
The game has a tendency to just “stop” for a second or two and then resume with that regularly ending in a crash to the desktop. Feel free to raise values like shadow resolution further than what is shown here, just keep in mind that doing things like that might make the game less stable. The guide will improve the game’s graphics here and there too but keep in mind that most of those settings will be fairly conservative since the emphasis is on fixing stuff. On top of that there are a few other tweaks that are necessary for ensuring good baseline performance and to fix the game from crashing frequently so I’ll cover those too. By doing this you can fix most issues (except for some gameplay related bugs) so the goal of this guide is to help you through that. Thankfully the game is running on Unreal Engine 3 and the port is lazy enough that the devs didn’t stop people from tweaking basically all the settings you can find in the. You’ll encounter most issues people usually think of when hearing the expression “bad port”: crashes, serious stuttering issues, bad frame pacing, optimization problems. The PC port of Alice: Madness Returns is quite frankly terrible. This is prior to any NVIDIA Control Panel/AMD Catalyst changes.Fixing random freezes and crashes, unlocking the fps, improving performance, frame pacing and graphics quality, all the good stuff. There are others on there that will ease your framerate if your rig cannot run it at full max, please note that your milage will vary, but on my system, with a 970, these changes have now made the game as smooth and as graphically enhanced as it can be by changing the games. MaxSmoothedFrameRate=31 to MaxSmoothedFrameRate=60 MinSmoothedFrameRate=22 to MinSmoothedFrameRate=30 PhysXMeshCacheSize=8 to PhysXMeshCacheSize=16 PhysXGpuHeapSize=64 to PhysXGpuHeapSize=256 I did a few of the tweaks from this page and I am now running the game with full and maxed graphical options, with no stuttering what so ever, with capped frames at 60 through choice. I also have a 970, with a i7 4gz and 16mb RAM. But this is easily remedied by editing the games config.Ī quick Google search of "Alice Madness Returns stuttering" found this guide, which is in fact from the Steam forums: Yes, it is true that this game is poorly optimized for more modern and higher spec PCs, as the game is a few years old, and also had a console port.
