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The launch is not as smooth as everyone of us expected as many XCOM 2 players are experiencing nasty issues related to overall performance of the game. Firaxis is definitely working on a fix (hotfix or patch) to optimize the game and fix performance issues but it might take a few more days to arrive. Thankfully, XCOM community on Reddit and Steam has discovered a fix for some of the known issues such as “how to speed up animations and gameplay, improve FPS, can’t detect native 4K Resolution” and many others. Check out the fixes for all the known XCOM 2 issues:MINIMUM. OS: 10.11.2. CPU: 2.7 GHz i5. GPU: NVIDIA 700 series or AMD R9 series.
VRAM: 2GBFor LINUXMINIMUM:. OS: Ubuntu 14.04.2 64-bit or Steam OS. Processor: Intel i3-3225 3.3 GHz.
RAM: 4GB. Graphics: 1GB NVIDIA 650. NOTE: AMD and Intel GPUs are not supported at the time of release.RECOMMENDED:. OS: Ubuntu 14.04.2 64-bit or Steam OS.
Processor: Intel i7. RAM: 8GB. Graphics: 2GB NVIDIA 960. NOTE: AMD and Intel GPUs are not supported at the time of release.1: How to speed up animations and gameplay:Defaultanimation.ini C:gamesSteamsteamappscommonXCOM 2XComGameConfig (Lines 18-24). 2: Fix for Significant FPS Loss:One of the main cause of this problem might be the fact that XCOM 2 is automatically set to “Below Normal” Priority.
If you are experiencing this issue that uses a program like Process Lasso to permanently set XCOM to “HIGH” priority, it will help a lot but doesn’t give you a magical FPS BOOST. Also, try running the game in windowed mode instead of windowed fullscreen. If it didn’t help you then you need to wait patiently for Firaxis to fix it via hotfix or patch because this could also be an optimization issue and not related to Specs. 3: Can’t Detect Native 4K Resolution.Another nasty issue that XCOM 2 players are facing is that the game does not detect native 4K resolution. I have made another dedicated guide on this issue titled as.
4: XCOM 2: Save Game LocationPlease note that in XCOM 2, saves are not in the normal XCOM: EU place. You will discover all you saves in the directory “DocumentsMy GamesXCOM2XComGameSaveData” i.e. It’s not just “games” but “MY GAMES”.
About every hour of gameplay, xcom 2 crashes for no reason, most. A GameFAQs message board topic titled 'Keep crashing after first tutorial mission.
5: XCOM 2 Crashes at startup after it was working:This happens when a save game or the game profile gets corrupt the games crashes at startup shortly after the initial run screen. The issue won’t be solved it you just delete your local profile (Documents/My Games/XCOM2) because the steam cloud sync will always restore the corrupted save. Here is how you can fix it, launch the initial run screen, then go to Documents/My Games) and delete the XCOM2 Folder. Then it will launch again and the cloud syncs with the clean install again. As I played Ironman the Progress was gone but, at least, the games runs again. List of all Known Issues and no fix yet:.
XCom 2 Blank Screen After Play6: XCOM 2 How to Fix Stuttering and FlickeringIf you too are facing the freezing, stuttering and flickering issue then you have come to the right place. We have the fixes ready for you. Simply follow the steps below. Switch to Desktop by pressing Alt+tab to. Open Task Manager by pressing Shift+Ctrl+Esc. Right-click on the game’s process.
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Set priority to “High”If you are still facing the freezing issue then try switching to windowed mode and turning Anti-Aliasing to OFF. Manual Update for Permanent Fix.
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