How to Fix FPS Issues In Dragon's Dogma 2

Dragon’s Dogma 2 might be termed one of the best RPG titles this year, but since the game's release, many players have been facing heavy technical difficulties affecting the game's performance. While the open-world game offers many features for the players to enjoy while playing as the Arisen, these difficulties can often result in unpleasant experiences.

Undoubtedly, Dragon Dogma 2's plot, design, and gameplay surpass the expectations of the community; nonetheless, the game's excessive reliance on the CPU has led to some significant performance problems, particularly in the overcrowded sections of the map. The game now has a Mixed Rating from players, which brought attention to the performance and save issues in the Steam review.

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Dragon’s Dogma 2 Best Settings for More FPS

Capcom has already addressed the player's frustrations regarding the microtransaction and frame rate issues of the game and has promised to improve them with future updates. Meanwhile, you can try it yourself to maximize the frame rate as much as you can by tweaking the in-game graphics settings.

While a low graphics preset is available, it does not adjust several critical parameters, which reduces the preset's effectiveness in maximizing frames per second. If you are struggling even with the low preset, here are some important graphics settings that you should change to optimize the FPS:

Frame Rate: Variable
Vertical Synchronization: Off
Dynamic Resolution: Off
DLSS SUPER RESOLUTION: Balanced (For AMD Graphics Card, turn it Off and Use FSR3 On)
DLSS NVIDIA REFLEX LOW LATENCY: On
Ambient Occlusion: SSAO
Screen Space Reflections: Off
Texture Filtering: Medium (Trilinear)
Texture Quality: High (0.25 GB)
Resource-Intense Effects Quality: Low
Shadow Quality: Mid
Contact Shadows: Off
Motion Blur: Off
Motion Quality: Low

How To Fix Low FPS Issues In Dragon's Dogma 2

Characters fighting a Gryphon in Dragon's Dogma 2

Other than tweaking the graphics settings, you can change some other system settings that might help you run the game smoothly.

Update Your Graphics Driver

Keeping your graphics driver updated is crucial, since outdated drivers can frequently lead to game performance problems. Whether using an NVIDIA or AMD Graphics Card, you can download the latest drivers from the manufacturer’s website.

Enter your Graphics Card’s model and search for the latest released driver. Once the driver has been downloaded and installed, restart your PC and start the game.

Set Graphics Preference to High

From your Desktop window, right-click, click on Display Settings, and then scroll down and open the Graphics settings under the Related settings tab. Now, from the Add an App option, click Browse and select the exe file for Dragon’s Dogma 2, titled “DD2.exe”.

To find the file location, open Steam and then enter Library. Then, right-click on Dragon’s Dogma 2, Manage, then Browse local files; this will show the game's installation folder. Once the game has been added to the graphics settings menu, right-click on the game’s icon, click on Options, and then set the Graphics preference to High Performance.

Verify Game Files on Steam

Verifying the game files on Steam can fix many of the game’s problems, including performance issues. Here is how to verify game files on Steam:

Go to Steam’s Library, and from the left bar, right-click on the game’s name.
Click on Properties and then click on Installed Files from the available tabs.
Click on Verify Integrity of Game Files, and wait for the verification to complete. Once it's done, restart the game.

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