Dying Light low fps

[Ervin James Molinar]

I have a R9 280x but I run Dying Light in 25-60fps but mostly 30 below. I tried updating the game but it is still lag. My friend has a 750ti but he runs Dying Light smooth in high. Mine even the lowest settings still lag.

 

[Vynavill]

The GPU is not the one and only component to define a game's performance, and besides, Dying Light is known for its bad performance across different systems, both high-end and low-end.

Could you state the rest of your specs and your temperatures?

 

[Ervin James Molinar]

Specs:
CPU: FX 6300 3.5ghz (Oc'd to 4.2ghz)
MOBO: Gigabyte 990fx-UD3 rev4.0
GPU: R9 280x VaporX 384bit 3gb DDR5
Ram: 2x4gb Kingston HyperX Blue 1600mhz CL10
PSU: Aerocool StrikeX 600w 80plus Bronze
Case: Enermaxx Otrog usb 3.0
CPU cooler: Hyper 212 evo Turbo edition
HDD: WD Blue 500gb


Casefans:
Top: 2x 140mm Cougar CFD
Rear: 1x Cougar CFD120
Bottom: 1x Cougar CFD120
Front: 1x Corsair AF120
Cpu Fan: 2x AF120 Quiet Edition

 

[Vynavill]

The PSU is pretty bad, quality-wise, and is about enough to power the entire system with all those fans, while leaving a tiny headroom. You might want to try and change that, just to test it out. If you can't afford one, ask a friend to kindly lend you his own for such a test.
I'd get a 650~700w to test it out and play it extra safe.

As a rule of thumb, never save on the PSU. It's like saving on a heart donor...

 

[Ervin James Molinar]

Noted Thanks

 

[Frag Maniac]

I have to say it's likely your CPU creating a bottleneck

I run it on pretty much the equivalent of your GPU (7970 OC), and a stock i7 950, with 8GB 1600 HyperX RAM, and I am playing with textures, shadows and foliage maxed, with HBAO+ and AA on, Blur, DoF and Vsync off, at 1080p, and getting at least 40-50 FPS average if not more.

I HAVE however used several file tweaks to disable film grain, noise, aberration, cloud shadows, and desaturation, but I've also doubled the saturation and am running a SweetFX preset.

It may not be one of the more common brand PSUs you're using, but I doubt it's the culprit.

 

[Hendra Boedijono]

I think everyone here is experiencing FPS issues with Dying Light, some also experienced black screen and / or screen freeze. Me too but I figured it out yesterday & actually its a graphical perks (software / driver) issue.

Here's my working setting with avg of 60s FPS during gameplay :
Resolution : 1980 x 1080 (16 : 9)
Full screen : On
Vertical Sync : Off
Texture Quality : High
Shadow Map Size : Medium (No notable visual difference with High)
Foliage Quality : High
View Distance : Around 25%
Ambient Occlusion : OFF (This is the mother of all problem ! Be sure to also disable this option in your VGA Control Panel)
Nvidia HBAO+ : Off (Helped the FPS)
Nvidia DoF : Off (Helped the FPS)
Motion Blur : Off (Helped the FPS & cured your headache)
Antialiasing : On

Note : If you wanna up the FPS again you can set both Film Grain & Sun Shadow to 0 by adding & modifying var list noise & var list performance scripts with notepad (Plenty video tutorial for this in youtube).

My Spec : i3 4130, MSI H81M, 2 x 4 GB DDR3 Vengeance Pro 1600 c9, MSI GTX 760 2GB, 500GB SATAII HDD (Yep !) & PSU Corsair VS650 - Nvidia 347.88

 

[Undying89]

My 280X paired with i5 at 4.8Ghz pushes 60fps maxed. Its not the GPU, probably CPU bottleneck. AMD CPU's dosnt handle single-threaded games well.

Make sure you are using latest 1.5 patch, it boosted fps alot.

 

[Frag Maniac]

I think everyone here is experiencing FPS issues with Dying Light, some also experienced black screen and / or screen freeze. Me too but I figured it out yesterday & actually its a graphical perks (software / driver) issue.

Performance for me seems to have gotten better since patch 1.5, but in general my i7 950 and 7970 OC (both stock) have been handling it fine on max settings, 1080p, with no sync, blur, or dof.

Supposedly AMD's new 15.3 beta driver yields even better performance than the Omega 14.12 I'd been playing on, but I've been too busy playing AC Rogue to try it yet. Rogue IS playing noticeably better on 15.3 since installing it though.