Devil May Cry 5 (DMC) Performance Guide – Fix Lag, FPS Drops, Bugs and Stuttering

Even though the Devil May Cry titles are known to be extremely optimized, there are certain instances in Devil May Cry 5 that are causing players to lag and suffer FPS loss. The most fun part of Devil May Cry games is using different types of combos to reach the SSS rating, and due to lag, players are missing a few moves, which is causing a break in the combos. It is highly recommended that players play this game on more than 60 frames per second as the Devil May Cry series is known to have the fastest hack-and-slash games, and low fps can hinder the overall experience. Here is how you can fix any sort of lag, FPS drops, bugs, and stuttering in Devil May Cry 5:

Devil May Cry 5 (DMC) Performance Guide – Fix Lag, FPS Drops, Bugs and Stuttering

How to fix any sort of lag, FPS drops, bugs and stuttering in Devil May Cry 5 Step #1

Make sure your system has the below mentioned system requirements

[Note: The official minimum system requirements are highly inaccurate as we tried to run this game on a AMD FX 6300 and it was crashing quite a lot. This means Devil May Cry 5 requires much better hardware than that]

Official System Requirements for Devil May Cry 5

Minimum:

  • OS: WINDOWS 7, 8.1, 10 (64-BIT Required)
  • Processor: Intel Core i5-4460, AMD FX-6300, or better
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM
  • Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 or AMD Radeon R7 260x with 2GB Video RAM, or better
  • DirectX: Version 11
  • Storage: 35 GB available space
  • Additional Notes: *Xinput support Controllers recommended *Internet connection required for game activation. (Network connectivity uses Steam® developed by Valve® Corporation.)

Recommended:

  • OS: WINDOWS 7, 8.1, 10 (64-BIT Required)
  • Processor: Intel Core i7-3770, AMD FX-9590, or better
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM
  • Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 with 6GB VRAM, AMD Radeon RX 480 with 8GB VRAM, or better
  • DirectX: Version 11
  • Storage: 35 GB available space
  • Additional Notes: *Xinput support Controllers recommended *Internet connection required for game activation. (Network connectivity uses Steam® developed by Valve® Corporation.)

System Requirements for Devil May Cry 5 recommended by us

[Note : These system requirements are recommended specifically by Frondtech as these has been tested thoroughly]

Minimum: [1080p, 60fps, lowest settings]

  • OS: WINDOWS 7, 8.1, 10 (64-BIT Required)
  • Processor: Intel Core i3 8100 , AMD Ryzen 3 1200, or better
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM
  • Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 or AMD Radeon R7 260x with 2GB Video RAM, or better
  • DirectX: Version 11
  • Storage: 35 GB available space

Recommended: [1080p, 60fps, high to max settings]

  • OS: WINDOWS 7, 8.1, 10 (64-BIT Required)
  • Processor: Intel Core i5 8400, AMD Ryzen 5 1600, or better
  • Memory: 16 GB RAM
  • Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 with 6GB VRAM, AMD Radeon RX 480 with 8GB VRAM, or better
  • DirectX: Version 11
  • Storage: 35 GB available space

How to fix any sort of lag, FPS drops, bugs and stuttering in Devil May Cry 5 Step #2

Download The Latest Graphics Drivers

Nvidia and AMD, both of them have released their drivers for Devil May Cry 5. Download them from their official websites.

  1. Nvidia Drivers
  2. AMD Drivers

How to fix any sort of lag, FPS drops, bugs, and stuttering in Devil May Cry 5 Step #3

Tweaking Nvidia Control Panel

[Note : This is for Nvidia users only]

  • Open Nvidia Control Panel
  • Click on Manage 3D settings on the left bar
  • Click on the Program Settings tab
  • Locate DMC5 from the drop down menu under “Select a program to customize”
  • If you cannot find Devil May Cry 5 on the list then you need to add the .exe file manually
  • Click on Add
  • Locate the folder when you have installed Devil May Cry 5
  • Select the executable file or the .exe file which in this case should be dmc5.exe
  • Once added the program settings will now be available for Devil May Cry 5
  • Set Max Pre-Rendered Frames to 1
  • Set Monitor Technology to G-Snyc (if available)
  • Enable Threaded Optimization
  • Set Power Management to Highest Performance
  • Set Multi-Display/Mixed GPU Acceleration to Single display performance mode

How to fix any sort of lag, FPS drops, bugs and stuttering in Devil May Cry 5 Step #4

Setting Priority Using The Task Manager

  • Start Devil May Cry 5
  • Press Alt+Tab to minimize the game
  • Open Task Manager
  • Click on Details tab
  • Search for the process dmc5.exe from the list.
  • Right click on the process and Set Priority to High or Realtime

You are good to go!

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Last Updated on December 26, 2023

8 thoughts on “Devil May Cry 5 (DMC) Performance Guide – Fix Lag, FPS Drops, Bugs and Stuttering”

    1. I have probably same problem game throws out its very annoying my card is geforce gtx 680 do tou have idea how to fix that?

  1. My problem;
    In Mission 2. Slowdown a game,very low fps….
    Mission 1,
    100% speed
    Mission 2. 20-30% speed.
    How to bug fixed?

  2. yo uso una gtx 750ti a medida que salen juegos la targeta e ponen obsoleta asi funciona la industria de los videojuegos todo es un negocio no es que la pc lo aguante esque optimizan el maldito juego para que corra asi y forzar ala gente que de desagan de la targta grafica que tiene y compren una mas resiente

  3. None of this helped me … i hate cqpcom for being lazy to make an update for pc users … a useless game … trowned 5o buck in the garbage … i have gtx 960 updated the drivers did the changes in the config files with direct x and still is slow and it the layers flikr …. i cant believe i will hate my fav game …

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