Interpreting The Performance Test Results

Things To Check

First and foremost, check the Command Line part of your test results to see if there are any launch commands you do not wish to use. If there are, feel free to remove them.



part of your test results to see if there are any launch commands you do not wish to use. Secondly, make sure that the Render System is what you want it to be. DirectX, OpenGL, Vulkan or etc..



is what you want it to be. Thirdly, check if the Driver Name shows the GPU that you intend the game to run it on. If it isn't, go to your GPU settings and allow Dota 2 to run on your graphics card. It is important to let your dedicated graphics GPU run Dota 2 for best performance.



shows the GPU that you intend the game to run it on. If it isn't, go to your GPU settings and allow Dota 2 to run on your graphics card. Fourthly, Windows DVR feature is known to cause issues with many games including Dota 2. Turn it off if you haven't already.



feature is known to cause issues with many games including Dota 2. Turn it off if you haven't already. Lastly, Network Information is a great feature but it does come at a slight performance cost. If you are facing serious performance issues, try to turn it off if you don't use it regularly.

Comparing FPS Results

If your HALF Resolution FP is significantly better than Baseline Resolution, you can reduce the Video > Game Screen Render Quality slider to possibly increase your performance.



slider to possibly increase your performance. If your REDUCED DRAWING FPS is significantly higher than your Baseline Resolution, you can turn OFF High Quality Water and set Shadow Quality to Medium or OFF in the Video Options to possibly increase your performance.



and set to or in the Video Options to possibly increase your performance. If the Particles Disabled FPS is significantly higher than your Baseline FPS, you can drop the Effects Quality settings in your Video Options to possibly increase your performance.



settings in your Video Options to possibly increase your performance. If the Game Only FPS is significantly higher than the Baseline FPS, then you can try to disable the High Quality UI from Video Options to try and increase your performance.

Local Bot Test Results vs Network Bot Game Results

If the issue remains even while watching the replay, then it is a performance related issue.



If the issues does not remain when watching the replay, then you are most likely facing an issue with how your network is configured rather than the game itself. So you might want to look at solutions on the networking end to resolve your issue.

Replays

What the Performance Test Does Not Track

Other Contributors To Performance

If you have manually increased the number of chat lines using dota_hud_chat_history_lines -- then you are likely to face some FPS drop.

Once the test results are out, it is important to understand what they are so you can tweak your game accordingly to try and get better performance on your system.: Remember that the test gives you an idea of how the game is running on your system but might not necessarily pin point what is causing your performance to go down.After you have verified the above modes running as they are intended, you can look at the Performance Test FPS results and compare them to different scenarios to tweak your settings. Here are a few changes that you can make based upon the results.You can try to identify your problems further by comparing results from Local Bot Games and Network Bot Games.If you experience an issue in your network game, try watching a Replay of the moment you experience performance loss.Replays are a great way to run performance tests and compare results as you can run tests on the same scenario using different settings.You can turn off particular settings and run tests at the same time in a replay to see if that particular setting is causing your FPS to drop significantly.The Dota 2 Performance Tests do not monitor your system conditions such as the GPU and CPU temperatures, fan speeds and etc. So if you have a system that may throttle due to heating during the execution of the tests might affect the results.Additionally, any other setting (such as power profiles, system configurations) on your PC that might affect resources available for Dota will not be reflected in the results. These are solutions you will have to look outside of Dota.