Are you tired of playing Hunt Showdown with lag and low FPS? Look no further, as we have got you covered with some expert tips and tricks to boost your game's performance. Hunt Showdown is an intense, first-person shooter game set in the late 1800s, where players hunt down supernatural creatures in a dangerous, unforgiving world. However, to fully immerse yourself in the game's atmosphere and enjoy the thrill of the hunt, a smooth and seamless gameplay experience is crucial.

This article will provide practical and easy-to-implement solutions to increase your FPS and overall performance in Hunt Showdown. We will cover everything from optimizing your graphics settings to updating your drivers and tweaking your computer settings. So get ready to gear up, grab your weapons, and dive into the world of Hunt Showdown with improved performance and a competitive edge. Let's begin the hunt!

Adjust the Hunt Showdown In-Game Settings

Changing your Hunt Showdown settings usually makes the biggest performance improvement for low to mid-end systems. Open up your settings, and make changes according to your system’s specifications. Most of the setting changes showcased are applicable to low-end PCs. If you experience performance issues while using the recommended system requirements, then follow the next steps.

Video Settings — Hunt Showdown Settings > Basic Settings

We will take a look at your Hunt Showdown settings. Open up Hunt Showdown, and navigate to your graphics settings. In your basic settings, make sure to set the Resolution to your native monitor resolution and set the window mode to fullscreen. Below, you can slightly decrease your render resolution scale in case none of the next tweaks helped you out as much as you wanted. This will improve your performance greatly, especially if your GPU is a bottleneck to your performance, but the visual quality will suffer a lot.

Allocate 80% of your VRAM to be used while playing Hunt Showdown. For higher-end GPUs, you can set this option to 70% if you have resource-intensive programs running in the background. Below, set the Global Graphics Quality to Low, which will reduce some of these settings. If you have some frames to spare, you can increase your Texture Quality to medium.

Disable Anti-aliasing, and for low-end PCs and laptops, we suggest disabling the Effect Quality and Post-process Quality options. Enable the Performance Stats option to preview how well Hunt Showdown is running on your PC and disable V-sync. Set your FPS cap to a value above your screen’s refresh rate but below the maximum FPS you can get. The last two options will be personal preference, but we prefer to disable Depth of field and Motion blur.

2 basic settings 2.jpg — Hunt Showdown Graphics Settings

Advanced Graphics Settings

In your advanced graphics options, enable Surface format optimization, disable the toggle GPU tessellation option, and enable the last two options to get the most performance.

Change the Hunt Showdown Process Priority

To further increase your Hunt Showdown performance on your PC, we will change the application’s priority compared to other programs running in the background.

Right-click your taskbar to open up your Task Manager. In the Processes tab, right-click the Hunt Showdown process and select Go to Details. In the Details tab, the application should be highlighted. Right-click the game process and set the priority to high.

Task Manager > Performance > Resource Monitor

This will allocate more resources to playing Hunt Showdown and should increase your performance, especially if you have other programs running in the background. In order to reduce the CPU utilization from other programs, we suggest you end some programs from running in the background, which you don't need when playing the game. Only end programs from running, which you know won't break your operating system.

Update Graphics Card Driver

NVIDIA graphics cards can utilize the GeForce Experience application. Click here to download the application to your system. When the download is completed, open up the application, and in the Drivers tab selects Download. This will download and install the latest GPU update and should take a few minutes to complete.

Update Operating System

To optimize your system for performance, you should ensure your operating system is up to date. Search for Update in your taskbar search. In your Check for updates system settings window, make sure to download the latest update and make sure to restart your PC after that, the download is completed. This will help you with performance issues.

Disable Xbox Game Bar Recording

Some native Windows 10 settings can reduce your overall performance while playing Hunt Showdown. Disable the Game Bar recording option, as it continuously records your gameplay and audio. In your taskbar search, enter: Game Bar to open the game bar system settings. Make sure to uncheck the recording option. In the Captures tab, disable the background recording option additionally. These settings will only reduce your performance. If you want to record your gameplay, then we suggest using OBS Studio or an external capture card if you lack performance.

Adjust the NVIDIA Control Panel Settings

Making changes to your NVIDIA control panel can be essential. Change a few options in your NVIDIA control panel to improve the Hunt Showdown performance on your system. To open your NVIDIA control panel, right-click your desktop and select NVIDIA Control Panel. In your control panel, navigate to Manage 3D Settings > Program Settings.

Select to Add a program to customize and then add Hunt Showdown from the program list. If you can’t find the game in the program list, click on Browse. In your file explorer, you must locate the drive and path on which you installed Hunt Showdown and add it to the program list from there. Make sure that the CUDA setting is set to your main GPU, set the Power management mode to Prefer maximum performance, and set the texture filtering quality to Performance.

NVIDIA Control Panel > Manage 3D Settings > Program Settings

Change the Hunt Showdown Graphics Preference

Windows 10 allows you to utilize power user settings, such as your graphics settings. To change your graphics settings, enter Graphics Settings in your taskbar search to open up your native settings. When selecting Browse, your file explorer will open up, where you will have to navigate to the drive and path where Hunt Showdown is saved. After adding the program to your graphics settings list, the operating system lets you choose between the following:

Let Windows choose
Power Saving (Usually Intel HD Graphics)
High Performance (Usually, your graphics card(s)
Specific GPU (Choose which GPU to use)

For the most system performance, use the High-Performance option. If your GPU is bottlenecking your performance, you should set it to High Performance. Don't forget to apply your changes.

Graphics Settings > Graphics Preference > High Performance

Delete your Temporary Files

Your hard drive might be cluttered with unwanted files. These files will induce lag if not removed properly. You can delete your temporary files manually or use PC cleanup programs, such as CCleaner. These applications are usually the best choice as they automatically keep your hard-drive clean for you. To manually delete your temporary files, enter %temp% in your taskbar search and hit enter. A new folder will open up. Make sure to delete the content of your temporary files folder.

Sometimes, this can take a few minutes if you haven’t done this before. Some files will most likely stay in your temp folder, as these are still in use by your programs. To completely delete these files, you should also empty your recycle bin.