Dying Light Performance Patch

[christianled59]

Dying Light gets a patch that supposedly fixed performance issues and increases optimization. However, AMD systems and multi gpu configs will still have issues. 

 

http://steamcommunity.com/games/239140/announcements/detail/112923269185739891

 

It's good to see games pushing for better optimization on PC. Lately I've been tired of seeing half assed ports but dying light seems to be trying. I tested it on a gtx 760sc pre-patch and it keeps a consistent 35-40 frames. Only a little stutter here and there. 

[MrBucket101]

I'm still crashing randomly.

 

Not sure if it's because I manually disabled the film grain effect, but either way...It's annoying

[christianled59]

I'm still crashing randomly.

 

Not sure if it's because I manually disabled the film grain effect, but either way...It's annoying

I personally hadn't had this issue. 

[MrBucket101]

I personally hadn't had this issue. 

Yeah theres no rhyme or reason. I'll be kicking ass flying all over the place, swap weapons and crash.

 

Or I'll just be running around and crash.

[Accursed Entity]

I can say that the sound problems and crashing are gone, also I can now push the game quality a bit more. There's been a number of bugs that has been addressed as well but I'll wait till the next patch which will supposedly "really" fix the performance issues.  

[Texhnlyze]

Are you guys running on the latest nvidia update? Enable Threaded Optimization, set V-sync to adaptive, fresh rates on monitor to highest possible and power management to maximum performance on the nvidia control panel. I'm not experiencing any fps drops from 100 to 40 or 30 anymore after the update and changing control settings. My average fps now is 105.

[christianled59]

I've been playing on a build I made for a friend to test it (fx 6300 and 760sc) runs perfect.

[MrBucket101]

Are you guys running on the latest nvidia update? Enable Threaded Optimization, set V-sync to adaptive, fresh rates on monitor to highest possible and power management to maximum performance on the nvidia control panel. I'm not experiencing any fps drops from 100 to 40 or 30 anymore after the update and changing control settings. My average fps now is 105.

I'll give this a shot and report back 2morro

[Texhnlyze]

I'll give this a shot and report back 2morro

 

If you still have problems, then verify the game through steam.

[Kevin_Walter]

I find it interesting how core load distribution has been fixed across the board, including for AMD CPUs... and yet, there's no performance increase at all on that end.

 

Before the patch, my 6300 was reaching 100% on core 1 and bouncing around between 20% and 60% on the rest. Since the patch, none of my cores reach 90% at any time, and the load seems to be pretty evenly distributed across all of the cores, the maximum any of them seem to achieve is 80%, but they mostly sit around the 50-60% range.

 

The patch has made it so that my hardware is obviously being better utilized, as my GPU and CPU are both managing to run the game without reaching their maximum usage and yet... there's absolutely no performance increase whatsoever. Before the patch, my average framerate out side sat in the 25-30 range. Since the patch... my average framerate outside sits in the 25-30 range.

 

I understand they have acknowledged AMD performance is sub-par, and they've said they're working on fixing it in another patch, but what I don't understand is how if the original suspicions were true, that AMD performance was poor because of AMD's poor per-core performance... then how the hell does a patch that obviously fixes the game's usage of multiple cores seem to have no effect on performance at all?

 

Can someone please explain this to me?

[Texhnlyze]

I find it interesting how core load distribution has been fixed across the board, including for AMD CPUs... and yet, there's no performance increase at all on that end.

 

Before the patch, my 6300 was reaching 100% on core 1 and bouncing around between 20% and 60% on the rest. Since the patch, none of my cores reach 90% at any time, and the load seems to be pretty evenly distributed across all of the cores, the maximum any of them seem to achieve is 80%, but they mostly sit around the 50-60% range.

 

The patch has made it so that my hardware is obviously being better utilized, as my GPU and CPU are both managing to run the game without reaching their maximum usage and yet... there's absolutely no performance increase whatsoever. Before the patch, my average framerate out side sat in the 25-30 range. Since the patch... my average framerate outside sits in the 25-30 range.

 

I understand they have acknowledged AMD performance is sub-par, and they've said they're working on fixing it in another patch, but what I don't understand is how if the original suspicions were true, that AMD performance was poor because of AMD's poor per-core performance... then how the hell does a patch that obviously fixes the game's usage of multiple cores seem to have no effect on performance at all?

 

Can someone please explain this to me?

 

 

 

Are you running the game in max settings?

 

Turn shadows down to medium with foliage high. Reduce the view distance to the lowest and try it again. If it's still low, turn off other unnecessary settings like AA, nvidia options as well as motion blur. With this kind of settings, you should be able to get 40-83 fps. If it still doesn't work, reduce the shadows again, foliage to medium and maybe remove film grain effect. Go to taskbar and go to dyinglight.exe then click affinity tab and unclick core 0 (youtube comment.) If you're unsatisfied, then maybe it's time for an upgrade. R9 290x are on sale, Intel i3 or i5 are good too.

[Kevin_Walter]

Are you running the game in max settings?

 

Even if I was, it wouldn't change the fact that my hardware is no longer being fully utilized in any way, and yet there's no actual change in performance as a result of it, not to mention the settings are no different from where they were before.

 

Also, no. Everything is either low or off, with the exception of textures which have no low setting, but that's beside the point. The difference between medium and high textures for me is 900MB of VRAM and 1700MB of VRAM and about 20% overall gpu usage... still never reaching 100%. Framerate is, once again, unaffected.

[Texhnlyze]

Even if I was, it wouldn't change the fact that my hardware is no longer being fully utilized in any way, and yet there's no actual change in performance as a result of it, not to mention the settings are no different from where they were before.

 

Also, no. Everything is either low or off, with the exception of textures which have no low setting, but that's beside the point. The difference between medium and high textures for me is 900MB of VRAM and 1700MB of VRAM and about 20% overall gpu usage... still never reaching 100%. Framerate is, once again, unaffected.

Actually, some people are reporting that changing the settings doesn't boost fps at all. In my experience, it is true.

 

http://www.reddit.com/r/dyinglight/comments/2u0l7n/how_to_fix_performance_in_dying_light/

Some people are turning off settings and actually fix their problem. People are also trying the same options being turned off or turned down but it doesn't fix their problem. I guess the "every system is different" applies here. Will try to find out more fix about your problem tomorrow since it's already 3 AM here. In the meantime, try to find a fix on the links that I gave you or google the same cpu/gpu that you have playing dying light.

 

Make sure that you don't have any applications open when playing.

[IhazHedont]

Fixed everything for me !

 

Viewing distance to max has low impact on the FPS.

[MadManMarsBar]

Still broken for me , i can get 60 fps if i look in the right direction , buit it drops down to 20 fps when ever i try to kill a zombie ,

 

My cpu usage hits about 60% which isnt the problem , but my 970 only gets about 35% usage .... regardless of what settings i use

 

Dying light could have been a good game imo , but i dont know how long it is gonna be before i can play it ,

 

does anyone know any ways to force my GPU to work harder ...

[Vrbas]

Still broken for me , i can get 60 fps if i look in the right direction , buit it drops down to 20 fps when ever i try to kill a zombie ,

 

My cpu usage hits about 60% which isnt the problem , but my 970 only gets about 35% usage .... regardless of what settings i use

 

Dying light could have been a good game imo , but i dont know how long it is gonna be before i can play it ,

 

does anyone know any ways to force my GPU to work harder ...

Only thing you can really do is upgrade your CPU. This game is CPU bound. Turn view distance down to 0 to see if that helps you. 

[MadManMarsBar]

Only thing you can really do is upgrade your CPU. This game is CPU bound. Turn view distance down to 0 to see if that helps you. 

yea i have tried that , dosent really make a difference to the average FPS , i just hope they can do more for AMD CPU's 

 

that being said i will be upgrading to an i7 4790k eventually

[Vrbas]

yea i have tried that , dosent really make a difference to the average FPS , i just hope they can do more for AMD CPU's 

 

that being said i will be upgrading to an i7 4790k eventually

Well that sucks. But to be honest the AMD cpus are just to old/weak if I was a dev i wouldn't really try to gimp my game so they play well on the fx cpus either. You will definitely notice a difference when you switch, I did.

[Texhnlyze]

Still broken for me , i can get 60 fps if i look in the right direction , buit it drops down to 20 fps when ever i try to kill a zombie ,

 

My cpu usage hits about 60% which isnt the problem , but my 970 only gets about 35% usage .... regardless of what settings i use

 

Dying light could have been a good game imo , but i dont know how long it is gonna be before i can play it ,

 

does anyone know any ways to force my GPU to work harder ...

 

 

Are you using latest nvidia drivers?

[MadManMarsBar]

Are you using latest nvidia drivers?

Yes 347.25

[MunsonedForLife]

Just good to see a dev trying to fix their game