is great. I especially appreciate how you mention for lower end cards when they might gain more performance for turning something down or off where most cards it's not worth it

[@theskybel2416]

very good ! I played the beta And I put some things high and others in the middle I managed to run the house game from 50 to 60 fps in 1440p with a GTX 1060 i5 4440 and 8gb of ram

[@1JamesZ]

Finally a video where someone shows settings for pleasing visuals instead of just performance. Would be interested to see some nvidia control panel settings also as I’m not sure mine are correct

[@cmdrsheprd]

Quick question: Have you run into system struddering due only having 16GB RAM? I ran into system memory issues. I upgraded to 32GB RAM after playing the open beta. Currently playing the release version and the game is consuming about 12GB RAM by itself(according to task manager). Game preset is high.

[@22dusan22]

adjusting TAA can improve performance modifying a config file from TAA = 3 to TAA = 1 without losing visual fidelity

[@L4m3st0n3]

If anyone is interested in this file location, see below: C:\Users\%username%\Documents\My Games\Tom Clancy's The Division 2\graphic settings.cfg --- open with notepad++ for best results.

[@RefrigeratedTP]

I don't frequent your channel as much as I used to, but this video is easily the most useful video I've watched since I started to learn about Pc's to build my own. Keep these up!

[@theslimeylimey]

Your thoroughness on this is very much appreciated thanks.

[@Daggz90]

Great work, many thanks, this has been very helpful! Appreciate the time and work put into this!

[@HardRockFairytale]

Once again a flawless, detailed and very useful Optimization video! Great job! I cant help but be frustrated with the lack of SLI Support.. it seems that Ubisoft kinda forgot about it lately with the exception being Far Cry. SLI was in The Division, and worked decently. It is the same engine used in The Division 2, but for some reason SLI is removed. Why not leave it on Ubisoft? Hoping for some kind of fix through official updates or more DIY SLI fixes :) We are used to doing the developers jobs after all :)

[@LiLBitsDK]

must say I like the "low" on spot shadows way better, the soft edges are nicer, LOVE these videos, so nice to have the "best" options handed to us, instead of spending hours upon hours OR just leaving on ULTRA... 30% performance is HUGE for little to no loss in visuals, kudos for another great video! keep em coming :D and yes I know you spend a LOT of hours on a video like this, but do the math on how many hours the rest of us save combined!

[@PolyShifter]

@HardwareUnboxed I imagine the projected textures are actually 3d projected textures for decals. Like bullet holes on walls and such. They are projected from the camera.