Don't Starve getting VERY Choppy framerate

Question

All right, let me tell you what I know so far.

1. Enabling Vsync and Triple Buffering may help, but my AMD VISION menu doesn't allow me to do that.
2. This game played PERFECTLY on this laptop before, but suddenly started becoming choppy.
3. My video card isn't bad, other games work fine (With the exception of TF2 which gets the same framerate)
4. I don't have a virus.
5. My specs are:
   • Processor: AMD E2-1800 APU with Radeon HD graphics 1.70 GHz
   • RAM: 4.00 GB
   • OS: 64-bit Windows 8

Someone please help. I've been everywhere.

Answer 1

I had this issue along with really bizarre graphics.

I solved it by:

1. Right click on desktop, choose your graphics card control panel

2. Tell it to use integrated graphics instead of your normal graphics card

Or, simply tell your graphics cards not to use Bilinear nor Trilinear filtering.

Answer 2

Did they patch it recently? It could be something they did to the game, I've had that problem with Chivalry. I have to turn all of the video options to low or off in order to be able to play that game now. Try tweaking any in-game settings they give you to see if it will improve performance.

You can also try setting your desktop background to black - this is a trick I picked up back in the mmo days. If you have a large file as your desktop bg it requires more resources from your computer.