High FPS Movement Fix - No More Strafe Sliding

Some antivirus programs (and VirusTotal) may flag this mod. This is a false positive. The fix works by hooking and re-timing the game's character-physics function in memory — the exact same technique used by virtually all ASI mods, trainers and script extenders. Heuristic/ML antivirus engines flag this behavior generically (labels like Evo-gen, Generic, score 99), not because of any actual malware.

• []No network code, no persistence, no file access beyond a small local log next to the DLL.[/]

  []Full source code is open so you can read exactly what it does and build it yourself:  xStealthLiquid/watchdogs2-highfps-movement-fix[/]

  []VirusTotal: only generic heuristic detections, no real signature:  VirusTotal - File - 0abdce657aecf84cb8ae455c31573b108a4aa84e9c9d52379424b3151124c5bb[/]

Description

Watch Dogs 2 has a framerate-dependent movement bug: above 60 FPS your character slides / skates sideways over the ground, most noticeably when you run forward and quickly alternate strafing left and right (A ⇄ D). At a locked 60 FPS the movement is clean — but at higher framerates like 120 FPS it feels floaty and imprecise.

This mod fixes that without capping your framerate. It re-times only the player's physics step to a fixed rate, so high-FPS movement feels exactly as tight as 60 FPS while your game keeps rendering at full speed. No configuration needed — it just works once you load into the world.

Under the hood, WD2's Havok character controller is stepped once per rendered frame, so at 120 FPS it runs twice as often as it was tuned for, and the per-frame speed limit "over-charges" — the classic Quake/Source strafe bug. This mod drives the player's character step through a fixed 60 Hz accumulator, decoupled from your render rate. NPCs, animals and vehicles are left completely untouched, and your real movement speed stays identical.

Installation instructions

1. Enable the launch option (required)

In Steam, right-click Watch Dogs 2 → Properties → Launch Options and add:

-eac_launcher

(This disables EasyAntiCheat so mods can load. It also disables online play — this mod is Singleplayer only. See Requirements.)

2. Copy the files

Extract the archive and copy dinput8.dll and wd2fix.asi into the game's bin folder:

...\steamapps\common\Watch_Dogs2\bin\

3. Play

Launch the game. The fix activates automatically once you're in the world.