Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is a Metroidvania video game developed by ArtPlay, DICO and WayForward Technologies, and published by 505 Games. The game is finally available on multiple platforms including Steam. If you’re experiencing any Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night Low FPS on either NVIDIA or AMD systems, here’s what you can do to get a boost.
We’re glad to finally get a proper spiritual successor to the legendary Konami title Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, and with Koji Igarashi at its helm, the game can’t get any better. The game has been developed on Unreal Engine 4 and can be a bit demanding.
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night Low FPS
While the game isn’t exactly very demanding, and for the most part, runs quite solid, if you’re having any sort of FPS issues, and aren’t getting the desired amount, there are plenty of things you can do to fix that.
Fix Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night Low FPS Issue on Nvidia Graphics Card
- Right click on your desktop.
- Open Nvidia Control Panel.
- Select Manage 3D Settings and select Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night from the Program Settings and set the Power Management to Prefer Maximum Power
- In the same Nvidia Control Panel, you can change “pre-rendered frames” to 1, this improves performance on less powerful systems.
- Another useful tweak in Nvidia Settings is to turn shader cache on. In most cases, this would help improve FPS. You can always revert back to default settings should you notice any negative change in the performance of the game.
Lower Shadows and Anti-Aliasing
Lowering either of these settings will give you a significant boost in performance, as these are the most taxing settings.
- You can also mess around with Post Processing, and see if that helps you as well.
- We recommend keeping overall settings at Medium-High, and textures at Epic only if you have a 6/8 GB GPU.
Fix Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night Low FPS Issue on AMD Radeon Graphics Card
- Right click on your desktop and click on AMD Radeon settings.
- Then click on the gaming tab on the top left.
- You will see an option called “Power Efficiency” under global settings.
- Turn this option off.
Fix Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night Low FPS Issue on Windows 10
- Type Graphics Settings in the Windows search box and open Graphics Settings.
Classic App should be selected by default. Click on Browse and select the .exe file of Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night game. - Now click on Options after it has been added and Select High-Performance option when it prompts the new window and then click Save.
- Now go to the installation directory and launch the .exe file of Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night as an administrator. Avoid using the desktop shortcut.
Improve frame times by capping Frame Rate using RivaTuner on PC
- Download RivaTuner Statistics Server,
- input your desired framerate limit in the “Framerate limit” box, and hit enter (the program comes bundled with MSI Afterburner and earlier versions of EVGA PrecisionX).
- Alternatively, those with an Nvidia GPU have the option of Nvidia Inspector, which can also be used to impose a framerate cap, either in a similar manner to RTSS or by way of forcing a different vsync interval (click the small tool icon to open the game profile section).
Improve frame times by changing the display mode
Switching to exclusive fullscreen rather than borderless fullscreen potentially increases frame times.
Download the latest AMD and NVIDIA drivers
The drivers provide official support for the latest Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, and you’ll see a considerable performance boost with these new drivers.
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night System Requirements
Here are the minimum and recommended requirements for the game, if you’re looking to run it on PC
Minimum
- Processor: AMD FX-4350 / Intel Core i5-4460
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: AMD Radeon R9 280X / GeForce GTX 760
- Storage: 10 GB available space
- Additional Notes: If you have a potato PC or above, you’re ok.
Recommended
- Processor: AMD FX-6300 / Intel Core i5-4590
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: AMD Radeon R9 290 / GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
- Storage: 10 GB available space
- Additional Notes: The only potatoes you use are the tasty kind.
If you’re interested in getting the game on PC, you can buy it here on Steam with a 10% discount.
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