Fields of Mistria running slow or crashing

Step 1 — Check the minimum specs

The developer's first instruction is to confirm your system actually meets the minimum requirements, which are published at the bottom of the Steam store page. Everything below assumes you pass this.

Step 2 — Update your graphics driver

Straight from the official troubleshooting page: out-of-date drivers are extremely common, and updating them "can really make a difference to the performance of your games". Update the GPU driver and let Windows finish its own updates before testing again.

Step 3 — Force the right graphics card

Step 4 — Change VSync and fullscreen mode

If the game still runs badly, the developer gives two in-game configurations to try, in this order. Both live under Settings → Graphics.

Try this first

• VSync: On or Adaptive. (Adaptive only appears if your card supports it — nearly all modern discrete GPUs do, but not all laptop GPUs.)
• Display mode: Fullscreen — specifically not Borderless Fullscreen.

If that did not work

• VSync: Off
• Frame Rate Cap: 60 FPS, On
• Snap Frame Rate: Off
• Display mode: Fullscreen — again not Borderless, and not Windowed.

Before you report a bug, check the patch notes

The game has shipped patches quickly since the 1.0 launch on August 5:

• v1.0.2 — included performance work and new hairstyles.
• v1.0.3 — quality-of-life updates plus bug and crash fixes.

The developer marks any change that came from community reports with a 🌼 emoji in the patch notes, so you can see which fixes came from players.

Still broken? Report it properly

The developer runs an official bug report form on their Feedback & Bugs page. They are upfront that they cannot reply to individual submissions, but state that reports are reviewed regularly. That form is the route that actually gets things fixed — it is where the 🌼 changes come from.