Gaming · Windows

Dead By Daylight - How To Change Frame Rate on PC

Original source date 8 March 2023

Answer

Close the game, and in your Taskbar search enter %appdata% and hit enter. Your file explorer will open up. Navigate to: AppData > Local > DeadByDaylight > Saved > Config > WindowsNoEditor. Open the GameUserSettings file with a text editor like Notepad. Scroll down until you find the FrameRateLimit option. eW suggest setting this value to the refresh rate of your monitor. In this case, that would be 144 FPS. If you want to uncap your frame rate, set this option to 0. Below, you can change your display resolution if you want to. After saving your changes, you can launch Dead by Daylight, and the game should run on the FPS limit you set.

Adjust the Dead by Daylight User Settings

Scroll down until you find the FrameRateLimit option

Scroll down until you find the FrameRateLimit option. eW suggest setting this value to the refresh rate of your monitor. In this case, that would be 144 FPS. If you want to uncap your frame rate, set this option to 0. Below, you can change your display resolution if you want to. After saving your changes, you can launch Dead by Daylight, and the game should run on the FPS limit you set.

Display your FPS while playing Dead by Daylight

To display an FPS counter, we recommend using the Steam FPS overlay. Open up your Steam launcher. Select Steam in the top left corner.

In your settings, under In-Game, set the In-game FPS counter to one of the four s…

In your settings, under In-Game, set the In-game FPS counter to one of the four screen corners, and when enabling the High contrast color option, the FPS counter will be displayed in a bright green color.

If it does not work

If the current interface differs, compare it with the recorded video walkthrough.