I don’t think the issue is game optimization when you’re at unplayable levels of FPS (15-20), I think it’s something with your system configuration. Saying you run Witcher 3 “pretty well” isn’t very informative, also, The Witcher 3 is a highly optimized title these days. Do you run it “pretty well” with HairWorks on?
I normally play The Witcher 3 at 60fps in medium settings. It should be ok to play KCD at least in low, but I don’t know. I tried to disable Anti virus, uninstalled Geforce Experience, uninstalled my drivers and re-installed them, turned on and off many settings in my gpu, etc. Don’t know what else to do and support asked me to wait for a patch…
One of the few thing i don’t have a problem with is the graphics, which have been pretty good and smooth so far. escept for lighting on ultra. on ultra i get all kind of glitches such as ovens flashing in an epileptic seizure inducing way.
my tip for performance - turn shader and shadows to medium and you can ramp everything else up and still get 60 fps.
I dont think so. When out of the game, GPU usage wont go over 8% so I doubt some rogue process is sucking resources.
Try turning post processing down to low. That setting eats lots of fps but doesn’t actually increase graphics much at all. On many game I can run all other settings at ultra as long as I turn post processing off/minimum.
I have same CPU as you, but a gtx 970 and that’s what I’m running KCD on right now. Works fine for me.
As you can see everything is on low. I can get to 30fps if I use a mod to make it look like Morrowind.
These were the screenshots I sent to Support:
Hey, that tailor didn’t render inside the table (3rd pic from bottom). He almost never animates properly on my PS4.
I’ve got the same issue. My system is capable of running the most demanding modern games at high settings and up (i5-7400, 16GB of RAM, RX480), yet I’m not even able to run this game at 40 fps on the lowest settings in 1080p (I have reinstalled Windows just for this game - performance wise there’s no difference on a clean system). I don’t know how people are able to get 60 fps on high settings with RX480 or similar cards, to be honest it looks like you has to be really lucky and run it on very specific hardware in order to be able to play it. I really would like to love this game but at this point I really feel like I have wasted €45, it took me literally an hour to finish the first quest just because of that performance drops…
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The game isn’t optimized well.
People with very high end hardware still have bad performance. If you actually open up the console in game the game only recognizes half of your Video RAM. People have also noticed that during game play the game doesn’t utilize half the processing capability nor the half the available system RAM.
I use Optmized Graphics mod and I have to say it is a must have to make the game run smoother until the devs polish it more. I ran on the “high” optimized presets and the game still looks beautiful and I maintain 40-60 fps with minimum stuttering.
This is also one of the most popular mods for the game as of now.
Hit due to handling of Cryengine demands?
Cryengine is demanding, but I think the poor performance has to do with the first day patch that was 20GB.
They had to change a lot of files around and it resulted in some things being unoptmized. Hopefully they fix it soon.
open a console with ~ and type:
r_batchtype 1
You can also try to change the memory heapsize (though I doubt this will do it) by adding the heapsize dip to your KCD shortcut:
“X:\Kingdom Come Deliverance\Bin\Win64\KingdomCome.exe” -heapsize 2097152
Make sure the pathing is proper for your installation. This heapsize is good for 16GB of ram (Though the game still seems to only utilize 4 at a time- maybe GPU memory capped?).
My specs:
i7 2700k
R9 290 4GB (Watercooled)
16GB DDR-3
Game is running on mechanical drive- 50-60fps no major drops running all medium aside from physics/Shadows/Post-Processing which are low.
It’s weird you are only hitting 24% GPU usage. Your GPU clocks a lot higher than mine and your result is very subpar for your hardware. Just out of curiosity…What is your monitor’s “native” resolution?
This seems to be all over the place. I get 50-60 FPS on mostly high settings. Well until the Runt battle 40 -45 fps.
Shaders and shadows are on low.
Specs:
I5-3570k
gtx 960 4gb
8 GB ram @ 1866 DDR3
If you, by similar, mean a GTX 1080 or something, I believe you. But if you mean an i5/i7 + 1070 I don’t believe you get 55-60 fps with ALL settings set to Ultra High along with draw distance sliders maxed out.
I have a i7 7700k and 1070 and in rattay, lowest fps is like 43, average is 50-60. Outside of rattay, average is 60-75 (max, not looking at the sky, is 80-90) with the occasional drop to 50-55 in some areas/interiors and this is with all settings set to Ultra High except shaders and shadows on High and lighting on Very High. Object and LOD draw distance maxed out, vegetation draw distance below half.
You are quite right I had my slides not so quite maxed out (around 85% to 90% of the way) and I have shadows set to high. In Rattay some places I get some large drops (low 40s) bit the rest of the map is fine. I get mostly 55-60 fps with the occasionaI drop when entering certain buildings
I have a 980ti and a 6700k at 4.2 (stock) with 3GHz ram. But game is installed on a PCI-e SSD.
I do have everything else on Ultra though.
Just out of curiosity I have installed the game on both brand new Samsung 850 EVO and old, nearly dying Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm 16MB cache drives. After this “experiment” I can definetely say that all of the performance issues are related to the game and it’s poor optimisation. In my case the game runs better and faster on HDD. The only disadvantage is that textures and objects are not loading up as fast as on SSD, but I’m getting usually around 50-60 fps on medium settings right now in comparison to 30-40fps on lowest settings when the game was installed on much faster SSD. Even framerate dropdowns are not as noticable as on SSD which doesn’t make any sense to be honest.
Because of that I would recommend everyone with performance issues to not follow any existing “tutorials” like I did. Just try out different mods, console commands etc. for yourself. What works the best for me is using HDD instead of SSD and custom user.cfg file with r_vsync 0 and r_batchtype 1 entries only. Every other command or mod will make this game just slower in my case.
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Well I seemed to figure it out somehow.
I had already given up on the game, when I tried to change my graphics card to another slot and also swap my memory stick slots around. Surprise, surprise, it worked!
I don’t have any clue what made it work or why, but it works now.
Now I can start playing!
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Yes. With win 10 I find; boot to boot- I have to sometimes run a quick benchmark or some monitoring software to make sure things are where they should be.
Never prior to win 10. Irrelevant for how long its been since a format and clean install.
Win 10 and reliability are not synonymous. Worst windows yet.
Might bit be off topic: quite often people reading older threads due to similar issues do so to find pssible causes.