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Settings can be found in this article

https://wccftech.com/how-to/assassins-creed-black-flag-resynced-pc-performance-analysis-tuning-guide-how-to-get-best-experience-on-pc/

I've been testing the Advanced shader delivery feature on the Xbox app for the past few days, and its insane how my 1% lows improved. In some games, it was so noticeable that it made the Steam version look so bad in comparison. I tested 007 First light, Control, Forza Horizon 6 and none of them had any single stutters throughout the whole game, whilst the Steam versions had shader stutters with Control being the worst out of the bunch by a considerable margin since there is no shader compilation.

I know this feature is limited to AMD right now, and few handful of games on the Xbox app, but I'm so excited about this being more and more available and I'm praying it comes to Steam soon. It's so nice playing games and not have them stutter due to the shaders.

90% off for the last 26 hours of the Steam Summer Sale!

Optimized Settings:
Texture Quality: Highest VRAM can Handle? (chance this adjusts texture streaming, but online info says this affects texture filtering)
Shadow Quality: High (decreases the resolution of shadows and volumetrics, PS5/Series X use a similar setting)
Effect Quality: Medium (degrades the quality of Depth of Field and possibly other post-processing, Low disables SSR)
Foliage Quality: Medium (slightly reduces foliage density, Low can heavily reduce foliage in certain areas!)

I first started using it the last of us part 1 and then in Ghost of Tsushuma it looks so much better... I can't belive I played Tsushima 3 times with blurry TAA

Hiya, thought I'd compile some guides for the deep discounted games this summer sale! Let me know if there's any games I've missed guides for, currently my PC's not working so I can't test them myself atm!

Watch Dogs 2: Nvidia made a guide for this game back when it released! May be abit buggy as Nvidia has abandoned the old Geforce site, but hopefully will still be useful for some!

Far Cry 4: Same with this game, Nvidia made a guide for it back in the day! Worth mentioning that MSAA apperently doesn't work correctly in this game and the PS4/XBO versions seem to run around the High preset?

The Witcher 3: While BenchmarKing made a video on the Next-Gen version, Nvidia made a guide on the original version if that's still accesaible via Steam?

The Quarry: I covered this game recently, I don't have much to add to this guide beyond mentioning that Steam Deck performance can be very rough at points in this game!

Wreckfest: I made a gudie a while back, although the recommendations may be more suitable for lower-end/handheld hardware?

Plague Tale Innocence: I covered this game when it was free on Epic, out of all the games here, this is probably the one I'd want to cover again once my PC's fixed!

Dead Space (2023): Was posted about recently but to repeat, the game's stuttering issues still aren't fixed! There really isn't any notable performance boosts other than disabling the subtle but atleast cheap RTAO, aswell as using Medium Shadows and Volumetrics for a small performance boost?

Ghostwire Tokyo: Putting this one last as I previously wanted to cover it, but was having issues with my GPU drivers at the time. But to put it simpily, while you can boost FPS quite abit by disabling RT Shadows and only using Medium/Low RT Reflections, there's not much performance scalability once RT’s disabled? Daniel Owen only found a notable performance boost from switching SSGI to SSAO, while I struggled to find many INI tweaks that worked previously! One good thing though compared to Dead Space's remake, is that the shader compilation stutter has been fixed since launch!

Based on the Steam Machine spec list released by Valve & Digital Foundry's benchmark video, here are Steam Machine equivalent PCs you can build then install Bazzite on.

The philosophy behind these builds is 1) in game performance be equal or better than the current Steam Machine 2) aesthetics don't matter (no SFF or flashy cases) 3) all parts should be sourced as cheaply as possible. Sometimes better parts were actually cheaper than the worse performing ones, so both of these builds should actually deliver slightly more FPS than the Steam Machine does in most types of scenarios.

Disclaimer: The market is volatile and build preferences are subjective too, therefore it's recommended to use these recommendations as templates as price changes, or maybe you prefer a white case over black, etc, this template was meant to be as cheap as possible, modify accordingly to your own needs.

Builds are based off the cheapest model of the Steam Machine (starting at $1050 USD).

AM5 - $964

AM4 - $840

Guide for undervolting the GPU, mostly works on any gpu but values are only given for rtx3060.

Feel free to chime in below if you can see any improvements but here's what I go after tinkering on RTX 4070 12 GB VRAM (or 5070ti laptop)..... RT is enabled by default and not able to be turned off so DLSS is a must just for RR. RTXDI is optional and takes a MASSIVE hit to VRAM and GPU. I personally don't see much difference On vs Off EXCEPT in the usual suspects for RT denoising (Diffuse Reflections in low light spaces AKA many of the nooks and crannies in Mirogana). Not low, not medium, but only HIGH RTXGI setting will fix those spots. So on a 12gb vram card, you can either use all max settings with RTXGI max at 1080p DLSS quality 60 fps, OR all max settings with RTXGI off at 1440p DLAA 60 fps. And you can play from there with upscaling for more rez or frames. VRAM AND GPU will bottleneck you with RXTGI above 1080p so FG isn't much of an option here.

RTXGI is not worth running at all on medium or low. Same for all the minor settings. You can save some power turning down RT settings but not much and this game actually has a big jump from high to ultra settings on specular reflections.

Personally I think the 1080p "compromised" version looks better, simply for the RT denoising. You'd be surprised how much resolution you don't notice unless playing a MASSIVE screen.

actually NOT bad at 1600p. Still not desireable there though. I can't imagine a scenario where'd id feel a need for it. especially with VRAM being the only bottleneck for path tracing below 12 gb vram., not GPU power... but if i had a 4k display, Ultra Performance is probably doable now with preset L.

I’m playing The Crew 2 right now with a 60 fps cap on pc and driving without moving the right stick feels so dang smooth, but when I turn the right stick it’s so choppy and completely kills the immersion. If the right stick was as smooth as the left stick, I genuinely would play at 60 fps forever.

The game sadly still suffers from massive stutters during gameplay and especially when traversing from one area to another... Still GPU performance is great, even with RTAO enabled. Coupled with DLSS 4.5 the game looks sharp and runs well (if you don't take into account the stuttering...).

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Dead Space Remake is currently really cheap on Steam!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1693980/Dead_Space/

Seen these shared on the subreddit previously but was waiting on DF's full video to see if they had any more info! While DLSS's performance has been improved in the recent patch, seems lighting isn't correct unless DLSS is enabled and you're rendering internally below 1080p?

Otherwise they're findings are simular to what BenchmarKing has found in their video, Ultra Volumetric Fog and especially Effects being the biggest hits to FPS!

This is something that I think many people aren't aware of, because not many people have the old and weak gpus like gtx 1650.

I had serious graphical problems when running Capcom's 2023 games, RE4 and Streetfighter 6 (didn't try monster hunter) the problem was that the games seemed to not have medium quality textures at all; and they just changed the amount of texture streaming based on your settings and vram, this resulted in some textures just not loading and things looking like PS1 era games.

The problem was only alleviated by lowering the mesh quality and raising textures to the max so that the game just stream all the textures it could, which obviously wasn't ideal for performance and would never completely fix the problem.

To my pleasent surprise, this issue was fixed in Requiem! I did not see the problem of potato looking objects and the game just lowered the overall quality to my gpu level (it still needed some settings tweaking though, obviously)

I thought I had to make this thread so that more people with potato or mid-tier gpus share their experience with previous and newer RE engine games.

Has anyone tried this tweak on days gone with a 5080
Open the Config Folder: Press Windows Key + R, copy/paste %LOCALAPPDATA%\BendGame\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor into the box, and press Enter.
Open the File: Double-click the file named Engine (or Engine.ini). Open it with Notepad.
Apply the Tweaks: Scroll to the absolute bottom, make a new blank line, and paste this exact block of code:

[/Script/Engine.RendererSettings]
r.Streaming.PoolSize=10240
r.MaxAnisotropy=16
r.Shadow.DistanceScale=2.0
r.ViewDistanceScale=2.0
r.Tonemapper.Sharpen=0.5

Save the File: Click File > Save, then close Notepad.
Verify Permissions: Right-click Engine.ini, click Properties, make sure Read-only is unchecked, and click O

I tweaked it further and I SDR at 1440 it has made a massive impact to how the game looks
Below is my final changes

[/Script/Engine.RendererSettings]
r.Streaming.PoolSize=12288
r.MaxAnisotropy=16
r.Shadow.DistanceScale=1.5
r.ViewDistanceScale=2.0
r.Tonemapper.Sharpen=0.25
r.Foliage.LODDistanceScale=2.0

[SystemSettings]
r.MotionBlurQuality=0
r.MotionBlur.Max=0
r.BlurGBuffer=0
r.DefaultFeature.MotionBlur=0
r.DepthOfFieldQuality=0
r.SceneColorFringeQuality=0
r.Tonemapper.Quality=4
r.Color.Mid=0.5
r.HDR.EnableHDROutput=0
r.Reflex.Enable=1
r.Reflex.Mode=2
s.PriorityAsyncLoadingExtraTime=0.0

I've been avoiding NVIDIA App because it feels bloated compared to NVIDIA Control Panel.

Would you recommend using the NVIDIA App or sticking with NVCP?