Marvel’s Midnight Suns get huge performance boost after surpassing 2K launcher – Games News

Firaxis Games’ XCOM spin-off tactical RPG Marvel’s Midnight Suns performs significantly better when not being played through a 2K shooter. Stuttering disappears dramatically and the number of frames per second increases dramatically.

Hardware editor James Archer of computer games site Rock Paper Shotgun Say That this operator is, according to him, the cause of stuttering and instability to some extent. After disabling the 2K player from running the game and using Steam instead, the average frame rate improved by 62 percent.

Test performance with the 2K launcher and Steam during the tutorial task. On a PC with an Intel i9-10900K processor, RTX 3090 video card, 32GB of DDR4 memory and running at 2560 x 1440 pixels, I achieved an average frame rate of 90fps with a minimum of 46fps and a maximum of 111fps per second. When the same mission was played through Steam, the average frame rate was 146fps with a minimum of 66fps and a maximum of 190fps.

2K Player starts automatically when players try to launch the game. Disabling it isn’t as simple as unchecking it, which makes it clear that publisher Take-Two likes players to use this program as part of game startup. Archer wrote a relatively simple step-by-step plan for bypassing the launcher, which in a nutshell boils down to entering the file location of a specific .exe file in Steam.