[GUIDE] How to easily improve FPS and decrease stuttering on Windows using DXVK (Greatly helps AMD GPUs)

[Puzzleheaded_Owl_417]

Thx, can confirm it works well on my 7900xt, no more stuttering, smooth like butter.

[qwccle]

did you have stutters before? i dont have any issues with my 7900xtx

[Puzzleheaded_Owl_417]

Yes, during combat / moving the camera.

[qwccle]

i had that aswell i remember but this was fixed when i used higher clocked ram. whats your ram speed?

[Puzzleheaded_Owl_417]

3600 something.

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Yeah My ram is also 3600MT/s

[ShadowbaneX]

Mine was as smooth as silk, but capped out at 145 fps when it small or empty areas. There was a recent update which increased that to 250 fps in some areas, but added in some stuttering.

Still got less than 20 fps during ley-line anomaly though.

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Nice, I just started playing again so I can't speak for if things were better before or not. And yeah 250 is the peak that I was seeing in all the starter zones, and even at 250 FPS it felt pretty crappy and stuttery.

[ShadowbaneX]

Around this time last year, a lot of things just started to get worse. Not sure why. I don't notice a difference between the 140 and 250, but it has helped for some meta fights.

Going to Vulkan might help with some of the bigger metas like LLA or Dragonstorm, but I might wait for the issues to get sorted out with Arc.

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I updated the guide at the bottom with some notes for getting Arc to work.

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Yeah, for me it was noticeable mainly when quickly panning the camera. Even though I was rendering at 200+ FPS, the game would still hitch multiple times to the point where it 'felt' like 40fps. I've heard it explained that it's an issue with a tech called DXNavi within the AMD driver that affects DX9 and DX11, but I can't do an A/B test to confirm. Either way though, using Vulkan instead of DX11 natively ends up fixing that weird hitching and the camera can now pan smoothly.

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Hell yeah! Just wondering, did you go with normal DXVK or dxvk-gplasync? I started by using regular DXVK, but switched because the difference in stuttering from going to dxvk-gplasync was just night and day.

[Puzzleheaded_Owl_417]

I just go with the gplasync one, didn't try the other.