MickeyKnox
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Except you can turn the film grain off through some file editing.
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Dying Light PC Performance Thread
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Except you can turn the film grain off through some file editing.
Dusktildawn48
Member
Page bump. What is CA?
Sax Russel
Banned
Played through the first day, everything is on/max except shadows on medium, motion blur is off, and view distance is at 50%. 50-60fps most (let's say 80%) of the time, although it does drop into the low 40s often enough, which is a bit jarring. From monitoring stats it doesn't seem like GPU usage is ever a problem, it's just being held up by maxing the first CPU core, as has been documented already. Oh well, still pretty good, but hopefully a patch can sort that out.
Using a 970 (1522/3800 MHz) and a 2500k (4.4 GHz).
Using a 970 (1522/3800 MHz) and a 2500k (4.4 GHz).
MickeyKnox
Member
CA is chromatic abberation, a visual artifact of light passing through a lens and then not focusing all colors on the same convergence point out the other end due to the differing wavelengths. The better the lens the less of it you'll see.
It's applied to games as a post processing effect by the sort of talented classy Visual Design Directors that have cheap reproductions of Renaissance era paintings and statues all over their homes.
Dusktildawn48
Member
lol thats way above my head, thanks though
nextgeneration
Member
Likewise. I just need to know if that setting causes blurriness. And since it apparently does, well, I'll turn it off. LOL.
SneakyStephan
Banned
Found a fix over at reddit.
Credit goes to fireundubh for the CA and quickshot101 for the filmgrain
I'll spare you guys the labor, but explain what you need to do.
You extract SteamApps\common\Dying Light\DW\Data0.pak using winrar, ( these pak files hold a lot of other settings, so you savvy people can probably find other cool stuff in there )
and then place the relevant files in your dying lights "my document" folder.
The correct path for the CA files will beCode:yourdocs\DyingLight\data\postprocess\include\
You basically comment out these lines - 1425-1438 in main.ppfx
Code:1425 //If("f_pp_aberration_on", "", "", "", "") 1426 //{ 1427 // if(e_path != SM31) 1428 // { 1429 // SetRenderTargetsView("_4_BLUR_TEMP", ""); 1430 // SetBuffer(8, "4_RGBA16F_B"); 1431 // Mesh("quad_screen.msh", "copy.mat", "std"); 1432 // } 1433 // 1434 // resolve(0, "/32"); 1435 // SetRenderTargetsView("_4_BLUR", "noresolve"); 1436 // SetBuffer(8, tex_0); 1437 // Mesh("quad_screen.msh", "screen_aberration.mat", "std"); 1438 //}
As well as line 1378-1387 in renderloop.ppfxCode:1378 //If("f_pp_aberration_on", "", "", "", "") 1379 //{ 1380 // SetRenderTargetsView("_2_RG11B10F_A", ""); 1381 // SetBuffer(16, "2_RG11B10F_B"); 1382 // Mesh("tri_screen.msh", "copy.mat", "std"); 1383 // 1384 // SetRenderTargetsView("_2_RG11B10F_B", ""); 1385 // SetBuffer(16, "2_RG11B10F_A"); 1386 // Mesh("tri_screen.msh", "screen_aberration.mat", "std"); 1387 //}
Here are the results
Files to remove CA -> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2349952/RemoveCA.rar
Files to remove film grain -> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2349952/removefilmgrain.rar
at that first picture with the CA
WHY?
What kind of monster would put this in their game...
I'm laughing pretty hard at the lod setting screenshots between ps4 and pc, so that's how they got the game to run on the potato cpu in ps4 when on pc the minimum req is a n i5.
edit: and atrocious lod has been a recurring theme in open world games on newgen (ac unity, watchdogs)
Props to techland for actually providing an option to scale up the lod settings in the pc version though, rather than pussying out for 'parity'
nextgeneration
Member
Holy crap - in that comparison, CA is a travesty! Yuck!
diablos991
Can’t stump the diablos
Installing now. This game will surely make my i5 4670k @ 4.4 and GTX 760 cry.
Definitely disabling grain and that CA though. Holy crap that looks bad. From what I read you actually see a performance boosts by disabling that crap.
Definitely disabling grain and that CA though. Holy crap that looks bad. From what I read you actually see a performance boosts by disabling that crap.
derExperte
Member
It's not that bad during normal gameplay, there you're waking up and still feeling dizzy.
nextgeneration
Member
Oh, ok, so in that scene, contextually, it makes sense, then.
ClaptoVaughn
Member
Yeah, I don't even mind it in scenes like that.
However, it's the persistent CA throughout the rest of the game that really needs to be removed. Unfortunately, no one has figured out how to remove that yet.
i5-4590k 3.3 hz, 280x, 8 gb ram here, getting anywhere from 40-60 on the streets with view distance all the way down, foliage and shadows on medium, and nvidia settings off. I get stuttering too, and some weird audio bugs occasionally. Hopefully we get a patch or an amd driver update or something to smooth things out, I could do with slight frame drops here and there but stuttering is just annoying as hell.
ambientmystic
Member
Make sure you're using the latest Gameready NVIDIA drivers (347.25), set Textures and Shadows to Medium, view distance to 50% or less and oc that 4670k to 4GHz+.
You should be fine-ish.
Hmm. This game is weird. Just played for an hourish 60 locked back (dipped to like 58 a couple moments, which is better than I usually have) at high textures and I even increased draw distance. The only thing I noticed was when I launched the game Techland's online service was down. Wonder if that could be affecting things?
ussjtrunks
Member
Gtx 970
I7 3770
Max Settings, 1920 x 1200, View Distance 25%
Played for a few Hrs its mostly in the 50-60 range but heavy AO seems to bring it down to the low 40s overall it runs well enough but the 1st cpu is getting hammered
I7 3770
Max Settings, 1920 x 1200, View Distance 25%
Played for a few Hrs its mostly in the 50-60 range but heavy AO seems to bring it down to the low 40s overall it runs well enough but the 1st cpu is getting hammered
you should be fine. I've been playing with a 760 (waiting for my GTX 980 Classified to be shipped) and im not dropping below 50 fps @ 1080P. granted you have to turn most stuff to low or medium but game still looks ok. just be sure to run textures at medium or lower. high will kill your vram and stutter like crazy
Well, that particular scene is you waking up after a 70 hour nap, because you got knocked out, i guess they are trying to make it look like the protagonist is groggy.
You could try "Windowed Borderless Gaming": http://westechsolutions.net/sites/WindowedBorderlessGaming/
I haven't tried it with this game, but it works great with many others that don't support the option natively in my experience.
EDIT: Tried it, works for me.
Cool thanks, I'll give it a try.
It's really fucking dumb that a AAA game released in 2015 still doesn't have the feature.
Glad im not the only one with stuttering. Same settings as you aside from having foilage on high. No audio bugs, but stutters suck. And this happens in sections where im getting near 60, like its having trouble loading the area.
AMD Phenom II X4 955 @ 3.20GHz
4GB ram
R9 280 3GB
SneakyStephan
Banned
I don't see why you wouldn't. Put the view distance at 50% and you should easily get that without everything else as high as it will go.
Pop On Arrival
Banned
So whenever I put the textures to high, my game stutters like shit. Dropping the textures to medium alleviates this completely, but the goddamn the textures are absolute trash tier now.
Anyway, getting between 35-60fps on my 970/3570 setup with view distance turned all the way down and textures at medium. Everything else has been left on, including the godawful filters i have to adjust in the ini or whatever the fuck. Hopefully they fix the stuttering for high textures.
it really is a ubisoft through and through. Stuttering, radio towers and mediocre performance. Bravo techland.
Anyway, getting between 35-60fps on my 970/3570 setup with view distance turned all the way down and textures at medium. Everything else has been left on, including the godawful filters i have to adjust in the ini or whatever the fuck. Hopefully they fix the stuttering for high textures.
it really is a ubisoft through and through. Stuttering, radio towers and mediocre performance. Bravo techland.
It's not techland's fault you have a gpu that can't cache 4+ GBs of vram that the game requires for high texture setting.
Take it up with nvidia for lying about how much useable vram your card has rather than bitch at techland for putting a setting in a game that you don't have the juice to use but are pushing anyways because you don't like the way signposts look.
Pop On Arrival
Banned
Yep. Nvidia's performance article posted recordings of upward of 4gb vram usage at 1080 on high settings.
ThoseDeafMutes
Member
If it's using more than 4GB wouldn't you be experiencing serious problems even on a 980?
Running i7 3770k, 8GB and GTX 770 4GB. Get roughly 50FPS most times, sometimes dips to 30-40FPS. Turned off motion blur and turned shadow down to low for maximum performance (don't give a crap about shadows).
I think this is showing my system desperately needs an upgrade going into this year's games. I'm thinking I might just take the plunge and "future proof" as much as I can by moving to 2011 5820k and DDR4 with a 970 added. Its gonna be costly but it should be worth the money.
I think this is showing my system desperately needs an upgrade going into this year's games. I'm thinking I might just take the plunge and "future proof" as much as I can by moving to 2011 5820k and DDR4 with a 970 added. Its gonna be costly but it should be worth the money.
I have no problems at all playing this game on high textures on a 970, not a single stutter.
It's so weird that a title that must have been pretty well multi-threaded on consoles is so poorly threaded on PC.
My experience on an FX-9590 and a 290 is quite poor dipping down to 30fps at times at 1080P maxed with view distance near the bottom. Now the 9590 has pretty poor IPC but the real killer is that it is only really taxing that first core from what I've played so far. Had to lower shadows to medium as well just to be able to consistently hit 30+. Indoors it varies from 45-75fps. Oddly during the intro/tutorial at the top of the building I was able to keep it near 60. Figured the higher viewpoint would hurt framerates more than it did.
Quit spreading FUD.
I have a 970 and the high textures run just fine on it, no stuttering, no frame drops, etc. And I don't care what article you read, at 2560x1080 it doesn't use 4gb of ram, and even if it did that would effect the 980 as well.
Pop On Arrival
Banned
do you have more than 8gigs of ram, per chance? Or did you tweak some settings or are you just playing with everything cranked up? The stuttering gets really bad for me
yeah I have 16gb ddr3 1866
I did tweak the settings. I have textures on high, shadow maps medium, foliage high, vsync enabled, anti-aliasing enabled, hbao enabled, nvidia dof disabled, view distance all the way down.
Pop On Arrival
Banned
Cool, I'll try your settings, but I think it might be my 8gigs of ram that's causing the stuttering. If I playing Advanced Warfare without closing a shitton of programs first, I also get massive stuttering.
-MD-
Member
Stuttering gets pretty bad for me with a 970 / 3570k / 8gb.
Hilarious accusation considering the second half of the quote you just fucking posted outlines that upwards of 4GBs of Vram usage is reported during longer gameplay sessions, which would indeed result in stuttering on a card that does not have 4GBs of vram. Period.
wanderingprostheyltite
Member
Anyone know of a console command that shows fps in game? Trying to fine tune my DK2 performance and it'd be helpful to be able to see something while using it.
is this performance normal? just got outside. i've been on this rooftop spinning the camera around and the FPS counter is locked at 60fps (using the GeForce counter, which is why it isn't showing up in the screen). why do i feel like i shouldn't be getting such high frames?
970 ftw, i7 3770, 8gb ram | V-sync via Nvidia Control Panel, film grain + HUD removed, max pre-rendered frames: 1, 1080p.
970 ftw, i7 3770, 8gb ram | V-sync via Nvidia Control Panel, film grain + HUD removed, max pre-rendered frames: 1, 1080p.
alright, but to maintain this steady 60 I should probably leave the settings where they're at, right?
flipswitch
Member
What AA options are available for PC?
I mean, if you don't mind the pop in, I guess, but I would at least turn it up a bit just to see if affects you. It really only seems heavy past 50 percent so I'd at least put it on 1/3.
