Grateful for the video. But like with Darktides optimization guide, you need to play the game with all the hordes and explosion on screen to truly test your fps. An empty field or room doesn't really say much.
Yeah ... this is like showing off Hogwarts Legacy walking around your Dorm Room ... but not flying over a lush forest or a huge spell fight with 20 enemies ... He usually does this to flex his gaming rig and to just get a video out... -_-
whats more outragous here is that he is on a i9 13th gen was it. that should say plenty of how bad this optimisation is. i get constant dips into the 40's and 50's with so much spawning. it makes it hard to do reflex actions such as diving when attacked etc etc because the fps is just tanking that hard. also FOV in other games might not effect FPS but in this.. going from 70 to 85 i lost a good 12FPS thats how absurdly unoptimized the game is
@@iAmDiBBz i guess its both DRM and anti-cheat, since ive have experience w/ DRM (Dyinglight 2) and anticheat (AC6 and Darksouls) bad CPU utilization before had to bypass to remove bottlenecks
Nice vid. Thanks for doing examples of graphics changes. Rather than just reading through the settings like many other youtubers seem to do.. "yes thanks buddy, I was able to read that myself"
Thanks for the video! Wow the game can't even hit 60 on med settings on a 3080ti. Thats just rediculous. Edit: performance is getting worse with each update
This was very helpfull, specially the section on the impact of antialiasing with and without upscaling, it has the biggest impact on how the game looks and I would have never thought about it.
Thank you for this. I have never played triple A games or modern games due to not having a decent pc and now with my new computer I struggle a lot with settings in games.
In steam right click on your game > propreties > under Launch Option write "--use-d3d11" (two dashes without " of course.) Should make a difference, it's forcing the game to launch under DirectX11 instead of 12 and weirdly enough it seems to boost fps and make crashes less frequent (specially for low CPU) i'm running on a GTX1660Ti and AMD ryzen 5 3400G and i finally can play the game, it's not close at all from insane graphics but it makes it playable if you tweak the display option in game at low graphics
I dont know why but my game is so choppy despite lowering all the settings, I have a RTX 3070 an an 11th gen Intel i9 but it runs like a 60s soviet computer.
As a render programmer going to share that 'FPS' - is a logarithmic scale. That means that drop of 15FPS when you have 200FPS is nothing while drop of 15 fps when you have 30 fps is a double frame time! Next time pls keep use the linear scale (TIME in ms!) and your results would be much more accurate.
Good video but I wanted to add some caveats 1 - The game looks bad with AA off because you have the sharpening up with AA off, no AA is already crisp/clear your'e just exaserbating it. The sharpening was added to the game *because* of the AA method. 2 - The reason AA off is provided even when it doesn't have a big performance impact is because TAA (the AA type infamous for blurring) has a lot of concessions to it other than just stationary blur as you noted, but most of them you're not going to see unless you're moving or panning the camera. It has motion blur, which means its an accessibility setting for those with motion sickness. TAA also falls apart in motion, just side step (press A and D repeatedly) between Off and On and you'll see the motion blur and you may even see other TAA artifacts like smearing, ghosting, etc. It's very important to test TAA and upscaling in motion when judging its quality. It also gives the image a smudgy look that grows stronger and stronger the lower your resolution is, which makes its concessions worse. It's all preference ofc, but your setup and biology and game genre all play a big role in whether or not it's desired. Best of luck.
Backstory. Ran the game at 1600x900 resolution while running a r5 3600 and a rx 6700 xt and a msi b450 motherboard with nothing overclocked and barely managing 45-60 fps on medium/low settings. I did however find a FIX to this. This advice is for those who feel as if this game should be running better with the setup they have atm, HOWEVER, try this at your own risk, the tip I’m going to mention have caused instability for some such as crashing or even boot issues and so I’ll leave an asterisk for the part that’s risky. TRY AT YOUR OWN RISK. I’d advise to set a restore point/backup just in case. Note. This game is cpu intensive which is what lead me to this fix. Optimize and set your RAM to its rated speed in BIOS. Often than not, some ppl haven’t unlocked the full capability of their RAM sticks. Default is set to 2133mhz, there are vids to show how to change this, though I’ve already done and set mines to 3600mhz. **Also enable XMP/D.O.C.P. to your installed ram profile* This is a different setting that made a difference to my performance to be more consistent and stable. “Extreme Memory Profiles” (XMP) or Direct Overclocking Profile” (DOCP), from what I’ve read, seems to keeps your RAM in the “overclocked position/speed. This is important since my motherboard was defaulted at 2133mhz out the box, so any RAM speed that’s rated more is considered “overclocked.” Now that your RAM has been set to its rated speed in the BIOS, XMP (in my case), will ensure that your RAM will stay at its profile speed and not fluctuate when it wants to. Now your cpu and RAM can effectively communicate at its rated speed on a consistent basis which lessen the load on the gpu and overall improve performance (maybe*). After the change, I now can run 1080p on medium at 60-90 fps. My bad if this is long and kinda technical, just wanted to put this out there and hope it can help somebody… FOR DEMOCRACY🦅🦅🦅
My game on start and on first mission is buttery smooth with 60 but after a single mission it tanks to 20. Even on lower settings it still meanders under 30. My guess is cached data that isn't being cleared when the map is unloaded.
My game worked perfectly during the first month of the game release but all of a sudden I noticed that my frames started to drop. I don’t know if the updates messed up my game or I need to do a pc upgrade but I’ll use this video to hopefully fix my fps problems
I genuinely am struggling to find the issue with my PC atm. Build, Graphics: 4080 Processor: i9-12900k Ram: 32gb Reso: 1440 UHD FPS doesn't seem to be consistent by any means. It tends to go up and down, never really consistent. I'm getting a bit over 70 FPS with Supersampling on, graphics on Ultra. Even changing those settings around don't even give me an increase. I get the same FPS regardless of my render scale setting. I cannot figure out at all what I need to do to increase my performance or if there's some sort of issue with my PC atm.
Learned: Don't change all your settings and try to play. You need to relaunch. There has to be a memory leak or something right now because I noticed my FPS would drop to below 30 even on Low if I kept swapping it around. Restarting the game brought me above 100
yeah my fps if for some reason limited to 80... I have no clue why. I had the game locked to 80 with the in-game limiter, but even after disabling it, it's still locked at 80. It's frustrating.. Also I get like 60-70 % GPU utilization on my 4090 and it doesn't go higher. Before that my GPU was pegged at 99% most of the time. CPU 7700X. Do you have the same issue?
The only hang up doing them one at a time is how the settings interact or load your system as a group of settings. Doing them one at a time with them all on low can be deceiving.
I'm hyper fixated on my FPS normall but somehow even though i was playing at 60fps sometimes lastnight the game still looked like it was running VERY well.
I cant believe how many frames you get from lowering reflection quality, when there are so little reflections in the game lmao. Definitely a noticeable difference!
I have the absolute lowest settings, low graphics settings, no motion blur, ultra performance. Take I guess of what my fps is. A whopping 18 fps. That is the best I've gotten so far. Quality settings and low graphics comes to a total of 12 fps. Any suggestions? Should I go for fps and get a mess of blurry or get almost no blur but get low fps. Either way I'm getting low fps. Currently I play at balanced settings and low graphics averaging at 13 fps.
This is frustrating for me, I have a GTX 1060 6gb VRAM, its not great stuff but its decent, I can play solo or on duos with 60fps smooth on high quality, but as soon as we are 3 or 4 players I go down to 40-30fps even dropping to 20 in extreme situations like dropping 3 orbital nukes, even playing in the lowest configuration it stills drops to 40fps
I expected bigger impact 🥲 Just switched from 1080p 60Hz monitor to 1440p WQHD 180Hz and I got around 100 fps on ultra quality render and ultra settings on an icy planet. My goal with this would be to get around 140+ for 144Hz preset but I guess I will just have to get used to a hundred 🤷
I have found the frames to be wildly inconsistent. A few nights ago I was getting a smooth 60 frames on Performance mode with my gtx 1080, and the game looked great. However when I started playing it last night I couldnt push past 40 frames, even when I lowered my graphical settings to try and squeeze as many more frames as I could. I wish the game had a targeted FPS option, as for some reason even when I put it on Ultra Performance it doesn't actually give me any extra frames, just makes the game look shittier with no benefit. If I could set the game to always do 60 or 90 fps I would. I know COD MW 2 has this setting and it works great.
Same thing happened to me.... It's either the servers can't handle too many players or there is a memory leak... Btw try playing solo there is a huge difference in fps.
@@dardeb15 I noticed that playing solo REALLY helps with performance. I guess a lot of it is the game rendering three extra characters and all their strategems / weapons / etc.
This guide defo doesnt cover most of it. As you go up in difficulty, the amount of enemies gets drasticly multiplied more and more. The clutter gets mose massive in 1 LOS. To add to it when they use their attacks whether its lasers rockets or vomit etc, you get really smacked with low fps. So this guide really just shows what his stable fps looks like in a trivial difficulty with nearly or no enemies around. The map is empty mostly. Try what he did on 7 8 or 9.
I play on a 3050 laptop and still get around 70-90 fps in solo at low settings but often the game just decides that it wants to run slower like one time I had 20 fps but it was just a bug
I travel a lot for work and even though I'm sure my computer at home would run the game just fine, I would like to know if it would be playable on my laptop. i7 10510U, MX230, 8GB. By playable, 40-50 FPS on lowest settings would be fine. Thoughts?
I use a gaming laptop RTX 3050 6 gb vram AMD Ryzen 7 6800h 32gb ram I also have an IET fan. With this I can run 1440p games at 60-90 fps with a DLSS on Quality with Medium to High graphics This game unfortunately doesn't run well when most games do
Your wrong about the "Space Quality" preset as well. It's the skybox texture for all the maps. On the ground or in space. It shouldnt affect performance because it's just loading a texture once and sitting there. So it's RAM based.
That's not a very good optimisation guide... you are an a planet without any action, I did the same for my config... I was running at 120fps with a 3080 ryzen 5 5600xt on a planet alone... When I came back on a planet with other players and more mobs... I dropped down to 60-70fps. You have to try the settings in different situations
Im on the lowest possible graphics on 1080p using a 960 gtx, i barely hit 35 fps. 20 fps when many enemies near me. Also getting fps drops sometimes to 10 fps for no reason. I dont expect to hit 60 fps but at least steady between 35-50, Anyone know what i can do to fix it?
And there's me with a 2080 i7 LAPTOP with pretty bad cooling. I have a cooling stand, vent fan and good thermal paste yet have to place an industrial fan facing the bottom of my laptop to not suffocate and die from. 90°. I feel like I just need to save up 1.5k for a desktop
it's not FSR 1, it just lowers the render scale, and i'm guessing the shimmers are just from aliasing since i don't get them with aliasing off with upscaling
The "Render Scale" preset has nothing to do with DLSS or FSR. At Ultra Quality your rendering about 90% of your resolution. Everything is made more blurry at anything under Native, just as if you set this at the driver level. My issue is my 4090 is only running at 900mhz... so I get 130fps at native 1440p but I'm on 240hz monitor. When I drop the Render Scale to quality my card finally decides to boost to 3ghz and gives me 240fps. It's so weird.
I have a 3070ti Intel i7 12700h 32 gb of ram And play at 2560x1600. I play on Medium and quality upscaling and only get around 70-90 fps. Game feels a little odd to say the least. But recently other games I've been playing have seemingly dropped in FPS as well. So idk whats up.
My games fps keeps stutering. Like it'll go up to 90 fps and than back down to 30 fps in the span of 2 secs on repeat without me even doing anything how do I fix this. I have a 3080 ti graphics card with a 12 Gen Intel core i7
im playing in 2k on 3060 i5 10400f I had tweaked all settings, 0 difference but the game stated to look like shit I turned of anti aliasing - jumped from 49 to 70, but it was too sharp, could see the pixels Set on quality render and its look ok and now running at 80+
I have 3060ti and 5800x3d play on an lg 4k tv. You think ill get decent image quality and perf from this game? As i understand the render scale is only FSR and not DLSS. I would probably have to tone down settings and then set it to balanced or something...Idk if its worth it?
I'm using a 4070Ti while playing it, with a 3060Ti I believe you can have a pretty good experience with medium graphical settings while upscaling is anywhere from performance to ultra quality, depending on what you find more important, fps, or image clarity. I believe the 3060Ti also has 12GB of VRAM right? Which means you can keep texture quality on Ultra I believe.
i have a 3060 and a 5700G. I somehow get way better perfromance than Chute does here, but i also have 12gb of VRAM vs your 8, which makes it seem like VRAM is king for this game.
@@CorvusCorviday Nah, VRAM doesn't matter when it comes to performance, you're simply able to play with Ultra textures while 8GB of VRAM can support High texture quality at best.
Got an Ryzen 9 7940HS, RTX 4060, and this game is STRUGGLING on lowest settings. I know laptops "aren't the best" for gaming but man my old i7 10750H, GTX 2060 ran this game amazingly last month. I think during the Bot Invasion, the game somehow got de-optimized.
I used your settings on my dellg3 i5 limited to 3.4ish ghz, undervolted. Gtx1660ti 6gb and 16 gb of ram. I get 55ish fps high enemy numbers and ultra quality render scale. Around 75-79C. Native around 42-45fps
i have a 3080ti and 12700k and i'm getting ~90 fps on 1440p with everything maxed out (resolution scale is at native). i don't know why you're getting 40's and 50's with a better cpu than mine at the same resolution. (cpu is running hella hot tho)
My 6700k+ RTX 3080 and 16 gb of ram, Playing this 2K with default graphics settings and it absolute gorgeous. It runs 30 fps almost all the time and I feel like I'm playing this game on PS3 💀
Thanks for this video. I think I'll turn some of the heavy hitters down later to see how much it helps me out for my PC. My GPU is a GTX 1660 (I can double check the exact specifications later when I am back at my PC) and the game seems to run pretty okay for the most part, and still (imo) looks nice at lower settings so I don't mind running low for the moment. The main concern I have, and why I'll be turning some more things down, is my CPU which is a (copied from PC info: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7700 CPU @ 3.60GHz 3.60 GHz. I'm not entirely sure what all that means to be honest lol, but I am told it's above Min. requirements, but below the Req. requirements. I notice when playing, especially on Challenging difficulty when things get intense for enemy numbers, the game constantly is making my CPU run at 85% - 100% which freaks me out lol. I'm hoping adjusting some of these settings can help lessen that, but I am concerned for the long term health of my PC while playing this game. I can't really afford to upgrade anything right now either sadly sooo... I am a little worried how playing this will be until I can get some money saved up for an upgrade. I should check what temp the CPU running at next time I boot it up, my GPU seems to run at 66 - 70 degrees Celsius on this game and many other more modern games which I assume is okay? I shall cease my rambling for now, thanks again for the video breaking things down the way you do! Glad to at least have some things in mind to fine tune more next time I'm on the game.
@@doomluvr05 Hey, I am so sorry for the very late reply. I haven't been able to get onto the game the past few days when I'd find free time so I wasn't able to really check my settings. I'm not sure how much it'll help but what I have is: Textures - Low Object Detail Quality - Medium Render Distance - Low Shadow Quality - Lowest Particle Quality - Medium (I may turn this down if it does help CPU) Reflection Quality - Low Space Quality - High Ambient Occlusion - Off Screen-Space Global Illumination - On Vegetation and Rubble Density - Low Terrain Quality - Medium Volumetric Fog Quality - Lowest Volumetric Clouds Quality - Lowest Lighting Quality - Medium Anti-Aliasing - Off I have Motion Blur at 0, kept Depth of Field and Bloom On (I may mess around with it), and Sharpness is at the default 0.75. I also have Render Scale on Native, limited my FPS to 60 just incase that helps the CPU (I think people said that can help it?) and I currently have V-Sync off as well. Sorry if these settings don't really help out or if they don't look as good or run as well as you may like. It's been okay for me so far, although it does still get a bit inconsistent in higher difficulties when enemy numbers really get up there, but generally I have trouble recalling how often that does happen so that's probably a good sign if it doesn't happen often enough for that lol.
they mustve done some optimization im running at 10600k with a 3070 ti and run everything on high some on ultra and its 80-90 fps on average @ 1440p weird
This is probably caused by a bug. I'm having this happen to me inconsistently. Some ppl say it's caused by amount of ship in orbit, but I don't think that's the case, as I've had cases where there are many ships rendered in but no lag.
Y dont understand i got a 2070super at 1440p renderation on ultra quality en grafics on medium and the runs at 100fps and you with an rtx 3080ti runs at 70 fps
I got this game. I have a 4090 and i9 chip, along with a really good water cooler. So I install and start the game, and all 3 fans start running loudly (which I have never seen before in any game), and this WAS AT THE MENU SCREEN. During tutorial, my card is slowly getting hotter and hotter. So I start turning down all the graphics settings, and enable sync to 60 fps max. If everything is set to "Medium", the game still runs hot. Something is very wrong with it.
My computer is hilarious, when I reduce settings, I lose FPS. When I push high/ultra, I gain fps. This game is so heavy on cpu it’s fucked. I wager it’s just simply because it’s generating so many assets all with independent movements all at once. The cpu is doing the heavy lifting, not even the GPU. My GPU sits there at like 60% or less half the time. That’s why when I push high and ultra I get better fps because it’s actually forcing the GPU to do some work instead of sitting around doing nothing. The computer still has to render and process all those damn bugs and robots no matter what. This is why I don’t upgrade my pc. Changing that render distance is big for less powerful CPUs. It’s interesting fighting between a weaker CPU and insufficient vram at times. It’s like this weird Venn diagram you just have to hit right.
Only thing is I do not understand why fullscreen option doesn't work, game just opens in window, probably because my display is 2560x1440 but I open games in 1920x1080 and instead of just opening game in fullscreen why this resulution, it just opens in window and because of that I need to use heavy upscaling :| Also I don't think on such small maps, even with so many enemies performance of this game would be that bad, I had some massive fights in warframe with so much going on screen and still had stable 60fps on medium and here in Helldivers it is just pain
I believe thats because this is a DX12 game. If Im not mistaken Fullscreen no longer exists, and anything that offers full screen is just borderless full screen windowed, so you get weird behavior like this.
If you have an Nvidia card you can set max fps in the Nvidia Control Panel. Similar option on AMD as well. Capped mine to 50 fps with Latency Mode set to Ultra. Barely reaches the 70s on a 3060m with this videos graphic settings.
I have a pretty strong GPU (RX580) but weak CPU i5 4440 and only 8GB of RAM... do you think I can run this game properly? It's ok to set everything in low, graphic does not matter much for me, as long as the frame rate is stable and no slowdown like playing helldivers 1 on vita.
@@zoopa9988 that is glad to hear... But will my cpu able to run it? Since it's only i5 4440, very old i know... But if i upgrade it, i also must upgrade my mobo. I'm not really swimming in money right now, especially in this kind of economy.
I think they may have improved performance since this video. I have a 7800xt which is supposed to be on-par with 3080 ti but I get much better performance than he is here @ same resolution
A ryzen 3600 bottlenecks a rx 470 at 50hz in this game thats right a r 5 3600 cant even maintain a steady 50hz in this game that has to be a record for incompetenece
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Grateful for the video.
But like with Darktides optimization guide, you need to play the game with all the hordes and explosion on screen to truly test your fps. An empty field or room doesn't really say much.
yup i generally get 80-110 FPS but in big hordes i can go down to 50.
Yeah ... this is like showing off Hogwarts Legacy walking around your Dorm Room ... but not flying over a lush forest or a huge spell fight with 20 enemies ...
He usually does this to flex his gaming rig and to just get a video out... -_-
Yeah since horde shooters are both GPU and cpu
whats more outragous here is that he is on a i9 13th gen was it. that should say plenty of how bad this optimisation is. i get constant dips into the 40's and 50's with so much spawning. it makes it hard to do reflex actions such as diving when attacked etc etc because the fps is just tanking that hard.
also FOV in other games might not effect FPS but in this.. going from 70 to 85 i lost a good 12FPS thats how absurdly unoptimized the game is
@@iAmDiBBz i guess its both DRM and anti-cheat, since ive have experience w/ DRM (Dyinglight 2) and anticheat (AC6 and Darksouls) bad CPU utilization before had to bypass to remove bottlenecks
This game is so goddamn fun but performance needs a little bit of refining
dlss implementation..
FSR 3 (PS5 has started using it, so it would be amazing if we could get it in this game).
And I would love a 90fps mode.
How about actually optimizing the game. Dlss and fsr are just crutches. People have been brain washed.
@@evanwiger sadly those days are gone
A little???? A lot!
Nice vid. Thanks for doing examples of graphics changes. Rather than just reading through the settings like many other youtubers seem to do.. "yes thanks buddy, I was able to read that myself"
Thanks for the video! Wow the game can't even hit 60 on med settings on a 3080ti. Thats just rediculous.
Edit: performance is getting worse with each update
Bro I got a 3060ti. Always over 60fps on high settings 😂
What the hell, 😂what is this game optimization
I have a 3080 EVA EDITION paired with a Ryzen 9 5900x and I get 110~120 in Ultra settings
@@JoseSprays What resolution?
I play in 4K with a rtx 4090 so ye seems okay to me could be better but ye
This was very helpfull, specially the section on the impact of antialiasing with and without upscaling, it has the biggest impact on how the game looks and I would have never thought about it.
Thank you for this. I have never played triple A games or modern games due to not having a decent pc and now with my new computer I struggle a lot with settings in games.
In steam right click on your game > propreties > under Launch Option write "--use-d3d11" (two dashes without " of course.) Should make a difference, it's forcing the game to launch under DirectX11 instead of 12 and weirdly enough it seems to boost fps and make crashes less frequent (specially for low CPU) i'm running on a GTX1660Ti and AMD ryzen 5 3400G and i finally can play the game, it's not close at all from insane graphics but it makes it playable if you tweak the display option in game at low graphics
I just want to say you are a legend for included the recap at the end.
Very informative video. I Subscribed. cheers
Thank you for this amazing Video, I really liked the final recap with the short info about what to play around with for each personal build. :)
I dont know why but my game is so choppy despite lowering all the settings, I have a RTX 3070 an an 11th gen Intel i9 but it runs like a 60s soviet computer.
Same where you able to solve it? I have rtx 2060 still no reason for huge frame drops
Anyone having a problem where you’ll just drop frames out of nowhere and then either DC yourself or all you squad mates DC any way to fix that ?
pretty sure thats not settings related, thats just bugged
@@Willimann lmao i figured it out
How
As a render programmer going to share that 'FPS' - is a logarithmic scale. That means that drop of 15FPS when you have 200FPS is nothing while drop of 15 fps when you have 30 fps is a double frame time!
Next time pls keep use the linear scale (TIME in ms!) and your results would be much more accurate.
Thank you!
Good video but I wanted to add some caveats
1 - The game looks bad with AA off because you have the sharpening up with AA off, no AA is already crisp/clear your'e just exaserbating it. The sharpening was added to the game *because* of the AA method.
2 - The reason AA off is provided even when it doesn't have a big performance impact is because TAA (the AA type infamous for blurring) has a lot of concessions to it other than just stationary blur as you noted, but most of them you're not going to see unless you're moving or panning the camera.
It has motion blur, which means its an accessibility setting for those with motion sickness. TAA also falls apart in motion, just side step (press A and D repeatedly) between Off and On and you'll see the motion blur and you may even see other TAA artifacts like smearing, ghosting, etc.
It's very important to test TAA and upscaling in motion when judging its quality. It also gives the image a smudgy look that grows stronger and stronger the lower your resolution is, which makes its concessions worse.
It's all preference ofc, but your setup and biology and game genre all play a big role in whether or not it's desired. Best of luck.
so what settings should i use for sharpness, upscaling and AA
@@rodux8031 if using TAA or upscaling crank sharpness up, if using no TAA disable it
they should just add dlss. You get higher framerate and better AA in one go
So what settings do you recommend?
I’ve had a 1060 3gb for 6 years it might be time to upgrade my rig 😭
What the hell is a 1060 I didn’t know that existed
r u playing the game and if so how r u running it, i wanted to play but i have a 1060 6gb and don’t want it to be unplayable😭
i also have a 1060 3gb have you found any way to make this game more playable?
@@mirutone I have a 3050 8GB and im struggling to run for some reason
Ofc, its a 3050@@ThekingT-zm2ry
Backstory. Ran the game at 1600x900 resolution while running a r5 3600 and a rx 6700 xt and a msi b450 motherboard with nothing overclocked and barely managing 45-60 fps on medium/low settings. I did however find a FIX to this. This advice is for those who feel as if this game should be running better with the setup they have atm, HOWEVER, try this at your own risk, the tip I’m going to mention have caused instability for some such as crashing or even boot issues and so I’ll leave an asterisk for the part that’s risky. TRY AT YOUR OWN RISK. I’d advise to set a restore point/backup just in case.
Note. This game is cpu intensive which is what lead me to this fix.
Optimize and set your RAM to its rated speed in BIOS. Often than not, some ppl haven’t unlocked the full capability of their RAM sticks. Default is set to 2133mhz, there are vids to show how to change this, though I’ve already done and set mines to 3600mhz. **Also enable XMP/D.O.C.P. to your installed ram profile* This is a different setting that made a difference to my performance to be more consistent and stable. “Extreme Memory Profiles” (XMP) or Direct Overclocking Profile” (DOCP), from what I’ve read, seems to keeps your RAM in the “overclocked position/speed. This is important since my motherboard was defaulted at 2133mhz out the box, so any RAM speed that’s rated more is considered “overclocked.” Now that your RAM has been set to its rated speed in the BIOS, XMP (in my case), will ensure that your RAM will stay at its profile speed and not fluctuate when it wants to. Now your cpu and RAM can effectively communicate at its rated speed on a consistent basis which lessen the load on the gpu and overall improve performance (maybe*). After the change, I now can run 1080p on medium at 60-90 fps. My bad if this is long and kinda technical, just wanted to put this out there and hope it can help somebody… FOR DEMOCRACY🦅🦅🦅
My game on start and on first mission is buttery smooth with 60 but after a single mission it tanks to 20. Even on lower settings it still meanders under 30. My guess is cached data that isn't being cleared when the map is unloaded.
My game worked perfectly during the first month of the game release but all of a sudden I noticed that my frames started to drop. I don’t know if the updates messed up my game or I need to do a pc upgrade but I’ll use this video to hopefully fix my fps problems
Always glad to see your videos, Thanks.
I genuinely am struggling to find the issue with my PC atm.
Build,
Graphics: 4080
Processor: i9-12900k
Ram: 32gb
Reso: 1440 UHD
FPS doesn't seem to be consistent by any means. It tends to go up and down, never really consistent. I'm getting a bit over 70 FPS with Supersampling on, graphics on Ultra. Even changing those settings around don't even give me an increase. I get the same FPS regardless of my render scale setting. I cannot figure out at all what I need to do to increase my performance or if there's some sort of issue with my PC atm.
-use-d3d11 type this in steam launch options
Is this system CPU bound? With a 5800x 3D and 3080 (non TI) I get high 80s to 90fps on ultra, 90-100 on high. This system is getting 47-50!?
You also have to take into account that he is recording as well.
U must be playing on 1080p. He plays on 1440p
@@lethall6609 exactly, on 1080p this game runs great
@@lethall6609I too got around 100fps on 3440x1440p on ultra
Learned: Don't change all your settings and try to play. You need to relaunch. There has to be a memory leak or something right now because I noticed my FPS would drop to below 30 even on Low if I kept swapping it around. Restarting the game brought me above 100
yeah my fps if for some reason limited to 80... I have no clue why. I had the game locked to 80 with the in-game limiter, but even after disabling it, it's still locked at 80. It's frustrating.. Also I get like 60-70 % GPU utilization on my 4090 and it doesn't go higher. Before that my GPU was pegged at 99% most of the time. CPU 7700X. Do you have the same issue?
The only hang up doing them one at a time is how the settings interact or load your system as a group of settings. Doing them one at a time with them all on low can be deceiving.
PLEASE TELL ME HOW TO OPTIMIZE THE GAME FOR THE CPU I HAVE I7 3770
I'm hyper fixated on my FPS normall but somehow even though i was playing at 60fps sometimes lastnight the game still looked like it was running VERY well.
Yea the game would drop to like 20-30 for me and it just doesn’t feel that slow, dunno what it is
@@EP_mcI think it’s just that when the fps drops that low there’s too much going on to the realize what fps you’re at
@@seanmoist5418 yea the game feels really smooth except for the random crashes and lagging out of games, have had no dysnc or anything
Bro I would kill to have games that look like this play at 60fps consistently on my pc.
the game constantly feels laggy even if I get to like 120 fps in the ship
Thank you so much, I have a 6650xt / 5600x
And you increased my fps with this guide from 59-61 to 98-112.
What settings did you change?
@@actu literally the same settings he said to change in the video lol, what kind of question is this
@@Howitzer-Rain One I thought worth asking, incase you tweaked with them aittle and found your own personal taste, I appreciate the response tho
@@actu no, just did what he did, nothing else
Do you play at 1080p or 1440p?
thanks man well made vid :)
youre an absolute legend, this really saved my game from looking a bit like shit to looking decent with decent fps
The upscaling options have absolutely no impact on my performance, just makes it blurry. If anything I think I lose frames.
How does this work if I use anything other than supersampling as my render scale my game looks like dog shit ?
I cant believe how many frames you get from lowering reflection quality, when there are so little reflections in the game lmao. Definitely a noticeable difference!
For me runs on 70s to sometimes 80s but when things start happening like to many bots and explosions it drops on 50s
I have the absolute lowest settings, low graphics settings, no motion blur, ultra performance. Take I guess of what my fps is. A whopping 18 fps. That is the best I've gotten so far. Quality settings and low graphics comes to a total of 12 fps. Any suggestions? Should I go for fps and get a mess of blurry or get almost no blur but get low fps. Either way I'm getting low fps. Currently I play at balanced settings and low graphics averaging at 13 fps.
it's a GPU heavy game wdym
This is frustrating for me, I have a GTX 1060 6gb VRAM, its not great stuff but its decent, I can play solo or on duos with 60fps smooth on high quality, but as soon as we are 3 or 4 players I go down to 40-30fps even dropping to 20 in extreme situations like dropping 3 orbital nukes, even playing in the lowest configuration it stills drops to 40fps
I get a way better picture on Native setting but less frames but when I play on anything except Native the game is super blurry.
I'm running RTX 4060 with a ryzen 5 3600 and it's struggling with even medium settings. Any tips?
Get a better CPU. Or reduce Distance Render to Low.
I expected bigger impact 🥲 Just switched from 1080p 60Hz monitor to 1440p WQHD 180Hz and I got around 100 fps on ultra quality render and ultra settings on an icy planet. My goal with this would be to get around 140+ for 144Hz preset but I guess I will just have to get used to a hundred 🤷
If you could make a video on how to make the game playable on 7000 series GPUs that'd be much appreciated.
I have found the frames to be wildly inconsistent. A few nights ago I was getting a smooth 60 frames on Performance mode with my gtx 1080, and the game looked great. However when I started playing it last night I couldnt push past 40 frames, even when I lowered my graphical settings to try and squeeze as many more frames as I could. I wish the game had a targeted FPS option, as for some reason even when I put it on Ultra Performance it doesn't actually give me any extra frames, just makes the game look shittier with no benefit. If I could set the game to always do 60 or 90 fps I would. I know COD MW 2 has this setting and it works great.
Same thing happened to me.... It's either the servers can't handle too many players or there is a memory leak...
Btw try playing solo there is a huge difference in fps.
@@dardeb15 I noticed that playing solo REALLY helps with performance. I guess a lot of it is the game rendering three extra characters and all their strategems / weapons / etc.
try dx 11 steam launch command huge fps boost
This guide defo doesnt cover most of it.
As you go up in difficulty, the amount of enemies gets drasticly multiplied more and more. The clutter gets mose massive in 1 LOS.
To add to it when they use their attacks whether its lasers rockets or vomit etc, you get really smacked with low fps. So this guide really just shows what his stable fps looks like in a trivial difficulty with nearly or no enemies around. The map is empty mostly. Try what he did on 7 8 or 9.
Soo, whats your settings your playing with?
Great vid took me from 30fps to 72fps
I play on a 3050 laptop and still get around 70-90 fps in solo at low settings but often the game just decides that it wants to run slower like one time I had 20 fps but it was just a bug
so, what does async compute do? i dont see it on your settings but i do on mine, should i turn it on?
Play with Anti Aliasing and the sharpness filter! i noticed turning aa Off and then set sharpening to 0 creates kindof a AA effect XD
Lol good idea, that’s like an astigmatism simulator
I travel a lot for work and even though I'm sure my computer at home would run the game just fine, I would like to know if it would be playable on my laptop. i7 10510U, MX230, 8GB. By playable, 40-50 FPS on lowest settings would be fine. Thoughts?
The game will not be playable on that laptop unfortunately.
nah an mx230 runs nothing launching today. 8gb of ram is not that good too
I use a gaming laptop
RTX 3050 6 gb vram
AMD Ryzen 7 6800h
32gb ram
I also have an IET fan. With this I can run 1440p games at 60-90 fps with a DLSS on Quality with Medium to High graphics
This game unfortunately doesn't run well when most games do
16gb ram, ryzen 5 4500, NVIDIA RTX 3050. Medium gives me 51 fps, i pull 90/100 on low. staggering difference on my hardware
Your wrong about the "Space Quality" preset as well. It's the skybox texture for all the maps. On the ground or in space. It shouldnt affect performance because it's just loading a texture once and sitting there. So it's RAM based.
It definitely affects the framerate
That's not a very good optimisation guide... you are an a planet without any action, I did the same for my config... I was running at 120fps with a 3080 ryzen 5 5600xt on a planet alone...
When I came back on a planet with other players and more mobs... I dropped down to 60-70fps.
You have to try the settings in different situations
Thanks for explaining wtf "Sacaling mode" is
Im on the lowest possible graphics on 1080p using a 960 gtx, i barely hit 35 fps. 20 fps when many enemies near me. Also getting fps drops sometimes to 10 fps for no reason. I dont expect to hit 60 fps but at least steady between 35-50, Anyone know what i can do to fix it?
Bro, honestly just get a fucking graphics card like why are you still playing on that shit?
@@edgarrawdriguezhe needs a 7600xt, best future Proof budget GPU ATM with 16gb of vram
And there's me with a 2080 i7 LAPTOP with pretty bad cooling. I have a cooling stand, vent fan and good thermal paste yet have to place an industrial fan facing the bottom of my laptop to not suffocate and die from. 90°. I feel like I just need to save up 1.5k for a desktop
10x bro, great job
Thx man
Pretty sure the scaling is fsr 1.0 because of the shimmers that 1.0 gets but it's also the easiest to run
it's not FSR 1, it just lowers the render scale, and i'm guessing the shimmers are just from aliasing since i don't get them with aliasing off with upscaling
@@Moonistic Why would they have the same presets as fsr then and not let the user set custom resolution scale because it is fsr
The "Render Scale" preset has nothing to do with DLSS or FSR. At Ultra Quality your rendering about 90% of your resolution. Everything is made more blurry at anything under Native, just as if you set this at the driver level. My issue is my 4090 is only running at 900mhz... so I get 130fps at native 1440p but I'm on 240hz monitor. When I drop the Render Scale to quality my card finally decides to boost to 3ghz and gives me 240fps. It's so weird.
it uses FSR 1 and applies TAA which is why its blurry
@@cr4mbo it's definitely not FSR 1, since it doesn't even upscale it at all from my experience, it just lowers the 3D render resolution
💀you should try tweaking the GPU options and consider overclocking and undervolting to push higher frequencies
I get 2 fps in the setting menu, you get 50 in a bttlefield
I have a 3070ti
Intel i7 12700h
32 gb of ram
And play at 2560x1600.
I play on Medium and quality upscaling and only get around 70-90 fps. Game feels a little odd to say the least. But recently other games I've been playing have seemingly dropped in FPS as well. So idk whats up.
Maybe you need to clean your computer! The heat of the dust make it drop performance of the hardware! 2 months ago but I hope you can fix by now
My games fps keeps stutering. Like it'll go up to 90 fps and than back down to 30 fps in the span of 2 secs on repeat without me even doing anything how do I fix this.
I have a 3080 ti graphics card with a 12 Gen Intel core i7
Thanks for verifying the game engine is a turd.
Same here. Did you ever find a fix?
@@sierra7534 yep sure did. V sync helped and I tweak some of my pc settings now I consistently get 90 to 165 fps.
@@AetherAi-0did you turn it on or off?
@@gentlemanbronco3246 I turned it on now because I put my fans on whisper mode which seem to help as well.
im playing in 2k on 3060 i5 10400f
I had tweaked all settings, 0 difference but the game stated to look like shit
I turned of anti aliasing - jumped from 49 to 70, but it was too sharp, could see the pixels
Set on quality render and its look ok and now running at 80+
More than for performance reasons, I have fps drops at any time, which becomes annoying
-use-d3d11 type this in steam launch options and enjoy double the fps
Thanks comment section Im running a 3050Ti just glad to know the game is just not optimized well 😮💨.
the game is optimized... is your gpu that sucks
I have 3060ti and 5800x3d play on an lg 4k tv. You think ill get decent image quality and perf from this game? As i understand the render scale is only FSR and not DLSS. I would probably have to tone down settings and then set it to balanced or something...Idk if its worth it?
I'm using a 4070Ti while playing it, with a 3060Ti I believe you can have a pretty good experience with medium graphical settings while upscaling is anywhere from performance to ultra quality, depending on what you find more important, fps, or image clarity. I believe the 3060Ti also has 12GB of VRAM right? Which means you can keep texture quality on Ultra I believe.
i have a 3060 and a 5700G. I somehow get way better perfromance than Chute does here, but i also have 12gb of VRAM vs your 8, which makes it seem like VRAM is king for this game.
@@CorvusCorviday Nah, VRAM doesn't matter when it comes to performance, you're simply able to play with Ultra textures while 8GB of VRAM can support High texture quality at best.
3060ti only has 8gb. I just hope the upscaling doesnt blur the picture too much.@@zoopa9988
It looks like FSR 1.0 not FSR 2.0 as well. Hopefully they add a newer FSR version and DLSS later as both look significantly better than FSR 1.0
What's the overlay you're using for game performance?
MSI's afterburner overlay, it's good for all games even ones with anti cheat that might normally flag the program.
Got an Ryzen 9 7940HS, RTX 4060, and this game is STRUGGLING on lowest settings. I know laptops "aren't the best" for gaming but man my old i7 10750H, GTX 2060 ran this game amazingly last month. I think during the Bot Invasion, the game somehow got de-optimized.
I used your settings on my dellg3 i5 limited to 3.4ish ghz, undervolted. Gtx1660ti 6gb and 16 gb of ram. I get 55ish fps high enemy numbers and ultra quality render scale. Around 75-79C. Native around 42-45fps
we have the same gpu, is your terrain rendering right infront of you? grass, rocks, only render on my line of sight. can you lend me a hand?
they need to add FXAA cause TAA looks so bad
i have a 3080ti and 12700k and i'm getting ~90 fps on 1440p with everything maxed out (resolution scale is at native). i don't know why you're getting 40's and 50's with a better cpu than mine at the same resolution. (cpu is running hella hot tho)
I have Ryzen 7 5700x with RX 570 8GB and 16GB of RAM. Is this game playable?
Yes on low
hello, what is the best 1080p>2k screen or 1080 supersampling. what is the best for my fps.
rtx 2080s.. native 1080p looks old and flat
I still think that the game looks great in ultra quality render scale, So that's what I'm using for the extra fps. Thanks for the video! 👍
Thanks a lot mate.
My 6700k+ RTX 3080 and 16 gb of ram, Playing this 2K with default graphics settings and it absolute gorgeous. It runs 30 fps almost all the time and I feel like I'm playing this game on PS3 💀
My i7-10700k is at 80 to 90% ingame. Can I somehow fix this?
Sony games on pc always consume more %cpu dont worry
Thanks for this video. I think I'll turn some of the heavy hitters down later to see how much it helps me out for my PC. My GPU is a GTX 1660 (I can double check the exact specifications later when I am back at my PC) and the game seems to run pretty okay for the most part, and still (imo) looks nice at lower settings so I don't mind running low for the moment.
The main concern I have, and why I'll be turning some more things down, is my CPU which is a (copied from PC info: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7700 CPU @ 3.60GHz 3.60 GHz. I'm not entirely sure what all that means to be honest lol, but I am told it's above Min. requirements, but below the Req. requirements. I notice when playing, especially on Challenging difficulty when things get intense for enemy numbers, the game constantly is making my CPU run at 85% - 100% which freaks me out lol. I'm hoping adjusting some of these settings can help lessen that, but I am concerned for the long term health of my PC while playing this game. I can't really afford to upgrade anything right now either sadly sooo... I am a little worried how playing this will be until I can get some money saved up for an upgrade.
I should check what temp the CPU running at next time I boot it up, my GPU seems to run at 66 - 70 degrees Celsius on this game and many other more modern games which I assume is okay? I shall cease my rambling for now, thanks again for the video breaking things down the way you do! Glad to at least have some things in mind to fine tune more next time I'm on the game.
hey! what settings have you begun using? I have similar specs and am struggling with finding a good performing/looking settings
@@doomluvr05 Hey, I am so sorry for the very late reply. I haven't been able to get onto the game the past few days when I'd find free time so I wasn't able to really check my settings.
I'm not sure how much it'll help but what I have is:
Textures - Low
Object Detail Quality - Medium
Render Distance - Low
Shadow Quality - Lowest
Particle Quality - Medium (I may turn this down if it does help CPU)
Reflection Quality - Low
Space Quality - High
Ambient Occlusion - Off
Screen-Space Global Illumination - On
Vegetation and Rubble Density - Low
Terrain Quality - Medium
Volumetric Fog Quality - Lowest
Volumetric Clouds Quality - Lowest
Lighting Quality - Medium
Anti-Aliasing - Off
I have Motion Blur at 0, kept Depth of Field and Bloom On (I may mess around with it), and Sharpness is at the default 0.75. I also have Render Scale on Native, limited my FPS to 60 just incase that helps the CPU (I think people said that can help it?) and I currently have V-Sync off as well.
Sorry if these settings don't really help out or if they don't look as good or run as well as you may like. It's been okay for me so far, although it does still get a bit inconsistent in higher difficulties when enemy numbers really get up there, but generally I have trouble recalling how often that does happen so that's probably a good sign if it doesn't happen often enough for that lol.
@@LemonCreatureno worries and thank you! I've been messing around and I have similar settings and my game is running more than fine! I appreciate it!
they mustve done some optimization im running at 10600k with a 3070 ti and run everything on high some on ultra and its 80-90 fps on average @ 1440p
weird
What is the name of that overlay for the performance?
Press f3 in game.
is there any way this game will run on 20-25 fps on these:
intel i5 8th gen
gtx 1650
8gb ram
Get more ram
I got a 1050, this game does not lag as much as I thought
use dxx 11 steam launch command for double fps
@@lukegreen9352 what? I don’t know what that is
@@haywirellamma370 steam libary helldivers 2 properties type -use-d3d11 in launch options
Hey do know how to fix input lag on kbm ?
what happens if im only running 30 fps even in the ship running everything on low what should i do?
upgrade your system ;)
What r ur specs
This is probably caused by a bug. I'm having this happen to me inconsistently. Some ppl say it's caused by amount of ship in orbit, but I don't think that's the case, as I've had cases where there are many ships rendered in but no lag.
I'm running with a 1060 and x4 860 quad core processor. My pc is on the brink of death
Y dont understand i got a 2070super at 1440p renderation on ultra quality en grafics on medium and the runs at 100fps and you with an rtx 3080ti runs at 70 fps
I got this game. I have a 4090 and i9 chip, along with a really good water cooler. So I install and start the game, and all 3 fans start running loudly (which I have never seen before in any game), and this WAS AT THE MENU SCREEN. During tutorial, my card is slowly getting hotter and hotter. So I start turning down all the graphics settings, and enable sync to 60 fps max. If everything is set to "Medium", the game still runs hot. Something is very wrong with it.
My computer is hilarious, when I reduce settings, I lose FPS. When I push high/ultra, I gain fps. This game is so heavy on cpu it’s fucked. I wager it’s just simply because it’s generating so many assets all with independent movements all at once. The cpu is doing the heavy lifting, not even the GPU. My GPU sits there at like 60% or less half the time. That’s why when I push high and ultra I get better fps because it’s actually forcing the GPU to do some work instead of sitting around doing nothing. The computer still has to render and process all those damn bugs and robots no matter what. This is why I don’t upgrade my pc. Changing that render distance is big for less powerful CPUs. It’s interesting fighting between a weaker CPU and insufficient vram at times. It’s like this weird Venn diagram you just have to hit right.
Something’s gotta be wrong if you’re getting 60ish fps on a 3090 ti but good video
i think someting is wrong with your rig. i have ryzen 5800x with rtx3070 and get way more fps at 2k aswell...
Only thing is I do not understand why fullscreen option doesn't work, game just opens in window, probably because my display is 2560x1440 but I open games in 1920x1080 and instead of just opening game in fullscreen why this resulution, it just opens in window and because of that I need to use heavy upscaling :|
Also I don't think on such small maps, even with so many enemies performance of this game would be that bad, I had some massive fights in warframe with so much going on screen and still had stable 60fps on medium and here in Helldivers it is just pain
Alt + enter
I believe thats because this is a DX12 game. If Im not mistaken Fullscreen no longer exists, and anything that offers full screen is just borderless full screen windowed, so you get weird behavior like this.
It's why games run worse. If stuff was true fullscreen then we would get better performance @@Thelgow
Man Seeing a 13900k with 4800mt/s ram breaks my heart
I made a anti-aliasing mod for the game that makes the AA better.
Would my pc with a rtx2050 and a amd 5 5500H 24g ram run it?
yes
Why don't they have max frame rate, I don't want my GPU running at 100% the whole time
If you have an Nvidia card you can set max fps in the Nvidia Control Panel. Similar option on AMD as well. Capped mine to 50 fps with Latency Mode set to Ultra. Barely reaches the 70s on a 3060m with this videos graphic settings.
Yes go to Nvidia control panel and set max fps for Global and/or specific games. It's adviced to do that instead of in-game, actually.
or apply vsync
I have an amd card and use MSI afterburner
It's been added now which is cool
I have a pretty strong GPU (RX580) but weak CPU i5 4440 and only 8GB of RAM... do you think I can run this game properly? It's ok to set everything in low, graphic does not matter much for me, as long as the frame rate is stable and no slowdown like playing helldivers 1 on vita.
Are you a time traveler from the past or something in what world is an rx580 a strong gpu in 2024 that thing stunk in 2016
@@NayteG I said "pretty"... and I said that relative to my even weaker CPU and RAM.
@@casekocsk it's no where near pretty.. lmao its ugly weak now shush.. the rx580 in its prime weren't even powerful.. let alone in 2024
@@casekocsk In 1080p@low you may be able to get a stable 60 fps experience, minimum system requirements for 1080p/low/30fps use a RX 470.
@@zoopa9988 that is glad to hear... But will my cpu able to run it? Since it's only i5 4440, very old i know... But if i upgrade it, i also must upgrade my mobo. I'm not really swimming in money right now, especially in this kind of economy.
What if I have a 11th gen intel(r) core(tm) i7-1165g7 and can't change it because its integrated into the motherboard?
you're just stuck with it
mm i have the same gpu and get 90 something always at max settings 2k
The only thing better than Democracy?
OPTIMIZED DEMOCRACY!
I dunno why but with 13700 and 3070ti i have ultra and native i got 75 to 100 fps in game. why is urs so low?
what resolution are you using? he is playing in 1440p
I think they may have improved performance since this video. I have a 7800xt which is supposed to be on-par with 3080 ti but I get much better performance than he is here @ same resolution
Thx now my 1050 potato can run the game more smoothly
Worth mentioning that horde shooters are both cpu and gpu demanding, maybe theirs arent hitting that high fps since theyre bottleneck.
A ryzen 3600 bottlenecks a rx 470 at 50hz in this game thats right a r 5 3600 cant even maintain a steady 50hz in this game that has to be a record for incompetenece
@@lukegreen9352 damn, yep thats hella unoptimized. I’m even speculating the Anti-cheat + DRM are hitting the cpu usage.
I bought an rx 7600xt just for this game and i only get 45 fps
7800xt native 1440p around 70-110 fps with mist settings on ultra and high 👍🏻
Same here, 7800xt at 1440p all settings ultra 70-110