Overview
What’s this about?I myself, alongside with many other people, noticed that after EE update there were microstuttering and microfreezing and/or big fps loss.What was the problem?I had ~40 fps with ultra settings. Setting the game to lowest settings didn’t improve fps not even by 1. Alongside with that there were microlags, which made ‘smooth’ experience stutter.I even created a discussion with the solution I found, and over the years people kept bumping that one, so I’m re-creating that discussion as a guide for more people to see.
The Fix itself
Here’s the one thing that helped me, and it doesn’t involve hardware/drivers tuning.
- 1. Find ConfigDefault.xml in SteamSteamAppscommonRisen 3dataini
- 2. Find this line:
<Window Top=”0″ SafetyFramePercentage=”0.0″ Right=”1024″ RefreshRate=”0″ Name=”Risen 3 – Titan Lords” Left=”0″ FullScreen=”false” FPSLimitToRefreshRate=”true” FPSLimit=”0″ Center=”false” CaptureCursor=”true” Bottom=”768″ AdapterNumber=”0″> </Window> (just search word ‘fps’)
- 3. Change this:
FPSLimitToRefreshRate=”true”
into this:
FPSLimitToRefreshRate=”false”
That solved the problem for me. Now on my midrange (i5 4430, GTX 770 2gb, 8gb ram) rig I get 70+ fps.
Increasing FPS even more
In the discussion, one of the guys wrote:
That’s actually fixable as well. My friend also came across this problem, where high and ultra shadow settings were causing fps loss, and on medium everything was perfect, except the thing that shadows looked awful.
So, a bit lower than fps stuff we changed earlier, find this line:
and change it into:
All I did is changed the TerrainShadowMapSize from 512 to 1024 (that’s why you were getting the ugly shadows), and disabled SSAO, which consumed a lot of GPU power, but didn’t give any strong visual effect.
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Thanks everyone for the support, rate this and upvote if the guide helped you.
