Diablo 4 settings

[PaulScott670]

Bit of a weird one. Does anybody have issues when they turn the foreground FPS to 400? I seem to get a slight bit of tearing/stutter. This resolves itself if I change it to 240 FPS which is the frame rate of my monitor.

It’s a bit unusual for me that a game stutters with a bit more FPS (approx 300 fps without limiter)

Does make too much sense. I may need to create a video showing the above.

Thanks.

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[SpyderTracks]

On any modern monitor you should be using variable refresh rate (gsync / freesync) so you should never exceed your monitor refresh rate anyway.

As I understand it, that's a bug in Diablo 4, whatever limit you put, it will just try and push the fastest it possibly can and lead to very poor performance. You should always set it to the max of your monitor.

If say you have a 240Hz monitor, and you're pushing 400Hz, it won't intelligently show you the first 240 frames and drop the sequentials, because they're coming faster than the monitor can display them, so they'll just display whatever frames are generated in a slot they have available

If you have a 240Hz (240 frames each second)- that's 1 frame every 4.2 mili seconds

If you're game is running at 400fps - that's generating a frame every 2.5 miliseconds.

So the second frame generated is going to be lost as it falls at 5 miliseconds when the monitor is unable to respond, in fact it's going to drop a number of frames as they'll be generated outside of a division of 4.2

This is exactly why VRR is so important as it eradicates dropped frames therefor screen tearing, therefor pointless work on the GPU that can't be seen

What make and model monitor are you using?

There's a good synopsis here on suggested settings

Diablo 4 best PC settings: High FPS, graphics, visibility, more - Dexerto

The best Diablo 4 settings will give you a huge boost in performance and visuals, so here are the best low-end and high-end PC settings.

www.dexerto.com

 

[PaulScott670]

Hello again,

Thanks for getting back to me so quickly.
I don’t use gsync with Diablo 4 as it seems to leave a weird orange flicker/glow. This has been a known issue for some time I believe.

The monitor I currently use is below.

Corsair XENEON 27QHD240​

 

[SpyderTracks]

Hello again,

Thanks for getting back to me so quickly.
I don’t use gsync with Diablo 4 as it seems to leave a weird orange flicker/glow. This has been a known issue for some time I believe.

The monitor I currently use is below.

Corsair XENEON 27QHD240​

So that's gsync compatible which is freesync.

When you say orange flicker / glow, are you sure that's not just the standard OLED flicker? Have you setup the driver and windows for OLED? Or is it specifically only within Diablo?

 

[PaulScott670]

I’ve notice it in black parts of the screen on any game but it’s very obvious in Diablo as it’s a pretty dark game.

 

[SpyderTracks]

I’ve notice it in black parts of the screen on any game but it’s very obvious in Diablo as it’s a pretty dark game.

That’s after applying the OLED fix?

 

[PaulScott670]

I will need to try this later once I’ve finished some of my work. I’ll post here with an update.

 

[PaulScott670]

Little update.
I have tried all of the above. I can eliminate the stutter by settings my foreground and background FPS to 240, which is my monitors refresh rate.
However with G-Sync I have to set my frames at like 70 in order to get rid of the flickering.

 

[TonyCarter]

Why do you want your background app/game running at 240FPS - does it help if that is set to something like 60FPS?

 

[PaulScott670]

It's just one of the settings in Diablo 4, the background FPS isn't really a concern.

 

[PaulScott670]

*Additional note*
In warzone 2. Does frame generation add input lag?

 

[SpyderTracks]

*Additional note*
In warzone 2. Does frame generation add input lag?

Yes absolutely, in any game.

 

[SpyderTracks]

Little update.
I have tried all of the above. I can eliminate the stutter by settings my foreground and background FPS to 240, which is my monitors refresh rate.
However with G-Sync I have to set my frames at like 70 in order to get rid of the flickering.

Did you go through the optimised settings linked?

 

[PaulScott670]

Did you go through the optimised settings linked?

Hi Spyder,

I’ve used the optimised settings for Diablo 4 and it’s a lot better. But nothing is getting rid of that weird G-Sync flicker.