God of War - How to FIX FPS DROPS with AMD GPUs (DXVK Windows)

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Today I bring you a small tutorial of how to FIX the FPS drops happening in some specific parts when playing GOD of WAR with some AMD GPUs. For that we are using DXVK, which is kind of a Vulkan Layer that can improve performance in some scenarios.

00:00 - INTRO and Problem
01:35 - How to install DXVK and FIX IT
02:57 - More info
03:30 - The ONLY downside of DXVK here
05:01 - CONCLUSION

05:58 - God of War - Lake (DXVK vs DX11)
06:16 - God of War - World Tree Door (DXVK vs DX11)
06:35 - God of War - Bridge (DXVK vs DX11)
06:52 - God of War - Mountain Elevator (DXVK vs DX11)

07:25 - Channel Members
07:45 - More Videos

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AMD PC USED for CPU testing:

MB: MSI B450 Tomahawk MAX II
RAM: 2x8Gb Patriot Viper 4400Mhz CL19 (3200MHz CL14)
GPU: AMD RADEON RX 6800 @2400/2100 MHz
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 2Tb 7200 rpm
SSD: 500Gb Kingston Nvme
PSU: Aerocool X-Strike 800W 80+ Silver Semi Modular
CASE: None

INTEL 10/11th Gen PC USED for CPU testing:

MB: MSI Z490 Tomahawk (Latest Bios)
RAM: 2x8Gb Patriot Viper 4400Mhz CL19 (3200 MHz CL14)
GPU: RX 6800 @2400MHz / 2100MHz
SSD: Kingston V300 120Gb
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 2Tb 7200 rpm
PSU: Seasonic SIII 650W Bronze
CASE: Aerocool One Frost Edition

INTEL 12th Gen PC USED for CPU testing:

MB: Gigabyte Z690 Aorus ELITE (DDR4)
RAM: 2x8Gb Patriot Viper 4400Mhz CL19 (3200 MHz CL14)
GPU: RX 6800 @2400MHz / 2100MHz
SSD: Kingston V300 240Gb
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 2Tb 7200 rpm
PSU: Aerocool X-Strike 800W 80+ Silver Semi Modular
CASE: None

My Main PC (used for GPU testing):

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X (4.75GHz Curve Optimizer)
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15S
MB: Asus X570-F Strix
RAM: 2x8Gb Patriot Viper 4400Mhz CL19 (3800 MHz, CL16 / Tightened Sub-timings)
GPU: AMD RADEON RX 6800 @2400/2100 MHz
HDD: 1x2TB + 1x4TB
SSD: 240Gb Kingston Nvme + 500Gb Toshiba Nvme
PSU: Corsair RM750X (White) 750W 80+ Gold
CASE: Thermaltake View 51 TG

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[AC-ddrb]

DXVK is a very handy thing when the AMD drivers tanked my FPS in Assassins Creed games and Arkham Knight I used that and it pretty much solved the problem immediately. I tried it in a few other games and it has an impressive hit rate. It's a shame Vulkan isn't implemented on a wider scale then every game could be as buttery smooth as Doom is on most systems. Great content man not many videos covering this I had to go hunting for a solution out of utter frustration when my FPS were tanking hopefully this helps a lot of people if they ever have the problem.

[saudchohan]

Bro, one thing i should say about this guy. i would probably end up regretting, buying an amd gpu if not for this guy. he almost solve all the problem amd gpu's user would have or should i say RDNA2 users and i appreciate my decision buying an amd gpu over nvidia's all thanks to this guy.

[csabavass]

DXVK gave me a huge performace boost in AC: origins 43 -> 75 fps, and completly removed the CPU bottleneck

[strickeN]

Tested on RX 480 8gb and I can confirm there is a slight performance boost (also, my CPU is the bottleneck, so I might not notice it as much). Tested in the same area where FPS drops frequently, the 1% low went up from 32fps to 39fps and the average went from 40 to 45 which is pretty cool. Tested multiple times for 30+ minutes, so there's no question about it. Thanks for the guide, even the slightest FPS boost helps! Definitely gonna upgrade my PC in a couple weeks lmao

[GinoBrand]

DXVK is awesome, ive used it with so many things Borderlands… Assassins Creed… ect, it works great and boosts many games greatly.

[marcocelauro]

5 to 10 fps more than before and fixed low gpu usage, i was sure it wasnt cpu bottleneck, i do like more having 5s freezes and knowing it will disappear than being at 40-50% gpu usage, thanks mate

[IronMaidenever]

Good to know it works great for GoW! It doesn't work to the same effect for every game though. I've had some games give worse performance with dxvk, some with many graphical bugs/glitches and some wouldn't even start anymore. You should see the difference with AC origins/oddysey/valhalla. mindblowing change.

[nalogzasve]

Works great on AC Origins. Without DXVK I had fps drops at 45 in Alexandria with high settings, now it doesn't go below 64 fps with maximum possible settings, plus FOV at 110. Exelent.

[rkajtn]

Nice to see you again.yesterday i build my intel system i5 12600 with uhd 770.is great system.until now i heave just ryzen 7 systems.stay as you are and we love your videos.greatings from maribor in slovenia.

[Bones]

Dxvk helped stop the constant crashing but the frame rate and stutter is prevalent

[ohenthevoidwatcher]

question, with the DXVK is 2.1 version, there's no set up file, so what do i do ?

[addcted]

damn bro, you are the best youtuber that does anything related to amd, congrats

[AncientGameplays]

As always, hope I helped you somehow :D
Cheers!

[doomslayer]

Problem was fixed in 1.0.9 patch (read it on steam) the developers themselves stated that AMD GPUs have issues with the Shader compilation and they implemented the pre compile so that fixes the problem, the video is heavily outdated cause the issue is gone, however the dxvk is very useful for Unreal Engine games where they have serious stutter issues.

[colgado]

FYI best results are on RDNA 2 (6000 series) gpus. RDNDA 1 and Polaris have seen negative results.

[ratatouillegamer]

DXVK is not a spoofing, but a translation layer, all the api call from DX9/10/11 will be translated to a similar vulkan calls, but the problem about hangs it's because the shader compilation, it's need a translation behind HLSL, i think if can be possible to precompile the shaders, the hangs is resolved

[RedEverything]

Never had much luck with DXVK. The Witcher 2 still had low gpu usage and Assassin's Creed Origins crashed alot. That was on a 5500 XT though, haven't tried it on my new 6800 XT.

[PalatechGaming]

I have a Ryzen 7 2700X, 32gb of ram and an RX 6700XT, running the latest Adrenaline 24.2.1. I was getting 63fps in the built in benchmark in AC Odyssey at 1080p ultra with dips at the lower 50s and with dxvk I'm getting 80fps at 1080p ultra with dips at mid 60s. In crysis 2 dx9 I was getting drops to 65fps in sone cases and with dxvk I'm getting 124fps, it has actually doubled my fps. Dxvk has dramatically improved the performance in my case. I really think AMD should somehow integrate a feature similar to Dxvk at a driver level.

[brzimtrco]

You see now that the core clock doesn't matter, your clocks are the same but with dxvk fps is a lot higher.

[memmudmemmed]

dxvk sadly lowers the performance with polaris cards by 10-15 fps. tested with rx570, and rx 580. but it mostly works well with most games