Do you experience fps drops on your Evil West gamer on PC? Several factors can cause this issue such as an outdated graphics driver, graphics settings, outdated Windows, or a corrupted files. To fix Evil West frame rate issue, you will need to perform several troubleshooting steps.
Evil West is a third person shooter game that was just recently released and is available on the PC in the Steam Store. The game is also available on other platforms such as PlayStation consoles, Xbox Series X and Series S. The game was developed by Flying Wild Hog and was published by Focus Entertainment. It is a single player game that can also be played in online co-op. In this game, you are a vampire hunter and as you explore and battle in the campaign, you can also upgrade your guns and equipment. You can also create your own playstyle by unlocking perks to advance your skills to vanquish the horde of vampires.
Fixing FPS Drops in Evil West
One of the common issues the PC users can encounter when playing this game is the FPS drop issue which you will notice during the game and this can be a frustrating experience especially if the fps constantly drop as you will not be able to enjoy the game.
Here’s how to resolve Evil West frame drops issue.
Solution #1 Check Hardware Game Requirements
Minimum Requirements
OS: Windows 10 (64 bits)
CPU: Intel Core i5-2500K (3.3 GHz) / AMD FX-6300 X6 (3.5 GHz)
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: 4 GB VRAM, GeForce GTX 750 Ti / Radeon RX 460
Storage: 40 GB available space
Additional Notes: 30 FPS, 1920×1080 in medium
Recommended System Requirements
OS: Windows 10 (64 bits)
CPU: Intel Core i5-10505 (3.2 GHz) / AMD Ryzen 5 1600 (3.2 GHz)
Memory: 16 GB RAM
Graphics: GeForce GTX 1060 / Radeon RX 590
Storage: 40 GB available space
Additional Notes: 60 FPS, 1920×1080 in epic
Solution #2 Update Graphics Card
The next thing to do is to update your drivers. You may be experiencing frame drop in Evil West because you have an outdated version of graphics card driver. You can use Windows to update your GPU driver. You can also download the latest driver version of your GPU on the manufacturer website or you can use the GeForce Experience application if you have NVIDIA GPU or Radeon software if you have AMD GPU.
Updating Video Card
Step 1: Simply type Device Manager in the search bar on your desktop and then click the Device Manager icon that appears in the results. This will open the device manager.
Step 2: Click the Display adapters icon. The list of display adapters will be expanded.
Step 3: Right-click the video card you are using to play the game and then select Update driver. This will allow you to update your driver.
Step 4: Choose Search automatically for drivers. This will search online for any new drivers and install it on your computer.
You should also make sure that the video card is your preferred graphic processor when playing the game. Users of NVIDIA can change to their preferred GPU through NVIDIA control panel.
Changing preferred graphic processor
- Open the NVIDIA control panel.
- Navigate to 3D settings > Manage 3D settings.
- Open the Program settings tab and select your game from the dropdown menu.
- Select Preferred graphic processor for this program from the second dropdown menu. Your NVIDIA GPU should appear as “High-performance NVIDIA processor”
- Save your changes.
After you have updated your GPU, try to check if Evil West still has frame drop.
Solution #3 Choose High Performance Mode
Try to check performance modes that your computer is using if it is in balanced mode, power saver mode or high performance plan. If it is not set to high performance plan then you must choose it in order to not get frame drop in Evil West.
Choosing High Performance
Step 1: On the search bar on your desktop, type Power & Sleep Settings and click it from the search result.
Step 2: Click Additional Power Setting.
Step 3: Choose High Performance.
Solution #4 Update Windows PC
The next thing to do is to update your Windows to the recent version. These updates will usually have improvements, security patches, DirectX updates, and bug fixes that will resolve the the frame drop issue in Evil West.
Updating Windows OS
Step 1: Right click the Start button.
Step 2: Select Settings.
Step 3: Select Update & Security.
Step 4: Select Check for updates to update.
Solution #5 Change Video Settings
If you are still getting low fps with Evil West, then the next thing you have to do is to adjust the game graphical settings to low or medium settings. Your computer may not be able to run it in normal settings so you need to adjust it.
Nvidia Users
- Right-click on desktop
- Click Nvidia control panel
- Click Manage 3D Settings
- Click Program Settings
- Find Evil West.
- Monitor Tech: G-Sync (If available)
- Maximum Pre-rendered frames: 2
- Threaded optimization: On
- PowerManagement: Maximum Performance
- Texture Filtering – Quality: Performance
- Low Latency Mode: Low
AMD Users
- Open the AMD Software.
- Anti-Aliasing Mode: Use Application settings
- Anti-aliasing Method: Multisampling
- Morphological Filtering: Off
- Anisotropic Filtering Mode: Use application settings
- Texture Filtering Quality: Performance
- Surface Format Optimization: On
- Wait for V-sync: Off
- OpenGL Triple Buffering: Off
- Shader Cache: AMD optimized
- Tessellation Mode: Override application settings
- Maximum Tessellation Level: Off
- GPU Workload: Graphics
- Chill: Off
- FrameRate Target Control: Disabled
Solution #6 Verify Integrity Game files
If you are still getting low fps then you can try to verify the integrity of game files. There might be issue with your game files that is causing low fps. If there are issues with your game file, Steam will replace it with new ones.