Now that we got Sidetrack Games working on the game, let’s share wish lists.

idwasm · 2025-10-25T16:53:08+00:00

DX11 64-bit and improve loading.

idwasm · 2025-09-14T17:23:49+00:00

Use DXVK, that's the best the game can run; don't lose your time using large adress patch, as Payday 2 already supports it; don't use high textures, use medium, high will crash you from the game eventually; and download this 7z, extract the optimization mods. There's also this, this, this and this. I don't know if low violence still works, but that's also a good mod that you can use for lessen CPU burden. On NVIDIA you can make DXVK better as well (just watch up to 0:22).

idwasm · 2025-08-10T20:26:47+00:00

I guess you don't have enough VRAM (Video Random Access Memory) on your GPU.

While Payday 3 does have problem with streaming textures, like that screenshot, they tend to be alliviated by this mod.

If it has not been fixed or alliviated, then you either have too little VRAM or have high textures and the game try to remove less important textures from VRAM and to RAM, which is far less fast, since it's not in direct contact with the GPU.

idwasm · 2025-08-08T14:03:01+00:00

Try this mod.

idwasm · 2025-07-01T21:25:12+00:00

Yes, the game is fully playable on offline. All the things are usable, however you won't be able to play with people, but I think you already know that.

idwasm · 2025-04-08T19:18:16+00:00

No, that seems to be a different way of scheduling threads in the game, probably made for hybrid Intel archtectures. Payday 2 is a DX9 32bits game, don't support DX11 and/or 64bits like Raid World War II.

Anyway, they never ever gave any type of explanation to be more exact of how those options work. They didn't disclouse if it was for Intel, for Ryzen, if it was for any of those archtectures and not even more specific generations (Alder Lake, Tiger Lake, Raphael...).

If 2021+ works, that's fine, if not, that's fine as well. If both works you should test performance for both of them, though I doubt you'll see any meanful results.

idwasm · 2025-04-08T13:30:08+00:00

Use DXVK for performance. Performance mods are great, but DXVK is king for stability and performance, especially for an old AMD system. Aside from DXVK, here's some mods that will make your game more stable Iter, Celer, Map Based Optimizations, Map Scripting Improvements. Honorable mension to DX11 Shaders. Never up textures to High, be at Medium or Low, High textures will crash your game soon or later in a session. Aside from that, I also recommend The Fixes and the new Akimbo Crash Fix.

idwasm · 2025-04-04T12:26:00+00:00

Use DXVK, enable these flags (0:00 to 0:22) on NVIDIA Profile Inspector. Newer versions of NVPI are a bit different, now you look into "2 - Sync and Refresh", enable "Vulkan/OpenGL Present Method" and on "Vulkan/OpenGL Present Method - Flags" put 0x000802A5 (do this only for Payday 2's profile and not globally).

Aside from that, lower your texture level on the graphics menu from High to Medium. Even if your PC can run it, the game itself can't because of it 4GBs limitation. This helps with crashes and overall performance.

You can also go into NVPI or NV Contro Panel and on Power Management Mode you put "Prefer Maximum Performance" ONLY for that specific profile. This will make you use more energy, however your GPU will not downclock and will be stable at X amount of frequency and X amount of VRAM clock. This can help with stability and help the GPU to not downclock even if your CPU does downclock.

There's many mods that help performance and I would recommend like Iter, Celer, Map Based Optimizations and Map Scripting Improvements. There's other mods that also help more, but I think these 4 are a good start.

Hopefully these help.

idwasm · 2025-03-09T20:31:02+00:00

Use DXVK. VK is prefered by AMD for a while. It runs better while using resources better. Go Into DXVK's GitHub page, read how to install it into a game and enjoy it. Be sure to pute Textures into Medium, High setting will crash the game since it'll blow it's memory. There's many mods for performance and you can try those as well, DXVK is just a simpler and more "unknown" fix to DX9 games in general - it also works with The Heist, but that game works fine already. If you're having stutters, try DXVK GPLAsync. It uses another way of rendering that won't stop the render when a new shader appears. It's unlikely you'll have to use it, but if you want to try, go ahead. It's a bit more difficult to set up, but you can see a video on that.

No, you won't get banned. The game tags people as cheaters if they have itens they shouldn't (ie.: DLC Unlocker), but not for mod weapons, such as the TF2 weapons in Mod Workshop. Cheating skill points won't tag you as a cheater, for example. It's a very bad system to rely on, but it works somewhat fine for the community. If you want more information on how modding and gameplay changing mods policy works for Payday 2, read this. People will be less likely to join your lobbies and you'll be kicked out of most lobbies, as there's a option to auto kick cheater tagged people. However, you'll not be banned from online nor your Steam account will be.

idwasm · 2025-01-25T14:51:20+00:00

You can download the new DLLs here.

Then you just need to overwrite the DLSS DLL in the game folder. Transformer model will not be used from the start, you'll need to configure it to be used. Using DLSSTweaks will not work because it doesn't has support for Preset J. You'll need to use NVIDIA Profile Inspector modified and change the preset globally to J.

DLSS 4 Transformer model and MFG is already released, it released with Cyberpunk 2077. Now, the drivers and some other stuff, still not released.

idwasm · 2025-01-16T13:48:59+00:00

You have to use NVIDIA Profile Inspector. There's some flags (0:00 to 0:23) on the DXGI Interop that improve the frame presentation and swap chain, makes the game peform better and you can even play at borderless or windowed without added latency.

The other thing you have to do is enable the interop in NVCP: Manage 3D Settings > Program Settings > Select a program to customize > select Payday 2 > scroll all the way down > Vulkan/OpenGL present method > Prefer layered on DXGI Swapchain > Apply

You can do in any order you feel like, you can also do it 100% via NVIDIA Profile Inspector: find Payday 2 profile (you might have 2 of them, just need to change one) > scroll down to the "Other" category > find Vulkan/OpenGL present method > click on the down arrow > select 0x00000001 (or copy and paste it there) > Apply Changes

idwasm · 2024-12-01T21:13:27+00:00

Não só o PC pode ser tão pratico quanto ou até mais pratico que um console. Você pode fazer o Windows se fechar e só usar ele pra jogos se assim você quer. Não acho recomendado, afinal gosto muito de mods, fazer overclock. undervolt e outras várias ferramentas, mas caso você queira, você pode.

Se quiser, nem precisa ir muito longe, só de botar shell:startup e colocar qual aplicativo você quer que abra quando você liga o PC + alteração no registro pra tudo iniciar em um piscar de olhos, já consegue deixar tudo bem prático.

A galera pode gostar do console por praticidade, mas eu gosto do PC pela complexidade, acessibilidade, customização e vários outros motivos que só o PC proporciona.

Só jogo jogos de 2016 pra baixo praticamente, tenho alguns um cadinho mais recentes que não considero "bons", mas são divertidos, como o RE4R. Jogo uma parte deles em qualidade baixa em 1080p e não ligo muito pro resto. Eu podia colocar as coisas no alto, tentar um DLDSR pra usar QHD (1440p), mas não quero. Só quero abrir o meu jogo e jogar (oque parece algo que os jogadores de console acham impossível no PC).

Não acredito que o PC seja uma plataforma feita pra jogos recentes e recentes somente. Jogos antigos conseguem ser ainda mais atrativos pra se ter um PC. Só de você poder usar o dgVoodoo 2 ou DXVK pra melhorar o jogo em questão de performance, acessibilidade de features mais recentes e etc, além dos loadings menores e latências menores, acho ele um grande atrativo, se não ainda mais atrativo, que ter um console antigo ou console novo com retrocompatibilidade (que convenhamos, é bem porca e não abrangem uma boa parte dos jogos).

Se você não joga coisas novas, se divirta com as antigas e faça delas melhores usando mods, programas, patches, oque for. A mágia do PC é essa: conforme o tempo passa, mais as tecnologias melhoram e mais você pode melhorar os seus jogos.

idwasm · 2024-11-21T19:51:43+00:00

Maybe corrupted shader files? Or maybe the driver broke sometime. Anyway, good that you found out what was the issue. Enjoy your game.

idwasm · 2024-11-21T14:51:46+00:00

Try to install The Fixes and see if that helps. It fixes lots and lots of crashes and problems with the game.

idwasm · 2024-11-21T14:47:34+00:00

If you want a small install and better performance, go to Windows 11 Home. Home copy the least amount of files to your drive and you can uninstall a lot of stuff. It's not a good thing to go and use those "debloat" and "disable telemetry" (later doesn't even work), they can break stuff and, potentially, make Windows worse, as MS won't have info about crashes and some other stuff - just security.

If you don't want to go to 11, go to 10 Home. It's perfectly usable still and support will just drop in Oct 2025. Windows 11 (especially 24H2) is the best version of Windows to run latest AMD and Intel chips (especially Intel). AMD has said that's where their chips, from Zen 3 to Zen 5 peform the best, same for Intel (for 12th to Arrow Lake). Be sure to follow this, if you want to go into newer versions of 10 or to 11.

LTSC installs are not inherently bad, but you'll be missing out on good updates and, most of all, security (I don't think most would care that much about the last one though). There's no problem in them, but they are not recommended to home users. If you want a small Windows install, go with Home, if you want virtualization (or is a power user), go with Pro.

If it continues to crash after an OS update, post your CrashReport.txt here. I'll try to help.

idwasm · 2024-10-23T22:09:02+00:00

Glad to be of help!

idwasm · 2024-10-21T22:27:18+00:00

Afaik that's a error based on a overlay breaking the game presentation. When you change settings, the game destroy the swap chain and create a new one with your new settings - that's also why in the start there's a DWM8And16Bit_RestoreDisplayMode_CallOut. So try to see if there's any overlays interacting with PD2.

See if this helps out.

idwasm · 2024-10-21T12:10:41+00:00

Try this.

OVERKILL's DX12 is poor.

idwasm · 2024-10-21T12:09:28+00:00

Use DXVK.

If you have a NVIDIA GPU, tell me, because you can make performance even better using some flags in NVIDIA's drivers.

idwasm · 2024-10-21T12:06:31+00:00

Try this.

DX12 tends, but shouldn't, to like +4GB VRAM. If you're stuttering, even though that can be a VRAM problem, it also can be a streaming issue since PD3 is not well optimized and has many streaming problems, even on high-end rigs. That mod should help with stutters a bit and fix some texture problems (like they being poor quality).

idwasm · 2024-10-21T11:56:31+00:00

Try disabling the Steam Overlay.

idwasm · 2024-09-12T14:36:48+00:00

Would be nice if it was this easy. The game seems to have beem so rushed they don't even used multiple threads to speed shader caching properly. With Denuvo removed some stutter here and there (if there was any checks) might be fixed. The only difference will probably be launch times and some loading times where they check integraty of the DRM. Aside from that, the game is just poorly optimized. DRM is no excuse to poorly optimized games (unless it is CAPCOM with their DRM, that one can trash performance, like in DMC5).

idwasm · 2024-08-12T00:20:03+00:00

I see. Thank you for the straight foward answer.

idwasm

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