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Dota 2

Dota 2 Ultimate Performance Guide – improve fps / tweak settings / boost graphics

Dota 2 is a fun game but unlike it’s older sibling dota 1 it has higher system requirements. The system requirements for dota 2 are:

Dota 2 Minimum System Requirements:

Dota 2 Recommended System Requirements:

Because of the higher system requirements many dota 2 players have trouble playing the game with high fps or playing the game at all. This guide will teach you how to optimize dota 2 configuration in order to play the game more smoothly. This is done mainly by lowering graphic settings (animation, spell effects, lightning) but other factors are tweaked also.

I. Update your graphic card driver to the latest version

To find out your card go to Control Panel -> Device Manager -> Display Adapters. Then make sure you have the latest driver version. The links below will let you download the latest version for amd and nvidia. Dota 2 properties codependency

II. Tweak Dota 2 Launch Options

The next step is to tweak dota 2 launch options, the options are available in Steam games library. Go to Steam games library, right click Dota 2 and select [Properties], then click on [Set Launch Options]…“ like in the image below. There you can set parameters for dota 2 start.

The parameters recommended to set here are:

[-console] setting will enable the dota 2 console where you can type commands or see the log, [-novid] will disable the intro video, the creepy bald guy, [-noaafonts] will disable antialiasing of the fonts, [-high] will set the process priority of the game to high, [-noforcemaccel – noforcemspd – useforcedmparms] will disable the mouse acceleration in game.
We recommend you add all this parameters to launch options like this, then click on [Ok]: [-console – novid – noaafonts – high – noforcemaccel – noforcemspd – useforcedmparms]

III. Tweak Dota 2 in game video settings

Go to Dota 2 configuration by clicking

. Then go to [Video]->[General]. Here first turn [VSYNC] off and then set a lower [RESOLUTION], depending on the power of your computer. Start low and test the game, then gradually increase until you are satisfied.

Next go to the [Advanced] tab and set everything off and low. You can try leaving [Textures] to medium.

IV. Configure Dota 2 advanced setting in config files

The following Dota 2 config will tweak the advanced dota 2 settings in order to maximize performance. In order to execute these setting each time your Dota 2 game starts you must put these command lines in the autoexec. cfg file. Go to:

You can also go there by right click on the dota 2 game in steam games library then select [Properties], go to [LOCAL FILES] tab then click [BROWSE LOCAL FILES…], then go to [dota]->[cfg].

In this folder you should see at least two files, config. cfg and video. txt. Here create a text file then save it as autoexec. cfg, be careful not to save it as autoexec. cfg. txt . After that you can open it with a text editor like notepad and copy the commands listed below. Each line in this file will be a command, anything after a `//’ in a particular line is a comment and it’s not executed.

dota2upc. cfg, copy this text in the autoexec. cfg file:

If all was done right, when dota 2 starts you should see the console window with the text “Dota2upc. cfg loaded successfully” written. Alternatively you can download the file dota2upc. cfg HERE, download it in the folder where autoexec. cfg is and in autoexec. cfg just put this line:

V. Try advanced Dota 2 launch options

This final step is a little extreme and may cause crashes or visual glitches in the game. That’s why it was saved for last. These are options for dota 2 launch, just like in step II.
The following launch option disables directx 9 external rendering, and will increase fps:

The following launch option allows you to set the dx level in which you want dota 2 to work:

The following option allows you to set a heap size for dota 2 process, memory usage.

Allocates the optimal amount of memory depending on your computer. Take your amount of ram in kB and divide by 2. For example 2048 MB equals 2 GB equals 2147483 kbytes. Some common examples: