FPS Tips
If you’re struggling with performance or just want to improve framerate a bit, try to follow these suggestions.
- Never “run in window”, it kills FPS.
- Set antialiasing to FXAA. There is no visual difference if you’re running at a decent resolution.
- Shadows are very demanding but you kinda need them. Try balancing visuals with framerate. High is enough, I think.
- You can disable Screen Space Shadows without losing much.
- Ditto, disable Screen Space Reflections, also.
- Lighting Quality is heavy as a stone. It’s nice to have, but on low you get a significant boost.
- Same for Fog, but I don’t think it even adds much. Keep it on low.
- SSAO is also quite demanding, unless you have a quite powerful GPU you can live without it.
The other settings have little impact on framerate or are very important to overall visuals (especially Unit Detail and Unit Size).
v sync is messed up.
Playing with it on in 4k res eats my frames down to 39fps.
I have a 2080 ti on an i9. I should be playing 4k smoother. It doesn’t matter what settings I downscale (shadows, lighting, textures, etc) it barely rises above 39fps.
With it off, I can get to 47.
I can play tw2 in 4k at high w/ a few ultra settings at a steady 55fps easy. Something is wonky with their optimization.
Again.
Thank you for your suggestions, indeed they do help!
On a related note, do you use the in-game sharpening option or do you prefer externally applied solutions, like Nvidia’s sharpening for example.
Also, I think ssao is still hit n miss, depending on the map it can have negative visual impact.
Yeah, FXAA makes the game look crystal clean while TAA is blurry. Better visuals with better performance.
I tried with Fog on low and high and the only difference I saw was 20 extra FPS.