Best Deathloop PC Settings for High FPS and Performance

Players have been noticing a lot of FPS drops, lag, and stuttering while playing Deathloop even on systems with decent specs. Here at eXputer, we have been testing the huge variety of graphics settings that Deathloop has to offer.

For our Best Deathloop Settings Guide, we compared all of the different optimized settings side by side to see which settings offer the highest FPS while maintaining the visual fidelity of the game.

Best Settings Summarized

Here are all the best settings you should be using: 

Deathloop System Requirements

Make sure your system specifications adhere to or exceed the suggested system requirements before moving on to the Optimal Deathloop Settings Guide.

Deathloop System Requirements (Minimum)

• OS: 64-bit Windows 10 version 1909 or higher
• Processor: Intel Core i5-8400 @ 2.80GHz or AMD Ryzen 5 1600
• Memory: 12 GB
• Graphics: Nvidia GTX 1060 (6GB) or AMD Radeon RX 580 (8GB)
• DirectX: Version 12
• Storage: 30 GB available space (HDD)

Deathloop Ultra 4K Requirements: 4K / 60 FPS At Ultra Settings

• OS: 64-bit Windows 10 version 1909 or higher
• Processor: Intel Core i9-10900K @ 3.70GHz or AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT
• Memory: 16 GB system RAM
• Graphics: Nvidia RTX 3080 (10GB) or AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT (16GB)
• DirectX: Version 12
• Storage: 30 GB available space (SSD)

Deathloop Recommended Requirements

• OS: 64-bit Windows 10 version 1909 or higher
• Processor: Intel Core i7-9700K @ 3.60GHz or AMD Ryzen 7 2700X
• Memory: 16 GB
• Graphics: Nvidia RTX 2060 (6GB) or AMD Radeon RX 5700 (8GB)
• DirectX: Version 12
• Storage: 30 GB available space (SSD)

Best Deathloop PC Graphics Settings

The graphics and optimal Deathloop settings will all be examined in this area of our Deathloop Optimization Guide. We will compare each setting to determine which one offers the highest FPS without compromising the game’s visual appeal. In order for you to understand how much a setting affects the performance of the FPS and the image quality, we will also provide comparison screenshots for each setting.

Texture Details – High

You can modify the sharpness and clarity of all the game’s textures using this parameter. The sharper the surfaces appear, the higher this setting. Higher settings have a significant negative impact on performance for graphics cards with less VRAM.

Deathloop has 3 different modes for the Texture Details setting(Low, High, and Very High). Low textures look noticeably more washed out than the High and Very High settings. There wasn’t a huge difference between High and Very High. High gave us a 4% performance boost and similar visuals as the Very High setting, so High setting is a nice balance for both performance and visual quality.

Model Details – Ultra

This setting adjusts the geometric detail of character and weapon models based on their distance from the player. The higher the Model Details setting, the farther away models must be before they are simplified. During our testing, we didn’t notice any noticeable difference between the Low and Ultra settings In Deathloop. Don’t expect to get a lot of frames by turning the setting down. We recommend keeping this setting on Ultra because it doesn’t impact the performance or the visual quality of the game.

Shadow Details – Low or Medium

This setting adjusts the draw distance and shapes the accuracy of shadows. The higher the setting, the more accurate the shadows will look. This setting has 6 different modes(Very Low, Low, Medium, High, Very High, Ultra). This setting has the biggest impact on performance in Deathloop. So changing this setting from Ultra to Low will give you a huge performance boost.

Shadows on lower settings appear to be more smooth and realistic compared to the sharp shadows on Ultra and High settings. Keeping this setting on Low gave us a 12% FPS boost while maintaining decent shadow quality. If you want shadows to be sharper then you can change this setting to Medium as it looks pretty similar to High and Ultra settings.

Water Details – Low or Medium

This setting adjusts the water shader settings In Deathloop. The higher this setting is, the more realistic water will look. Changing this setting doesn’t impact the performance in most areas of the game. You will only notice the difference in FPS in areas where water is present. 

This setting also has 6 different modes to choose from. Changing the setting to Very Low will remove all reflections from the water, reduce the quality of the foam, and remove accurate specular highlights. Changing this setting to Low or Medium will give you a 6-11% performance boost in areas where a lot of water is present. 

Terrain Details – Ultra

We tweaked this setting to see if it makes any difference in the performance or the details of the terrain textures. There was no noticeable difference in the terrain quality and the performance also remained the same.  We recommend keeping this setting on Ultra as this setting has no impact on FPS and graphics quality. See the images below for a comparison between Low and Ultra Deathloop settings.

Low Setting.

Ultra Setting

Decal Details – Ultra

Decals are formed when characters bleed and when bullets strike surfaces. The higher this setting is, the more decals can be rendered at the same time and they will stay for a longer duration before fading away. It’s almost impossible to test this setting in-game, we also didn’t notice a huge difference in the performance of the game by turning this setting to Ultra. We recommend leaving this setting on Ultra.

Ambient Occlusion – Nvidia HBAO+ or FidelityFX CACAO

Ambient Occlusion provides contact shadows when two surfaces or objects meet and where an object inhibits light from reaching another nearby game feature. This setting has 3 different modes in Deathloop. AMD’s FidelityFX CACAO, Nvidia HBAO+, Ray-Tracing Ambient Occlusion. In the comparison screenshots below, we can see that Nvidia’s HBAO+ and FidelityFX CACAO look almost identical. While Ray-Tracing Ambient Occlusion made the area very dark in comparison to other ambient occlusion types. In terms of performance, RTAO had the most impact on performance giving us 30% less FPS than the other Ambient Occlusion modes. Both Nvidia HBAO+ and FidelityFX CAS gave us the same performance. The best option here is either the Nvidia HBAO+ or FidelityFX CACAO. 

FidelityFX CACAO.

Nvidia HBAO+.

Ray-Tracing Ambient Occlusion.

Sun Shadows – Simple

This setting adjusts the quality of shadows formed by sunlight, these shadows are different from the Shadow Details setting above. This setting has 2 modes, Simple and Ray-Tracing. Sun Shadows on Simple setting look fine. But if you have a high-end GPU you can turn on the Ray-Tracing option for a more realistic look. RT Sun Shadows will cost you a 12% performance drop. We recommend keeping this setting on Simple for a more optimized experience.

Post Process Anti-Aliasing – TAA or AA-High

Anti-Aliasing is used to remove jagged edges from surfaces. This setting has 4 different modes in Deathloop. Anti-Aliasing can be turned off, or it can be changed to AA Low, High, or Temporal Anti-Aliasing(TAA). We recommend using the TAA setting as it does not impact the performance and it greatly improves the image quality. The comparison images for each of the three anti-aliasing options are shown below.

Sharpness Post Process – FidelityFX CAS

This setting applies a sharpening filter that reduces the blurriness that can be caused by Anti-Aliasing. Changing this setting to FidelityFX CAS will give you a small FPS boost while maintaining good visuals.

TXAA Sharpness – 5-10%

This setting is only enabled if you select Temporal Anti-Aliasing(TAA) in the Post-Process Anti-Aliasing Setting. You can change the intensity of the smoothing effect of  TAA on a scale of 1-20. The higher the number you set, the more it will impact the performance.

Camera Motion Blur – Optional

Depending on your preferences, the motion blur setting can be changed. Because it produces clearer visual quality and marginally improves FPS performance, we advise turning this setting OFF.

Lens Flare – Optional

This setting lets you disable or enable the lens flare effect on the camera in-game. Turning this setting off will only slightly increase the FPS.

Light Shafts – Optional

This setting lets you enable or disable rays of light falling from the sky when your view of the moon or sun is partially obscured, it has a very small impact on performance.

Nvidia Graphics Optimization For Deathloop

Now that we’ve finished setting up Deathloop’s most critical graphics settings, you may increase the speed of your Nvidia graphics card by making some adjustments in the Nvidia Control Panel and updating your GPU drivers. To optimize Deathloop for your Nvidia graphics card, follow the steps listed below.

Download the Latest Game Ready Drivers For Deathloop

You need to upgrade your graphics card drivers to the most recent Game Ready Drivers By Nvidia, which have just been released. You can do that through the GeForce Experience or manually download them through the Nvidia website.

1. Open GeForce Experience > Click on Check For Updates > Make Sure Version 472.12 or higher is installed

Nvidia Control Panel Settings For Deathloop

1. First, Open the Nvidia Control Panel > Manage 3D Settings > Program Settings > Add Deathloop.exe
   

   

2. Go to Add > Browse
   

   

3. Now add Deathloop from the Installation directory of the game.
   

4. Make the following changes.
5. Set Image Sharpening – Sharpen 0.50
6. Select Application Controlled for Anisotropic Filtering.
7. Turn on Antialiasing Gamma correction.
8. Turn on Low Latency Mode.
9. Set Power Management Mode to Prefer Maximum Performance.
10. Set Preferred Refresh Rate to Highest Available.
11. Enable Shader Cache.
12. Turn on Texture Filtering – Anisotropic Sample Optimization.
13. Allow Texture Filtering – Negative LOD Bias.
14. Set Texture Filtering Quality to High Performance.
15. Turn on Texture Filtering Trilinear Optimization.
16. Select Auto Under Threaded Optimization.
    

    

17. After making these modifications, move on to the Change Resolution Tab and the subsequent steps.
18. Choose the maximum refresh rate and native resolution that your display can handle.
19. Turn on the “Use NVIDIA colour settings” option under step 3 on the page. After that, match the settings to the illustration below.

After this, head over to Adjust Desktop Size and Position, make the following changes.

1. Scaling Mode: Aspect Ratio.
2. Perform Scaling on Desktop.
3. Resolution: Current.
4. Refresh Rate: Highest available.

Windows 10 Optimizations For Deathloop

Your FPS should have already been significantly boosted by the time we finished configuring the most crucial Deathloop settings. Here are some Windows 10 optimizations that will ensure that your System is performing at its very best in Deathloop if you are using a low-end PC and want to ensure that it is running the game to its full potential.

After completing these adjustments, you should notice a significant improvement in game performance. With the help of these options, you may deactivate annoying overlays, let the game correctly utilize your GPU, switch off pointless background programs, and more.

Enable Ultimate Performance

Windows 10 often operates with a very balanced and optimal power plan that, by default, places a power cap on your computer. By switching your PC’s power strategy from Balanced to Maximum Performance, you can resolve issue. Your CPU will operate at a higher frequency and use its entire capacity as a result. Your PC’s performance will be considerably enhanced by doing this. To enable Ultimate Performance mode, follow these steps:

1. Open Command Prompt or Windows PowerShell With Administrator Privileges and paste the code given below.
   

   

2. powercfg -duplicatescheme e9a42b02 -d5df -448d-aa00 -03f14749eb61

   

3. Once done, you will be able to see the Ultimate Performance mentioned in the code.
4. Afterward, go to start > Edit Power Plan > Power Options.
   

   

5. Then checkmark Ultimate Performance, and you are done.

Set Graphics Card Priority To High For Deathloop

A Graphics Settings option in Windows 10 lets you adjust the GPU priority for various applications. Deathloop can be added to the list of programmes and its graphics preference can be set to high. This will guarantee that the game makes full use of your GPU and greatly improve performance. Follow these steps to accomplish this:

1. Under Start type and open Graphics Settings.
   

   

2. Then, click on Browse and add Deathloop.exe
   

   

   

3. Then set its graphics preference to High Performance.
   

   

4. Click on save once you are finished.

Disable Hardware Acceleration And Enhance Pointer Precision

By turning off hardware acceleration for various apps running in the background, you may dramatically enhance the performance of your computer with this handy technique. In essence, this option aids in enhancing the speed of the programs by offloading some of their computational responsibilities to specialized hardware within the system, such as the GPU and RAM.

Although Hardware Acceleration is not a Windows feature, many popular third-party programs like Discord, Google Chrome, Opera, etc., use it. Removing this won’t affect the programs’ primary function and will just enable resource savings.

Similar functionality exists in Windows 10’s Improve Pointer Precision feature, although unlike Hardware Acceleration, which is typically found in third-party applications, it must be disabled.

1. Open Discord > Settings > Advanced > Disable “Hardware Acceleration.”
   

   

2. In Opera > Open Settings > Advanced > Browser > Under System > Disable “Use hardware acceleration when available.
   

   

3. Search for Mouse Settings > Additional Mouse Options > Pointer Options > Uncheck Enhance Pointer Precision.

Disable All Unnecessary Applications Running In The Background

If Deathloop is giving you bad frame rates and irritating stuttering. That can be a result of background Windows Services and unused programs using up a sizable portion of your memory. Make sure to always close all unnecessary background applications from the System Tray and the Task Manager.

Aside from the background application, You should also disable any unnecessary Windows Services that consume a lot of your PC’s memory. In order to do this, do the following steps.

1. In the Start Menu, Search for Windows Run Application.
   

   

2. Type and Enter “msconfig”.
   

   

3. Go to the services tab and checkmark “hide all Microsoft Services.” This will remove the important ones from the list. Afterward, uncheck all services you feel are irrelevant.
   

   

   

4. After you are done with services, Head to the Startup tab in Task Manager, and disable all the irrelevant applications.

Turn Off Unnecessary Animations

Windows 10 features a lot of pointless animations that might reduce your PC’s overall performance. For High-end PCs, the difference might not be that visible, but when using a Low-end PC, it might definitely matter. We’ll demonstrate to you how to turn off these pointless animations and somewhat improve PC performance.

1. In the Start Menu > Type and Open View Advanced System Settings.
   

   

2. Head over to the Advanced tab > Settings > Checkmark Custom and only select the options shown in the screenshot below. Once done, don’t forget to hit apply, and ok.

Clear Temp Folder

Sometimes when you delete a program from your computer. It doesn’t entirely remove everything related to the software and leaves a lot of temporary files and folders in your Windows drive. With the passage of time, these files take a lot of space in your computer and slow down your computer. Follow these steps to clean any temporary files to reclaim disk storage space and also boost PC performance.

1. Under Start > Type Run > write and enter %temp%
   

   

   

2. Inside the folder, Press CTRL + A on keyboard > Press Shift + Delete on your keyboard.

Xbox Game Bar

Lastly, we are going to do some Windows 10 Optimizations related to the Xbox Game Bar and other Windows notifications that you can disable to boost PC performance. Xbox Game Bar is enabled by default in Windows 10, and it squeezes quite a lot of performance from your PC by constantly running in the background. If you hit the wrong button, it could also start recording the screen. We’re going to teach you how to disable the Xbox Game Bar and notifications that pile up in the task center which could slightly impact your PC’s performance. To do this, follow the steps below.

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1. In the Start Menu, type and open Game bar shortcuts.
   

   

2. Disable everything in the Game Bar Tab and Captures Tab.
   

   

   

3. Afterward, open Focus Assist Settings and Disable them accordingly.

Deathloop Benchmarks On Optimized Settings

After applying all of the best Deathloop graphics settings and other optimizations in the Article above, We ran a final benchmark (Video Attached Below) to see how much of a performance and FPS boost we gained and compared the visual quality of the game’s Ultra setting and our optimized settings. We noticed a 15-20% FPS boost without sacrificing any visual quality of the game. 

The final benchmarks were done on the following specifications.

• AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core Processor.
• 16.0GB Corsair Vengeance DDR4 Memory.
• MSI B450 TOMAHAWK MAX.
• GEFORCE RTX 3070 8GB.
• Deathloop was Installed on HDD.

Here is a 2-minutes benchmark video that shows the difference between our Deathloop optimized settings and the game’s Ultra Settings.

Deathloop Optimization Takeaways

After following our Deathloop Best Settings guide and applying all the necessary Windows 10 and Nvidia Optimizations, you should be noticing a huge increase in FPS performance. Deathloop is a demanding game. A lot of people are facing FPS issues and also stuttering while playing this game. We spent quite some time testing each individual setting to see which ones gave us maximum performance while maintaining decent visuals at the same time. Hopefully, this guide will help you fix some of these issues and improve your overall gameplay experience.

If you are still struggling to get decent FPS in Deathloop, here are some key tips.

• Ensure Windows 10 is updated to the latest version.
• Compare your PC specifications with the required ones.
• In case of random crashes, I would recommend checking your hardware temperatures.
• Carefully overclock your hardware components if possible.
• Enable Game Mode in Windows Settings to get a slight FPS boost.

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• Best Far Cry 6 PC Settings For High FPS 

Deathloop Update 4 Patch Notes

Deathloop Latest Patch:

• Issue fixed which caused players to be stuck in menus.
• Random crashes and stability issues have been fixed.
• Fixed issue which after failing to connect to a friend invasion causes you to be stuck in the connection queue.