Bad Optimization (Mega Thread)

[placid raven]

Theres an **overwhelming ** amount of reports concerning optimization in this game.

Considering the game is asking for a 4070 i found it fishy and turns out my gut was right. Im hoping a patch will come soon since im surprised this wasn't fixed in development.

Bad Optimization (Mega Thread)

[torn charm]

runs fine on ultra for me im on a b580

[swift star]

yeah im on a rx580

[sand bone]

runs 10 - 30 fps low graphics 3060 ti

[coral musk]

OHHHHHHHHHHHH MY PCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC

[vale aurora]

4070 and i barely get 30fps on medium

[potent cave]

I've also been having some iffy performance, especially on the outside slums map im getting a lot of stuttering and low framerates. im hoping this is an early access issue, i'm running on a 3060 although it might be worth it to play with the settings

[loud swan]

YEAH HOLY SHIT LAG

[placid raven]

you mind recording a video with an fps counter and posting it here?

[torn charm]

sure

[fathom palm]

obv ur gonna lag you barely scrape minimum req

[vale aurora]

they delayed this for what bro this isnt optimised at all

[cyan oriole]

have you tried running dx11

[swift star]

it runs fine dummy

[void scaffold]

60 fps in the demo on high. Barely 50 fps on low in the early acces. I am running on a gtx 1060 6gb but still what a massive downgrade

[distant helm]

It uses unreal engine is it really a surprise that it’s horribly optimized

[simple sapphire]

I honestly cannot believe you've released the game in this state.

I'm refunding it.,

Got a 3070, the graphics are AWFUL and it still runs at 5fps, you've also made the genral gameplay WORSE than the demo.

What a joke.

[potent cave]

to be fair no early access really comes out smooth, and it has been 40 minutes since it released 😭

[void scaffold]

might need to refund too icl

[celest dirge]

Ryzen 7 7800x3d CPU, RTX 4070 Super GPU, 32gb DDR5, WD SN850X nvme, 2560x1440p res, all settings medium except foliage low, DX11, tried with different DLSS settings game is constantly stuttering and lagging. Temps are good, there is no reason this should be happening. Hopefully we get a solid optimization pass soon

[potent cave]

i'd wait for a patch or something before you refund it

[merry totem]

should not be 5fps

[distant helm]

recommended gpu is rtx 4070

[potent cave]

zamn

[fathom palm]

i get like 100fps on medium 1440p on rx 6750 xt and i5 12400f so this is a big upgrade

for me atleast

it seems to be very inconsistent from person to person

[swift star]

consider overclocking gpu and cpu

[placid raven]

they had a demo and a playtest didnt they?

[potent cave]

idk im hoping theres some sort of patch to fix some of the performance issues

[swift star]

overclocked rx580 gets 50fps on med

[distant helm]

Doesn’t seem to affect AMD GPUs, could have something to do with nvidia drivers

Since people with gtx cards don’t seem to have issues

[faint crow]

It didn't run well in my PC too, my setup is an RTX 3050 6GB I5-13420H with 16GB RAM DDR5 and its running at 20fps in low settings with DLSS at ultraperformance

[distant helm]

Possibly rtx driver issues

[silk swift]

Oh no, I just switched to gtx

[faint crow]

The demo was working fine with the graphics in high

[merry totem]

go to medium

[tardy tide]

getting crazy frame drops on slums rx 7600 and 8700f

[distant helm]

Pretty sure dlss is broken

Turn it off

[merry totem]

use lossless scaling

[distant helm]

Your issue is using an 8700f

[solar hill]

I used to play this game on epic and NEVER having frame drops, and now the game is laggy AF

[icy steppe]

playing on a 2060, game runs well and blood isnt buggy

[merry totem]

use dx12

[distant helm]

The 8000 series isn’t exactly known for being good at gaming

[stark glen]

I'm running half sword on 1660 super and it runs good enough

[cyan oriole]

maybe you should upgrade your graphics card. I have a 1060 too yet I don't mind it running bad on my obsolete graphics card

[tardy tide]

yeah but not 20fps bad lmao

[swift star]

just buy a 5080 only 1200$

[warm estuary]

i noticed if you change to lower settings it doesnt increase your fps until you restart

[tardy tide]

dx11 works better than dx12 for me but the slums is the only place its dropping really

[torn charm]

i recorded it though steam and it didnt record the counter but it was a 30 fps on high no upscaling

[stark glen]

well, open maps can strike up my fps

[distant helm]

Me when I try to play the cpu intensive game with a cpu that’s arguably horrible for gaming

[warm estuary]

was running 20 fps and i restarted and running back up to 90

[white tundra]

Sadly cannot run at all, will wait to see if it gets optimized

[dreamy crown]

is anybody else getting fatal error?

[merry totem]

ram issue im pretty sure

[warm estuary]

only when i first booted its working good so far

[torn charm]

the video is more laggy than it actually was i might use obs

[distant helm]

They still haven’t optimized anything since demo so you’ll still get crashes due to ram

[white tundra]

do you have a beastly pc

[dreamy crown]

i have everything on low, the only things open are half sword, discord, and steam

[merry totem]

poor bor

[warm estuary]

try restarting mine was super low fps only until i restarted with low

[placid raven]

he doesnt if he is running at 30 fps, if one prefers that cool but that doesn't mean the game is optimized in any shape or form. Most of us are capable of running at like 60 or higher.

[bitter hinge]

looking anywhere other than the wall in slums is maxing out my poor 2060

[torn charm]

its actually a budget pc it might just be an issue with nividia cards

[eager lion]

I have a 3080 and the game is unplayable.

Cmon guys.

[potent cave]

seems that turning off DLSS helped my performance for me, also trying DX12

[snow meadow]

same

[merry totem]

old nvidia cards seem to work fine based off what im reading though. im not home yet though so i'll have to see myself

[tranquil bluff]

i have a 5060 and i can hardly run low graphics on dx11

[void scaffold]

do you not get that the issue is how much better it ran in the demo compared to ea? If it ran badly in the demo I wouldn't expect much in the first place

[merry totem]

dx12

[pastel merlin]

4060 the game is unplayable too

[tranquil bluff]

i tried it runs worse

[near cosmos]

Temporary Performance Fix!

The graphics settings are a bit messed up at the moment. For people having performance issues, set the graphics preset at the top of the settings>display menu to MEDIUM and don't mess with it. If you manually adjust graphics settings you get less frames even if you lower it.

YMMV

[torn charm]

i would like xess to be added

[tardy tide]

me when im slow

[young tiger]

The case when demo is more stable than main game)

[neat arrow]

i got an rx 7900 xt and this map is very badly optimised when looking there

[bitter hinge]

holes in the ground at low settings too

[plush torrent]

My graphics settings are on medium and I've switched to DX12 and so far my game isn't running too badly so far, still a shame that this game chugs on lower end PCs.

[torn charm]

i had this issue too this pushed me down to 25

[neat arrow]

cinematic ran better on demo btw

[white tundra]

tbf i dont even have a pc, only a semi alright laptop

[potent cave]

I've found using DX12 and running on medium without any DLSS is working pretty well for me, not great but much better

[young tiger]

Because objects in distance are loaded at 100%)

[mossy burrow]

Running on a 5070 ti and can't handle the game? I call BS no offense to the devs ofc

[torn charm]

yeah idk how they thought the game was ready

[neat arrow]

and also the holes in the ground, litteraly the enemies tripped on them 5 seconds in and instantly surrender

[tardy tide]

low graphics and dx12 helps for me restart when u change it

[neat arrow]

scary to see such flaws right away first fight in for me

[young tiger]

AHAHAHHA, wth

[cyan oriole]

you're playing on a huge open field map

[snow meadow]

yea

[tardy tide]

might just be mud on slums idk tho

[spare herald]

I'm on a B570, but could you share your settings with me?

[neat arrow]

and i can see through the below the map in thoses holes

[white tundra]

sadly i feel the same, i refunded😭

[young tiger]

my enemines gave up and then secretly wanted to kill me(

[void scaffold]

I'm playing in the basement dumbass

[snow meadow]

im hoping the game will be fixed fast

[cyan oriole]

right

[neat arrow]

nah i can see through the map

[tardy tide]

nvm lmao

[near cosmos]

Just posting this again as i get nearly twice as many frames following this.

The graphics settings are a bit messed up at the moment. For people having performance issues, set the graphics preset at the top of the settings>display menu to MEDIUM and don't mess with it. If you manually adjust graphics settings you get less frames even if you lower it.

[neat arrow]

look

[keen swallow]

you need more vram then 12 gb

[young tiger]

🥀

just buy 5090

[cyan oriole]

what if i put my demo config on it that makes it run way thinner

[white tundra]

i dont have vram lol

[warm estuary]

i got 8 gb of vram and im at 60 fps with medium

[cyan oriole]

yes you do bro yes you do

[white tundra]

is vram just ram

[merry totem]

bro if you dont got vram its not gonna run

[torn charm]

i just put it on the high preset you should try medium also does blood not work for you either

[tranquil bluff]

5060 only has 8gb

[white tundra]

i have a laptop

[vapid cave]

my fps drops in half in big maps

[white tundra]

im a fool when it comes to pc things

[merry totem]

💀

[keen swallow]

4070 ti super is not a bad choice either with 16gb vram

[mellow orchid]

can't run this game for shit

[young tiger]

bro u are a homeless, just buy 5090 for **this **game)

[merry totem]

maybe cuz you got uhd graphics

[neat arrow]

nice textures vro

[mellow orchid]

idk, could be

[cyan oriole]

no its ram inside of your graphics card

[white tundra]

ahhh okay mb

[neat arrow]

the texture flaws makes me trip lmao

[merry totem]

uhd graphics cant even run minecraft at 120fps bro

[neat arrow]

and i get knocked out

[void scaffold]

if I only turn one setting to medium it lowers my fps to 30 💔

[warm estuary]

sounds stupid but have you tried just restarting

[mellow orchid]

it can run at 60fps just fine

[mental crystal]

Yea this map lags so badly getting 50fps at medium with a 5080

[near cosmos]

Keep Preset at medium and dont manually adjust

[cyan oriole]

oh its completely okay i was just informing

[hidden night]

how are you even playing games on this?

[neat arrow]

yeah if you look towards the forest it's rip, same issue for me

[mellow orchid]

it runs the demo very well

[near cosmos]

Temporary Performance Fix!

I'll just post this again for those who missed it. Just trying to help.

The graphics settings are a bit messed up at the moment. For people having performance issues, set the graphics preset at the top of the settings>display menu to MEDIUM and don't mess with it. If you manually adjust graphics settings you get less frames even if you lower it.

[void scaffold]

why does this actually work I'm crying

[brittle pier]

Yeah, currently running a 3060 with a ryzen 5 5600 and 32 gb 3200 mhz ram on med settings and game has random hitches at times, such as opening camera mode or whenever blood splatters from the opponent. slums map is not the best map to start off with considering this game is already graphically-demanding.

[mellow orchid]

medium? why not low?

[void scaffold]

how does such a simple bug not get found

[neat arrow]

first fight in i found crazy bug

[near cosmos]

I dont know but lowering or raising any setting manually cuts frames by almost half

[high light]

Same

[warm estuary]

am i shadowbanned is any of my messages going through

[tranquil bluff]

on dx11 or 12

[mellow orchid]

ok I'll try

[high light]

THIS TOO

[near cosmos]

I'm on dx 12

[distant helm]

Welcome to unreal engine 5

[tranquil bluff]

what gpu

[near cosmos]

4080 i9 13th gen laptop

[torn charm]

go to dx 11 dx 12 is fucked

[tawny terrace]

I'm on a 9070XT and yeah it's running real rough

[tranquil bluff]

well that makes sense

[bitter hinge]

made in unreal engine™

[tawny terrace]

Blood is doing this??

[mossy burrow]

Do you guys have any recommendations for settings that can let you actually run the game

[warm estuary]

on a 6700xt and its running good idk

[neat arrow]

guys are we serious about the keybings resetting on restart brooo

[hidden night]

intel gpu glitch im psure

[void scaffold]

💀 this how medium looks and it still runs only at 20 fps

[near cosmos]

#1466849643219521598 message

[merry totem]

medium w dx12 if ur nvidia above 4060 dx11 for anything else

[tawny terrace]

I have no intel parts on my machine

[hidden night]

amd?

[warm estuary]

bro just restart with medium itll run much better

[brittle pier]

yeah when you pan the camera over to that field its like lag heaven

[hidden night]

allegedly it was intel glitch

might be amd as well

[tranquil bluff]

i thought it was a glitch with amd gpus

[near cosmos]

Set graphics preset to medium and dont manually adjust. Manually adjusting to high or low will cut frames.

[hidden night]

it might be both idk

[keen swallow]

sike

[torn charm]

i did notice though the tavern for some reason runs worse than the actual arena

[void scaffold]

I dont understand how the devs played this game saw the perfomance and thought it was ready for ea

[mossy burrow]

5070 ti has 16 🤦

[tawny terrace]

I don't know what processor you would have if not AMD or Intel lmfao

[heavy shard]

this game runs like absolute shit, worse than borderlands 4 on the slums map. I have a 4060 and my shit gets like 10 fps on high settings

[shy heart]

[neat arrow]

slums is so garbage sorry but the constant tripping on the floor for no reason, the enemies don't slip ofc

[fickle coral]

ive got a 4070 ti super lol still got low fps and crashes. maybe it is a problem with intel or whatever

[neat arrow]

unplayable

[sudden lion]

i have a 9070XT and the driver crashes out when loading people models on dx12

[hidden night]

true, but for gpu's you got intel amd and nvidia

and its a gpu issue

[tawny terrace]

So run Nvidia or don't play the game?

[true garnet]

weird, i have a 4070 and i use medium - high settings with dlss and frame gen i get 120 fps in non forest areas

[mellow orchid]

I'm gonna record myself trying to play a game hold on

[hidden night]

they are pushing out a patch soon

to fix that

[heavy shard]

with frame gen... Without frame gen what do you get

[merry totem]

if its framegen 120 then its 60 wo

[mossy burrow]

I have a Nvidia 5070 ti and it runs like a dog shitting don't worry it's not just you

[lone furnace]

1660 super, I am literally dying on the slums map but it's what I expected

[keen swallow]

i have it too and it plays smoothly (and i run a older cpu 10900k), i have on dx12 using dlss quality, frame gen auto, and reflex boost... epic preset

[void scaffold]

the return window on steam is 14 days right?

[lone furnace]

14 days, if less than 2 hours played

[sudden lion]

im just gonna give it a couple days of patching then try again

[shy heart]

[void scaffold]

I see

[tawny terrace]

Jsut sucks cause I was planning on streaming this today lol

[torn charm]

how did the devs think it was ready they should have done closed testing first

[hidden night]

he was talking about the blood glitch

[void scaffold]

selling this product at 20 euro is actually a robbery I hope they can fix it soon

[spiral mural]

in slums, i have normal fps looking at the lovely wall, then unplayable when i look towards the outside

[mossy burrow]

oh yeah you have to run nvidea then

[tawny terrace]

I mean the game ALSO runs VERY poorly.

[heavy shard]

same here

[sudden lion]

i can only kinda play in dx11 mode but even at med settings its super chuggy

[plush torrent]

That's fair, the game itself while fun does need optimization

[tulip gale]

im on a 7900x3d and a 5070 with 32gb ram, what should i expect

[swift star]

good

[hidden night]

yea its a problem on all gpus

[simple sapphire]

Yeah, I have no idea how they even tested this?

Ran it on a NASA PC then said, yeah that will do?

Aren't you supposd to test it on the ghardware you said the MINIMUM and MAXIMUM specs for on steam to make sure it runs properly?

[dawn otter]

Turn on frame gen and it works fine

[heavy shard]

if this is how the game runs with extra time to optimized im scared to have seen it when it should have came out

[void scaffold]

I'm not sure if it's because of the fps but like movement is also fucked up

[plush torrent]

Performance shouldn't be too problematic for you

[tender tiger]

I'm on a 7900 XT and 32 GB RAM. Intel i7 14700K. The game runs like shit compared to the demo. I'm super disappointed

[tender tiger]

how?

[hidden night]

devs probably tested this game on a quantum computer :Sob:

[digital walrus]

does anyone else here have their character jitter sometimes?

[broken nymph]

should i refund the game cus of this?

[torn charm]

I CANT ITS ONLY DLSS THEY DIDNT THINK OF ANY OTHER GPU
\

[heavy shard]

that goes for any game, the optimization in here is terrible

[tender tiger]

yeah I have an AMD GPU

[torn charm]

wait for like 6 days and if its not fixed by then refund

[simple sapphire]

I'm going to yeah. I'll buy it again when they fix it, feel like I've been robbed

[dawn otter]

Settings

[cyan oriole]

games running 60fps right now on medium settings gtx 1060

[broken nymph]

good idea

[tulip gale]

ok im ngl this is kinda chopped

[torn charm]

the policy is 14 days and 2 hours to refund

[spice temple]

I'm used to having low framerates, but my goodness ANYTHING BUT THE SLUMS
Even on the lowest possible settings, the Slums run like dogshit ass
From what I've heard, the Slums are fully loaded and rendered, so that's probably the culprit
I try my best to gravitate towards cellar fights because they run good enough for me

[dawn otter]

Have you guys changed to DX12?

[swift star]

learn how to debloat yalls pcs

[mossy burrow]

Off topic but how do you change to reverse grip?

[swift star]

/its not that hard

[neat arrow]

dx 11 is ass

[mossy burrow]

Are you slow?

[swift star]

no

[rigid vault]

My game runs fine after I load the textures but I keep crashing, tried both direct x 11 and 12

[swift star]

debloating makes it faster

[digital walrus]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1453093901127913584/1465440045866680446/thinky.webp

[spare herald]

this guy legit just joined, mute 'em

[robust galleon]

The performance is poor. Very poor. The camera stutters when rotating, regardless of the graphics settings. If the camera isn't fixed, I'll return it. Unplayable.

[tawny terrace]

debloat(pc);

WOW THAT FIXED IT

[mossy burrow]

Ragebaiting failed

[swift star]

not ragebait just facts

you deadass called me slow

[icy steppe]

hes right btw, my shit is running great on a 2060 medium on open maps even

[digital walrus]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1128100144747917332/1457989257204600842/IMG_1869.gif

[neat arrow]

guys why do i not have blood

[swift star]

fr dude yall need optimizations instead of anime bloatware

[icy steppe]

trvth nvke

[spare herald]

In any case, unless the developers can weave magic, either they bandaid-fix the game by preventing the slums from ever loading.

Intel B570, ryzen 5600x, 16 gb. Why is this running like trash on medium?

[tawny terrace]

I love JuJutsu Bloatware

[simple sapphire]

Honestly? If I were Steam I'd pull this game from the marketplace.

[swift star]

it just came out dude

[digital walrus]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1055614905769803826/1456708093592207380/200.gif

[swift star]

🤡

[merry totem]

getting 100 fps on medium w a 3050

yall are byugging

[silk swift]

It's literally just the slums for me

[simple sapphire]

If most of the people that bought it cant run iot becaise its so badly optimised then yeah, the game doesnt allign with the specs they have on steam.

It's misleading at best

[swift star]

half the dudes complaining have mid level graphics cards and bloatware

[simple sapphire]

What do you not understand about that ?

[swift star]

whoopdy doo

[tawny terrace]

Identify my bloatware

[simple sapphire]

this guy and bloatware

stfu

[torn charm]

they didnt think to add support to any other type of gpu so intel and other non nivida cards the blood doesnt work

[tawny terrace]

No he's absolutely right, every game runs great on my computer except for this one, it must be the bloatware.

[swift star]

dude your interesting videos of anime are corrupting ur pc

contact linus tech tips

[sudden lion]

linus would just throw money at it

[swift star]

overclock your voltage or something

[icy steppe]

people really need to learn that

1. this game just released
2. bloatware really messes up your pc
   just stop running wallpaper engine and some shit on the background ur game will be fine

[tender tiger]

I know this is early access, but I shouldn't be getting half the frames than I was in the demo, and with lower settings too. And the blood glitches are also terrible. Who said this was okay to release?

[swift star]

yes bro

[icy steppe]

even with wallpaper engine open and rendering on the background this is running perfect

[worn trail]

im sorry to say but the optimisation really is that bad and it is not everyone elses fault 💔

[swift star]

fr wallpaper engine decreases fps on gpu intensive games

[tardy tide]

the game is just not optimized yet lmao it just needs some time

[worn trail]

got a new pc and it is struggling on that i think that says enough

[swift star]

cause its new

[flint furnace]

amd ryzen 7 7700x 8core, 32gb ddr5, amd radeon rx 9060 xt - on the slums map i run about 50-60 fps on medium with no upscaling so it def looks like an optimization problem .

[merry totem]

its doing fine for me bro

[swift star]

dummy

[lone furnace]

It should have been optimized before it's release

[worn trail]

nah ik but just the bloatware part is some horseradish imo

[icy steppe]

new doesnt mean optimized

[swift star]

dont expect much

[icy steppe]

run winslop or something to reduce bloat

[lone furnace]

I didn't and i'm still dissapointed

[worn trail]

i do agree with the new part its just the other part i do not agree with

[neat arrow]

bruhh its a joke

[flint furnace]

every other map like 120 fps

[tardy tide]

early access shit i guess i like this game too much tho

[neat arrow]

its so du;b

[icy steppe]

also just set your shader cache higher

[tender tiger]

at the very least, it shouldn't be less optimized than the demo

[worn trail]

true

[neat arrow]

i have blood and gore on demo but not on ea

whats the point

[mossy burrow]

Game runs ALRIGHT not great now but slums is still dog Diarrhea

[swift star]

theres more parts in the early access ofc its gonna be less optimized

[mossy burrow]

❌

[tender tiger]

quit defending bad optimization

[tardy tide]

lmao

[swift star]

get a better pc dummy

[eager lion]

I really cant justify purchasing this game in its current state. It runs so poorly. I'll buy it when it gets fixed/on a deep sale. A 3080 should be more than enough to run a game like this

[tender tiger]

I like the game too but this isn't right

[mossy burrow]

He's not you're literally just wrong

[swift star]

go work

[mossy burrow]

bro

[swift star]

go work

labor

[stark pulsar]

lmao thank God I didn't not buy this immediately upon release

[icy steppe]

not defending bad optimization because it just runs well if you optimize your stuff right

[merry totem]

the game runs really good in cellar and everythinjg else

slums are just

idk

[tender tiger]

"optinmize your stuff right" look at the big words this guy is using lol

[sudden lion]

just did this and froze

[icy steppe]

big enough that you cant spell them

[sudden lion]

killed the driver and the game

[true garnet]

thats absolutely ridicolous NPC with tiny little axes slice you in half extremely easy so you lose all your progress

[swift star]

yeah optimize it right and maybe you can play without lags idiot

[tardy tide]

blood and the slums are just terrible for me rn everything else is pretty okay

[tawny terrace]

Dude I know the galaxy brains in here. They probably download "PC OPTIMIZER.trojan" and think they have shit solved.

They don't actually know anything.

[tender tiger]

yeah

I'm sad

[icy steppe]

a good solution nowadays is just winslop

[swift star]

no i use exe files not trojan

[tender tiger]

I've been looking forward to this all week

[tawny terrace]

Same.

[swift star]

and you got it

[lofty flicker]

So uh fellas…anyone else having a laggy experience, based on what i’m reading i’m assuming the answer is yes

[icy steppe]

just run winslop and use that, then set your stuff to manual

[swift star]

no

[icy steppe]

some people yes some people no

[swift star]

use msi afterburner dude

[cedar niche]

Debloating makes %5 difference at best lol game has just shit optimization

[icy steppe]

gist of it is just very user based

[tawny terrace]

Yeah. If you watch anime I guess the game is going to run poorly according to some guy who works at dairy queen

[empty ridge]

4060 and game struggles on low in slums

[swift star]

5% more than you had dummy

[neon crane]

Aka unoptimized you troglodyte

[icy steppe]

im playing on medium on a high end computer from about 7 years ago

[cinder ember]

im on a gtx 1080 and a ryzen 5 3600, on medium settings at 1080p i can get 60fps concurrent. yall need to stop whining.

[tender tiger]

there's no excuse for these blood gltiches and it shouldn't be running worse than the demo did

[cedar niche]

you're clown and you know nothing abt computers

[tardy tide]

fr tho

[icy steppe]

do you happen to have an amd card

[swift star]

this isnt about blood glitches its about optimization stupid

[tender tiger]

yes

[lone furnace]

Honestly, I'm having more fun looking at this chat than I had playing the game

[icy steppe]

amd cards are bugged, theyre pushing a patch

nvidia runs perfect

[tawny terrace]

Can I get a number 3 with... do you have coke zero here?

[cinder ember]

guys just turn down your damn settings its not that hard. you dont need to run it at 4k ultra settings at 120 fps just run it at medium or high like damn, im running on mid range hardware and im fine.

[tender tiger]

who is pushing a patch????

[icy steppe]

devs

[cinder ember]

the devs

[icy steppe]

who else

[swift star]

arf arf arf so funny

[tender tiger]

source?

[empty ridge]

btw dx12 makes the game run better surprisingly

[faint crow]

Well i already refunded, almost died yesterday waiting for the release but i cant play something running so bad

[halcyon geyser]

like right now? amazing honestly

[swift star]

https://tenor.com/view/viking-jump-viking-leap-off-cliff-man-jump-viking-beast-mode-gif-15761641664830433810

[cinder ember]

im just too smart.

[sudden lion]

here is a fun question for amd gpu users is it a good idea to have physX drivers still installed for compatability or is it pointless

[cedar niche]

me too, people are defending anything lol

[barren bone]

My 4090 laptop barely running on medium, I might need to upgrade my pc just for this game

[swift star]

keyword laptop

[icy steppe]

yes correct, i have a friend on vc rn on an rx580, he runs fine except for blood glitches

only difference between me and him is graphics cards

[barren bone]

around the recommended spec

[swift star]

yes thats me

[cinder ember]

the game is good and runs fine, yall are doing something wrong. im on mid range hardware (gtx 1080 annd ryzen 5 3600) and i can run it fine on medium, even with 5 enemies

[halcyon geyser]

rx6600 8gb getting 60fps in the cellar in 720p, otherwise below 30

[swift star]

yall just have too many chrome tabs open

[tawny terrace]

How do you propose people are doing things wrong.

[cedar niche]

yall are doing something wrong=playing the game

[cinder ember]

dude im on mid range hardware and i can run mid range settings.

[torn charm]

has anyone tried optiscaler?

[cinder ember]

yall have to be messing something up

[icy steppe]

2060 6gb getting 60 fps everywhere 1080p medium

[swift star]

because mid range level specs are outbeating yalls pcs do better

[tawny terrace]

https://tenor.com/view/thumbs-up-funny-gif-5664557295072179547

[torn charm]

i dont really know how it works

[swift star]

https://tenor.com/view/brick-eating-mukbang-gif-22115496

[crude mural]

What's that?

[icy steppe]

the literal only difference is nvidia vs amd

[faint crow]

You are doing some witchcraft my rtx 3050 and i5-13420H with 16GB of ram DDR5 isnt running not even on low

Its like 20 fps

[torn charm]

https://github.com/optiscaler/OptiScaler

[swift star]

its a 3050 like worst card on the market

[cedar niche]

there is a thousand people complaining about the bad performance, wrap it up we are not doing something wrong.

[cinder ember]

i got 16 gb ddr4, gtx 1080, ryzen 5 3600.

[crude mural]

You try?

[grim mica]

slums just crazy fps drop for everyone else or?

[cinder ember]

i dont understand why, mine runs perfectly on medium.

[distant helm]

Yea

[empty ridge]

games way more optimized on dx12

[halcyon geyser]

yup

[rugged sage]

remove the slums temporarily

[stiff musk]

i find that hard to believe lol

[grim mica]

cheers

[icy steppe]

yall are def doing something wrong if multiple people are saying it runs perfectly for them on very aged hardware

[rugged sage]

runs better on dx11 for me, dx12 looks and performs worse

[cinder ember]

yeah. im on 9 year old hardware. thats older than some people here.

[dapper dove]

Rtx 4060 and a Ryzen 5 5600 (I shouldn’t have to ask this for any game but am I cooked?)

[fickle coral]

yeah pretty much just slums for me though. every other map runs at max fps

[swift star]

run dx11 if ur pc sucks

[tawny terrace]

Multiple people.

[rugged sage]

yeah it does just fine on my gtx 1650 and i5 9400f

[rugged sage]

this

[cedar niche]

it's like 10 people vs 1000 people lmao, how can we do something wrong exactly?

[distant helm]

I’m sure it has something to do with rtx drivers since people running gtx cards and integrated graphics don’t seem to be having many issues

[whole burrow]

Ryzen 7 5700x, Rx6700XT sucks, got it.

[sudden lion]

5800 X3D 32gb plus a 9070XT on med settings at 1440p and anything physics based in the game seems to be where all my lag spikes and crashes happen

[tardy tide]

rx7600 and 8700f im getting like 80-100 fps in cellar

[rugged sage]

probably, specially with the 50 series

[crude mural]

Guys when you found a solution to thé AMD cards write me to thé md

[icy steppe]

yeah, even then my 2060 is running well

its def something with the newer tech

[faint crow]

The same way multiple people here, on reddit, steam community and reviews are saying the game is unplayable, even folks with the recommended setup are not playing it well

[hasty sedge]

I have a 4070 super MSI and I had to put everything on low because the FPS is so awful... omg

[cinder ember]

yeah im on gtx and it runs perfectly.

[faint crow]

The game came out bad

[fickle coral]

i think its literally just the slums map lol

[cinder ember]

the game isnt bad stfu. you're just mad.

[barren bone]

they were not kidding with the 4070 recommended spec 🔥

[icy steppe]

slums runs well for me doe

[cinder ember]

it runs fine on my gtx 1080.

[distant helm]

Tbf the game is pretty bad if you can’t play it due to optimization issues

[grim mica]

It isn't out. It's in EA. They are going to fix the bugs as soon as they can.

[tardy tide]

slums is god awful lmao

[empty ridge]

the foliage on slums map kills your pc, every other map is fine

[cinder ember]

dude im on a gtx 1080 and i can run it perfectly.

[distant helm]

My friend is on a 5070 to 9800x3d getting 30fps in slums

[sudden lion]

so i didnt seem to get an answer so ill ask again is it useful to have physX installed even with an amd gpu

[distant helm]

It gets to a point

[faint crow]

I'm not mad i love that game, played like 40 hours of the demo, but its not running so it came out in bad performance

[hasty sedge]

The 4070 is really the bare minimum, haha

[distant helm]

My friend is on a 5070 ti 9800x3d getting 30fps in slums

It gets to a point

[fickle coral]

damn. i get max fps on other maps but get 40-60fps + stutters on slums w/ a 4070

[barren bone]

Im getting like 60fps+ with ultra quality dlss

[cinder ember]

what are your specs?

[distant helm]

Dlss is broken and doesn’t work

[cinder ember]

okay that is just crazy, what settings is heon, ultra?

[barren bone]

true

[distant helm]

High

[cinder ember]

what

i can run high at 1080p on a gtx 1080 fine.

thats insane

[rugged sage]

this is why you dont make games in UE5

[rugged sage]

newer cards are having problems due to modern drivers

[tawny terrace]

This is the real answer.

[urban atlas]

not only is the performance dogshit basically everything else is a downgrade too

[compact narwhal]

switching to dx12 in the settings completely fixed performance for me

[storm elm]

I have a 4070 and low graphics run on less than 80 fps most of the time, on slums or whatever that map is called I get less than 60

[torn charm]

alr i never used it before so i wouldnt know if i messed something up

[eager lion]

Yea I refunded, no excuse to spend money on a game so poorly optimized that its unplayable. A shame really I think a lot of people would really love this game and will avoid it because of the issues.

[compact narwhal]

it probably shouldnt be set to dx11 by default it doesnt work well

[cinder ember]

it did crash once and sometimes it freezes up when im going into new fights or menus but apart from that its perfect. its more stable than the demo tbh

[whole burrow]

Ryzen7 5700X, RX6700XT, 32gb Ram.
DX-11 Cellar - 80fps
DX-12 Cellar - 60fps
1080p

All Low, AntiAlliasing High(Cus it looks horrible without)

Slums - 20 FPS

Something is Horrible.

[fickle coral]

how though? rest of the game seems upgraded in general. except the menus are confusing as fuck lmao

[distant helm]

Use lossless scaling for temporary fix

At least until fsr gets added and dlss works

[tawny terrace]

It does seem like DX12 runs better for me. That's strange as heck.

[stiff musk]

definently not true lol, demo runs great no issues with lag spikes or anything. Im running on way lower settings than the demo and having way more issues. But thats not unexpected.

[faint crow]

Anyway nice to meet you folks, i entered this discord server to get updates of the game launch, now that it has launched and i will refund for now i'm out, if they correct the performance issues i will get back

[urban atlas]

combat is so clunky and undersponsive, there are less weapons than in the demo, basically none of the sliders work and more

[cinder ember]

rtx card?

[swift star]

https://tenor.com/view/-gif-7240636

[whole burrow]

I'm just confused, like Before it was running great on high, and now it just explodes, nothing works. I don't think using upscaling is a "fix" saldy.

[dreamy gate]

After launching the game, I experienced terrible lag, even though I have a fairly powerful computer. It wasn't even a framerate issue, but rather a delay that was noticeable even when moving the cursor in the main menu.

I fixed that by setting the lowest possible resolution. After that, even with set it to epic and normal resolution and the game runs smoothly. I recommend giving it a try.

[distant helm]

It’s fixing fps for my friend

Albeit it will look worse

Also doesn’t fix any crashes

[elder mortar]

seven fps in these conditions

[stiff musk]

nope

[icy steppe]

https://tenor.com/view/black-minion-gif-3647683297012940351

[sudden lion]

im just gonna wait for some patches

[distant helm]

Kcd2 looks far better yet runs way better

[cinder ember]

cope harder

[sudden lion]

refunding to me is immiture

[distant helm]

💔

[distant helm]

Not as immature as your grammar

[frank bolt]

Dx12 is just a rendering API. It’s going to make the game look like shit though

[whole burrow]

Well i will get more FPS, sure, but until some fixes i will just be out.
Even blood looks horrible... We had good blood in Demo.

[fickle coral]

combat feels the exact same to me lol. also you have to progress to unlock more freeplay weapons

[compact narwhal]

ur a consumer its your right

[urban atlas]

good thing i cant do that

[eager lion]

Tell us you get an allowance from your parents without telling us

[distant helm]

They also downgraded gore

[drowsy loom]

rx 480 medium graphics

[signal iron]

hey, i want to be able to play the games i buy

[tardy tide]

any1 know if they just forgot to do amd cards with the blood or if there was a big glitch

[signal iron]

😂

[distant helm]

Again

[eager lion]

Sorry us adults like to use our money on things worth our time

[compact narwhal]

not immature to be dissatisfied not immature to keep it and wait for patches

[sudden lion]

imagine all the people that refunded CP2077 cause they coudnt wait for stuff to be fixed

[hidden pelican]

Yea something’s up, like there’s a day one patch that’s missing lol, blood textures are weird, 4060s are struggling, not to mention the tweaked damage and physics attributes feel off

[whole burrow]

Not a you issue, happens to everyone i think.

[distant helm]

Blood is completely ruined with most amd cards

[sudden lion]

i can wait for this game to be fixed

[urban atlas]

it took them like 2 years to fix it

[icy steppe]

for some odd reason amd cards have blood bugs, so far noone reported nvidia cards with that issue

[pulsar arrow]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1394036038552260751/1462110689555644448/togif.gif

[urban atlas]

i think it's rather fair

[grim mica]

I mean, the game is unoptimized sure but it's in EA. It's only going to get better from here on out.

[eager lion]

It took CDPR years to make a game that is playable

[charred trellis]

im on a 3060 laptop and im running semi fine wtf are you talking about

[sudden lion]

i know it took forever

[elder mortar]

reccomended specs is a red flag bro

[distant helm]

I feel like this shouldn’t have been an issue considering they delayed a month

[elder mortar]

4070 for this shit

[charred trellis]

incredible map design guys can i please delete this so i can have more than 10fps here

[hidden pelican]

I know the game is good based on the demo alone, but the EA really does need some support rn

[whole burrow]

The problem is, that Demo run perfectly

[urban atlas]

ue5 is the biggest red flag

[urban atlas]

and it doesnt even look remotely good

[distant helm]

Kcd2 looking better running 10x better

[eager lion]

There are many EA games that run very well wthout trouble

[signal iron]

great pyramids 😍

[orchid dust]

That map makes my card sound like I am mining crypto on the side (RTX 3060)

[eager lion]

early access is not a free pass for a game that doesnt work.

[distant helm]

Trees in the background are the lost pyramids of Egypt

[wraith mist]

Remember to exercise your consumer rights and get a refund for a faulty product that doesn't run per the listed system requirements

[grim mica]

Sure! But there are also many that didn't run well at first that quickly got fixed.

[charred trellis]

i have a 3060 laptop bro 😭

[elder mortar]

yeah but my ea game didnt require a 4070 to look good

[charred trellis]

looks so good i dont want this in the game

[eager lion]

Oh absolutely, but is something made on UE5 going to be fixed quickly? I doubt it

[whole burrow]

it would be more acceptable if we didn't have a perfectly fine working Demo. I assumed it can only be better when it becomes EA, but it becoming so much worse performance wise is just disappointing.

[urban atlas]

remember that you all have 2 weeks to refund if you havent played more than 2 hours on steam

[heavy shard]

some people are saying its just rtx cards running horribly

[eager lion]

I have like 100 hrs on the demo I absolutely loved it

[orchid dust]

3060 to have 16 FPS on minimal setting and gore turned to peacefull is not okay in my book

[elder mortar]

amd card went kaboom

[urban atlas]

im waiting that and if there is nothing im refunding

[elder mortar]

low settings

[signal iron]

show someone uniformed and they'd tell you the game is the demo and the demo is the $20 game

[glass perch]

i'm not really having any major noticeable FPS issues on my 4070 super but the forest especially is the worst when it comes to it

[whole burrow]

Exactly, great concept, wonderful execution for a Demo.

[distant helm]

Main issues is the devs seemingly focused more on looks than gameplay

And it’s ue5

[grim mica]

Agreed. You'd just have to wait and see really. I do understand to refund while you can and then buy it when/if they fixed the current issues. As for me, i can currently play the game, though with occasual fps drops, slums is completly unplayable though.

[quartz leaf]

Bizarrely the Forest map runs fine, but the slums and Arena (for some reason) run like hot garbage.

[elder mortar]

yo arent the people in the floor

[urban atlas]

they have optimised NOTHING

[torn charm]

ok i just realized it for frame gen and needs upscaling to work and since halfsword doesnt have xess i cant use it if you have a nivida card you should try and see

[urban atlas]

just adding more and more stuff

[glass perch]

they are in the floor

[urban atlas]

and expecting people to have NASA cards

[distant helm]

I bet there’s a shadow somewhere that’s being multiplied in some crevice or corner

[glass perch]

after about two minutes the map loaded in fully but that was the first time i saw it do that

[frank bolt]

They render foliage as physical objects lmao

[glass perch]

every time before that when i fought in it they were in the floor

[charred trellis]

this shit cant run good on any card, thats on them

[signal iron]

i face no major issues apart from not being able to look in a cardinal direction

[heavy shard]

I remember when I was saying the game looks like it runs terribly by looking at the screenshots shown, and the mods got mad at me. Its funny

[elder mortar]

no major issues except the game not booting

[signal iron]

2 crashes within 10m of purchase btw

some fool said "its early access bro"

[urban atlas]

i have a feeling they are gonna abandon this game soon

[distant helm]

“I face no major issues apart from my game not working if I look in a general direction.”

[frank bolt]

Thad would be impossible, closest thing is iterating through pixels recursively checking for light

[urban atlas]

its barely salvagable

[signal iron]

yeah that is what i said

[distant helm]

We love our ue5

[pastel merlin]

30 fps with low graphic... rtx 4060

[distant helm]

Waiter, waiter! More UE5 please!

[eager lion]

It just sucks cuz its like I really like the game, I want it to succeed. How many people are going to avoid it because of the terrible launch. Happens all the time

[urban atlas]

gonna be another ksp2 i tell you

[distant helm]

How do you manage to mess up such a great demo

I’d rather go play kcd2

[frank bolt]

Tbf they had years and thousands of players hourly

[eager lion]

Brother that's like comparing a 5 star restaurant to mcdonalds...

KCD2 is a masterpiece

[distant helm]

And it is optimized like one too

[grim mica]

yeah for sure. I'll enjoy what i can, and hope for the best. Hopefully these refunds won't stall the progress of the fixes and no matter what they'll do their best. But all we can really do is wait and see.

[distant helm]

Unlike a certain game

[opal walrus]

My Experience:

• Game is Fine
• Killed its Replayability, bring back old Abyss Mode and Old Progress Mode as an Option
• Fix the Slums FPS
• Fix The Blood Stains on the floor
• Fix the Terrain cuz its hard to walk on it

[grim mica]

I mean if you compare the team and the budgets of those two games. The games are uncompareable.

[stiff musk]

https://giphy.com/gifs/nbc-police-salute-Ki9S8uve2xWx2

me showing someone uniformed

[tender tiger]

How do I refund a game on Steam?

[distant helm]

The major difference is that this game is using ue5

[opal walrus]

google it.

[stiff musk]

help button at the top

[sacred furnace]

half performance

[fickle coral]

dawg its a poorly optimized release that came out an HOUR AND A HALF AGO yall need to chill 💔 prolly going to be good in a few days to a week. refunding is fair though its unplayable on lower specs lol

[signal iron]

LOL i meant uninformed

[frank veldt]

help - support - purchases

[halcyon geyser]

they should have released it a week later then no?

[distant helm]

The problem is the fact the demo ran perfect except for huge fps drops when fighting 3+ people in armor

[grim mica]

Doubt a week is going to fix all these issues.

[silent quarry]

Its unplayable on mid tier specs too likethe stuff that the steam hardware survey says most ppl have lol

[urban atlas]

they have done nothing to optimize it, rendering everything on the screen, rendering foliage as physical objects it clearly shows they have no idea what are they doing

[halcyon geyser]

yeah sadly

[flint furnace]

something ive realised on slums

[distant helm]

I’m already not happy they won’t release on gog

And now they have a horrid release

[flint furnace]

its optimized so much better at day

[distant helm]

https://tenor.com/view/lorax-onceler-lorax-x-onceler-bye-gif-2035304220982546732

[flint furnace]

i got up to playable framerates

[fickle coral]

im not saying its good but it came out not even two hours ago lol. should wait on it

[grim mica]

For me, whenever i look towards the grass it's literally like 10 fps on a 3080.

[swift star]

https://tenor.com/view/penguinz0-cr1tikal-moistcritikal-sneako-me-when-gif-9977190952691864576

[flint furnace]

well if im not looking at the houses that is

[halcyon geyser]

same on a RX6600

[tender tiger]

How long does it usually take for refund requests to be fulfilled?

[heavy shard]

My experience so far:
blood doesn't work properly, falls through the map, and honestly feels worse than the demo build's blood..
Blood doesn't even spurt in spar mode it just shows gore for some reason??
Physics are terrible, limbs clip through eachother, you fall by a slight windy push, npcs have a even harder and crazier balance at times.
Game has some of the worst optimization I've ever seen
Shadows tweak a bit
Game is only playable in outdoor areas if using frame gen, othger than that outdoor areas are like 10 fps for me and terrible

[flint furnace]

if you look at the white castle wall you can actually kinda play slums!

[tranquil bluff]

it also cost 60$ had a 50 million dollar budget and 6 years to release

[grim mica]

Like 2 hours. Most a day i think

[urban atlas]

like half an hour usually

[mellow orchid]

a day

[tender tiger]

Thanks guys.

[grim mica]

LOl yeah "Actually kinda"

[tranquil bluff]

it can range from near instantly up to a week

[tender tiger]

I'll buy the game again if/when these issues get fixed. But in its current state I'd honestly rather play the demo.

[signal iron]

https://medal.tv/games/half-sword/clips/m1dd6qAO1z8mPcRqq?invite=cr-MSxwTEIsMzMyNTA5ODY&v=6

[urban atlas]

they developed this game without caring whatsoever about optimisation

[grim mica]

Completly fair.

[urban atlas]

you would have to redo most stuff to make it optimised

and they arent doing that

[sacred furnace]

Its not smart to refund the game unless u have extremely low specs, optimization will likely be fixed

[burnt marlin]

I personally mixed performance and i have a 4060 and an i9-14900k, the slums run terribly, im personally going to wait for some patches and reworks since the menus are confusing and the freemode doesnt give me much options but if nothing comes then im refunding it since although its an early access, that doesnt excuse the fact that it runs worse than the demo

[pulsar arrow]

🥷 GOT A HEART ATTACK LOOOL

[fickle coral]

devs seem competent just looks like horrible lack of playtesting ngl. devs said it was running good for them idk what kind of hardware they are running lmaoo

[elder mortar]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1265063910080253992/1464334203226427657/attachment.gif

[distant helm]

Where’s the blood

[elder mortar]

spent the game budget on carpets and the intro sequence

[sacred furnace]

The devs all have NASA Pc's

[pulsar arrow]

https://tenor.com/view/unc-still-got-it-gif-6384030002593541773

[signal iron]

i set it to grotesque just before the clip 😂

[mellow orchid]

I'm starting to lose hope. I might get a refund myself

[fickle coral]

apparently lol

[urban atlas]

the fucking jester in the menu is like 15 pixels wide

[grim mica]

Get a refund, wait for the fixes.

[distant helm]

We love settings that do nothing

[signal iron]

SHOW US LOOOL

[tranquil bluff]

i requested one im just gonna buy it again once its fixed

[urban atlas]

how do you make a png unoptimised

[pulsar arrow]

loool

NO WAY

[kind solar]

Man I am so disappointed right now. Didn't think I'd be refunding 45 minutes after buying the game

[edgy compass]

the optimization is fine for me ngl
the only map that runs horribly is Slums

[sacred furnace]

and then I see people blaming it on people having bad Computers when it struggles to run on 4090s

[distant helm]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1346248724665335858/1466249594043371631/95c2778dc89d4239bd3484c047530b51tplv-jj85edgx6n-image-origin.gif

[signal iron]

HOW DO YOU DO THIS BRO

[pulsar arrow]

shitass monitor bro

[worn trail]

really hope the devs understand the poor reviews on steam mainly stem from the optimisation issues, i do feel bad for them

[urban atlas]

how is the monitor related whatsoever dawg

[winged turret]

the slums map is absolutely horrendously optimized

[untold frost]

ITS THE GRASS

[pulsar arrow]

maybe you got terrible resolution ✌️

[fickle coral]

i mean performance is good on my end except it halves on the slums map and thats it. other than that feels fine

[untold frost]

ITS THE TREES

[pulsar arrow]

yo real talk tho

why is the image like that LOOOL

[untold frost]

ITS THE GRASS

[orchid dust]

I think its the freaking background, either the foliage or the tents

[distant helm]

It’s literally everything unnecessary

[fickle coral]

dawg it does NOT look like that for me 😭

[untold frost]

Meh

[winged turret]

exactly

[untold frost]

meh

[urban atlas]

i have an rtx 3060

[winged turret]

at least add an option to replace the background in that map with fog

[sacred furnace]

Performance is awful on the progression maps, and if u lower it to low performance it makes the lag worse u literally cant touch settings

[orchid dust]

is it running okay ?

[distant helm]

Do we really gotta go into the files and manually delete everything related to nature

[untold frost]

its too far they detail the grass to much

[distant helm]

Some game can be bearable

[urban atlas]

they should make every arena surrounder by a wall these devs cant do shit

[sacred furnace]

No i have one too and it does not

[urban atlas]

20 fps at lowest settings and highest dlss

[worn trail]

actually lame man, the people that are blaming it on everyone else are not helping at all. idk why some people act like its a bad thing to give criticism

[tranquil bluff]

its not the devs fault

[distant helm]

Dlss is broken and does nothing

[tranquil bluff]

they didnt have enough playtesters

[urban atlas]

bro

[winged turret]

these are such easy fixes, its just annoying they didnt see this through before releasing the game

[distant helm]

??

[winged turret]

the most basic bugs

jfc

[distant helm]

“It’s not the devs fault the early access release is way worse than the demo!”

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1346248724665335858/1466249594043371631/95c2778dc89d4239bd3484c047530b51tplv-jj85edgx6n-image-origin.gif

[orchid dust]

okay, so its not a "me" issue then. I have one too

[fickle coral]

"easy fixes" 💔 i sure hope so dawg

[sacred furnace]

Devs didnt contemplate that having a map with Foliage thousands of meters away would mess with performance

[urban atlas]

those arent easy fixes, they developed the game without caring about optimisation

[winged turret]

i mean, optimizing the background of the slums map is easy af

so is fixing that "pressing leave returns to char select" bug

two masssive issues

[urban atlas]

if they actually even used the foliage option that ue5 gives them

but no lets render everything

[winged turret]

why can i see terrain all the way to the horizon on the slums map

like wtf

and first person mode

fucking hell

[sacred furnace]

yeah theres no LOD or anything u can see the terrain full quality thousands of miles away

[sly rune]

RX 7800 Xt
Ryzen 7700
32GB Ram
High Settings

40 Fps in a duel.
Frametimes are horrible

[elder saffron]

everything runs well on a 4060/ryzen 7 5800x, except for the slums

[kind solar]

Might as well change the name to "HalfFPS"

[winged turret]

i was so hyped but it sucks

feels like drunken VR

[heavy shard]

btw, devs don't have nassa pcs. They knew about the terrible optimzation and released it anyways

[kind solar]

I was so excited for this game man

[sacred furnace]

Half Performance

[rugged sage]

Optimization aside the game is buggy

[worn trail]

really hope theres going to be a day one patch, sad that its needed at all, but i really do hope they are able to patch this asap and regain some of the trust of players

[urban atlas]

they get their money and will abandon the game instantly remember my words

[tranquil bluff]

the game was always buggy in the demo too

[winged turret]

it seems a lot harder idky

[rugged sage]

Its even buggier now

[winged turret]

not a bad thing

just seems much harder

[tranquil bluff]

yeah

[sacred furnace]

The buggyness is expect in the EA, whats frusterating people is the optimization

[winged turret]

maybe the 20fps is the reason

[coral crown]

This is worst that garden of banban

[rugged sage]

Yeah and everyone feels more brittle yet more resilient now

[granite maple]

the grass....

[whole burrow]

It feels like when my boss is reviewing my project and i say "It runs on my Computer"

[winged turret]

i get knocked down from the slightest shit

[kind solar]

I wanna know where the fucking work even went. Like it took them multiple years to add a half dozen weapons, hair physics, and a face randomizer? While ALSO demolishing the fps?

[urban atlas]

they havent even TRIED to optimise it

[worn trail]

true but idk if its in a good way exactly?
like the characters seem overly weak i liked that they had some resistance in the demo

[rugged sage]

They're humans

[worn trail]

now its just one decent hit and its over

[rugged sage]

this is why we should all play exanima guys!

[granite maple]

fist fights last way too short

one good wack on the head and they're bleeding

[winged turret]

yeah

i just spam left right mouse drags and i win

[tranquil bluff]

its also a small group of people

[granite maple]

then the game doesnt detect that they are knocked out, so they lay there on the floor for a while

[tardy tide]

feels more realistic but i fall down too easy sometimes

[winged turret]

in the demo fist fights were harder

[tranquil bluff]

not some huge million dollar triple a dev team

[winged turret]

okay optimization doesnt require a million dollars wtf

they could have put the most basic thought into it

[tranquil bluff]

im not saying it does

[granite maple]

the slum floors are genuinely made out of lubricant and soap if you move towards the hole

[winged turret]

why the fuck do we need 1000s of foliage in the slums map

[heavy shard]

if I was game seer I'd just dip on half sword's funding

[kind solar]

Only triple A dev teams can create content without absolutely demolishing the performance of their games?

[granite maple]

UNREACHABLE foliage btw 😭

[tardy tide]

id say its the other way around for me

[rugged sage]

Lame justification ngl

[heavy shard]

if they don't release a patch soon that fixes everythinmg, this game is in the dirt honestly

[winged turret]

yup

[sly rune]

i liked the first demo the most, playtest was also good but this ea is not fun at all

[urban atlas]

SOME INDIE DEVS DO BETTER OPTIMISATION THAT AAA STUDIOS

[granite maple]

it's the same situation as when they introduced gore to the demo

[urban atlas]

and here they did NOTHING

[rugged sage]

Not that bad it just feels like demo+

[heavy shard]

its like they downgrade each time

[winged turret]

i hate the first person mode, its too janky

i was excited for it too

[urban atlas]

more like demo-

[heavy shard]

no its terrible

[tranquil bluff]

it pretty much is

[kind solar]

This ain't Demo+ man this is demo-

[mellow orchid]

I'm gonna buy metal gear with the refund money

[hidden pelican]

Demo-

[kind solar]

At least the demo runs properly

[glass perch]

more like demo-

[glass perch]

you get it

[crude mural]

Guys in thé démo thé bloods work

[rugged sage]

Guys what if we all just play exanima and live happily forever

[orchid dust]

The blade feel weird and not great

[crude mural]

In thé full game dont work

[heavy shard]

Blood doesn't spurt out in spar mode
Blood is very weird and doesn't work properly, it glitches through the floor or just doesn't place anything like they said it would.
Optimization is terrible and runs horrible even on good builds.
Stuff doesn't load properly
Limbs clipping through other limbs
Physics are terrible and just feel like a 5 year old trying to swing a long sword.
Blood in general looks worse than playtest and looks 240p yet still fucking runs like ass

[orchid dust]

other than that, this is a great step up in terms of content. The problem is quality

[hidden pelican]

If the devs are locked in give it like two weeks and I think we’ll see a lot of issues hashed out, it very much feels like there’s a missing day one patch or something

[rugged sage]

I said demo+ because it's just demo with slightly more content

[crude mural]

Right

[tranquil bluff]

i cant even defend the devs at this point bro

[heavy shard]

with 5x less quality, sure..

Its demo------

[signal iron]

this demo-

[granite maple]

i feel like the physics also go to crap when the fps drops

[rugged sage]

We should all play exanima instead ngl

[granite maple]

im also being nickpicky here, but the mainmenu does not need to be a black screen 😭

[orchid dust]

I ragequit the game after getting sliced in half by a blunt side of the axe

[lilac ember]

it runs really bad at the moment.

[fickle coral]

true but ngl the least of the games problems rn by far 😭 😭

[worn trail]

also slightly unrelated but is it me or is stabbing like not working at all anymore, if i go in the stab pose thingamajig he just holds the weapon above his head? and when i do the stabbing motion he just kind of swings it down a bit

[hidden pelican]

You’re not crazy they ruined stabbing somehow

[urban atlas]

yeah it did that for me too

[tranquil bluff]

i couldnt even get that far it laggy

[granite maple]

stabbing is working on my endd

running the game on it's lowest setting with AA maxed

[orchid dust]

also, can you normally switch the sides of attack with long arms (polearms,axes, hoes)? I can do from right to left but when I want to come back around Willie suddenly forgets how his wrists work

[urban atlas]

it looks like blurred mess for me at like no fps

[sly rune]

yes its bugged

[urban atlas]

for you there are working textures

[granite maple]

switching arms with the flair makes willie hold the flail right at the end for some reason

maybe im just lucky with the game

[halcyon bough]

Alas… I have to play in lolpolly mode

[granite maple]

you can go lower???

[halcyon bough]

Yes

[silk swift]

Finally got the fps at least playable and then come the fatal errors lol

[halcyon bough]

I'm playing on settings below the minimum requirements, either I'm an idiot or I'm quite the hardcore gamer

[orchid dust]

yeah but when I try to go swinging right, left, right willie tends to get stuck switching the side for me

[echo pine]

There's no way this is a GPU bottleneck right? These graphic settings are insane, I feel like this has to be a CPU bottleneck.

[urban atlas]

thats how it looks for me

with no fps

[rugged sage]

Why are most of the enemies ginger

[granite maple]

you just reminded me

the hair physics are WACK

[rugged sage]

100%

[granite maple]

hair jerks around like crazy it's almost like they got a mop on em

[fickle coral]

they are more fun to kill

[halcyon bough]

Yeah... as soon as I set even a single unit on average... the FPS starts to fluctuate.

[urban atlas]

it looks like shit and probably makes the fps like 10 times worse

because i am quite sure they are rendering every strand

[granite maple]

yeah the lighting on the hair can sometimes make it look really dark on my end

[halcyon bough]

Especially the blood jam all over the arena adds a peak of madness

[orchid dust]

I have ryzen 7 5700x3d so it could be that AMD hasnt been tested?

[echo pine]

I have an AMD 7 7700x and I feel like my game somewhat struggled with multiple enemies in the demo still

[granite maple]

fighting a knight drops the fps by about 5, this is REALLY weird though

[echo pine]

when I had an i5 10400f before, it was absolutely terrible, so I do think it might be a CPU thing?

[echo pine]

It's gotta be a CPU problem

[granite maple]

possibly

im no good with cpus so i cant really tell

[halcyon bough]

Damn... I press Alt, and instead of a stabbing strike, the character raises their hand up somehow.

[placid raven]

maybe, but demanding a 4070 is kinda crazy since most UE5 games are asking a bit more less.

the reviews for this game are mixed right now

[frank bolt]

they are mostly negative now

[rugged sage]

This is why u dont use ue5 for shit

[tawny terrace]

New banner for the game on steam

[rugged sage]

Lets just all play exanima and kiss

[stark pulsar]

lmfaooooo

[kind solar]

I don't understand how I can go from getting 90fps on Epic in the demo, to sub 30fps on low in the early access. How do you fuck up that bad?

[grizzled plover]

Even at the lowest settings (rocking a ryzen 5 7600x3D with a 9060xt) no gore and no blood I still crash for no reason. Literally worst than the demo

[rugged sage]

I feel bad for the devs

But at the same time wtf

[tawny terrace]

Post update... uh... it's different?

[kind solar]

I don't. There's not a chance in hell that these guys DIDN'T know the game ran like absolute shit before charging money for it.

[torn charm]

go to dx11

[tawny terrace]

Do they not have one non-nvidia machine to test with?

lmfao

[kind solar]

I have a 4060

Game still runs like ass

It ain't an AMD problem

It's a "We don't know how to make a videogame" problem

[sand bone]

its not ue5 man

[tawny terrace]

The blood is an AMD and Intel GPU problem apparently

[rugged sage]

It's optimization

[sand bone]

yeah

[tawny terrace]

Which UE5 has a huge problem with

[sand bone]

ue5 is good just bad design

[rugged sage]

But ue5 amplifies its unoptimization to unholy levels

[runic tapir]

its a combination, you have to be very very skilled to optimize ue5 well

[sand bone]

ive used ue5 for a long time now, sure it has issues but this id the devs fault

[west kestrel]

Truly an unreal engine momment.

[tawny terrace]

The unrealest of engines

[runic tapir]

I got unreal on my engine

[west kestrel]

the new RTX thing in the early acces F'd me over, now I cant get more than 10 fps. my demo runs perfectly fine even on medium settings.
😔 I hate pretentious "mordern" gamers that DEMAND absurd graphics. I just want my gameplay man.

[kind solar]

The game doesn't even look that good in the first place....

[sly rune]

It's not about the graphics, but how they implement them. Games from 10 years ago still look better than many games releasing today with worse performance

[west kestrel]

I realy wish they had just added the new content to the EA WITHOUT "upgrading" the graphics, realy fucked over the low end users with that move.

I'm sure optimization patches are on the way

but still.

[cyan oriole]

my game actually runs better now

i can fight multiple enemies without any drops

[rugged sage]

the low preset looks better than the demo's medium preset

[hidden night]

battlefront 1

that game was ahead of its time

[west kestrel]

Yeah.
sure its nice that the game looks decent but I want half-sword for the gameplay there realy isnt a game with the same gameplay out there, closest we got is Exanima and we who are about to die.

[halcyon bough]

Now that's what I call a patch.. a real patch.. but where are the letters?

Anyway, I'm going back to the demo. Anyway, I'm going back to the demo, it's unplayable for now

[sly rune]

or Ryse: Son of Rome from 2013

[frozen vale]

I have a 4060 and i get ~60 fps in every map that isn't the slums on medium quality

[heavy shard]

rtx 4060 20-30 fps on slumnbs with frame gen ON

[dusky solstice]

on a 3070 I'm getting decent performance with most settings on medium except post-processing (low) + dx12 + dlss balanced. Not ideal, would've loved to play on higher settings, but at least it works.

[worn trail]

oh yeah by the way if u want damage to be more like the demo i recommend setting the damage modifiers more like this

its so much better imo

[sand bone]

why are these so hi-res on low graphics

[north monolith]

update drivers people

update drivers

[sand bone]

btw this has interior for some reason

[north monolith]

https://tenor.com/view/joseph-please-dude-your-computer-is-crying-i-want-to-hear-the-stream-kwap-gif-21626026

[sand bone]

volumetric clouds 😭

[north monolith]

they really balled out with this game

https://tenor.com/view/caitvitwt-zaunvi-stantwt-two-people-you-like-fighting-gif-9941917658589461428

[sand bone]

btw those arent even visible from the main area

someone show this to the devs

wow

[raven ore]

guys, i have AMD RX 6800 and i5-12600K, should i get the game?

[dull dock]

Should I get it I have a 3060 and a 5 5600g

[torn charm]

non nividia cards seem to run ok but i dont know much abt amd cards

[raven ore]

AMD RX 6800 is like under 3080 and above 3070 ti

[stuck plover]

anyone know the fix for this?

tried both dx12 and 11

[torn charm]

ok i think you might be good you can always refund if you need to

[torn charm]

specs??

[stuck plover]

4060 5 5600x

wait bruh

turning on dlss fixes this?

[raven ore]

im not an expert but maybe its a download error, try validating files?

[stuck plover]

huh

i realized it started to happen when i turned dlss off, so i thought of turning it on just now

[hardy swallow]

I got it with line 437

[raven ore]

least buggy game on early acces

[stuck plover]

not sure if its same but try to mess with dlss

[torn charm]

try this

[hardy swallow]

alr tryed it 5 times dont work

[torn charm]

shit idk then if its something with dlss i wouldnt know

[hardy swallow]

still thx for trying help @stuck plover thx to you too

[stuck plover]

np

game is forcing me to use ai slop smh

[heavy shard]

I have the latest drivers and yet my game runs like shi still

[hardy swallow]

I hope not that they just gave up on this project and aboundet it

[north monolith]

dx12

[heavy shard]

I 've tried both dx11 and dx12

rtx 4060 and im getting 10 fps almost

[north monolith]

dlss?

thats not cause of optimisation

[heavy shard]

Im using quality dlss

[heavy shard]

??

I get horrible fps especially in slums

[north monolith]

somethings wrong

[heavy shard]

this is how it runs

[north monolith]

is your displayport in the gpu and or in the motherboard

sorry my internet is spotty

[heavy shard]

in the gpu, it is the game's optimization or it just not working well with rtx cards

my pc can run every other game fine

[north monolith]

i get like 100fps on the game with a 5070

[hardy swallow]

Like the user posed. They have Assets that Player cant see maybe it eat the performance or the Assets have to many polegonys

[north monolith]

idk whags going on

sorry i couldnt be of help

[heavy shard]

do you use framegen?

[north monolith]

only 2x

[heavy shard]

thats 50 fps..

god this game is so badly optimized

[north monolith]

actually no i turned it off

[heavy shard]

so ur getting 100 fps without gen, I refuse to believe it

[sand bone]

no, i have 3060 ti and it sucks

[dull dock]

Imma wait until it's fixed

[placid raven]

u should atp

refund if its not fixed in like 12 days

dont play over 2 hrs

14 days or 2 hrs are the limit and u cant refund it by then

[stark pulsar]

What an incredible launch guys

wow

[heavy shard]

yeah even on medium settings in slums with the 4060, I get like 40-50 fps except it constantly drops

[compact narwhal]

it needed some qa but like it is early access as much as that’s a tired thing to say

it needs honest feedback and community testing instead of crazy gamer arguments

it needed another month in the oven tho

the progression system is rly cool forging ur own weapons and doing bouts for money

the physics are noticeably less responsive than the demo idk if that’s a conscious choice or not

nothing wrong with refunding it is your right to do so

[autumn wyvern]

im using a 5600x and gtx1660ti and even on low settings its so laggy in some of the maps apart from some of the rlly small maps so hopefully they fix the optimisation soon

[heavy shard]

is it normal to be getting 20 fps and horrible stutter on slums epic settings, with a 4060
I also get 50 fps on epic in cellar, yet I've seen people get 80+ in slums with a 3080

[whole burrow]

Slums is cooked, its normal. Also a 3080 is higher performance then a 4060.

[heavy shard]

not 4x performance tho..

[whole burrow]

i get 80 fps on DX-11 on a RX6700xt, on low, when i used to get 100 on high, its a mystery what happened to performance.