Game settings:
Textures: max
Poly: max
Shadows and lights: lowish
Effects: lowish
vsync: yes
cap frame: 60
3840x2160 borderless fullscreen (translated from FS to english = borderless window)
CPU: AMD FX™-8320 Eight-Core Processor 3.50 GHz
GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080
RAM: 32 GB
I’m still using DX11 (switched from 12 for the same reasons) and I have almost the same issues.
Usually gives a program more computing power to work with but they need to be utilized properly:
For some reason giving the game more cores increases the amount of enemies in a run. (maybe fixed now)
Good, never really expected anything from this “lead”.
@Fatshark_Hedge to be fair I optimized my settings in the early days of this game. To remove extreme performance drops I reduced effect’s to the bare minimum (medium or you will stop seeing essential fire effects) which is probably exactly the part you have optimized the performance of.
I might try out to remove the shadows from effects completely to see if that helps.