Dude I hope you know that you are an absolutely invaluable resource to so many of us. I feel like I've finally found the channel I can trust to give me optimized recommendations that fit within my belief of what an ideal gaming experience should feel and look like. I'm EXTREMELY picky about having a _smooth_ experience in games, especially considering the multi-thousand dollar investment that a high-end gaming PC is, and you're the *only* benchmarking channel I turn to now when first optimizing a game's performance. You are knowledgeable, consistently quick to upload around new releases, show phenomenal finesse in demonstrating effects (both singularly and in side-by-side comparisons), and most importantly: you are unwaveringly practical in your recommendations. You make my dollars go further and my ideal experience easier and quicker to attain, which in turn allows me to spend less of my limited time tinkering with settings and more of it actually playing the games I love. For all of that, I simply cannot thank you enough. I sincerely hope that you find every bit of success you're looking for with your channel and more.
@Salt Maker why do you miss people you don't know discovering by themselves the best graphic settings for they game? it's their game, just let people do the fuck they want with it, wtf.
Optimized Settings * Ray Tracing: OFF * Texture Filtering: 16x * Mesh Quality: High or Max * Shadow Quality: High * Shadow Cache: ON * Contact Shadows: OFF * Ambient Occlusion: SSAO * Volumetric Lighting: Min or High * Particle Lighting Quality: High * Subsurface Scattering: ON * Hair Strands: OFF * Rain Quality: High * Terrain: ON * Destructible Environment: ON * Screen Space Reflection: OFF or ON * Resource Intense Lighting Quality: High * Resource Intense Effects Quality: High - If you're facing CPU performance isues consider turning off Physics settings: (Graphics dismemberment, Copses Physics, Diverse Enemy Animations and Persistent Corpses) - If the game crashes, decrease the VVram usage by lowering Textures, Shadows and disable Ray Tracing
Thank you for making this video. I was having trouble with huge slowdowns in villa where you fight alongside Luis since there are alot of enemies spawning all at once. FPS got to as low as 30-40 from my usual 60. And the cutscene went as low as 20. But once I disabled the hair strands, my performance skyrocketed and it maintained a stable 50-60 both in gameplay and the cutscene.
The most demanding areas in the game are the village fight at the start of the game, and the return to it at night in chapter 5. What helps the most is having ray-tracing and the four physics settings disabled since it's clearly CPU bottlenecked at both points, but even then it only helps to reduce the impact and doesn't fix it entirely. Having those same settings disabled also helps in some other places as well, mostly where there's a lot of enemies at once.
i remember watching hardwareunboxed's opmization videos to get 60 fps on red dead 2. assassin creed odyssey and watch dogs region. they no longer make optimization videos because it takes emormous time and efforts to do such a video. now u do these hard work. thanks
Thank you!! I've been trying to run RE4 at a constant 60fps but couldn't figure out what settings were dropping frames, but thanks to you it finally does. Awesome work king!
I can't believe I'm just now finding out that FidelityFX CACAO results in a lower framerate, even if the boost is small. That's definitely the last time I'm following an optimization guide from Digital Foundry lol Switched to SSAO right after finding this video. You've earned yourself a subscriber. Thanks dude. :)
There's a section in chapter 5 where the resource intensive settings really make a big difference. It's at the village, and in particular inside a small house next to the church. In this small house, if you have enemies coming at you and you're aiming... the FPS will tank down to high forties and low fifties. Probably has something to do with the way the shadow is being cast by your flashlight. However, despite this, GPU clock during these segments didn't boost up to the max and GPU utilization was middling (6700xt at 1080p). I thought it was my CPU at first (r5 3600), but I've seen others with 10900k and 11700k reporting the same thing (also with beefier GPUs than mine). It is true however that CPU utilization at the village at chapter 5 was higher than usual. Disabling the resource intensive settings fixed it for me, but like... AFAIK, the settings only affected this part of the game in which you probably won't spend more than 10 minutes in.
Same happened to me with a 4080/10700K combo. FPS went from 85 - 100, down to around 45 - 65 in Chapter 5 at 4K. Something with that section is off, or it’s just really demanding.
@@DylanZ1201 10900K with 4080, same thing happened to me too, other than the two last settings I didn't see any tweak, but CPU is not well utilized in this section, which seems to be more demanding as well..
Yep, chapter 5 when you come back to the starting village at night with the rain is kinda broken and something is tanking the performance there. I saw people with a 4090 being unable to keep 60 fps, so it's clear something is wrong
Great video brother. I was going to create an optimization video for this one but I am too engrossed playing this game and found it to be already well optimized except for the village ambush which is heavily cpu bottlenecked and the occasional area stutter which you have already mentioned. I think you covered the settings pretty well. Great job.
Appreciate it. Best optimization guide in whole UA-cam / its true really/ no one makes this kind of proffesional video anymore except you benchmarKing youda Best.
What a legend tier video my dude. I came here because I had insane texture LOD popping which made the game miserable for me. If anyone is facing the same issue, I found myself a solution that entirely got rid of the issue. Namely, you want to set your FPS to unlimited and use the vsync. This is what fixed it for me.
Recently got re 4 remake on my gtx 1650 laptop. Even after reducing textures, shadows and implementing fsr, my game was stuttering alot and it looked bad. After using your settings it works like a charm! I can actually play using high textures, just had to lower some visual settings and the game still looks and performs well without any stutters. Thanks for your guides!
I put some of these settings on and now all of a sudden the atrocious input delay I had has just disappeared, now I can play mercenaries. Great video I appreciate the help :D
Your videos are excellent! Keep the good work. I also do technical analysis but I Have a different approach and I think your videos and mine complement each other very well
Just found your channel and after watching this video, it's an immediate subscribe and recommendation to my friends. Fantastic work with the presentation and detailed comparisons. What amazing value you offer with your videos. Thank you!
The Last of Us is part 1 for PC is out! I hope you'll make a video for it soon! Looking forward to it! I always use your recommended settings, and they've been great!
You are the best benchmark channel, Nice analisis with useful information. Thank you for your job and keep this channel on, because you are helping a lot of PC gamers like me :)
First time hearing a youtuber saying if you don't enjoy this video give a dislike 😂😂 lol bro i loved this video and going for your optimization good editing skills and a lot of effort subbed!
6:01 bro this saved me you have no idea how annoying it was, omg this ruined everything that i had it off and it also does nothing neither on neither off thanks so much you have my like
❤thanx as always this is my go to channel for all my game settings add more games to the collection even some older titles will be appreciated not only from me
Buying a high end graphic card is only the first step. Following your optimization guide is the final and most important step to enjoy the game with smooth framerate
I've used this guy's settings in gta v and I went from 40-60 fps to around 70-120 fps amd it was insane, even improved how the game looks, hopefully this too does that
@@akmalrusydi2730 ryzen 5 3400, no GPU That part had a lot of ganado, so I set it to: - rendering quality: 80% - rendering mode: interlaced - render *something*: low 0 Gb
I wouldn’t even call the PC version a port. It’s the the baseline version, with consoles being derived from it. It’s the best version you can play, with settings that can go far beyond consoles, while still running very well. The PC version is superior in every way.
Dude I hope you know that you are an absolutely invaluable resource to so many of us. I feel like I've finally found the channel I can trust to give me optimized recommendations that fit within my belief of what an ideal gaming experience should feel and look like.
I'm EXTREMELY picky about having a _smooth_ experience in games, especially considering the multi-thousand dollar investment that a high-end gaming PC is, and you're the *only* benchmarking channel I turn to now when first optimizing a game's performance.
You are knowledgeable, consistently quick to upload around new releases, show phenomenal finesse in demonstrating effects (both singularly and in side-by-side comparisons), and most importantly: you are unwaveringly practical in your recommendations.
You make my dollars go further and my ideal experience easier and quicker to attain, which in turn allows me to spend less of my limited time tinkering with settings and more of it actually playing the games I love.
For all of that, I simply cannot thank you enough. I sincerely hope that you find every bit of success you're looking for with your channel and more.
always appreciate the professional way you present your findings
Professional, hehe
@@TristanMundellyes!!!
You know the channel is good when you watch the full video even without the interest of playing the game
You're missing out dude
@@JagsP95 can i play this without playing any prior games?
@@starbez yes but it’s better if you have. At least play or watch re2 because it’s the direct continuation of that game
@@starbez Yeah tons of people played re4 has their first game
@@starbez Actually, 90% of RE4's player base only played RE4.
Yup, I can't live without your optimization guides anymore. It's great, cheers! ^^
@Salt Maker why do you miss people you don't know discovering by themselves the best graphic settings for they game? it's their game, just let people do the fuck they want with it, wtf.
Optimized Settings
* Ray Tracing: OFF
* Texture Filtering: 16x
* Mesh Quality: High or Max
* Shadow Quality: High
* Shadow Cache: ON
* Contact Shadows: OFF
* Ambient Occlusion: SSAO
* Volumetric Lighting: Min or High
* Particle Lighting Quality: High
* Subsurface Scattering: ON
* Hair Strands: OFF
* Rain Quality: High
* Terrain: ON
* Destructible Environment: ON
* Screen Space Reflection: OFF or ON
* Resource Intense Lighting Quality: High
* Resource Intense Effects Quality: High
- If you're facing CPU performance isues consider turning off Physics settings:
(Graphics dismemberment, Copses Physics, Diverse Enemy Animations and Persistent Corpses)
- If the game crashes, decrease the VVram usage by lowering Textures, Shadows and disable Ray Tracing
i am having no problems except the 5-6 second stuttering every 3 mins, its a literal bug. My vram is literally far from full yet the same thing.
My absolute favorite benchmarking optimization channel! Keep up the great work!
Thank you for making this video. I was having trouble with huge slowdowns in villa where you fight alongside Luis since there are alot of enemies spawning all at once. FPS got to as low as 30-40 from my usual 60. And the cutscene went as low as 20. But once I disabled the hair strands, my performance skyrocketed and it maintained a stable 50-60 both in gameplay and the cutscene.
The most demanding areas in the game are the village fight at the start of the game, and the return to it at night in chapter 5. What helps the most is having ray-tracing and the four physics settings disabled since it's clearly CPU bottlenecked at both points, but even then it only helps to reduce the impact and doesn't fix it entirely. Having those same settings disabled also helps in some other places as well, mostly where there's a lot of enemies at once.
i remember watching hardwareunboxed's opmization videos to get 60 fps on red dead 2. assassin creed odyssey and watch dogs region. they no longer make optimization videos because it takes emormous time and efforts to do such a video. now u do these hard work. thanks
its rare to see high quality work like this impressive work
Thank you!! I've been trying to run RE4 at a constant 60fps but couldn't figure out what settings were dropping frames, but thanks to you it finally does. Awesome work king!
I've already beaten the game twice but I've been waiting for this video for my next playthroughs! Thank you!
doing a service for all of us. keep it up!
Perfect analysis for every setting with visyal confirmation, 10/10 man! keep up the good work!
I can't believe I'm just now finding out that FidelityFX CACAO results in a lower framerate, even if the boost is small. That's definitely the last time I'm following an optimization guide from Digital Foundry lol
Switched to SSAO right after finding this video. You've earned yourself a subscriber. Thanks dude. :)
There's a section in chapter 5 where the resource intensive settings really make a big difference. It's at the village, and in particular inside a small house next to the church. In this small house, if you have enemies coming at you and you're aiming... the FPS will tank down to high forties and low fifties. Probably has something to do with the way the shadow is being cast by your flashlight. However, despite this, GPU clock during these segments didn't boost up to the max and GPU utilization was middling (6700xt at 1080p). I thought it was my CPU at first (r5 3600), but I've seen others with 10900k and 11700k reporting the same thing (also with beefier GPUs than mine). It is true however that CPU utilization at the village at chapter 5 was higher than usual. Disabling the resource intensive settings fixed it for me, but like... AFAIK, the settings only affected this part of the game in which you probably won't spend more than 10 minutes in.
Hmm interesting, right now I'm still in chapter 4 , when I reach chapter 5 , I'll check it out , thank you for sharing this.
I had a similar issue during chapter 5 using the scope on the rain FPS went into the single digits, on other areas it works fine
Same happened to me with a 4080/10700K combo. FPS went from 85 - 100, down to around 45 - 65 in Chapter 5 at 4K.
Something with that section is off, or it’s just really demanding.
@@DylanZ1201 10900K with 4080, same thing happened to me too, other than the two last settings I didn't see any tweak, but CPU is not well utilized in this section, which seems to be more demanding as well..
Yep, chapter 5 when you come back to the starting village at night with the rain is kinda broken and something is tanking the performance there. I saw people with a 4090 being unable to keep 60 fps, so it's clear something is wrong
thank you for another optimization guide! cant wait for DLSS related video.
This channel needs a lot more subs, literally used him for settings in so many of my games when I first got pc and still now
literally a PERFECT video, exactly what I needed before jumping in :)
Great video brother. I was going to create an optimization video for this one but I am too engrossed playing this game and found it to be already well optimized except for the village ambush which is heavily cpu bottlenecked and the occasional area stutter which you have already mentioned.
I think you covered the settings pretty well. Great job.
@@theunplayable60 hmm i didn't notice. can you show me a clip?
Nice, best channel I've subbed to in years!
You saved my gamplay experience, mate!
I've always referred to you for graphical optimization.
Very detailed and ON POINT!
Thanks man
When the time comes when your channel explodes, I'm not even gonna be surprised. Quality content as always.
I was waiting exactly for your guide to come out! Keep them coming, this was useful for me and my 3070!
Thank you for making these videos, I'm sure it takes a lot of time to make these!
Thanks king, always appreciate your work. I use a 4080 but still appreciate precious frames sometimes.
This video was incredibly useful! Thanks for explaining the settings!
this is EXACTLY the kind of content i was looking for. Thanks!
Thanks man. I’m new to PC gaming so I don’t know what these terms mean. You have the best videos that make things so much easier for me!
Appreciate it. Best optimization guide in whole UA-cam / its true really/ no one makes this kind of proffesional video anymore except you benchmarKing youda Best.
Legend is alive , ty man
I literally needed this video at this moment you are a godsend dude 🙏
Was waiting for this. Thanks dude
Thank you for your hard and high quality work, please keep doing it
The video I always look forward when there's a new game releases. Much Love
Some Digital Foundry job done here, It's just awesome pal, thx!
What a legend tier video my dude. I came here because I had insane texture LOD popping which made the game miserable for me. If anyone is facing the same issue, I found myself a solution that entirely got rid of the issue. Namely, you want to set your FPS to unlimited and use the vsync. This is what fixed it for me.
Recently got re 4 remake on my gtx 1650 laptop. Even after reducing textures, shadows and implementing fsr, my game was stuttering alot and it looked bad. After using your settings it works like a charm! I can actually play using high textures, just had to lower some visual settings and the game still looks and performs well without any stutters. Thanks for your guides!
I put some of these settings on and now all of a sudden the atrocious input delay I had has just disappeared, now I can play mercenaries. Great video I appreciate the help :D
Jesus this optimization guide was amazing. I didn't know what I was doing, but with your guide, I managed to go from 50fps to around 109fps. :D
This was widly in depth, earned a sub, look forward to your TLOU PART I guide ;)
This is exactly what I've been looking for, thank you
Man, thanks for putting in the work to make this.
Man what a gem channel I found. Keep going man, you will grow so fast 🌱
Your videos are excellent! Keep the good work. I also do technical analysis but I Have a different approach and I think your videos and mine complement each other very well
at this point I'm revisiting your videos because your voice is so fucking soothing, good stuff
My friend you deserve SO MUCH viewers your videos are really really great :)
This was the exact video that I was looking for. Thanks.
Perfect optimization guide. Thank you so much.
Just found your channel and after watching this video, it's an immediate subscribe and recommendation to my friends. Fantastic work with the presentation and detailed comparisons. What amazing value you offer with your videos. Thank you!
Awesome video. Thanks for all your hard work.
Nice, just in time, got this yesterday!
Forgot to say Thanks for the video there's a lot of good info here and I didn't realize the visual issues with the Hair strands setting.
thaaaank you my man, i was waiting so bad for this one
First time in ur Channel, and i finally fixed my weird frame drops, thanks
👍Good video, Ramadan Kareem, and Happy New Year ❤️
Thanks for that man! Keep it up the good job!
Great video with amount of details. Thank you!
Great! I went from 40fps to constantly above 60fps by changing SSR, Contact shadows and hair strands to low and everything else on high!!!
Yess..... Finally... thanks for the comparison and benchmark
Thank you my friend, your guides are awesome!
Thank you for this brother keep making video like these
Yessss was waiting for this ❤
The Last of Us is part 1 for PC is out! I hope you'll make a video for it soon! Looking forward to it! I always use your recommended settings, and they've been great!
I’ve been waiting 3 days for this man. Torture keeping us waiting like this.
Yeah... I'm subscribing, king!
You are the best benchmark channel, Nice analisis with useful information. Thank you for your job and keep this channel on, because you are helping a lot of PC gamers like me :)
First time hearing a youtuber saying if you don't enjoy this video give a dislike 😂😂 lol bro i loved this video and going for your optimization good editing skills and a lot of effort subbed!
Hey what a nice guide! Thanks so much dude!
Thanks man i got a 4070 Ti and I was able to always stay above 60 fps at 4k. The hair quality was the real impact
Nice one! Hopefully you put out that DLSS comparison video soon
although I can usually max the games out I still come here to get the best settings to fps. Your vids are so well done.
6:01 bro this saved me you have no idea how annoying it was, omg this ruined everything that i had it off and it also does nothing neither on neither off thanks so much you have my like
Amazing video, definitely subbing, thank you so much.
❤thanx as always this is my go to channel for all my game settings add more games to the collection even some older titles will be appreciated not only from me
Amazing channel, well done sir!
Buying a high end graphic card is only the first step. Following your optimization guide is the final and most important step to enjoy the game with smooth framerate
GREAT video mate. Thank you
Very detailed and very informatve i dd all my settings watchings your vid i am really impressed that i subbed and liked🥰
My game had a weird grainy texture in the shadows and the fix was to run image quality at 200% and the shadows to max
Of course i will leave a like 😉
Very informative video bro 👌
Thx a lot 🙂
You are a god among men.
Thank you , really appreciate it
Cara, seu trabalho é muito bom, parabens!
I've used this guy's settings in gta v and I went from 40-60 fps to around 70-120 fps amd it was insane, even improved how the game looks, hopefully this too does that
Genuinely helpful my G
awesome breakdown! subbed! hope you get to do more games!
Thanks a lot ! That some good settings :)
Thank you for this ❤
Helped with my low end pc, still wanted the game to look nice.
what cpu do you use? i use ryzen 5 2600 with 8gb RAM and AMD rx 6600 and the first fight in the village keeps stuttering for me it sucked.
@@akmalrusydi2730 ryzen 5 3400, no GPU
That part had a lot of ganado, so I set it to:
- rendering quality: 80%
- rendering mode: interlaced
- render *something*: low 0 Gb
@@fevermau5857
Holy shit you're a legend playing without a gpu, is it a ryzen G cpu?
@@akmalrusydi2730 ye integrated gpu
What the heckーI can't believe my game actually performs better AND looks better after using your recommended settings. Thank you very much!!
Bro you're amazing.I just checked your channel even game is downloading
Amazing work brother
I wouldn’t even call the PC version a port. It’s the the baseline version, with consoles being derived from it. It’s the best version you can play, with settings that can go far beyond consoles, while still running very well. The PC version is superior in every way.
Thank you so much and many other game graphics settings videos ❤
Excellent job dear!
Greaty super video for settings, thanks man. :-)
Thanks man for your great job 🔥🔥
you're great! discovered you fairly recently but you already improved many of my gaming experiences :D
Great video man.
Do you know man, now i always wait for your optimize settings 😁
That was really useful, thanks.