If you haven't already, I would recommend cleaning and reinstalling your nvidia drivers and doing a Windows system integrity check . Sometimes a bit of corruption will affect a specific game, even when others work fine.

Another thing to try would be borderless windowed mode.

...but yeah, I doubt ...

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The issue isn't just the low framerate (which many adaptive sync monitors can handle) but the very spikey frametimes:

https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/download/file.php?mode=view&id=1129822

https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/download/file.php?mode=view&id=1129821

A jump from a slow ...

Tried this, with mixed results. Setting it to Application changed nothing. Setting it to System did push the game to full screen, but it also turned all the text weird - all the light colored letters now had black pixels showing up randomly in them, making it essentially illegible. A significant ...

Have you tried resetting your DW2 configs, and updating the AMD driver?

For what its worth, your hardware is more than capable of running DW2.

I have problem with SpecialK. I got the RGB warning when I started it. Did you do something special ?

Also everything is so dark with SpecialK. I found in another thread that I needed to enable the HDR in special K and tweak some stuff to see something on my monitor in 4k.

I just saw your ...

What program are you using to show resources in the OP?

Using Xbox Game Bar (!) I'm showing about 5% CPU utilization and 30% GPU with a 5950 and RTX3090


I also like SpecialK, which also has very helpful frametime metrics and some other toggleable tweaks:

https://i.ibb.co/Gk4LnCV ...

If you know how to correct the background not appearing in SpecialK let me know :mrgreen: because I can't see it...it's black!

For now I bypass SpecialK but it's strange that the background doesn't work lol


Hmmm, what do you mean the background? The main menu background? Try disabling texture ...

What program are you using to show resources in the OP?

Using Xbox Game Bar (!) I'm showing about 5% CPU utilization and 30% GPU with a 5950 and RTX3090


I also like SpecialK, which also has very helpful frametime metrics and some other toggleable tweaks:

https://i.ibb.co/Gk4LnCV/1647388723 ...

WiZz wrote: Thu Mar 17, 2022 10:09 pm Famous intel graphic drivers...

Yeah... and there will probably be more reports like this as Arc starts rolling out.


Anyway, does fullscreen/windowed mode make a difference?

There are reports of a graphics memory leak. Maybe keep an eye on VRAM if you try to launch this save again.

Apparently the game uses a fancy new multi core on the fly adjustment system that ramps up under load to increase performance. If its not working properly it would generate the issues you see here with low cpu usage when it should be running all the cores it can get. I'm wondering if there is an ...

brucethemoose

I wanted to thank you. What a beautiful sight. It worked and it looks perfect. I so much appreciate what you did and in the process you taught me thing or two. Thank you.


Cool!

Since it works so well, this also confirms whats happening under here and under proton as well. Maybe ...

So poking around a bit more, it doesn't seem like the simulation part of the game is a big bottleneck? It's not like, say, Stellaris, where the framerate drops like a rock when you unpause at high speed.

This is bad...very bad. I expected more from brand new 64-bit game engine. Playing by myself (no AI empires) with only independent colonies. Smallest 500 star galaxy. This is my current state of the game:

As it says in the title, the game is using only 20-25% of the CPU (Intel Core i7-8700) and ...

Yeah thats correct, ReShade doesn't need to hook into the game. It just needs applies a conversion to the image that's displayed on the screen.

You just need to install it and manually drag that shader file into the shaders folder.


brucethemoose,

I have installed ReShade and I downloaded ...

Mega mod plan *checks calendar* 4 days after release.


Well, that was fast. I think I'm going to like this modding scene.

Is that "texture memory" stat VRAM usage?

If so that would suggest the game is overflowing out of your GPU's (4GB) memory pool, which would explain the poor performance... but that doesn't seem right, I haven't caught DW2 using that much VRAM.

Thanks, Eric, for the reply.

The movement of the stars is the main issue as it is really bothersome to my eyes. I'm not sure if the dotted background would be an issue without that.

It would be nice if the background was just black without any dots at all. As an option at least.

I'm sure you ...

I posted this in the roadmap thread, but I figured I'd mirror it here so it doesn't get buried.

Thanks to the XSDs Elliot posted, VSCode supports editing DW2's XML files with game-specific syntax and error checking.

Here are some steps to get it working:

-Install VSCode
-Install the official XML ...

Hey, did you see anything in the source about what sound codecs/containers DW2 will load? I see it has an ffmpeg library... so hopefully that means pretty much anything?


I ask because the vanilla tracks are mp3, and it would be great to export music as literally anything but mp3.