How to fix stuttering and lag issues in Deus Ex HR Director’s Cut

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Just got this game of the sale, looking forward to playing it.

Unfortunately, I've received massive stutering and lag issues. I have a pretty amazing gaming rig, as I can run BL2, AC4 at max to high settings with no stutter. So this shouldn't be an issue for me.

From what I can tell online, there's also very few solutions out there. One of the options was to edit registry settings, but that doesn't change a thing still.

Any way I can optimize the game to remove this "lag"? It's plenty annoying, and the problem doesnt seem to go away even when I lower the settings down to nothing.

Best Answer

Assuming you have a NVidia graphics card (which is what normally causes this problem) you can make the following registry change to resolve this issue:

Open the Windows registry editor:

  • Open the Start Menu
  • Type in regedit.exe

For the original release:

  • Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Eidos\Deus Ex: HR

For the Director's Cut:

  • Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Eidos\Deus Ex: HRDC for Director's Cut

Change this value to 1 to disable graphics optimisations:

  • Set D3D11_CREATE_DEVICE_PREVENT_INTERNAL_TH­READING_OPTIMIZATIONS to 1

Alternatively, if the above doesn't resolve the issue for you, you can also try setting the following values as well - this should work regardless of graphics card vendor;

  • In HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Eidos\Deus Ex: HRDC, locate AllowJobStealing and set it to 0

Finally, specifically for owners of NVidia graphics cards;

  • In HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Eidos\Deus Ex: HRDC\Graphics, locate AtiForceFetch4 and set it to 0

For the original release of Deus Ex: Human Revolution, change the above registry keys from HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Eidos\Deus Ex: HRDC to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Eidos\Deus Ex: HR.

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