Overview
This guide is aimed at all those who, like me, have low-end PCs and would play this amazing game without any lag or freeze. In this guide you will be shown an effective method to increase the FPS and play without problems.
Introduction
In this guide I’ll show you how to increase your FPS and reduce freeze in Dungeon Defenders II by tweaking the configuration file.
I took the trouble to “tweak” in the graphics engine configuration file, so I decided to change it to make the game more smooth by increasing the FPS and reducing freezes.
Increase FPS and reduce freezes
First of all we need to access the game folder, located in: C:Program Files(x86)SteamsteamappscommonDungeon Defenders 2DunDef2EngineConfig and then we need to edit the “BaseEngine.ini” file.
To do that i recommend to use Notepad++ which is easy and versatile.
UPDATED 24/04/2016
Once you have opened the file change the following values (you can use CTRL+F to find them):
UnbatchedDecals=False
FogVolumes=False
MotionBlur=False
DepthOfField=False
AmbientOcclusion=False
Bloom=False
UseHighQualityBloom=False
AllowRadialBlur=False
DetailMode=0
MaxAnisotropy=1
DropParticleDistortion=False
OneFrameThreadLag=False
LensFlare=False
FogVolumes=False
DynamicLights=False
DynamicShadows=False
ShadowFilterQualityBias=0
FloatingPointRenderTargets=False (SET TO TRUE IF THE GAME DOES NOT RUN)
AllowOpenGL=True (THIS DEPENDS ON YOUR VIDEO CARD, IF YOU HAVE PROBLEMS DISABLE IT!)
bSmoothFrameRate=True
This will give you more FPS and the game will result more stable.
WARNING! AFTER DOING THIS YOUR GAME MAY LOAD SLOWLY OR LAG AT START, JUST BE PATIENT!
Be very careful when you edit this file, because if you do something wrong the game may not start!
As mentioned above, make a backup of the file.
Other tweaks
If the game still lags then lower the resolution, for example, I use a (crappy) laptop that has the 1366*768 resolution. If you use monitors with higher resolutions (such as 1920*1080) then lower it to 1280*720, do not go down otherwise the texture may become “pixelated” depending on the size of your screen.
If you are playing on an Intel HD Graphics integrated, like me, you can consider the idea of adding extra RAM to your PC, especially in laptops the perfomances improves very well.
Another effective method is to install a program like Razer Cortex to close background processes and free up ram, gaining a few more FPS, it may work or not, everything depends on the PC. I tested it and i got 5-7 FPS more.
You can clean your PC junk by installing a program like CCleaner
You can increase your video RAM too: it depends on the motherboard and the video card. In some computer is not possibile because the BIOS doesn’t allow that; you can check if your PC is capable to do that by entering your BIOS and set it (you must search a guide for your PC model in order to modify BIOS settings, don’t worry Google is your friend^^). IT IS POSSIBLE ONLY WITH INTEL HD GRAPHICS INTEGRATED CARDS (HD 4000, 4400, 5300, etc…) AND WITH AMD APU PROCESSORS (5800K, 6400K, 7850K, 7870K, etc…)
Another good method is the core unparking: you can unpark your CPU parked cores to gain a huge performance boost. You can download this program here[www.coderbag.com]
When you run the program just click on “Check Status” and if all the values are “parked” then click on “Unpark All” and the trick is done!
Ending
I really hope that this guide has really helped you to solve your problems with Dungeon Defenders II. If I did something wrong please feel free to write in the comments!
If the guide is helpful please write in the comments what you think!
Thanks for collaboration!