Hm. So it scales with VRAM and GPU, not CPU? Interesting.
That’s less concerning than people had made it out to be, at least for a game of this genre. It still doesn’t sound particularly pleasant to play, but hey, less of a dealbreaker.
Precisely. Not to sound too much like a shill because full disclosure I bought and I’m very excited for C:S2, but I find some of the concern is overblown. Yes the performance is a MAJOR problem, but the game is feature complete and optimization is ongoing, with significant improvements to arrive by console release.
Yeah, it seems weird because you’d think all the simulation load would be in the background and they could scale the visuals. Since it seems like there’s a high base cost for them I assume it’s possible to make that run at least a bit better at some point.
The console release target is a bit of a question mark, though. You’d think they have just weaker GPUs and they’ll need to optimize to fit, but they can also target lower resolutions and do other stuff there. Plus if there’s an I/O issue in there, there’s a reliable spec for SSDs on those, so who knows.
Alright, so I got the game and it a) actually has a fantastic options menu with a ton of granularity, and b) it has some really dumb, wasteful settings flagged as “high” with no “ultra” preset.
I went from launching into a default in the 30s for the default map to toning down their nuts global illumination, volumetric clouds and transparent reflections for a neat 100+ fps. And then I cranked it back up a bit to be hovering around 90. I’m sure I’ll have to tweak more when I get deeper into the game, but yeah, no, this is gonna be playable.
For the record, I think setting up decent defaults and settings should be a thing in PC games. Tuning the game shouldn’t be the first thing you have to do. But whether it’s thanks to last minute patches or people overreacting to the announcements I think this was a bit overblown. I’ll report back if that proves not to be the case as I get deeper in.
People just think that all new games should be able to run at 60fps on ultra settings on 4 year old hardware or it isn’t “optimized”. If it runs fine, I’m happy ,even if it needs to be on “high” settings until hardware catches up a bit.
Hm. So it scales with VRAM and GPU, not CPU? Interesting.
That’s less concerning than people had made it out to be, at least for a game of this genre. It still doesn’t sound particularly pleasant to play, but hey, less of a dealbreaker.
Precisely. Not to sound too much like a shill because full disclosure I bought and I’m very excited for C:S2, but I find some of the concern is overblown. Yes the performance is a MAJOR problem, but the game is feature complete and optimization is ongoing, with significant improvements to arrive by console release.
Yeah, it seems weird because you’d think all the simulation load would be in the background and they could scale the visuals. Since it seems like there’s a high base cost for them I assume it’s possible to make that run at least a bit better at some point.
The console release target is a bit of a question mark, though. You’d think they have just weaker GPUs and they’ll need to optimize to fit, but they can also target lower resolutions and do other stuff there. Plus if there’s an I/O issue in there, there’s a reliable spec for SSDs on those, so who knows.
Alright, so I got the game and it a) actually has a fantastic options menu with a ton of granularity, and b) it has some really dumb, wasteful settings flagged as “high” with no “ultra” preset.
I went from launching into a default in the 30s for the default map to toning down their nuts global illumination, volumetric clouds and transparent reflections for a neat 100+ fps. And then I cranked it back up a bit to be hovering around 90. I’m sure I’ll have to tweak more when I get deeper into the game, but yeah, no, this is gonna be playable.
For the record, I think setting up decent defaults and settings should be a thing in PC games. Tuning the game shouldn’t be the first thing you have to do. But whether it’s thanks to last minute patches or people overreacting to the announcements I think this was a bit overblown. I’ll report back if that proves not to be the case as I get deeper in.
People just think that all new games should be able to run at 60fps on ultra settings on 4 year old hardware or it isn’t “optimized”. If it runs fine, I’m happy ,even if it needs to be on “high” settings until hardware catches up a bit.