HELLDIVERS™ 2: Compilation of Community Fixes

1. Download Updated Drivers for Bios and GPU
2. Verify Steam Files for Game
3. Use Dx11 for Better Performance and Stability

1. NVIDIA Drivers [www.nvidia.com]
2. AMD Drivers [www.amd.com]

Originally posted by some guy on discord:

“This is the most common fix for several issues, as it fixes data corrupted in user settings. If you are facing issues, please delete the Helldivers2 Folder from the AppData. In order to do that, follow the steps:

1. Press Windows + R
2. Type %appdata%
3. Find and open the “Arrowhead” Folder.
4. Select the “Helldivers2” folder and delete.

These steps will delete all of your settings, meaning you will need to set up your game again, but no data will be lost.

AKA how to launch the game in DX11 with FPS cap

1. Right-click game in steam, then select -> General -> Launch Options and type: –use-d3d11 (I use –use-d3d11 -high -fullscreen)
2. Navigate to the Arrowhead folder, this is found by typing %appdata% in the bottom left windows search bar, Click Helldivers2 and delete the entire shadercache folder that is there, don’t just delete the contents of the folder
3. In the same windows search, if on an NVIDIA GPU, type Nvidia control panel, and open it.
4. In Manage 3D Settings -> Program Settings -> Add Helldivers 2 if it’s not already there. This is done by pressing add and navigating to Helldivers2 -> bin, in your steam library, and clicking on Helldivers2.exe
5. Now that H2 is selected for the program, Disable Image Scaling, Disable Vertical Sync, for OpenGL Rendering GPU select your primary gaming GPU, and put Power management mode in Prefer maximum performance
6. Then set your max frame rate to the level you want (This is extremely important), for me this is ½ 144 (144hz monitor). For you this could be 60, 120, 144, or just 100 to stop it from shooting up.
7. Now Try launching the game, and mess with some graphics settings in game, remember to restart to see the full impact of setting changes, some things require the restart to fully affect performance. A Resolution scaler is in the display menu but it is terrible so your best best is to keep it at the “Native” settings. Another Important thing is making sure you are in Fullscreen mode. Borderless loses about 8-10 fps for me for some reason, idk yet
8. That should fix most issues, if you still have them then continue on to:

First let’s see what the problem is, the main culprit will either be high CPU temperatures or high CPU usage, both of those can be fixed using Process Lasso, Here is a good guide on reddit to using that in Helldivers 2

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This has worked for 5 people on discord, other things may work but this is definitely getting people to message me saying that it works. I’m bolding it since this is the one people says works the most

try this if on pc

– Check to make sure your not auto selecting GPU for OpenGL, that gave me spikes starting game and loading, second image is with NVIDIA GPU selected
– It should go without saying, but your GPU in Nvidia control panel should be high processor, as well as in the Graphics Settings in windows itself for Helldivers2

– Sorry this one seems ♥♥♥♥♥♥ for a lot of people, I never ran into it.
– This can occasionally be fixed by redoing the tutorial and first trivial operation set.
– Some users are also reporting that joining a Host playing at the difficulty you need unlocked works too, according to some users in the Discord:

Originally posted by creamypies9820:

Looked likes difficulty is fixed for me, I was able to unlock it by joining a host that played a higher level than me and I unlocked it after I completed a operation with him. Level 6 is still locked but i have access to difficulty 7 and above. Anyone who sent a ticket should be able to do what i just did to fix your difficulty bug hopefully

– Make sure your shadercache folder wasn’t redownloaded, if so delete it
Another reminder about performance, FPS seems to be heavily tied to the Network Performance of the Host for sure, and maybe other people’s connection matter too but I haven’t tested this.

– You can get further Performance Improvements by following this guide and lowering your render resolution to something like 960×540

– Try this if you have already closed the game and restarted to receive the update to fix this

– Ve3nNo0wM — Today at 10:03 PM: PS5 PLAYERS SWITCH your visual quality profile to “quality” instead of performance. Ironically it performs better on QUALITY.

ArcticGale — Today at 11:02 PM
For anyone experiencing multiplayer issues on PC… If you are using AMD GPUs, make sure that you have the latest graphic drivers installed and restart your computer. I ended up having to reinstall the AMD software, downgrade my driver, then reinstall the latest driver. It actually fixed my matchmaking.

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