Experiencing unexpectedly slow frame rates in Destiny 2
Experiencing unexpectedly slow frame rates in Destiny 2
Interesting point. Performance differences between full screen and borderless windows aren't huge, but settings can affect it. If you need visuals, screenshots of GPU load on MSI AB and CPU stats in Task Manager would help. Updated Jan 6, 2020 by Samfisher
Task Manager link: https://i.imgur.com/mHySiiA.png
CPU Usage graph: https://i.imgur.com/k7KEV2R.png
GPU Usage chart: https://i.imgur.com/5214sSi.png
Hello CptHenry, even with your PC setup set to the highest levels, I think the problem lies more in software or a faulty connection between the game and the graphics card driver. First, check if your video settings persist after changes—this bug appeared after the new season of Dawn was released. You might still run into it if you're unlucky, like I did. It was fixed, but who knows what might have changed. Press "Windows," type %appdata%, press Enter, and navigate to Bungie-DestinyPC-prefs-cvars.xml. Copy the commands there for reference. If you reduce texture quality from high to medium and save your settings, close the game, reopen it, and verify if the changes saved. If not, you may need to tweak the settings directly in the cvars.xml file. Before doing that, open the Nvidia Control Panel, go to Manage 3D Settings → Program Settings → Choose Destiny 2 and adjust settings manually, favoring performance over visual effects. Optimize for compute performance, enable power management, and set maximum performance as the priority (though this might only be available on laptops). For texture filtering, enable High Performance Texture Filtering with trilinear optimization. If you still want to adjust manually, refer to Bungie’s help articles for detailed guidance. Inside the file, setting 3 to maximum and using 0 for disabled works. After making changes, right-click the file, select Read-Only, and also modify cvars.old to read-only. Second, another file named cvars.tmp may appear—ensure it’s also read-only. If this doesn’t resolve the issue, revert to read-only and delete all three files; Destiny will regenerate them. Keep in mind you’ll lose your keyboard settings and bindings within the game.
It didn’t really clarify the issue, but your CPU and GPU usage increased by around 10%, which could indicate a potential problem.
When you're not reaching 60 frames per second and your usage is minimal, the limiting factor could be a framerate cap or VSYNC settings.
It seems the problem persists elsewhere too. I've discovered similar discussions on other forums and websites. No clear fix has been identified yet.