Best way to increase framerate?
You can try playing with these: Likely will only have minimal effects and may make it worse depending on the values you play with.
Open Notepad.
Copy and Paste this:
RenderDevice.ForceRenderAheadLimit 1
PerfOverlay.DrawGraph 0
PerfOverlay.DrawFps 1
PostProcess.DofMethod 0
PostProcess.BlurMethod 0
PostProcess.DynamicAOEnable 0
PostProcess.DynamicAOMethod 0
Render.VSyncFlashTestEnable 0
WorldRender.TransparencyShadowmapsEnable 0
WorldRender.MotionBlurEnable 0
WorldRender.MotionForceOn 0
WorldRender.SpotLightShadowmapEnable 0
WorldRender.SpotlightShadowmapResolution 256
WorldRender.LightTileCsPathEnable 0
RenderDevice.Dx11Enable 0
RenderDevice.Dx11Dot1Enable 0
RenderDevice.Dx11Dot1RuntimeEnable 0
RenderDevice.VSyncEnable 0
RenderDevice.TripleBufferingEnable 0
GameTime.MaxVariableFps 30
Save it as "user.cfg"
You cannot have user.cfg.txt
enable "View Extentions of Known File Types" from Folder Options in Control Panel
Put it in your PvZ directory
\\Origin Games\Plants vs Zombies Garden WarfareGameTime.MaxVariableFps 30 <-- that's really the key line... and probably one of the few it actually reads/uses. It's the frame limiter... since it's struggling setting it to 30 may make it appear a bit smoother rather than having the FPS jump around like a crazy man.
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Close as many running programs on your computer as you can.
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Unpark CPU cores on some models.
http://www.coderbag.com/programming-c/disable-cpu-core-parking-utility
Using this utlity is better than doing a registry edit, because this way it should only temporarily change it until next restart I believe.
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This probably does a whole lot of nothing since I think the memory manage probably isn't an issue but you can clear your standby RAM with it
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ff700229.aspx
If your using an IGP/APU it may help dunno... depends I guess... Windows is suppose to let it go itself when programs want it
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Upgrade Display Drivers to the latest.
nVidia and AMD Driver software you can edit settings to make it look "worse" but play better.
Do it only for PvZ.exe instead of using a global profile, that way it won't affect anyone else's programs or games.
Turn things off / down and test...
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Don't use VSYNC
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That's all I can think of at the minute... upgrading the GPU of course is a sure bet but probably out of the question.
*edit* oh yeah, reduce resolution of the game of course
