The Dear Leader
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That's a bummer, thanks for info, I'll just turn it back down to medium.
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Dying Light PC Performance Thread
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That's a bummer, thanks for info, I'll just turn it back down to medium.
Krappadizzle
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I can't seem to play Co-op anymore. I'm at 93% story completion on a second playthrough, and now for whatever reason it won't give me the option to select coop anymore. I can play that Zombie mode, but no more co-op. Anyone have any ideas?
Not sure if last patch or what but the last chunk of this game I was experiencing pretty crazy memory leaks. Was creeping toward my full 8 gigs of memory and thought it was because I had my browser open or something, closed it out and a few other applications. Brought it down to like 7 gigs and still climbed back up.
crazysapertonight
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Game has really strange performance.
For some time I played game with everything on ultra exept view distance(50%) with v-sync on at 60fps without any problems. Then I don't know, what happened but performance fell and I had drops to 30 and even lower at every settings.
Now I am playing with eveything on ultra exept shadows with 100% view distance and pretty good framerate 50-60 but with a lot of tearing. If I make v-sync on, even with setting like before(everything on ultra exept view distance(50%) with v-sync) game become not playable with drops to 30fps all around.
it is so strange.
gtx 780, i5 4670 16gb ram
(sorry for my english)
For some time I played game with everything on ultra exept view distance(50%) with v-sync on at 60fps without any problems. Then I don't know, what happened but performance fell and I had drops to 30 and even lower at every settings.
Now I am playing with eveything on ultra exept shadows with 100% view distance and pretty good framerate 50-60 but with a lot of tearing. If I make v-sync on, even with setting like before(everything on ultra exept view distance(50%) with v-sync) game become not playable with drops to 30fps all around.
it is so strange.
gtx 780, i5 4670 16gb ram
(sorry for my english)
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Deleted member 325805
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So the second area has worse performance for me. In the first area I'm mostly at 60fps locked with only a few areas tanking my frame rate for unknown reasons, but I seem to be dropping frames very often in the second area, hopefully they polish it up a bit.
So, what's up with the GPU use?
That's as low as I've seen it. As posted previously, VSync is off and all other settings are to maximise performance. Was never this bad pre-patch.
Next pic is with Shadow Maps on very high. Clearly working my GPU more and maintaining framerate so no bottleneck elsewhere.
It's most annoying as I'd rarely be dropping below 60 FPS without these weird hiccups.
That's as low as I've seen it. As posted previously, VSync is off and all other settings are to maximise performance. Was never this bad pre-patch.
Next pic is with Shadow Maps on very high. Clearly working my GPU more and maintaining framerate so no bottleneck elsewhere.
It's most annoying as I'd rarely be dropping below 60 FPS without these weird hiccups.
Textures at medium most likely, game frequently sits at 3-3.5 on high and there's not a huge difference anyway.. Shadows to high or medium, as Ultra is really demanding. Nvidia DOF off as it is somewhat buggy for some people. View distance I'd start at around 35ish and tweak from there.
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Deleted member 325805
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I have view distance all the way down, I don't notice a graphical difference at all between min and max but the frame rate hit is massive.
abracadaver
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Next patch comes with another downgrade:
From the Steam forum where people are testing the beta:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/239140/discussions/0/611698195147260693/#p5
From the Steam forum where people are testing the beta:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/239140/discussions/0/611698195147260693/#p5
This is good. I don't get what's to be disappointed about. It's the low end of the settings and it needed lowering. Some systems can't get 60fps at 1.40 - including mine.Next patch comes with another downgrade:
From the Steam forum where people are testing the beta:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/239140/discussions/0/611698195147260693/#p5
Hi Jimmy, I posted my specs a couple of pages back, and high textures are fine. Game seems to make use of 3.5 Gb VRAM on 4 Gig cards but on a 780 it sits below 3Gb on max settings almost always. The high setting preloads textures using whatever VRAM it has available and 3Gb seems to suit it fine.
Dropping Shadow maps to high gives you the best performance boost with barely noticeable degradation in quality, and VRAM use also drops slightly. You'll never get a constant 60fps though due to inefficient use of GPU in certain places (see my above post),
Thanks, I set it up as you recommended and it runs incredibly well and looks amazing.
Cheers
abracadaver
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Deleted member 325805
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Sounds like a solid patch.
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Queen of Hunting
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Now to wait on Dying Light Manager guy to get out a 1.4 version...
he already has ?
Last updated at 15:34, 14 Feb 2015Uploaded at 5:19, 31 Jan 2015
WORKS WITH 1.4.0.0 !
http://www.nexusmods.com/dyinglight/mods/18/?
I'd wait to see if andy updates the perf guide before singing their praises yet. We already know they kneecapped the LoD setting again, so that perf boost might just be a mirage.
Also,with my i5 2500K@4.4 GHz + GTX 970 @1080p, in-game now I'm able to put everything on [infamous nVidia DoF included] and pushing a bit the distance view [around 50% of the slider] without go below 60 FPS in external or busy combat scenes. WP, Techland.
abracadaver
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My performance has increased as well now that I can set the view distance even lower than before...
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Deleted member 325805
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Performance is great now, very good patch.
My settings (excuse the crude stitch job):
Frame rate with my settings:
Frame rate with view distance max:
Waypoint if you want to test your frame rate in the same area:
I picked this spot as it's the most intense area I've found so far, it used to absolutely tank my frame rate but now it's 60fps solid, which means everywhere else is also 60fps solid. Personally I can't tell the difference between view distance min and max, so I just set it on the notch that didn't affect frame rate at all, the next notch up cost me 3fps and I can't be having that
Ram usage dropped by 2GB as well.
My settings (excuse the crude stitch job):
Frame rate with my settings:
Frame rate with view distance max:
Waypoint if you want to test your frame rate in the same area:
I picked this spot as it's the most intense area I've found so far, it used to absolutely tank my frame rate but now it's 60fps solid, which means everywhere else is also 60fps solid. Personally I can't tell the difference between view distance min and max, so I just set it on the notch that didn't affect frame rate at all, the next notch up cost me 3fps and I can't be having that
Ram usage dropped by 2GB as well.
KCroxtonJr
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All they're doing is changing the range of the slider, it now goes all the way down to 1.00 view distance. Lowest was 1.40 or something like that before. It's not a downgrade or anything like that, you could already do this if you edited the video settings file.
anybody able to get mods to work in the new version? I can't seem to get my old stuff working, with or without the manager (supposed to be able to without manager now).
I really wish they would add in a different type of AA, the standard one looks horrible at 30fps, and sweetfx/nVidia inspector smaa/fxaa solutions don't seem to do a very good job with this game for some reason.
Guys on the steam forums are reporting that they removed all reflections from the game and limited Shadow res buffer to 2048 (old max on 1.0 was 8k lol....) along with cutting down the view res again...
Well, at least we'll always have the option to readd this stuff with dying light manager, eh?
Well, at least we'll always have the option to readd this stuff with dying light manager, eh?
It's really odd. On console they keep adding gfx, on PC they keep taking it away.
I know PC gamers "like 60 FPS" but we like it if you give us the option.
Killing all reflections is way too severe.
The Dear Leader
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I haven't noticed any difference in reflections, I can still see my goofy mug on weapons when I grab them out of boxes, I'll check next time I play to see if anything else is missing.
No IQ changes and a 5 FPS boost in my testing location. Good patch.
TheFNEffecT
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Fantastic increase on my 295x2 as well, areas stay around 70fps with the same settings prior it was around 45fps, finally!
plumpblumpkin
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Nice, no more stuttering when slider is at 50% on gtx 970 here. Thank you Techland
not sure if this was posted, but this is a great new minimal HUD mod. i'm using the alternate version w/ just the health bar. looks great so far.
http://www.nexusmods.com/dyinglight/mods/85/?
http://www.nexusmods.com/dyinglight/mods/85/?
Without the repair bar and usable item icon it's kinda unusable imo, especially considering they left in the skill bars of all things. I mean that thing is entirely pointless to be persistently looking at because it only moves in one direction and the screen flashes when you level up anyway.
If you wanna go no hud then go no hud. This just seems like a stopgap between a minimization of the hud and no hud that services neither.
But thanks for the link to the site, this mod sounds awesome as a good stopgap between current normal, which is zzzzzzz, and the official hard mode:
http://www.nexusmods.com/dyinglight/mods/63/?
Some cool changes for this hardcore mod. List:
One thing I don't like is weapon durability increased. I mean shit, durability ceases to be a problem about 3 hours into the game unless you're just going on like, 100 zombie killing sprees all the time.
LordOfChaos
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I used Dying Light Manager to disable shadows, it looks better to me since I could only use the low res shadows which looked like blockey vomit. And now it went from ~30FPS with dips way down to 17, to a nice smooth 40-60, lowest dips only to 30. This is on an Iris Pro 5200, not a fantastic GPU, but just that one tweak made it quite smooth.
Dictator93
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It's less an internet thing and more a paranoia thing. If I had such an oddball GPU I'd be suspicious of every stutter too.
I wouldn't be able to help myself.
It's the same with my 980. Don't blame your 970 for it.
You might want to try using one of those "borderless window" apps if you haven't already. I've been using Borderless Gaming 7.9 coupled with a 60fps cap through RTSS, and NVIDIA Inspector's vsync. Can't say it's perfect, but it's definitely much better than the "stutter-fest" fullscreen solution offered by Techland.
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Deleted member 325805
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No, at least not for me. See the screenshots I posted above. That's using an MSI 970 4G.
ambientmystic
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Match it and then some. The PS4 (and XB1) version still has really, really low LOD compared to even the lowest setting on the PC.