Is Dragon's Dogma 2's CPU Performance Issues Fixed On PC Now?

Dragon's Dogma 2 just received a new patch, and one of the issues addressed that stood out to me was that they now apparently fixed CPU performance in NPC heavy areas. We put that to the test today to see whether CPU performance has indeed improved in the main cities, as claimed by the patch notes.

We test the PC version of Dragon's Dogma 2 using an Intel i5 14600KF CPU, an RTX 4070 Super, and DDR5 6400MT/s CL32 RAM.

System Specs:

Intel Core i5 14600KF @ Stock
Palit Dual Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Super @ Stock
Gigabyte Gaming X AX Z790 Motherboard
G-Skill 32GB DDR5 6400 Mt/s CL32 Memory
Corsair HX850i Power Supply
Windows 11 Pro
2TB PCIE Gen 4 Nvme Drive
Game Mode and ReBAR enabled

Timestamps:

0:00 - Dragon's Dogma 2 Patch Notes
0:51 - 1440p Highest, Native, RT Off
2:23 - 1440p Highest, DLSS Quality, RT Off
3:21 - 1440p Highest, DLSS Quality, RT Off, Frame Generation On

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[Ilikebeatzzz]

Well, atleast they are working on it. I was slowly giving up hope.

[Reinhardovich]

Actually seems to run better than I expected but only with DLSS 3 FG enabled. CPU limited perf without FG still needs work. They should also implement FSR 3 FG because not everyone playing this game has an RTX 40 Series GPU. Incidentally, I wonder if those DLSS 3 FG to FSR 3 FG mods would work decently enough with this game?

[theemulationportal]

Way way smoother in towns and city's on my 7800x3d with frame gen, the stutters/1% lows used to be horrendous but feels pretty good now! Not perfect but actually can play without being distracted by lurching stutters. Only annoying thing is the fact frame gen is tied to using DLSS for some reason? Don't think this DLSS implementation looks particularly good on the grass/foliage looks quite smeary at times compared to native but I can live with it.

[hioxd]

Guess ill still keep on waiting til its 100% hopefully itll be on sale by then

[thehyliangamer]

How is performance on Xbox series s? I’ve been wanting to play the game but still not sure cause of everything I heard

[DaSchwede]

I played the Testversion on Steam and i got Always a tearing efdect that Looks Like rain and dont know why, i got a 4070 ti super, ryzen 7 7800 X3D and 32GB RAM, tested all settings and nothing changed so whats the Problem ?

[samheat]

There was a patch July 12th that made the performance worse again, insane stuttering with ray tracing on compared to this previous patch not sure what happened. This is with a i7 12700k and 4070 Super having 1% lows of 10fps

[gamez]

How is performance with RT enabled now - could you check that? :)

[Ghandjaloodah]

Thnx for making this updated video. Im still staying away from this one.

[TheGhabok]

That does seem like a nice improvement, still not perfect, but people with high-end CPUs can get an enjoyable experience, more "budget" oriented CPUs will still struggle unfortunately.

[poprostuukasz]

So with these updates how much FPS would I get with R5 5600 and RX6750XT?

[Jack_Sparrow]

Around 10% fps more or less?
I guess they forced to do it since they already planning to release DLC later on
Still.. FPS is bad, they need like 75% fps improvement.. even modern 2023-2024 CPUs have bad utilization in this game engine
My RX 7900xtx / Ryzen 7700x / DDR5 OC to 6400 (30cl) & still get low as 50 fps in main city before the patch
I Pre-ordered this game, tried it never continued the game.. I waited for CPU fix.. might jump & check the fps now, hope the next update gives us more fps

[pcgameshardware]

I know many people were skeptical if they could make any headway on cpu performance I know so many people were hoping for much more gains but hopefully this isn't the last cpu fix and at least the frame gen helps

[No_Entiendo.]

If they remove Denuvo performance will be better.

[budlikycz]

Thanks for the vid. But the real question is?

Does the camping kit still weight 7 fuckin kg?

[samsonful]

they made it worse after t his new patch
somhow, ime getting lower preformance now then ever. cant move my mouse wihtout it dropping from 80 to 30 fps
in the city. outside the city i have 130 and it goes from 130 to 100 fps

[lilqiqi]

Ps5 now has low graphics option and wow the fps really improved from 30fps to 45~60 fps.

[miguelcanizares]

the npc pop in is still kind of gross.

[Ulquiorra]

Good news, but I ain't touching this game until it hits at least 80% Positive on recent Steam reviews. Who knows if the team will actually support and improve the game to that point.

[brendanbeauchemin]

I don’t understand how they play tested this and thought meh good enough to me if a game doesn’t have consistent decent frame rate it’s unplayable