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#Deathloop Optimization Guide + FPS Drop Fix

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“#Deathloop Optimization Guide + FPS Drop Fix”
Deathloop is an AAA title, and the primary thing that concerns us when facing this fact is that most of the AAA titles that came out in 2021 have had some issue or the other during release. While some are relatively better with a lower number of issues, others are not so, with technical issues. While talking about Deathloop, we have to be cautious here. Arkane Studios, the developer of Deathloop has had a history of such issues, the most memorable being the Dishonored series. When Dishonored 2 was released, the game was filled with performance issues.

Players have started to notice FPS drops, lag, and stuttering in Deathloop already. Deathloop is a demanding game when one looks at the required specs. Make sure that you have the required hardware specifications in order to avoid issues while playing.

	Minimum Specs: 1080p / 30 FPS with Low Settings	Recommended Specs: 1080p / 60 FPS with High Settings	Ultra 4K Specs: 4K / 60 FPS with Ultra Settings
OS	64-bit Windows 10 version 1909 or higher	64-bit Windows 10 version 1909 or higher	Windows 10 64-bit version 1909 or higher
Processor	Intel Core i5-8400 @ 2.80GHz or AMD Ryzen 5 1600	i7-9700K @ 3.60GHz or AMD Ryzen 7 2700X	Intel Core i9-10900K @ 3.70GHz or AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT
Memory	12 GB	16 GB	16 GB system RAM
Graphics	Nvidia GTX 1060 (6GB) or AMD Radeon RX 580 (8GB)	RTX 2060 (6GB) or AMD Radeon RX 5700 (8GB)	Nvidia RTX 3080 (10GB) or AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT (16GB)
DirectX	Version 12	DirectX 12	Version 12
Storage	30 GB available space (HDD)	30GB available space (SSD)	30 GB available space (SSD)

The GPU driver studios have spelled out their recommendations for the driver versions of the GP as well. Nvidia users are recommended to use driver version 471.96 or newer, with the minimum supported driver being version 461.40. AMD users are recommended to use driver version 21.9.1.

If players are still facing issues, they might have to make some changes in the settings of the game. It may be that the video settings in-game are too high, which might be giving you trouble.

In that case, it is recommended that players bring their screen resolution to 1920×1080, with the full screen turned on. The Nvidia Reflex can be turned off, but if players have an RTX card, they can always turn it on.
Low latency, C-Sync, Upscaling, Camera Motion Blur, and Depth of Field must be turned off. Texture details can be kept on low, while Model, Shadow, Water, Terrain, Decal details can all be kept on medium. Sun Shadows can be simple since they cannot be off.

Check out the following Settings:

AMD FSR Mode: Won’t work with Upscaling off (If you want AMD FSR, set Upscaling to AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 1.0.)
Adaptive Resolution, FPS Target, Mode: Won’t work with Upscaling off
FPS Limiter: 120
Ambient Occlusion: FidelityFX CACAO Quality
Post-Process Anti-Aliasing: Temporal
TXAA Sharpness: 6
Sharpness Post Process: Standard
Bloom: Yes
Depth of Field: No
Light Shafts: No
Lens Flare: Yes
Monitor: Generic PnP
Brightness: 12 (Personal preference)
Field of View: 95 (I found this to be good enough)

AMD and Nvidia Control Panel Settings

Players can also see if changing the settings of their graphics units can help. Nvidia users can:

Open Nvidia control panel
Click on Adjust Image Settings with Preview under 3D settings
Select Use the Advanced 3D mage settings
Select Manage 3D settings from the left bar
Click on the Program Settings tab
Locate Deathloop in the drop-down tab under Select a Program
Click the Add button and add Deathloop, if the game is not there.

When this is done, program settings for Deathloop will be available, where further changes can be made. The following changes can be made:

CUDA – GPUs: Select your dedicated GPU
OpenGL rendering GPU: Select your dedicated GPU
Power Management: Prefer Maximum Performance
Texture filtering – Quality: Performance
Threaded Optimization: On
Vertical sync: Off

If players are using a laptop with Nvidia graphic unit, it must be ensured that a dedicated GPU is being used, and not the integrated one. Players can follow the given steps to change this setting:

Open Nvidia Control Panel
Open Manage 3D settings
Set Preferred Graphics Processor to High-Performace Nvidia Processor
Restart the system

In addition, players can turn off the Nvidia in-game overlay, which may use a lot of resources, particularly the “Instant Replay” feature. It is recommended that all overlays are turned off. Similarly, Windows Background recording can also be turned off from the “Gaming” option in the Settings menu. Click on the Captures option and disable the Background Recording feature from there.

AMD users can follow similar steps on their GPU control panels:

Disable Radeon Anti-Lag, Boost, Anisotropic Filtering, and Frame Rate Target Control
Turn off Image Sharpening, Morphological Filtering, V-sync, Maximum Tessellation Level, OpenGL Triple Buffering, and Radeon Chill.
Set Tessellation Mode and Shader Cache to “AMD Optimized” and Anti-Aliasing Mode and Anti-aliasing Method to “Use Application Settings” and “Multi-sampling” respectively
Set Texture Filtering Quality to “Performance” and GPU Workload “Graphics”
Finally, just enable Surface Format Optimization

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