

This trick fixed Outriders performance issues on PC for me, so hopefully this is your last stop. If you are running the game reset it for the exclusion to take affect. Next, go to you main drive, then Users>Your Username>AppData>Local, and add the Madness folder. Once inside go to Steamapps>Common, and select the Outriders folder. From here locate your Steam folder (typically on your main drive if you didn’t manually set it elsewhere), or the one you installed Outriders to (if you have multiple Steam folders across multiple drives). Go to “Virus & Threat Detection” on the left, and within that panel scroll down and select “Manage Settings.” Scroll down within this window to “Exclusions” and click “Add or Remove Exclusions.”Ĭlick “Add an Exclusion”, and select the Folder option. Search for Windows Security in the search bar and open it. If you are using Windows Defender you will want to add an exclusion for both the Outriders folder in Steam, and the one in your Local Apps. This is the trick that worked for me, so fingers crossed this one will work for all of you. I do want to say these tips are to address the two issues above, but if your game is crashing feel free to skip to the DX11 portion of this guide, since that should resolve that issue for you.Īdd Outriders to your Windows Defender exclusions. Okay, there are a few things we can do to address the micro-stutter and micro-freezes bogging down Outriders performance on PC, and some of these may boost your frame-rate as well. Fix your micro-stutter and micro-freezes in Outriders on PC with these performance tweaks. Below I’ve listed a few various techniques that’ll hopefully get your PC copy of Outriders running smoothly. I’ve done some extensive troubleshooting on my end and found a solution that worked for me. Thing is, it’s a bit wonky and doesn’t work for everyone. People Can Fly have acknowledged that the DirectX 12 client of the game isn’t working as well as it should, and they have suggested their own workaround for the PC performance issues. Outriders on PC has a few performance issues, specifically micro-stuttering and micro-freezing.
