Dead Rising 2 Performance Guide

Performance guide (speed up your game) This is a guide that is going to help you to increase the performance of your pc while playing one of the dead rising games. You are gonna find some tips, tutorials and some files you may want to download, all to help you with your performance trouble.

Common troubles Here you are gonna find common troubles that you can have and fixes for them: Acer Aspire R1600 cpu: Intel Atom 230 @1.60 Ghz graphics: Nvidia ION LE ram: 1GB SO DDR2-800MHz PC2 6400 os: win7starter 32bit Lower than that may not work. 1.) Go to "Manage 3D Settings.
 * "I installed the game and i have lag" Restart your pc, don´t play the game few seconds after you installed it, it´s bad.
 * "I do the last thing, but i still have lag" Change your game config, that may work.
 * "I still have lag" Update your drivers.
 * "I got lag spikes" You should stop programs that are running in your pc.
 * "I got a LOT of lag spikes" You should stop programs and services running in your pc, the most you have, the more cpu they use.
 * "I did all the past fixes, but i still have lag problems" Clean your pc, defrag your hard drive and your registry, then use Ccleaner, windows 7/vista manager or advanced system care to clean your pc (I recommend the last one to clean, is very easy to use. You should use windows vista/7 manager to stop process and services, as well to stop running programs.)
 * "I still have lag after all of this" If you are using a Nvidia card, go to your nvidia panel control (Right click on your desktop), and find the 3D config, go to "adjust config with a preview" and move it to "render". It may work.
 * "Still lag" Use Game Gamebooster, it´s really good and it can increase your FPS.Game booster
 * "The lag don´t go" Re-install your game and do everything again.
 * "I did it, and still happening" Disable your sound, not just put it in 0, disable it. An easy way to do it is by connecting your Headphones and then disconnecting them, but you need to be faster and launch the game before the system reactivate the sound (If you have an internal speaker that´s what you have to do, if you don´t have an internal speaker, just disconnect your speaker or your headphones.) This will reduce the loading data because the sound can´t be used.
 * "No matter what i do i still get lag" Your pc is not strong to play the game. All of this where tested in a pc with the next specs:
 * "I have better specs than that, but i still have lag" Well, you little presumptuous, jump to the next section and read carefully.
 * "I played the game before, and it was fine, but now i have lag" You should update your drivers, if they are updated, then do the next thing:

2.) Disable "Maximum Pre-rendered Frames" by setting it to 0.

3.) Set the "Multi-display Performance Mode/Mixed GPU Acceleration" settings to "Single Display Performance Mode".

4.) Set the Power Management option to prefer "Maximum Performance".

5.) Make sure to set settings such as "Anti-Aliasing Mode" and "Anisotropic Filtering" to "Application controlled".

6.) Now go to "Adjust image settings with preview".

7.) Set the "Adjust image settings with preview" option to "Application controlled".
 * "I got lag in cutscenes but the game is smoothly" Strange, update your drives and defrag your hardrive.

Advanced fixes Here you are gonna find some fixes that can really help with the performance. They are more complicated to follow, but they help a lot.

For the first three, you need a No-DVD exe to work with (A cracked .exe of the game) and a hex editor. They where find by Taiga Taiga Post

Open the exe up in a hex editor and do a search and replace. Change all instances of "gDOF" to "xDOF". This removes the awful screen blurring without interfering with the motion blur (which can be disabled in options).
 * DISABLE DEPTH OF FIELD BLUR:

The vignette is the dimmed corners of the screen. Open the exe up in a hex editor and do a search and replace. Change all instances of "gVignette" to "xVignette". The screen corners will now be clear.
 * DISABLE VIGNETTE:

Luminance variation is the random dimming of the screen. Open the exe up in a hex editor and do a search and replace. Change all instances of "mDesiredLuminance" to "xDesiredLuminance". The screen will stay consistently bright and clear.
 * DISABLE LUMINANCE VARIATION:

The next step will need to change the game files