Planet Zoo is a zoo simulator designed and produced by Frontier Developments. Frontier is also the developer of famous games such as Planet Coaster and Zoo Tycoon. The game was launched as a beta version and there were many good reviews. The game has finally been released to the public and you can download it from Steam.

The game is currently on Top Seller and Trending Steam lists. The planet Zoo has collected about 700 reviews, most of which are “most positive”.

Some players have reported lags and FPS issues related to their game. In this article, we will learn how to fix them.

Change the graphics card settings

Below are the settings for AMD and Nvidia video card users. Use these settings for maximum performance.

For Nvidia users

Open the Nvidia control panel. Right-click on the desktop>Click the Nvidia control panel.

Click Manage 3D Settings> Program Settings

Find “Planet Zoo”, you can manually add a game if it is not in the list

Now make the following changes:

Monitor Tech: G-Sync (if available)

Maximum number of pre-trended personnel: 2

Streaming Optimization: On

Power management: Prefer maximum performance.

Texture Filtering – Quality: Productivity

For AMD users

Smoothing Mode: Use the application settings

Antialiasing Method: Multi-Sampling

Morphological filtration: off

Anisotropic filtering mode: using application settings

Texture filtering quality: performance

Optimization of surface format: on

V-sync waiting : off

OpenGL Triple buffering : Off

Shader Cache : AMD optimized

Tessellation mode : override application settings

Maximum tessellation level : Off

Graphic processor workload : graphics

Cold: Off

Target Frame Rate Management : Disabled

These settings should be good enough for you. Try to adjust the application priority a little bit, it will also increase the FPS a little bit.

Updating device drivers

Whenever a new game appears, especially when it’s called AAA, Nvidia is known for releasing its optimized updates for better performance with its graphics cards. I’m not sure about AMD because I’ve never used an AMD card.

Planet Zoo PC 2019 Repair freezes

Another thing you need to check is to open the Task Manager and check your memory and disk usage. Close all applications (not Windows) that consume your memory and use the drive. If the game still lags when everything looks fine, then you should probably wait for the fix to be updated and released soon.

These problems are mainly caused by the intensive use of the disk and can be fixed immediately by moving the game to the SSD.

Disable full-screen optimization and high DPI in Windows 10

Full-screen optimization and DPI settings come with Windows 10. These are known to cause problems with games, resulting in several problems. Disable:

Find your game installation folder

Find the .exe game file

Right-click > Properties > Compatibility tab

Click the “Disable fullscreen optimization” tab

Now press the “Change the high-resolution settings” button

Click “Override scaling behavior with high DPI” and select “Application” from the drop-down menu.

Save the settings.

Tone Down Settings

The general rule for each game is that if you’re lagging, it’s always recommended to lower the settings. Play a little bit with the settings, reduce shadows and textures, this should help.

Disable game mode

Windows says that gaming mode helps to optimize all windows, window updates and other window-related things when you start a game if you have the gaming mode enabled. But that’s not really true: the gaming panel is known for its FPS-related problems. So it’s better to turn it off if you’re not using it.

Click Start>Settings>Games

On the game panel, disable the “Record game clips, screenshots, and broadcast via the game panel” function.

Now go to the Captures tab and set “Record background while I’m playing the game” to Off.

Finally, click on the Game Mode tab and turn it off.

Nvidia’s PS Shadowplay is better for capturing game videos.

Update Windows

Latest updates was strange and broke a lot of games. To fix these problems, Windows has already replaced the patch and you can download them right now. If you are using an older version of Windows, I would recommend that you download the updated version.

There is also an update that has forced Windows to use a lot of RAM for a search panel function called Cortana. This has also been fixed, you just need to update.

Disable overlay in Discord

If you are using Discord as I am, I would recommend that you change a few things. One such thing is to impose a disagreement, which is not really what you need at all times. I use a two-monitor configuration, so it is useless for me to overlay. It is known that the cause of the problems associated with FPS.

Disable hardware acceleration in Discord

Open Discord

Click on User Settings > Appearance

Click on the hardware acceleration radio to turn it off.

Open Discord

Go to overlay in application settings

Click on the radio next to “Enable Overlay in Game” to turn it off.

Increase game priority

This is an old method of increasing FPS in some games, it affects only the CPU using the game.

Press CTLR + Shift + ESC to open the task manager

Find the planet’s zoo and right-click on it> go to the details

Now right-click on the .exe file of the process and set the priority to “high”.

This will prioritize your game over other Windows applications and give you a small boost.

We hope that these settings will help you improve the performance of your game. Comment on your PC settings below if not.