Fixing FPS drops, stuttering issues in Detroit becomes Human

Detroit Becomes human was released back in the year 2018. The game is developed by Quantic Dreams and was a timed console-exclusive. However, a PC port of the game was released on December 12. 2019.

The narrative of the game is set in 2038, where the player has to make real-time decisions and choices to progress through the game. The story revolves around three playable characters, all of them are androids. You will play through Conner who is a Police investigator android, through Kara, a housekeeper android, and also through Markus, who is a caretaker android.

Performance on PC

Now that we have established a basis of what the game is about, let's look at how the game performs on PC. According to the system requirements released by Quantic Dreams, Detroit Becomes human is a pretty demanding AAA Title. Quite a lot of gamers are facing stuttering and low FPS issues. So lets first look at the released System requirements of the game:

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

OS: Windows 10 (64 bit)
CPU: Intel Core i7-3770 @ 3.4 GHz or AMD FX-8350, 4.2 GHz (6 to 8 logical cores minimum highly recommended)
RAM: 8GB RAM
GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 or AMD Radeon HD 7950
VRAM: 3GB or more

RECOMMENDED SPECS

OS: Windows 10 (64 bit)
CPU: i5-8400 @ 2.8GHz or Ryzen 5 1600
RAM: 16GB RAM
GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 or AMD Radeon RX 580
VRAM: 4GB or more

How to Improve your PC performance?

So, according to the minimum requirements, you’ll need a pretty decent system to run the game at the lowest settings. Running the game at the recommended requirements is a different story altogether. So, if your system doesn’t meet the minimum requirements then its time for an upgrade. However, if your pc meets the requirements and is still stuttering or you’re facing FPS drops then fear not! Here are some steps you can take to improve the performance:

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Make sure your GPU drivers are updated to the latest version, be it Nvidia or AMD.
Toggle the Win 10 Game mode to ON.
Set the priority of the game process to ‘High’
Close any unnecessary services and programs in the background.
Don’t run the game with too many Firefox or Chrome tabs as they eat a lot of RAM leaving less for the game.
If you have any OCed your GPU and processor bring them down to their base speed as OCing sometimes causes instability resulting in degraded performance.
Go to GPU software’s Control Panel and tweak the following settings:

Threaded Optimization: On
Power Management: Prefer Maximum Performance
Low Latency Mode: Off
Texture filtering – Quality: Performance

Also, make sure that you’re running the latest version of Win 10 as it comes with performance enhancements.
You can also use these Graphic settings for getting the best performance out of your pc when running the game:

Display Mode: Full Screen
Resolution Scale: 1.00
FPS Limit: 60
Vsync: Off
Visual Quality: Custom
Texture Quality: Low
Texture Filtering: Medium
Shadow Quality: Low
Model Quality: Low
Depth of Field: Low
Motion Blur: Off
Volumetric Lighting: Low
Screen Space Reflection: Off
Ambient Occlusion : Off
Bloom: Off

This will set your settings to the lowest preset in the game. For now, this is the only option as this is a PC port from a Console port. Another PC port is the Red Dead Redemption 2 which is one of the most poorly optimized games released and it is also a PC port.

Although the good news is that the developers are aware of the problem and seem to be working on the issues and hopefully we will get an update fixing all these performance issues on PC.

Hope the guide helps fix your issues. Do let us know in the comment section the issues you faced while playing the PC version of Detroit Becomes Human. We’d love to hear from you.

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