Friends, comrades, fellow fighters for truth and justice, you should turn off the 2K launcher for Marvel’s Midnight Suns. Partially because a number of players are reporting meaningful performance gains with the launcher deactivated, but mostly because it’s worthless bloatware and, well, why would you leave it on?<\/p>\n
First noted by Rock Paper Shotgun<\/a>, it seems that turning off the 2K launcher that usually, uselessly appears whenever you fire up Midnight Suns can net you a significant framerate boost in some circumstances. Players on Reddit seem to concur<\/a>, with some users observing gains of >10 <\/a>fps when they turn the launcher off. If you’d like to do that yourself, there’s a handy guide on Steam<\/a>.<\/p>\n We tried it ourselves at PCG, and while our findings were less dramatic, the changes were positive. Our average framerate rose from 50 to 55 fps on a 3080 Ti at 1440p on “Epic” settings (with ray tracing on), while our 0.1% low jumped from 4 to 17 fps. We also observed less stuttering in general with the launcher off. Not quite as dramatic a transformation, but nevertheless an improvement. Besides, our findings could all be down to a slight difference in setup.<\/p>\n No one’s figured out just what it is the 2K launcher is doing to impact performance. Players have reported similar issues with the software in other 2K games, including Mafia<\/a>, Civ 6<\/a>, XCOM<\/a>, and others. It’s almost impressive that an app so tiny and pointless manages to wreak so much havoc.<\/p>\n And the thing is, even if you can’t achieve some transformative change to Midnight Suns by deactivating the launcher, why not turn it off anyway? The 2K launcher\u2014like all launchers\u2014is a minor annoyance on its best days, and on its worst it’ll just stop your games from working altogether<\/a>. So remember, you can find a guide to switch it off right here<\/a>, and I recommend doing so even if your framerate is just fine.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [#item_image]2K’s launcher seems to negatively Midnight Suns’ performance, but you can turn it off<\/p>\n Friends, comrades, fellow fighters for truth and justice, you should turn off the 2K launcher for Marvel’s Midnight Suns. Partially because a number of players are reporting meaningful performance gains with the launcher deactivated, but mostly because it’s worthless bloatware and, well, why would you leave it on?<\/p>\n First noted by Rock Paper Shotgun<\/a>, it seems that turning off the 2K launcher that usually, uselessly appears whenever you fire up Midnight Suns can net you a significant framerate boost in some circumstances. Players on Reddit seem to concur<\/a>, with some users observing gains of >10 <\/a>fps when they turn the launcher off. If you’d like to do that yourself, there’s a handy guide on Steam<\/a>.<\/p>\n We tried it ourselves at PCG, and while our findings were less dramatic, the changes were positive. Our average framerate rose from 50 to 55 fps on a 3080 Ti at 1440p on “Epic” settings (with ray tracing on), while our 0.1% low jumped from 4 to 17 fps. We also observed less stuttering in general with the launcher off. Not quite as dramatic a transformation, but nevertheless an improvement. Besides, our findings could all be down to a slight difference in setup.<\/p>\n No one’s figured out just what it is the 2K launcher is doing to impact performance. Players have reported similar issues with the software in other 2K games, including Mafia<\/a>, Civ 6<\/a>, XCOM<\/a>, and others. It’s almost impressive that an app so tiny and pointless manages to wreak so much havoc.<\/p>\n And the thing is, even if you can’t achieve some transformative change to Midnight Suns by deactivating the launcher, why not turn it off anyway? The 2K launcher\u2014like all launchers\u2014is a minor annoyance on its best days, and on its worst it’ll just stop your games from working altogether<\/a>. So remember, you can find a guide to switch it off right here<\/a>, and I recommend doing so even if your framerate is just fine.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11654"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}