MindsEye low FPS/lagging or stuttering too much – How to fix

MindsEye is the latest single player, open world game that has become popular on Steam. While some of the gamers have compared it with the Rockstar’s GTA series of game, the former doesn’t even come close to it in terms of optimization. Many gamers have faced low FPS, sudden stutters while playing the game. In that case, these solutions will help you fix the low fps issues of MindsEye.

 

Fix 1 – Check the system requirements

MindsEye demands a substantial amount of hardware to even run the game in 1080p resolution. These are the minimum requirements to barely run the game –

  • Operating System: Windows 10/11 (64-bit, updated)
  • Processor: Intel Core i5-12400F or AMD Ryzen 5 5600X
  • Memory: 16 GB RAM
  • Graphics Card: Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 or AMD Radeon
  • RX 5600 XT (6 GB VRAM)
  • DirectX: Version 12
  • Storage: 70 GB available space (SSD required)

 



If your system hardware falls behind in any of the mentioned requirements, it will bottleneck the MindsEye game’s performance quite a bit.

 

Fix 2 – Set the High Performance for the game

You can set the MindsEye to run in high performance mode, getting full access to the NVIDIA/AMD GPU.

Step 1 – Right-click on your desktop and tap “Display Settings“.

 

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Step 2 Open up the “Graphics” settings from there.

 

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Step 3 – Then, find the “MindsEye” application in there. Expand it.

Step 4 – Later, set the “High Performance” mode from the GPU Preference.

 

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This way, MindsEye will have the full access to your GPU. Go for the next solution, if you are still experiencing lags, stutters in the game.

 

Fix 3 – Update the game

It’s not hard for us to recall the state Cyberpunk 2077 was at the launch day. So, you must install any pending patch or bug fix updates for MindsEye.

Step 1 – Open up the Steam or Epic Games, depending on where you have got the game.

Step 2 – Look for the game update in there. Steam does start to download the game updates automatically.

After installing the updates in the game, retry playing MindsEye once again.

 

Fix 4 – Update the graphics card

NVIDIA, AMD releases the latest graphics card driver with the release of major games like MindsEye. This new graphics driver also optimizes the card.

Step 1 – You can load up the NVIDIA App or GeForce Experience to do this.

Step 2 – Go to the “Drivers” tab in there.

Step 3 – If the graphics driver update is pending there, tap to update the graphics

Step 4 – Tap the “Download” button there to download and install the latest version of the GPU driver.

 

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Now, wait for a while for the app to install the graphics card driver update on the device.

Once you have updated the driver, give the MindsEye another try.

 

Fix 5 – Lower the graphic settings

Open world games like MindsEye requires a significant amount of hardware resources to operate properly. So, lowering the graphics settings may help reduce the continuous fps drop, lag issues in MindsEye.

These are the optimal graphic configurations available for the MindsEye –

Limit Frame Rate - Off
Limit Frame Rate for Cutscenes - On
V-sync - Off
NVIDIA DLSS Super Resolution
Resolution Scale - 66%
NVIDIA DLSS Super Resolution - Quality
DLSS Sharpness 55%
Frame Generation DLSS – 2X
Latency Reduction NVIDIA Reflex Low Latency
NVIDIA Reflex Low Latency On
Quality Detect Best Settings (Do not click this)
Quality Preset Custom
Shadow Quality - Low
Global Illumination Quality - Low
Reflection Quality - Low
Post-processing Quality - Low
Texture Quality - Medium
Effects Quality - Medium
Foliage Quality - Low
Shading Quality - Low
View Distance Quality - Low/Medium
Anti-Aliasing Quality - Low
Camera Motion Blur - Off
Camera Motion Blur - Off

 

Once you have applied this graphics settings, it should help you get better results with the MindsEye.