Some time ago I did a video on Doom, which was probably my personal favorite game of
last year, and showed you some tweaks and things to keep in mind to play this game if
you have a Vulkan compatible low end computer.
But what if you are trying to play this on something as low as the IntelHD that comes
on this Intel Celeron?
Well, turns out there are a couple of small, but important things that I missed that will
give you a significant boost in performance and might just help you play this game on
a low end computer.
Welcome to the LowSpecGamer, the show where we explore ways of boosting performance on
modern games running on low end computers, so let's get this game running.
Thank you to Akemi for sending me the commands that got me started on this video.
Doom is a 2016 game running on the 6th generation of the id Tech engine that requires an i5
2400 and a Geforce GTX 670, although it can be played on a slower Vulkan capable GPU.
So, running it on a dual core Intel Celeron G1840 and its integrated IntelHD seems a bit
of an impossibility, even when the IntelHD is overclocked and yes…
IntelHDs can be overclocked with the correct setup.
In fact, this system is so slow that sometimes the levels would not even load properly.
Ok!
Huh…
It's a little bit unexpected.
However there are actually a couple of things that can help in getting more performance.
It will not help load levels better tough, you are simply going to have to restart for
that.
First I am going to assume you watched my old Doom video that explains how to open the
console, how to change variables or how r_modes are mapped to resolutions.
Let's start with the first interesting thing, I mentioned in the past that there a couple
of commands you can use to pretty much set almost any game resolution on windowed mode.
Now if you want to use a custom low resolution like 960x540 on full screen, you can add it
on your GPUs control panel.
For intelHD this is often directly on the panel or sometimes it is on customMode app
located on Windows, system32.
Once you add the custom resolution it should show up in games options, but if it does not
it should be on the list of r_modes which you can check by typing r_mode in the console
and pressing tab.
You can then specify that r_mode number in the console.
Now, the other more interesting thing you can try has to do with shadows.
There are 3 commands that seem to control shadows, but changing shadowAtlasTileSize
or Height just seems to crash the game.
However, changing r_shadowAtlasWidth seems to significantly reduce a lot of the game's
shadows.
The bad news is that there does not seem a way to save this setting.
Adding it as a launch command is ignored and adding it on the configuration file crashed
the game for me, so if you need a quick FPS boost you have to open the console every time
you play and apply it.
The good news is that the change in performance is really notorious, pushing this game from
the mid 20s to 40 FPS while being idle and providing an unexpectedly smooth experience
while fighting.
Oh yeah.
Yeah, let's get this party started!
Haha.
Yeah.
You know this is the only game where all the things that I usually criticize of other games
makes sense.
You want to clear hordes of demons?
violence!
You want to reset the system and save humanity and destroy argent energy?
Violence.
Violence is the- f***!
Violence is the main medium of expression of this game and it does it beautifully.
Yeah.
C'mon, c'mon, come all to me, I'll take you all, I'll take you all!
I want it to come to me. This is so fantastic. Oh no. Nope
Yeah!
Oh god look at this performance, this is fantastic.
Oh, oh, what's the chaingun, what's the chaingun, what's the chaingun?
Yeah, yeah!
I got it, that's not what I wanted, this is what I wanted.
Oh go so much violence! Well that was immensely therapeutic
So keep this in mind if you are trying to enjoy this fantastic game on your low end
GPU.
Thank you to all these wonderful people on Patreon, who help me pay for these videos.
See you on the next one.
I really, really like this game.
Không có nhận xét nào:
Đăng nhận xét