Deathloop – PC Performance Guide, Best Settings
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Performance tips and solutions for the stuttering, crashing, and freezing issues you’re having on PC in Deathloop.
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Deathloop isn’t running great on PC at the moment, with reports of crashing, stuttering, frame drops, and freezing. Some claim anti-piracy software Denuvo is at fault, but it could just be a case of poor optimisation. Also, games as complex as Deathloop, with lots of AI and interlinked systems, tend to be both GPU and CPU heavy, so that could be causing issues.
PC best settings for performance
Whatever it is, there are a few graphics settings you can change to smooth things out. You might not be able to get a totally consistent frame rate—even with the following tweaks, mine still dips below 60 in really busy areas—but it will make your experience more bearable.
Update your graphics card drivers
An obvious one, yes, but always worth a reminder. Arkane itself has encouraged players to upgrade their graphics cards with the latest available drivers. This won’t magically fix any issues you’re having, but it will rule outdated drivers out as a potential source of the problem.
Lower the Shadow Details setting
The Shadow Details setting is one of the most demanding and impactful on Deathloop’s frame rate. You won’t notice much visual difference when you drop it to the lower settings, so go wild. Before you try anything else, knock Shadow Details down and see if it has any effect on your frame rate. (It probably will.)
Try AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution
Similar to NVIDIA’s DLSS, this confusingly-titled option uses upscaling technology to give you a frame rate boost at the expense of some fidelity. It does this by running the game at a lower resolution, then using an algorithm to sharpen the image up. Enabling it in Deathloop could give you a worthwhile frame rate boost.
Change your Ambient Occlusion setting
Don’t disable ambient occlusion entirely, because the visuals look kinda flat without it. I got the best frame rate using FidelityFX CACAO, set to Balanced. You can also try Performance or Quality, but Balanced is the best compromise between performance and image quality.
Install the game on an SSD
As with any modern PC game, installing Deathloop on an old-style mechanical HDD could impact performance, as well as making your load times a lot longer. Install the game on an NVMe drive, or failing that a standard SSD, for the best possible experience.
Deathloop best PC settings
Those are the main things to try first, but if your performance is still less than optimal, here’s a rundown of a few key graphics settings, their impact on performance (if any), and how they affect the game’s visuals.
Screen Resolution
The resolution you select has a big impact on performance. With an RTX 2080 Super, I got the best results playing at 1440p.
NVIDIA Reflex
This setting is supposed to reduce rendering latency, but honestly, I barely noticed any difference whether it was activated or not.
V-sync
You’ll get a frame rate boost with this disabled, but I experienced a lot of severe screen tearing that made it unpleasant to play.
Texture Details
This will have basically no impact on performance for most modern graphics cards, so set it as high as you’re comfortable with.
Model Details
Like the Texture Details setting, this doesn’t have as much impact on performance as you’d expect. Leave it at a high setting.
Water Details
No notable performance impact here either.
Post-Process Anti-Aliasing
For me, every setting here other than Temporal made the game look jaggy and shimmery, so I couldn’t bring myself to lower it.
Camera Motion Blur
Disabling this may improve your frame rate slightly. It’s also a pretty ugly implementation of motion blur, so you won’t miss it.
Bloom/Lens Flare/Depth of Field
These settings will have a minimal impact on your frame rate, so keeping them on is largely down to your own personal preference.
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Andy Kelly is a Features Editor at TheGamer. He loves detective games, anything with a good story, weird indie stuff, and Alien: Isolation.
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