pc-specs

[tropic sphinx]

Guys, in theory what to expect from optimisation by the end of 2026?
I mean I have got Laptop with 4050, somehow finished it in Feb2025 now after updates, it just drops to 20fps.

[real kraken]

With unreal engine update, better like 40% faster with update, BUT they could increase the graphics quality, increase the alife distance etc...

I can't wait the unreal engine update, I play this game 130h only one playthrough, I never did the other endings and I d'ont want to know how they looks...it's the only thing I wait to restart making a new game

Unreal engine 5.5 compare to 5.1 is TSR upgrade (better performance + better quality), Lumen upgrade, upscaling upgrade (the new FSR4 SDK only support 5.2 + ) and also better features like bios, procedurale tools, new blueprint version etc... Also I wish they bring hardware lumen

which can bring better alife, better quality image, more stable

Unreal engine 5.1 was released in 2022, 5.5.4 in 2024

also DLSS and other things like that are more supported on newer version

[tropic sphinx]

Thank you Fellow Stalker, you made one loner a bit happier. Will need a loaf of bread or bandages, I will be there 🥹

[real kraken]

take care of you ..the road to the north will be opened soon

[coarse linden]

More like 10% at best

[tender patrol]

They already improved performace from 1.0 to 1.7 by 10 - 40 %: https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/1p3u29u/performance_comparison_of_100_161_and_170_ryzen/
So I expect big performance jump after the engine update, especially on lower end systems.

[coarse linden]

Well just dont get upset when that big jump will not materialize

[unborn otter]

unreal engine 5.7 already runs 30% better then 5.4 just imagine vs 5.1 ...

[coarse linden]

We are not getting 5.7 so kinda irrelevant

[unborn otter]

called a comparison, either way 5.5.1 to 5.7 was only a 6% jump

[tawny thicket]

5.7 also gets a much better nanite system for foliage

Which looks a bit better and runs a ton better

Tho stalkers foliage was probably not designed with nanite in mind so they couldnt use it even if they wanted to

[coarse linden]

Be thankful for CD Projekt Red for that lol

[plucky quail]

Performance could stay the same. They already massively reduced the foliage and with the 10-15% performance gain with the engine update they could very much increase it.

[real kraken]

So no performance upgrade but quality upgrade, ether are an upgrade

And they can do both

Bring only 10% performance but quality upgrade

[plucky quail]

You don't use nanite on foliage anyway. If they choose to use it then it's like using nanite in general. Only really worth it if you use a massive amount of polygons.

[tawny thicket]

nanite also looks better
and what they currently have is a travesty
IMO it would be worth it

[plucky quail]

But the 10% is the performance. If they put more foliage that uses 10% performance then we are equal again

[plucky quail]

They should rather actually optimise and not use shortcuts.

[plucky quail]

Also we're gonna 100% get ai upgrades

[tawny thicket]

if it looks a lot better while running a little bit worse hows that not optimization ?

[real kraken]

It will be not that bro...5.5 has way more performance than 5.1

So I think it will be both

[plucky quail]

Because we are already on the edge of performance. They also just can give both performance and better visual. Other studios can do it too. So when they take extra year after their announcement then they better do that.

[plucky quail]

But it's not 40% tho.

[real kraken]

it will be less but with better visual

[tawny thicket]

no matter what they do the traditional LOD's will always look worse than nanite while not running much better than voxelized nanite

[plucky quail]

We not going to get 5.7 and not saying traditional will look better but we know it's really enough. It's not like we need to 4x on the screen to see that the foliage is rendered correctly

And that with fly mode to see 8km far

[tawny thicket]

even if the devs dont change anything 5.5 will look better

cuz it gets AO denoiser and reflection denoiser

• it'll reset the dev's stupid config settings

[plucky quail]

Probably, but both would be best for the game.

[real kraken]

https://portal.productboard.com/epicgames/1-unreal-engine-public-roadmap/c/1723-optimised-metahumans-in-ue

check this out

also in 5.4 they bring motion animation, so...for AI the animation will looks better

I hope they will improve the AI in this game

[plucky quail]

That's tho the tool for easy motion capture and to put in game iirc. But they already done that work before and done that motion capture, texture and refining.

Idk if that would help much except maybe the mb

[novel spade]

Yo! wtf does "Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0x000001fe5d4b34a8" mean? GPU issue?

[tawny thicket]

vaguest error message possible

[novel spade]

dammit ...

[past escarp]

It means your gpu was ruthlessly violated by ue5

[tawny thicket]

It means your gpu was ruthlessly violated by ue5 nothing

[novel spade]

lmao. I can load the first save, at the very start of the game, but not the later saves

[tawny thicket]

there should be more in the crashlog though

[past escarp]

Nuh uh. Something was violated ruthlessly, we just dont know what exactly

[tawny thicket]

corrupted save then

[past escarp]

Saves are violated

[novel spade]

dammit ... Seems like it's quite a few corrupted saves, then

[tawny thicket]

maybe you have backup saves ?

the game might create those on its own

[novel spade]

I know I should, but I don't. I only have older ones

[small escarp]

How to on fsr 4.1 in game or alt + r amd adrenalin

[real kraken]

check dm

[azure ore]

Whats going to be the average performance gain with the 5.54 update?

[winter hamlet]

Consult the orb

[past escarp]

more then it used to be, less then everybody wants

either +10% performance or better quality something like that

[past escarp]

fellas, what if all markets are secretly controlled by sidorovich so that he will get all the habar and money?

[unborn otter]

well 5.4 to 5.7 is 30% faster and 5.5.4 to 5.7 is 6% faster so its at least 20% faster

[coarse linden]

Tbh would be better not to speculate and hype it up. When expectations are not met bunch of people will go apeshit over it once again

[plucky quail]

As if people can resist doing that

[late ferry]

sunkair has been warned

Reason: Posted an invite

[coarse linden]

Oh boy

HWMonitor and CPU-Z seems to have been compromised

[past escarp]

what? how?

[late ferry]

moldx_ has been warned

Reason: Posted an invite

[spare coral]

Apparently they hacked their website lol

[past escarp]

And what to they get from hacking site? I mean like, do they change installation files, maybe get user date or ehat?

[winter hamlet]

If they can publish compromised files for people to run, it's pretty big. Keyloggers, browser password data, etc.

[coarse linden]

They changed download to infected files. Known software so even if antivirus screams people just assume its false positive

Was bit more sophisticated attack similar to Notepad++ attack. According to site owner infected link was up for about 6 hours

[past escarp]

I usually check everything on virustotal, usually it can flag like 0-3 antiviruses, whic i think is safe

[coarse linden]

This one was not actually picked up by Virustotal

Well technically it was but it gave off the generic machine learning trojan that often enough is false positive

[late ferry]

lordlandon_aizen has been warned

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vaccone00 has been warned

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voland2904 has been warned

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eddi2199 has been warned

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eddi2199 has been warned

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[past escarp]

is it like a bot day today or something?

[real kraken]

Yeah lol

[late ferry]

richi010585 has been warned

Reason: Posted an invite

[late ferry]

xoutlawstarr has been warned

Reason: Posted an invite

[strong matrix]

Brother, Goooooooodayuuumn

[plucky estuary]

Anyone having issues with a bunch of white dots in the corners of the buildings on interiors

4060 nvidia

[reef zenith]

Wolf just putting in work xD

[plucky estuary]

Anyone know where to go to fix a graphics issue ? I posted the pic in screens and vids

[past escarp]

thats the neat part - you dont

[plucky quail]

https://realdody.github.io/epinephrine/en/resources/support-articles/release-notes/RAD-WIN-26-3-2.html

They done it !!!

[tender patrol]

what???

[real kraken]

For real ?

Please tell me that's not a joke

Source : trust me bro

[coarse linden]

Done what?

[tawny thicket]

Do trust anything and everything from
Https://realdody.github.io/epinephrine

[plucky quail]

People are actually that ez to fool

[real kraken]

I was too hyped befors I saw the source

[azure ore]

Do you guys use software to clean your reg

[coarse linden]

Not much point

[azure ore]

Its possible that remains of programs can cause issues

[coarse linden]

Trivial enough to track down offending reg if such case appears and null it

More likely that windows will eat dirt and corrupt its own file then registry starting to act up

[past escarp]

yep

happened to me twice in last year

[late ferry]

daniel_21_volta has been warned

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daddii. has been warned

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cofffe_3457 has been warned

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ayden9207 has been warned

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zhongqing24 has been warned

Reason: Posted an invite

[coarse linden]

Can people stop getting hacked for 5 bloody minutes?

[real kraken]

Token grab lore

[plucky quail]

People actually fall for hacks lol. They need to stop installing cracked Stalker2

[past escarp]

where can i grab some tokens?

[real kraken]

[torpid tree]

So what's this chat for, to post PC specs n' such? Just asking since I see mostly chatting in here.

[ocean yew]

complaining about how the game looks and runs

also complaining about less stalker related things. you cant send images here so theres limited options.

[mighty barn]

all that he said + general tech discussions and doom posting

[torpid tree]

I haven't played S2 in a while. I recently decided to play the OG games first and then start on S2 again.

[torpid tree]

Oh cool, might post my specs then! Here they are:

Motherboard – ASUS AM4 TUF Gaming X570-Plus
CPU – AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-core, 24-Thread Unlocked @ 3.7 (4.8 GHz)
CPU Cooler - Noctua NH-D15 chromax.black, 140mm dual-tower CPU cooler (Black)
GPU – SAPPHIRE PULSE AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT GPU 16GB GDDR6
RAM - G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR4 @ 3600 MHz
PSU - Seasonic FOCUS GX-750 750W 80+ Gold Full-Modular PSU

[past escarp]

Buy better

[past escarp]

motherboard - boards (insert yo mama joke)
cpu - with built-in heating system
cpu cooler - cools down
gpu - processes graphics
ram - has dimentia
PSU - supplies are quite unstable, but they are.
these are the specs you should aim for

[plucky quail]

Pff you need a 1080TI. Nothing can beat that and a 9900K. Perfect build to run the game 100% all the time on Low. Extracting all HP of your PC

[grim basin]

Decided to put this message here because i assume this is the right channel. im building a new pc soon, looking forward to play stalker2, but i am going to install linux, does stalker 2 work with linux? just started to look into linux for the first time like a hour ago so i know little to nothing.

[coarse linden]

Our little nerd corner

[plucky quail]

Yeah most games work that dont have Anicheat. Stalker2 also works. It runs faster too depending where you are

[tender patrol]

If you going to use Linux - the most important HW part is GPU - it should be AMD. Nvidia on Linux will give you inferior experience.

[lusty mason]

Nvidia NTC reducing vram of a game from 6.5GB to 970MB using a different compression method and AI network sometimes looking nearly identical or better.

Insane!

[torpid tree]

[torpid tree]

But they can't manage to make most of their decent GPUs affordable. I'm tired of NVIDIA and the AI malarkey, personally.

[tawny thicket]

i wonder, does it work with anisotropic filtering yet ?

[grim basin]

Okkk thanks

[grim basin]

Ok good to know thanks. im getting a Rx 9060 xt 16gb.

[past escarp]

Its not that they cant, rather they actively choose not to do that

[torpid tree]

Tomato, tomato, really. Same difference. It dosen't help that on top of that Jensen is obscenely egotistic and arrogant to boot.

[past escarp]

well cant means that they tried and will maybe do it some day. but they are choosing not to do anything good for consumers. honestly - last ces was terrible, it wasn`t even consumer in the slightest, so its just trend for all the companies to not care abt you

[torpid tree]

Maybe, but I doubt it. After the 3000 series came out, that was the turning point I'd say.

[past escarp]

im not sure, 3000 series seems great, id say it started with 4000, when ai became not complementary, but rather one of most important parts of gpu, while in 5000 series we have sitation, when ai is all nvidia cares abt

[tawny thicket]

I thought CES stood for
Corporate
Electronic
Show

[past escarp]

no, it actually stands for
AI
AI
AI

[coarse linden]

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-to-bring-back-ryzen-7-5800x3d-as-am4-10th-anniversary-edition

Interesting.. Guess they restarted production for it

[azure ore]

Does the frame time stabilisation maje a difference for you guys

[plucky quail]

https://www.hardwareluxx.de/index.php/news/hardware/prozessoren/68817-für-lga1700-intel-plant-weiteren-raptor-lake-refresh-für-2027.html

Intel might also extend their older platform.

Wonder what that means. Are the newer gens not ready yet and get postponed or does the ram shortage push red and blue to make more ddr4 CPUs to sell.

Prob both or something

[coarse linden]

Why tho? Alder lake is not that desired CPU and is still readily available along with the boards

[plucky quail]

So the 13 and 14th gen user dont go to AMD and stay on intel?

Who would switch and still stay at Intel. Best option with low risk is AMD and rather have people stay on LGA1700. Maybe thats the plan

[coarse linden]

Nobody is switching on this ram economy

[pure ibex]

https://www.gizmochina.com/2026/04/13/tsmc-hits-5ghz-speeds-on-smartphone-processors-leaving-huawei-generations-behind/

[late ferry]

potentt_ has been warned

Reason: Posted an invite

[lofty sentinel]

besides star citizen, there is no game reaching 16gb Vram at 1440p ultra settings so this 14700F+4080super is gonna last long enough to get through the rammageddon.

[plucky quail]

No game reaches 12 GB if you playing low. So both are totally fine to have without needing to buy new GPU

[winter hamlet]

12GB is good for today, but so was 8GB when RTX 3000 series launched. Best to keep that in mind when buying.

[plucky quail]

8GB was also low back then with some games but you could always argue to lower settings. Same now with 12GB it's sometimes hitting 12gb but you can argue lowering settings. It will probably have the same fate.
Imo it always depends on the GPU. 5090 on 16GB would be obsolete or useless. Getting limited by Vram in some games already Vs what it could do.

[hollow kettle]

It is actually insane how much of a difference this 7800x3D made in this game. Compared to 13600kf in most other games it wasnt this huge of a difference. I am certainly not complaining though! Love this processor

Before I couldnt run Native AA with epic settings, had to use quality or balanced to keep above 60 fps. Now with fsr native AA im getting 90 fps which is my cap with frame gen on 180fps

Some minor frame time spikes here & there, but man this like a night & day difference comparing to when I first played

[hollow kettle]

I also discovered why HDR was looking so bad at night before. The black point setting is backwards, meaning if you set it -5 that is 5 levels removed so it washes the image out more. 5 would make black levels darker by 5 levels

So the entire time I thought -5 was making it darker, but NO lol complete opposite. Thanks for that one GSC

[past escarp]

sounds like a skill issue

[plucky quail]

Idk did you use Microsoft HDR calibration

[coarse linden]

I see... So Nvidia is so interested in Neural Texture Comperssion since it would solve one of the issues with their ReSTIR PT

And issue being ReSTIR needs quite the chunk of vram

[full elbow]

You should post the example image Nvidia posted for people to see. All it's really doing is using the lowest LOD textures & cheaply upscaling them in real time using tensor cores. The amount of detail lost is insane. I can see the potential for this on, say, a 5030-esque GPU that is already limited in VRAM, but marketing this for 8GB+ VRAM GPUs is solving a problem that doesn't exist (or will only exist due to poor optimization and once again become another bandaid solution like DLSS has become)

https://research.nvidia.com/labs/rtr/neural_texture_compression/

[tawny thicket]

Or they just dont wanna give more VRAM

[plucky quail]

It's just about not putting more Vram in to their GPus

[coarse linden]

I mean in current economy doubling vrams would add about 300 on the price tag + markup

And we would pretty much experience 2020 shortage and scalping yet again since AI bros going to buy all the gaming cards for their garage slop like its cryptoboom

[lusty mason]

Still an insane reduction in vram usage and still looking good, imagine if they allowed it to use a little more vram than that example so it could reach the same level of detail but still be lower vram cost, be good if they made it variable instead of such extreme usage reduction

[past escarp]

uh-huh and now you have devs who couldnt care less about optimization even more

you will just end up with same quality of games as now, just that without that tech it will work pretty bad

[tawny thicket]

textures also arent the only things consuming VRAM

[coarse linden]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6O4LCmah98

heh..

[full elbow]

yes but since its just rescaling LOD textures all that it really does is a crappy optimization hack that a lot of devs will abuse

a dedicated dev could develop low res textures and make it a setting in the graphics config to mitigate the VRAM issue. they don't typically because it's not necessary. modern GPU hardware generally has 4-8GB of VRAM which is more than enough

it's like initial DLSS implementation all over again; instead of it being used as an additional optimizer, development schedules cut corners on optimization and use DLSS as a bandaid fix.

mind you, i have zero issues with the actual function of these technologies. DLSS is a fantastic equalizer that gives lower end GPUs access to a wider range of games. but it needs to be in addition to normal optimization development.

[plucky quail]

Like they did that before the spike. The Ram price changes nothing here

You will get less, Less vram and less FPS just for 6070 for 700$

[coarse linden]

vram prices were going up before current gen even came out so launch prices were never going to hold up

[plucky quail]

Sure the 8GB 4060 and 12GB 4070 is at that the vram Spiked not because they dont want to give more and get even more margin

[placid lily]

Upgraded from a GTX 1660ti 6GB VRAM card to RX 6700 10GB VRAM card and now I get an "Out of Video Memory" crash on shader compilation. I have an AMD CPU.
I DDU'd in safe mode as you would, I even reinstalled my chipset drivers. Every other game recognizes the GPU fine and there are no issues outside of STALKER 2.
STALKER 2 was even a fresh reinstall just to be extra safe. Cleared the folders and appdata as well.
I don't get it.

[real kraken]

Wtf

Even with the latest amd adrenaline ?

[lament rampart]

So
I have a laptop with a 3070 and a 11th Gen I7 and an Adata ssd
Any idea on how to get more fps ?
I have graphics on medium

[plucky quail]

If lowering Graphics changes nothing then it might just be cuz of weak CPU. Else there is a mod to lower Graphics massively so maybe try that?

[lament rampart]

but low graphics looks so bad qwq
Even on medium, I often get wierd lighting issues

[past escarp]

its very simple - you buy urself a new high-end pc

[hollow kettle]

huh? Did you guys even read my message?

[hollow kettle]

set graphics to low

lol, not even joking. Not much else you could do. Maybe enable dlss and fsr frame gen

[mental hollow]

say ong

is the game really that optimized

[hollow kettle]

I got this game looking absolutely beautiful. The most gritty & atmospheric game I have ever played. HDR, when tuned properly, is phenomenal.

Using a mix of Epic and High settings with FSR Native AA plus FSR FG at 1440p

smooth 120-130 fps even in settlements like zalyssia & garbage so far. Like bro 89 avg fps with 78 1% low, no stutters other than some minor frame time spikes that are only noticeable with a graph overlay

[swift torrent]

Yeah im feeling lucky too cos im running Epic on an "old" 11700K with a 5070Ti and dont know why so much complainings ^^´ 1440p and fully native with between 60 and 90FPS (75-80 avg). Even the Foxgame(!) Spirit of the north 2 can pull me on some smoky or very particled areas down to 45FPS xD So Stalker runs absolutly perfect. There are games that need more ressources then this beautiful one 😉

[late ferry]

wolfboy7685 has been warned

Reason: Posted an invite

[urban sail]

thinking of doing a new budget build

[past escarp]

truly a budget king

[pure ibex]

Based

[real kraken]

wtf

[lofty bone]

Does anyone know what changed to break the UEVR compatibility after 1.6?

[plucky quail]

What's that? Unreal engine VR?

[lofty bone]

pardon?

[plucky quail]

You read me

[pure ibex]

https://youtu.be/wfr4QN1Hvhs?si=NsScQeunkn0aYruB

[spare coral]

Gabecontroller

[past escarp]

Fellas i recommend you playing competetive shooter(like cs2) with 2k ping and 50packet loss, its really fun

You dont understend where you are, what you're doing and generally looks like you are in interstellar

[coarse linden]

I get that feeling when playing with 150 ping

[past escarp]

imagine how it feels in 2k ping

[plucky quail]

https://youtu.be/p15yH7c5LW0?is=yYZmcKaZ0zd9oDda

Not good. His testing looks even worse

[real kraken]

I switched to Linux Fedora on my Main PC, now every pc I got in running on Linux.
The performance is really good

[plucky quail]

So any news on the Engine update. We are almost Month 5. IDK if they realize that they said they will do it 10Months ago

[past escarp]

engine will be updated. maybe. some day. i hope so

[tropic bobcat]

They still haven’t done that?

[plucky quail]

You thought they done one?

[tropic bobcat]

I’ve been at BCT for almost three months now, I assumed they did by now.

[plucky quail]

Naw they done nothing then giving us stuff that should have existed since day1

[real kraken]

ah yes

Btw to upgrade the Unreal engine to my project it took me around 3/4 full days.

so well 10 month unless it's very very customized it shouldn't take that much longer. IMO the UE5 update is already ready they just add some stuff I think

[uneven portal]

As far as I know, their version of Unreal was already customized to begin with

That said, with all due respect, I doubt your projects are the most objective point of comparison for Stalker 2 as a project...

from what I've seen

[real kraken]

yes sure, we d'ont have the same project but 10 month man...even if Stalker 2 is 15X bigger than mine, it shouldn't take 1 years

and well C++ is still C++

you just need to adapte the function, API, Plugin to the newer version

you just need to copy past the code and adapte it, it's what I did

so yeah a few month is realist, but even it was announced last year for the 2025 roadmap, we aare in 2026

[uneven portal]

10 months is crazy I agree with that

But if you realize that they're creating DLC by splitting up the development team and scrapping the “A Life” system which they clearly hadn't finished and used as an excuse, claiming it was buggy and they couldn't implement it

you start to understand why it takes 10 months

[real kraken]

Yeah it's why the last update was really "meh" only a few people worked on it

[uneven portal]

They're more concerned with making a profit than actually following through on what they promised from the start. If they knew they couldn't deliver, they should have kept quiet, but marketing is marketing.

But as we can see on forums like this, there are many people who will support them for reasons we already know, and they’re free to take three years or however long they want to finish the game, or not.

[real kraken]

I prefer that they rebuild everything and take more times, I think that Unreal engine update is ready, but well idk what happen inside the company

[real kraken]

Yeah...the only thing that I d'ont like it's they are not communicating anymore

and really..tradecard games..I d'ont really care about it

[uneven portal]

Books for 50 euros outside Ukraine, more art books, a card game, collector's editions, DLC etc...

[real kraken]

Yeah lol

[uneven portal]

They do it with so much care that when they add content that should have been there from the start, they call it a “free content update”

[real kraken]

real...for now I just want the Unreal engine update

(and also because the newer version have better Linux support)

[uneven portal]

I wish I could use Adobe on Linux I'd definitely switch over.

[real kraken]

Yeah I totally understand why lol. for now when an app is exclusive Windows and d'ont have alternative I use Wine

[urban sail]

dude, gonna be real, what makes you think that you have any more knowledge than industry veterans behind a 150gb+ game

not saying you're completely amateur, but you need a reality check

[real kraken]

it's litteraly what I said

[urban sail]

what is

[real kraken]

.

[urban sail]

i replied to that

[real kraken]

But taking 1 years man, and just remember that UE5 update was announced to 2025's roadmap !

it took me 10 hours max, even for a 150Gb games...1 years for a 2025 promise

[urban sail]

their game is way more complex than yours

[real kraken]

yeah but what I said, you just need to adapt the code, C++ is still C++. and even if you had problems with assets, re import them.
Trust me 1 years it's the time for making an engine not a engine update.
it's not a excuse

[urban sail]

[real kraken]

to upgrade Unreal engine you need to :

adapte the code for the newer SDK
adapte the plugins (like FSR and DLSS, Steamplugin, any external plugins)
re import some assets (it's the problem I had with some assets)
adapte the code to the newer version (there are some function that has changed, but mostly just renaming)

[urban sail]

did you fully modify your engine to make your game

[real kraken]

and the only thing that take the time it's customization

[real kraken]

No, just basic engine edit, not like arc raiders

[urban sail]

so again why do you think its comparable

[real kraken]

it's not

[urban sail]

so then why are you saying its easy

[real kraken]

what I compare is that 1 years is excessive

especially when it's a company that had hundred of employees

[real kraken]

waaaaay more easy than making your own engine yes

I know that they did it's more complicated than mine, yes I know and I am completely agree with that.
but man when I took me the weekend, they are hundred of employees..they are completely able to do it in 6 month

1 years it's the time of making the X-ray right ?

[mighty crypt]

No? It took 6 to 9 years what

[urban sail]

lmao

xray was 6-9 years of development and it still was a clunky mess

unreal engine is two decades of development

[real kraken]

I see nothing about Xray

[urban sail]

simply better to use the existing good engine thsn to make your own

[real kraken]

ah yes 1998

[urban sail]

yeah

something like that

[real kraken]

I remove what I said sry

for unreal engine update we’re not that far from waiting

[plucky quail]

Thats like the smallest issue. Bigger thing is that its 5 months past the deadline they promised to deliver. This sounds more that they did false claims and or did just stopped the Development.

[tawny thicket]

i think ASA also took a year to update from 5.2 to 5.5

[real kraken]

ASA ?

[tawny thicket]

ark

remaster

[real kraken]

ok I d'ont played this game so idk XD

[uneven portal]

If we have to compare it to Ark, then we're in trouble

I don't think they've stopped development, but I also don't think they're in too much of a hurry, The DLC and the money are more important

[past escarp]

wasnt it just made for the only purpose of people buying same game again?(and not being able to play it in 60fps for the balance of the universe)

[past escarp]

also remember fellas - they said that there will be multiplayer one day

the question is - how many years must pass for it to be ready

or what if they are planning to launch 5.5(or whatever new version of ue they running) to launch it with new dlc?

[uneven portal]

If Metro 2039 turns out well, there’s going to be a lot of talk about the differences between studios in terms of how they handle development during a crisis.

I keep wondering if they really released the game early for financial reasons, especially considering that questionable donation of 800,000 euros

[tropic bobcat]

New metro was finally announced?

Damn I go to basic and everything happens. 😒

[past escarp]

yep, abt a week or two ago

[tropic bobcat]

About time.

[uneven portal]

for winter 2026

[tropic bobcat]

That’s dope as hell, I should well have my pc by then, I know I’m buying a laptop in the meantime.

[tawny thicket]

i play that game with 70+ fps all of the time

it looks a thousand times better than the OG

OG looks genuinely disgusting today
ultra performance upscaling will be more stable in the remaster than the OG at native rez

[past escarp]

i wish i could play games at 60+fps on my laptop

[coarse linden]

I mean there was no deadlines promised

Even when it was said to be 2025 roadmap there was that small print of "targets may be moved from 2025 to later dates" thus not commitment to certain deadline

[hollow kettle]

Where tf is Adrenalin drivers

[past escarp]

i ate them

[hollow kettle]

D:

[plucky quail]

Target moved to past 2 year anniversary. Hell yeah, just moving the target. ✌🏼

[pure ibex]

https://wccftech.com/teamgroup-elite-ddr5-8000-mtps-1-1v-jedec-compliant-speed-mainstream-memory/amp/

This is funny because bro those are the worst timings I’ve ever seen

[coarse linden]

Ew

[steady bluff]

did the latest update broke FSR frame gen?

[drowsy moth]

Nope, still working for me.

[steady bluff]

i reinstalled the game, and every time i turn on FSR Frame Gen,it causes horrible stuttering.i played it months ago on the same PC and had no issues at all
I’ve got a 7900 XTX, 7800X3D, and 128GB of ram
im going insane trying to fix the stutters with fsr

[lusty mason]

6000MT/s CL30 has a latency of 10 ns, 8000MT/s CL56 set has a latency of 14ns a lot slower

even 10000mt at 56 would be 11.2

Those cas timings are atrocious

[pure ibex]

literally

idk what the point of this ram even is

[plucky quail]

Bigger number, better >)

[pastel summit]

I'll just say that it's coming, and patience is worth it. Push GSC to have it out early and you will simply have another 1.0 situation

it's not just the UE 5.5.4 update being worked on after all, I mean I would also call it a scam if it's "just" that. But there's other factors at play here

[real kraken]

well you're a tester if you say it's worth it I hope it is

[hollow kettle]

Idk it all works good for me on 7800x3D, 9070, 32gb ddr5 & installed on m.2 nvme ssd. What storage drive do you have the game installed?

[real kraken]

In any case we all wait for Ue5 update

[steady bluff]

i have it on a ssd m.2 gen 5
like i said the game was working just fine 5 months ago

[fierce egret]

Yeah I have a mate who said stutters are awful with FSR on a 9070xt

[steady bluff]

i found a fix
seems like the latest amd drivers broke smth related to fsr fg i installed slightly older drivers and the stutters are gone

[tawny thicket]

Maybe it requires shaders to be re compiled ?

[plucky quail]

Did also anybody install 3.1.6? Maybe that fix it ?

[late ferry]

koltonspring has been warned

Reason: Posted an invite

[flint arrow]

u don;t have any driver time outs with frs 4 and frame gen?

[hollow kettle]

No

Game runs flawless unless i undervolt or set vram timing. Leave it default

[flint arrow]

strange, ever since december i can't play it with frs 4 and frame gen on

fsr works fine, native or quality both work, but if i turn on frame gen it will crash

[hollow kettle]

What are your specs

[hollow kettle]

I bet ppl hardly ever do the reset shader cache in adrenalin lol

[flint arrow]

Ryzen 7 5700X3D, 32gb ddr4 ram, 3600cl 16, RX 9070 XT, b550 tomahawk motherboard, playing on 2560x1440 high

[tawny thicket]

it should auto reset when you update drivers

[hollow kettle]

Yes, but i mean resetting it is a whole lot easier than installing new drivers

Im still using 26.3.1 bc i cant be bothered

[flint arrow]

i would try it with frame gen, it would work like 10,20min and bam, driver timeout, without frame gen, no issue

[hollow kettle]

Im not too familiar with am4 tbh. Do you have any OC or tune set to any component?

[flint arrow]

nope, all is running stock, only stalker is giving me headache, can;t figure out why

[hollow kettle]

Im not sure what it could be sorry man

[hollow kettle]

Oh wait do you use freesync ?

Or the Wait for vertical refresh in Adrenalin?

Using these two together caused massibe issues for me and I didnt even know the wait for vertical refresh was on. It caused frame time stutters and driver timeout

But that caused issues in all games for me so idk

Sorry I wish I could be more help

[flint arrow]

nope, no v sync, no freesync, nothing, no worries I am kinda stuck anyway, waiting for the engine update and hoping for fix, game looks great native with fsr 4, but it is, what it is I guess 😄

[tawny thicket]

I think this game is just weird and bugged like that with FG

[undone ivy]

Does anyone know of any optimization mods that don't drastically affect the graphics? I have an RX 7800 XT with 16GB of VRAM and a Ryzen 5700 X3D with 32GB of RAM, and the game runs very poorly at 1440p.

I just bought the game and for me the experience has been very bad.

[flint arrow]

well, fsr 3 is crap, use tsr, it is not perfect and try lowering resolution scale, like , 80 precent or adjust untill u get good fps, game is potato optimized and they wont fix a thing before 2.0

[undone ivy]

Which version are we currently on?

[flint arrow]

game version is 1.9 or smt like that if that is what you are asking 😄

fsr is 4.1 if u have 9000series, otherwise u are stuck with fsr 3.1 or optiscaler 😄

[real kraken]

I got almost the same specs and running 60FPS native 1440p Epic

7800XT Ryzen 7 5800X but I'm on Linux

It shouldn't run that bad

If I can run 55-60FPS on Epic, well on High you should be 70

[late ferry]

dicapriodrogo has been warned

Reason: Posted an invite

[tawny thicket]

All the optimiyation mods are snake oil

[swift torrent]

1.8 engine update witch is 1.9 is still coming..after the DLC or so ^^

[flint arrow]

that makes no sense, engine upgrade should be first, then dlc

[swift torrent]

we all wish xD

but yeah have no.problems with this version. new content awaiting! xD

[flint arrow]

well, I wish it was better optimized but it is, what it is, will wait for new update 😄

[hollow kettle]

Use optiscaler for fsr4 i dont think 7800xt would be slowed too much by it would it?

Even if it is i think it is worth the visual fidelity in comparison

I cant imagine those specs getting unplayable fps with adjusted settings

[hollow kettle]

Me either I been having tons of fun playing through again on a new save with current patch. :D

Runs smooth as silk for me, but I have 7800x3D & 9070

[real kraken]

Yeah, on Linux 50 - 65FPS on Epic FSR4 native

but I use quality so I can have stable 60FPS

there is huge drop in town

[flint arrow]

well town/hubs are always worse cause strain is probably on cpu there and since engine is not so well optimized it causes fps drops, moment you move more than 50m from base fps is fine again 😄

[simple ice]

i noticed that there's more ghosting on sRGB video encoding in comparison to Rec709, is this true or is it all just boogers that i'm making up?

[hollow kettle]

GUYS FSR4 FOR RDNA3 & 2 OFFICIALLY ANNIUNCED

https://overclock3d.net/news/gpu-displays/amd-promises-fsr-4-1-for-rdna-3-and-rdna-2-graphics-cards/

OptiScaler guys posted an announcement in their server. I cant forward it here

[hollow kettle]

Tbh I notice quite a bit if ghosting in all Ue5 games with lumen

[simple ice]

without upscaling or frame gen?

[spare coral]

This is nice
7000 series get it this july but 6000 series early 2027
Still pretty good for old cards

[past escarp]

fellas. what 300$ qhd monitor would you recommend?

[coarse linden]

Depends on features you want from it

[past escarp]

like 160hz and preferrably va

[coarse linden]

Probably AOC 27" Q27G3XMN fits the bill

[past escarp]

well its a little bit higher where i am. its more like 1k$

[coarse linden]

Wha

Its like 200€ monitor

[late ferry]

plebnation has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[coarse linden]

With abysmal local dimming but what can you expect from cheap monitor.. Screw you bot

[past escarp]

more like 300$

[past escarp]

well its the only monitor with such a abyssmal price. other are 20-50$ higher then usual price

[coarse linden]

There arent too many VA panels that dont have abysmal black smearing

[past escarp]

well at home i have samsung adyssey g5 with va so i dont think it will be worse then that

[coarse linden]

MSI does have decent fast VA panel but thats about 500€

Or 260€ if willing to gamble with alibaba

[past escarp]

and its where oled territory starts

[coarse linden]

Those are older gen oleds

Really sucks that RTings went into paywall

[past escarp]

well not really old. maybe like 2024-ish

[coarse linden]

Id suspect eventually oled replaces TN panels and settles around their price

[past escarp]

i`ve been thinking to maybe buy something like XG27WCS or XG27WCS

[coarse linden]

Probably will work just fine

[past escarp]

im thinking abt having other options, cause marketplace straight up refuses to work with my card and tells me nothing abt reasons why

[coarse linden]

Tho to me seems kinda waste of VA panel when it cant really do HDR well

[past escarp]

well it could be a waste of va, but there is not much i can buy for that kind fo money, that would be qhd. also ive heard msi has quality problems with their cheaper models

[coarse linden]

Is the G5 you have the 240hz model or 165?

[past escarp]

165 va

it was 200$ so ive bought it

[coarse linden]

Ah then more or less any VA would be upgrade tbf

[past escarp]

i mean i could also use ips, just prefer va

[coarse linden]

For IPS there is that TCL miniled that is around 250

Or was that VA

[past escarp]

is it actually good and could you give me an exact model

[coarse linden]

Let me dig up my history... Searching potential monitors is like another job these days lol

[past escarp]

it sure seems like it is

[coarse linden]

TCL 27G64

[past escarp]

thank you

[coarse linden]

Apparently it is VA heh

[past escarp]

so apparently there is some aoc qd-oled monitor for about 75$ more

[coarse linden]

I have no faith in oled personally

I would burn in such thing in a year

[past escarp]

so apparently tcl does not exist in turkey and they are not shipping them here

[coarse linden]

Yee they are kinda picky where they sell

[past escarp]

but they sell in ukraine

[coarse linden]

Didnt sell that here until someone just send message to retailer and asked can they get it listed

Xiaomi G Pro 27i is one option that is IPS but does have bit of firmware lottery

[past escarp]

so there also is some ktc monitor that has mini led and doesnt cost me a kidney, but they are not shipping

is this lg okay? 27G610A-B

[coarse linden]

Would say bit too dim

[past escarp]

so to make it easier - what brands would you generally recommend?

[coarse linden]

I dont really follow a brand when it comes to monitors

I just pick something that looks decent enough from the specs and hunt reviews

[past escarp]

so apparently turkey hates every single budget option for mini led

[coarse linden]

Well that sucks

[past escarp]

what do you think abt qd on ips?

[coarse linden]

Dont see too much benefit

Neat with VA panels but borderline pointless on IPS tho if its there nice, if it costs 50 extra vs model without nah

[past escarp]

i see, thank you, tomorrow i will buy at least some monitor, cause i need my pc to work. i will just hope that that monitor would be at least decent

[hazy arch]

Means literally nothing if it is not implemented in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.2.

[plucky quail]

? it will be the same way FSR4 is on RDNA4

[winter hamlet]

Can't trust any tech company these days.

[spare coral]

They will release fsr 5 exclusive to the 10000 series

[coarse linden]

Bold of you to assume they have anything resembling fsr 5

They need to see Nvidias next DLSS and spend 2 years copying it before fsr 5 becomes a thing

[real kraken]

I wish that FSR 4 will be available on Vulkan

just like FSR 3

[past escarp]

so ive got xg27wcs, i will launch my pc in two weeks now

[pure ibex]

https://thepcenthusiast.com/asus-rog-crosshair-2006-x870e-am5-motherboard/

i gotta admit this board is so fucken cool

[plucky quail]

Actually looks good. They even did the 2 color Ram slots

[late ferry]

hollowshade_yt has been warned

Reason: Posted an invite

[winter hamlet]

2006 color-scheme

[pure ibex]

Indeed

[pure ibex]

https://videocardz.com/newz/asus-rog-launches-its-first-ddr5-memory-kit-with-48gb-capacity-and-ddr5-6000-cl26-specs

Baller memory kit but it’s 880 usd

[plucky quail]

Back then before the inflation it would have costed 300$

[quartz prism]

Idk if this is the right channel but did they ever fix the fps dropping to 5fps and becoming unplayable for a few minutes??

[plucky quail]

Could it be that you have a 8gb gpu?

[quartz prism]

I have a 6gb… but my game ran perfectly fine before

[real kraken]

Low down the textures a little bit

[quartz prism]

They are on low same with hair

[winter hamlet]

What's the RAM situation? I see usage go above 20GB all the time

[quartz prism]

Wait I meant 6gb vram

[winter hamlet]

Even on lower settings vram usage tens to spike in some areas to over 8GB. System ram also often goes above 20, even more if you run out of vram. It's UE5 so running out of resources is noting new.

[quartz prism]

Is there anything I can do to get rid of it? Like make my game run like it did before?

[winter hamlet]

Try previous drivers

[plucky quail]

6Gb is not enough

[coarse linden]

They better get updating min system reqs then

Since for EU potato gamer that is grounds for refund regardless of hours if its truly unplayable as long as they have atleast min specs

[coarse linden]

I mean game will utilize the memory that is available doesnt mean it actually requires 20GB

[unkempt heath]

5600x
48 gb ddr 3600
5070 ti

halloween themed pc

[pure ibex]

I wish dfi lanparty was still around

[fierce egret]

I don't. I just wish we had PC components that don't look like gamer trash

Like Proart look nice, until you see "PoWeR uP yOuR iMaGiNaTiOn" written on it.

Who on the design team insists upon these things?

[pure ibex]

POV your the most boring man alive

[fierce egret]

you're*

[pure ibex]

This was awesome

Rgb got nothing on this

[plucky quail]

I have still a case around with those

[pure ibex]

I have several dfi lanparty boards it’s just too bad most of there later stuff was total trash

Basically anything intel they made was just terrible

Amd boards were best in class though

Like there last board which was for x58

Is probably one of the worst x58 boards of all time

[plucky quail]

[pure ibex]

Looks cool as fuck though

The other thing I’m kinda sad is gone

They use to make vibrant uv coolant

And it’s just not really a thing anymore

[wheat perch]

Easy to please 😄

If matching colors are your only passion^^

[pure ibex]

The colors are because the plastic was uv reactive

Green and yellow are the most vivid uv colors

[plucky quail]

Well now you can enjoy gray.

[pure ibex]

black is alright

imbr i really like the new asus atx x870e boards

think the style is really cool personally

[late ferry]

jw_4l has been warned

Reason: Posted an invite

[rich pike]

What kinda specs do i need to run S2 in 1440p maxed

60fps

[real kraken]

IMO, 4070 super, or 7800XT, or 6900XT

My 7800XT run very smooth 60fps on Linux, around 55- 60 fps depending of the area

[plucky quail]

Depending also where you are for CPUs. But i could hit 50-70FPS with 12400f. So a 7600X/14600k would be enough maxed out.

[little tide]

anyone running on a 9070xt getting constant crashes?

[reef zenith]

Not constant, but i can get it to consistently crash in places.
Putting the Core clock -300mhz apparently can fix it. I've tried myself and so far it's fine

Without the undervolt i could always get it to crash after picking up the artifact in the cave east of Rookie Village ||And the controller attacking||

[little tide]

Just strange, installed the game a couple days ago and got like 10+ hours with no crashes, then it started happening. I tried adjusting the core clock I think I only went to -250 and still got crashes. Guess I can try -300. Are you running TSR or FSR? Frame Gen?

[reef zenith]

I'm running the whole kit 😅 FSR Balanced, FG, near max graphics. Runs pretty well

I upgraded over a 3080 which near never crashed, but the Vram was limiting me

[reef zenith]

The game does have a bit of iffyness still, but going through that cave with it at -300 didn't crash for once so 🤷‍♂️ Different systems and such

[little tide]

For sure, I’ll try adjusting to -300 and see if it changes anything, I’ll try also going from quality to balanced, are you capping your frame rates?

[reef zenith]

I've got it capped at 120, but it's basically maxed out 😅

I play at 4K cause i'm a mad man xD So balanced isn't too bad

[celest spade]

Good morning everyone. I'm new here, so I might make some mistakes, please excuse me. I received Stalker 2 as a birthday present and I'm loving the game. The game runs very consistently, without many problems on my PC which has an RTX 5060, Ryzen 5 5600x and 32GB of RAM. The problem is that at various times, when I get close to an NPC, or it just happens, the game has a huge FPS drop, to the point where I can't do anything and have to wait for it to stabilize. Could someone help me with this problem I'm experiencing?

[tender patrol]

The game is heavy on CPU. So you will experience lower FPS in populated areas, but not to the point you described.
Huge sudden FPS drop looks more like VRAM issue. With 8 GiB GPU you have to lower your settings (especially texture quality) and render resolution.

[celest spade]

It's strange that it happens at times you least expect it. Right now, as I'm playing, the game is frozen at the moment I approached the junkyard technician.

[tender patrol]

Turn on some performance overlay (for example the Steam one) to monitor VRAM usage. Reduce your settings to the lowest and start adjusting from that point.
And I hope you are not trying to play at higher than 1080p with 8 GiB of VRAM 🙂

[celest spade]

I'm not playing. I'm playing with the default settings and the game runs smoothly. It's in these moments that the game simply crashes, especially near NPCs that you have to interact with.

This is annoying. And I'm loving the game.

[winter hamlet]

I had this issue on Windows and its completely gone on Linux. So its either AMD's Win drivers, Windows itself or the way UE5 interacts with Windows. Who knows. I've seen this problem being discussed before and have not seen a solution.

[celest spade]

So this is due to Windows?

[winter hamlet]

Oh wait NVM I see you got an RTX card. So its a different problem then.

[celest spade]

What problem?

[winter hamlet]

I didn't read the initial post properly. The issue I was talking about involved the drivers crashing.

[celest spade]

I see.

But you know what's causing my problem?

[little tide]

thanks for the help, it looks like going to -300 might have fixed it? Going on 3 hours without a crash 👍

[reef zenith]

Still no crashes?

[little tide]

Nope, so far everything has been good, thanks again for the help

[tiny linden]

Can anyone help me with the issues I'm having that I posted in #❔┃seeking-for-advice

[coarse linden]

https://www.techpowerup.com/349359/nvidia-geforce-graphics-drivers-610-47-whql-drops-control-panel-support

RIP control panel

[fierce egret]

That's concerning.

In the past I remember the app breaking custom DLSS presets and stuff on unsupported titles, and I could imagine it blockading other stuff like that.

[coarse linden]

Theres still workaround to get it back

[reef zenith]

@little tide Might just be the area 🤔 Some places in the game are still iffy even with the undervolt

[pure ibex]

https://www.corsair.com/us/en/p/memory/cmz32gx5m2x6000z28ob/shugo-32gb-2x16gb-2x-leks-ddr5-dram-6000mt-s-cl28-memory-kit-onyx-blade-cmz32gx5m2x6000z28ob

Not even a flagship kit

[pure ibex]

https://youtu.be/hQ3GhRxAi78?si=1MItBnRj0UZsBhsw

[celest spade]

Does anyone know about this problem?

[tender patrol]

Have you done any steps I suggested you to do? Lower settings, monitor VRAM usage.

[celest spade]

I did what you said and the same thing happens. At certain times when I get close to certain NPCs, or it just happens out of nowhere, the game freezes completely. Monitoring shows the GPU usage is at 100% during those moments.

[tender patrol]

GPU usage at ~100% is actually a good thing - this means you have no CPU bottleneck.

[celest spade]

The point is that when the game is running smoothly, its usage stays at 70%, 80%, or even less. When it starts to lag and becomes unplayable, its usage jumps to 100%.

Nothing changes in the CPU when these freezes are occurring.

[plucky quail]

What res are you playing and what settings?

Do you use DLSS? FG? Something other? Do you got any other apps open in the background?

Also if so what DLSS version are you using

[plucky quail]

That just means that PC as a whole is cooked in the coming days, months, Years. No more PCs only CCs

[pure ibex]

Eh

From most reports a lot of prices are coming down

Valve is just seemingly unable to adapt to the current market

[plucky quail]

Ram is still bad. SSDs are bad. GPUs are bad. Now they want to increase the price of CPUs too. Getting good PC under 800 is going to be hard. Like prebuilds are costing over 950€. Under that price they dont have dGPUs lol.

[swift torrent]

Ive running much PCs and some servers and im hoping every days nothing is dying. To get new datacenter SSDs as example would hit my pocket like a rocket right now x.x Everythin so hard right now for PC enthusiats :/ had already to buy a replace 22TB Harddrive and was half dying on prices.

I hope prices coming down way more too, but GPUS are got cheaper after bitcoin too, but not like before..so i fear its with the other components too ... slight cheaper and then stays forever on this new pricesranges..