How to Fix Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince Performance Issues / Lag / Low FPS
How to Fix Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince Performance Issues / Lag / Low FPS
The main optimization that is not in-game.
NVIDIA Settings
For NVIDIA users;
1. Go to desktop and open your Nvidia control panel.
2. Under 3D settings go to Manage 3D settings.
3. Press program settings.
4. Select program to customize.
5. In drop down menu find Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince (if its not there press Add and find it in your pc)
Now leave everything as it is but ONLY change these settings.
Antialiasing โ FXAA: OFF
Maximum pre-rendered frames: 1
Power managment mode: Prefer maximum performance
Texture filtering โ Negative LOD bias: Clamp
Threaded optimization: On
Triple buffering: On
Getting rid of junk files
A. Clearing PC from temporary files.
Those files donโt do anything, but they can take up a considerable amount of space and can slow down your PC even if you still have a lot of space on your storage device(s).
Itโs especially helpful for those who have installed Windows for a few months and never really cleared junk from PC properly. You can alternatively use some utility programs such as CCleaner, but you still need to double-check whether all of those junk files are removed from your PC. How to do that:
โข Press Win + R to open the run box -> type โprefetchโ -> remove all junk (some files may not be deleted but itโs OK)
โข Press Win + R -> type โ%temp%โ -> remove all junk (some files may not be deleted but itโs OK)
B. Run disk cleanup
Yet again there might be some programs that can do that for you, but if you donโt have one or you are not sure it actually removes the junk files โ do the following
โข Go to windows search and type โdisk cleanupโ
โข Open the program
โข Checkmark every file category thatโs available and press OK
Maximization of power usage
โข If you for some reason donโt want to use BHP, go to Power Option in Windows Control Panel and set it to High Performance. This will allow your CPU to use as much as power as possible.
โข Turn off C-states in BIOS*
- This one is highly optional and I donโt recommend anyone doing that unless you know what you are doing! For example, for some motherboards not all C-states need to be turned off. C-states are the mechanisms that your motherboard uses to save energy. When C-states are turned off, CPU cannot be bottlenecked by the lack of power input from your motherboard. Disabling of C-states works very well with the High Performance power mode described above.
Game Shortcut
If you have the game shortcut on your desktop.
1. Right click on it and press properties and the Compatibility tab.
2. Tick override high DPI scaling Behavior. and choose Scaling performed by (Application) in drop down menu.
3. Tick Disable fullscreen optimizations.
4. And tick Run this program as an administrator.