Not all games have an FPS counter included. A lot of PC games now make an effort to add one, and when they do its in the settings menu.
Steam has an FPS counter included.
I tend to use MSI afterburner.
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Dishonored 2 PC performance thread
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Not all games have an FPS counter included. A lot of PC games now make an effort to add one, and when they do its in the settings menu.
Steam has an FPS counter included.
I tend to use MSI afterburner.
SoldierIce64
Member
EVGA 1080 SC
i7-6700k stock
16 GB RAM
All settings on ultra @ 1080p.
Latest Nvidia drivers + Windows 10 update.
The game ran pretty smoothly until I reached the main square of
. Then it started chugging a bit. I might either have to turn down a few settings or see if the game gets patched soon.
i7-6700k stock
16 GB RAM
All settings on ultra @ 1080p.
Latest Nvidia drivers + Windows 10 update.
The game ran pretty smoothly until I reached the main square of
Karnaca
Not all games have an FPS counter included. A lot of PC games now make an effort to add one, and when they do its in the settings menu.
Steam has an FPS counter included.
I tend to use MSI afterburner.
Wow...thanks a bunch. I will check that out when I wrap up today.
I love this community.
AHA-Lambda
Member
4790k
GTX 970
16GB RAM
Kept to medium settings following the doom and gloom from this thread, played up to chapter 3 so far but it seems to be working ok here.
GTX 970
16GB RAM
Kept to medium settings following the doom and gloom from this thread, played up to chapter 3 so far but it seems to be working ok here.
GwyndolinCinder
Member
Check your priority settings?
Okay so during the first map I couldn't tell why I was uncomfortable playing but as soon as I got outside it got easier to figure:
It look like mouse sensibility is tied to fps. With the game going from 60 to 200+ depending of the direction you are looking to... it's like instant motion sickness.
Edit: A friend got the same issue with sensibility: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuyVwXH0WRk (He is moving the mouse at constant speed)
It look like mouse sensibility is tied to fps. With the game going from 60 to 200+ depending of the direction you are looking to... it's like instant motion sickness.
Edit: A friend got the same issue with sensibility: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuyVwXH0WRk (He is moving the mouse at constant speed)
dgrdsv
Member
SomedayTheFire
Member
So Polygon was right, at least for PC.
Weird, i7-4770k/980 Ti at 1440p here, and I'm only getting a 5 frame difference between FXAA High and TXAA:
FXAA High
TXAA
Pop On Arrival
Banned
Well I finally got it to run at "tolerable" levels by downloading something called process hacker and permanently setting dishonored 2's priority to high
Everything is set to ultra excent shadows which are on high and view distance which is on very high. minimum fps I've gotten is 58, but it still doesnt really feel "good" even when i'm at 90-100fps in certain area.
my rig is a MSI GTX1070 gaming x OC'd +140 clock
i5 6600k 4.5hz
16gb ram
Everything is set to ultra excent shadows which are on high and view distance which is on very high. minimum fps I've gotten is 58, but it still doesnt really feel "good" even when i'm at 90-100fps in certain area.
my rig is a MSI GTX1070 gaming x OC'd +140 clock
i5 6600k 4.5hz
16gb ram
StrikeFirst117
Banned
Wait a minute why is it on low priority on the task manager by default, that is really strange guess I'll mess with it.
Pop On Arrival
Banned
dont forget to save it once you've set it to high or else it;ll go back to low again
The game isn't officially released yet, only pre-orders could start playing 24h early... which doesn't make a lot of sense since anyone could buy the game and start playing now... which doesn't make ANY sense at all since all it does is ending up with poor reviews from an broken game. And why does the steam page says "Storage: 60gb" and on my disk all it take is 40gb? Cut content? Iam confused why they let this dog out...
Tutorial area and even Dunwald are very poor indicators of how game performs on your system. You need to get into first actual mission of the game.
Pop On Arrival
Banned
It's always like that. I think MGSV said 30gb required and it ended up being like 16? Same with Deus EX. Requires like 50gb, but takes up 26gb afaik, or that could just be compressed
I've been using process hacker for years for software development and had no idea it had this functionality. Thanks!
Pop On Arrival
Banned
disclaimer, it's still not gonna feel great. Even when you;re nowhere close to dipping below 60fps on 144hz monitor. This game is really weird. I've done all the mouse smoothing stuff, including the cfg file.
It just doesnt make me wanna puke after 10 minutes of exploring areas
it sorta reminds me of playing crysis 1 on my 8800
Mafia was shit. Forza was...very less than ideal.
Lashley
Why does he wear the mask!?
Yep, looked awful too
Oh, I know it doesn't help with performance (at least not for me), I tried it already with another tool. I'm just happy to know that it's available in process hacker next time so I can get rid of another unnecessary tool
Fully aware, but the performance difference between those two settings should stay the same throughout, unless something is broken.
Pop On Arrival
Banned
pretty sure something is broken. I love the game, but there is no way the graphics in it should require such demanding hardware at 1080p.
CPU1 usage is pretty high in that scene (73%). Maybe the game is not GPU limited in this particular spot? Test again in a place with lots of buildings, objects and foliage.
Modest Mauser
Member
The only thing you can do is open the config file under your user folder/saved games and change the value for fullscreen to "1"
sertopico
Member
Depends on how much stuff needs to be antialiased. In that scene (the very beginning of the game) there is almost nothing around. You should try again once you reach the big city.
Yup, "r_fullscreen" was set to "2," even though I tried setting fullscreen in-game. I'll give "1" a shot and see what happens.
Past experience and my current knowledge tells me scene complexity doesn't do a thing to make AA more demanding, but I'll report back with another comparison when I get to a more demanding section of the game.
Don't you just hate it when they make a casual tweet and say "Some PC players"...
http://www.polygon.com/2016/11/10/13586990/dishonored-2-pc-performance-issues
"Some" as in, the majority.
http://www.polygon.com/2016/11/10/13586990/dishonored-2-pc-performance-issues
"Some" as in, the majority.
CrichtonKicks
Member
Yeah, unfortunately the extreme judder is still present even with the priority set to high.
StrikeFirst117
Banned
Well it still drops like crazy in places on the 2nd mission, so I'm gonna wait for a patch on this one because I can't play with that. Not too mention the frame rate doesn't feel like a smooth normal 60 either, there is some jittering going on as well.
Also some of the audio mixing is completely fucked, I've had guards talking and whistling a fair distance away whereas in reality it sounds like they are right next to me.
This port is pretty bad at the moment.
At least I got a significant discount on GMG I guess.
Also some of the audio mixing is completely fucked, I've had guards talking and whistling a fair distance away whereas in reality it sounds like they are right next to me.
This port is pretty bad at the moment.
At least I got a significant discount on GMG I guess.
NeoRaider
Member
I think we all do. And they always say that.
I guess they can't really say "majority" that would make things look even worse.
Huge Succeeded
Banned
I'm using Performance Lasso to keep my game locked at high prority. (I said last night that I wouldn't buy this port, but... it's Dishonored ffff) When the game is actually running at high priority, it runs significantly better - I'm holding 60fps almost all the time now on an oc'd 970 and 4790k at a mix of high and medium settings at native 1080p. I just approached Karnaca on the Wale, which was a segment that I read a user or two having frame drops during, and my game held at 60 throughout.
However, I did run into the issue that the game would revert back to low priority after a few minutes of gameplay. I think I've fixed that, though - I'll let y'all know in an hour or so if it really works, but here's what I did -
right click the Dishonored2.exe process in Process Lasso and set a new watchdog rule. Customize the rule so that when the watchdog detects that Dishonored 2 is using more than 10 or 15 percent of the CPU for more than five seconds at a time, the watchdog will automatically set Dishonored 2's priority to High if it isn't already. I've had the game idling for 45 minutes now and it's still set to high - I'm going to play for a little while now and see if it continues to work. And like I said, this tweak offers up a pretty huge performance boost as far as I can tell, or good enough at least that users running mid end or slightly better hardware can enjoy the game. (I'm also using the 1 frame rendered tweak as well.) I'm playing at 1080p on a 60hz monitor and aside from the aliasing I'm relatively satisfied with the performance I'm pulling now.
I've been using Rivatuner to lock my game to 60fps and I've been using the mouse smoothing tweak as well. Before I implemented all these tweaks, playing through the tutorial, I definitely noticed the judder that you guys were describing. Since I've implemented all the tweaks I described in this post, I haven't had any problems with it outside of brief loading screens. Hopefully this mess is patched up soon and users will no longer have to resort to heavy tweaking in order to run this game well. And for what it's worth, the game is really, really good, it just runs like shit :L
However, I did run into the issue that the game would revert back to low priority after a few minutes of gameplay. I think I've fixed that, though - I'll let y'all know in an hour or so if it really works, but here's what I did -
right click the Dishonored2.exe process in Process Lasso and set a new watchdog rule. Customize the rule so that when the watchdog detects that Dishonored 2 is using more than 10 or 15 percent of the CPU for more than five seconds at a time, the watchdog will automatically set Dishonored 2's priority to High if it isn't already. I've had the game idling for 45 minutes now and it's still set to high - I'm going to play for a little while now and see if it continues to work. And like I said, this tweak offers up a pretty huge performance boost as far as I can tell, or good enough at least that users running mid end or slightly better hardware can enjoy the game. (I'm also using the 1 frame rendered tweak as well.) I'm playing at 1080p on a 60hz monitor and aside from the aliasing I'm relatively satisfied with the performance I'm pulling now.
I've been using Rivatuner to lock my game to 60fps and I've been using the mouse smoothing tweak as well. Before I implemented all these tweaks, playing through the tutorial, I definitely noticed the judder that you guys were describing. Since I've implemented all the tweaks I described in this post, I haven't had any problems with it outside of brief loading screens. Hopefully this mess is patched up soon and users will no longer have to resort to heavy tweaking in order to run this game well. And for what it's worth, the game is really, really good, it just runs like shit :L
That's just standard communication.
You'll never see a company say that they delivered a faulty product from the get go without looking into it first (not saying that Dishonored 2 on PC is faulty though, don't have the game)
Saying that the majority of PC players have problems would be stupid from them and wouldn't look good at all
No, it's not.
mercenar1e
Member
its still pretty awful.
mercenar1e
Member
yeah its this.
Pop On Arrival
Banned
wasnt arkham knight locked at 30fps at initial release and ran like shit? That game looked good too.
LaunchpadMcQ
Banned
Forza wasn't that bad for me, actually. I wasn't getting nearly as many problems as others. Mafia was shit across all platforms tho
God damnit, this fucking year man. So many shit ports
MidnightHour
Member
Really disappointed by the performance issues, was looking forward to having this game be the first game I played on my new PC build.
DeathGlobe
Member
How's the PS4 pro performance?
BriareosGAF
Member
Not necessarily. You could have a better toolchain independent of the language specification (similar to Vulkan/SPIR-V, you could technically write a compiler that takes some DSL and emits DXBC into blobs, although there's always the problem of ensuring sufficient expressiveness in the IR representation). But the bigger issues is that you're always going to have a vendor compiler that changes from the IR representation into the backend microcode, and that's still going to be a pain to discover. Luckily you have guys like Josh Barczak doing Pyramid and related bits. And of course some vendors are more open about ISA specifications and if that continues we may see a flowering of toolchain options, which would be awesome.
If you're curious about this stuff you might also find things like Ryan Gordon's Mojoshader project interesting--it takes DXBC blobs and turns them into GLSL for feeding into GL runtimes.
Someone mentioned earlier on the thread that the intro area had no issues. No word on how the performance holds once you get to the first hub tho.
Pop On Arrival
Banned
exact same boat here, lol. Now I'm playing Rise of the tomb raider again and crysis 3 just to feel good about my pc ...