Common Fixes for FPS Studders and causes (Old From 1.X days)

Common Fixes for FPS studders:

Use DX11 (If it's already in dx11, use DX12)

1. For Official/Epic Games Launcher

Method 1 :

From the launcher (For above 2000 Series Nvidia GPUS, 5000 series or above AMD Gpus, All intel ARC gpus)

Method 2 :

1) Go to Wuthering Waves install location
Ex- Drive:\Wuthering Waves\Wuthering Waves Game\Client\Binaries\Win64\Client-Win64-Shipping.exe

2) Right Click and create a Shortcut of the above file.
3) Right click the new shortcut -> Properties -> Target
4) Add -dx12 (or -dx11 based on what you need) after the target path. Refer to image

2. For Steam

Right Click Wuthering Waves
Select Properties
Under Launch Options put -dx11 -force (or -dx12 -force

Note: Only works for Nvidia, AMD, Intel GPUs which support Ray Tracing) . Otherwise Check Method 2 above. Otherwise it will always launch in dx11 regardless of launch options

2. Use SSD instead of Hard disk

Hard Disks are known to cause FPS problems and Lag in Wuthering Waves

3. Set your game to high performance mode.

Windows Settings and click on Wuthering Waves -> Options -> High performance

4. Old players with old graphics settings before 2.6 updates. After 2.6, with new rendering pipeline for FSR3/DLSS4/XeSS2, the old settings values may not work properly depends on hardware setup, resetting all the graphics settings and re-adjust them from the beginning may help.

Suggested by - @dramielleayal(Discord)

5. Try switching to 60 FPS temporarily.

6. Turn off frame gen (FSR/DLSS) temporarily.

If you don't know what this is, then you probably don't have it turned ON. So Ignore this.

7. Try installing PRO / Studio Drivers .

AMD GPUs have PRO drivers and Nvidia GPUs have Studio Drivers

Steps on How to install PRO Drivers for AMD GPUs:

Click Here or go to https://www.amd.com/en/support/download/drivers.html
Click on "Download Windows Drivers"
Open the installer.
Select PRO as seen in the Image
Continue the installation as normal.

Steps on How to install Studio Drivers for Nvidia.

Click Here or Go to https://www.nvidia.com/en-in/software/nvidia-app/
Download the Studio Drivers as shown in the image.
Launch the installer and complete the installation as usual.

New Fix for Septimont lag for v2.8

Note: It only works if you have very low fps (Ex. 8-12 FPS) in Septimont:Mournfell Canyon.
Note: Only for older GPUs/ iGPUs

1. Go to location shown on the map.

2. (Optional Step). : Set a way waypoint here for easy access for future. (you need to do this on first attempt only)

3. Fly towards Behor's Waters area (Shown in Image) till the lag is gone.

4. Fly back to where you started and lag should be gone.

5. If the lag is not gone , repeat steps 3 and 4 till it is.

Update: Only happens on Older/iGPUs for some reason. It is a bug which existed since 2.4 but the area of this bug shrunk in the update 2.8

Somethings that cause fps studders/ frame drops

1) 8GB ram
8GB ram is not enough to run Wuwa smoothly. You can temp fix it by closing all background applications.(PS: upgrade to 16GB, it's cheap)

2) Having an iGPU(Older) or a GPU worse than 1030
1030 is below the minimum requirement of the games but imo is the least amount of GPU required to run the game at playable fps on 720p Lowest setting. (You can try GeForce now until you upgrade your pc)

3) Hard Disks(HDD)
These also are known to cause issues in wuwa so please avoid them if you have the option.

4) The game is not running on the dedicated GPU
Sometimes the game will run on the iGPU of the cpu. IF you are on laptop turn off power saving mode and see if any software that comes with the laptop is causing this issue.

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