It runs at 30fps on all the lowest settings on a 2070 with 64gb ram and an i9-12900K.
It is quite possibly the worst performing game I have ever seen. It’s a piece of crap.
Glad I didn’t pay for this shit. And I will not. 🏴☠️ The writing and worldbuilding is probably AI and gutter tier liberal political takes anyway.
I am absolutely stunned by just how badly this thing runs like omfg I run Elden Ring at 120fps at the same resolution. What the fuck is wrong at Bethesda? I’m so mad about this I just played Armoured Core at a rock solid 144fps and it is so jarring to go from that to this absolutely horrific performance.
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We can’t see whatever slur you decided to write.
It’s incredible that someone critiquing a videogame you’ve decided you bootlick for would drive you to behave this way.
get bopped nerd
oh cool there’s a reliable source on the seas for it already?
Bethesda, you fools why would I pay $69.99 for Fallout 4 in space when I can get it for free 24 hours after it releases. I will set my 1060 on fire but I will do it at no upfront costThe fact that there are people who paid money for the game who can’t play it yet, while pirates can freely download it, is just
It’s $70? lmao
It got cracked 4 minutes before the early access started btw
It just uses steam emu. No crack needed
Okay I’ll bite, I don’t really pirate games. Where do I get them?
I’ve also haven’t pirated any games in the age of drm, does the game have to be played on a virtual machine or is there anything else that needs to be done in order to not compromise existing Steam/Microsoft accounts?
No, I haven’t heard anyone getting banned or anything like that for pirating a game, and nothing like that has happened to me.
This is about the worst way to go about things. What’s a great game that you wouldn’t expect?
I mean this in the nicest way possible but this doesn’t make sense to me, did you miss a word somewhere? Honestly, “wouldn’t expect what”?
Expect bad performance? Expect from Bethesda? Expect the politics OP mentioned? Or maybe you meant “a great game that surpassed expectations e.g BG3?”
its performance in terms of being good is absolute shit as well as far as i’m seeing
It’s a Bethesda game, of course it runs like crap.
but it’s the other MiyazakiAh yes the From Software games, renowned for their stable, non-stuttery performance and support for high frame rates
(Armored Core 6 is a very welcome exception to the rule of From Soft game performance. Hopefully they keep that up going forward)
70 dollars for an ugly game that can’t run right.
And has no FOV slider or texture options
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just said that it’s the game that has had the most QA ever put into it at Bethesda. ig if you add 4 people to the QA team it’s a 5 person team atleast 
They did 100 times as much QA on this game as they normally do (100 * 0 = 0)
30fps on all the lowest settings on a 2070 with 64gb ram and an i9-12900K.
FUCK
that’s way better than my rig
god damnit, i was hoping i could play the new bethesdagamemodding platform at potato quality ;_;It runs like assssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
Pirate it and test before you drop money on this thing. I promise you the time/effort to torrent and be sure first might end up saving you regret.
PC Gaming is such a fuck I swear to God. My friend and I have been playing Armored Core 6 since launch. His PC has very slightly worse specs than mine. He has no crashes. I crash after every other mission and usually it doesn’t count as a mission complete when it happens
Pirate it and test before you drop money on this thing
i have not bought a videogame in like 6 years lmao
but i appreciate the sentimentWell I assumed if it’s a “modding platform” to you that there’s an inevitable need to buy the thing due to various mods requiring latest versions and not working correctly with pirate copies etc etc.
it depends, bethesda games usually work fine for modding once the patches aren’t coming so fast so the pirated versions can keep up
Playing a pirated copy at 60 fps on 5800x/3070 near max settings using the DLSS mod scaling 720p up to 1440p in 21:9. Maybe I have bad taste but I’m enjoying it a lot. Similar to Fallout 4 but with much better writing. Le capitalism in space. Takes itself pretty seriously.
So far I’ve been able to
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agree to blow up a stolen ship for a corrupt official, lie to the pirates on board and pretend to be a pirate, get found out immediately when boarding. Then by luck I convinced them not to kill me with a difficult speech check, I agree to let them keep the ship and in exchange they give me an incriminating letter about the official. I then lie and tell the official that I blew it up and then report them to authorities.
Compared to Fallout 4 which consisted of “Go shoot these guys who are bad because they’re bad guys”, this is a breath of fresh air. The fact that you can talk to many enemies rather than kill on sight is very nice. The dialogue is revamped and speech checks are a series of luck-based dialogue choices that make it feel a lot less like “I think you should just give me everything for nothing in return”
Really this is all I’ve wanted in a Bethesda RPG. Compared to previous releases I’m comfortable saying that this is the most stable at launch so far. I’m a couple hours in and really haven’t seen many bugs beyond animation glitches.
If you like Bethesda RPGs I fail to see how you wouldn’t like this. Though the “$35 extra to play on labor day weekend” was scummy.
My PC should run it fine on 1440p (6800xt and i7-12700), but I will still wait for some patches. Especially the black levels in this game are a bit weird.
As a Morrowind lover who didn’t like Fallout 4…this feels a lot like Fallout 4. The universe seems dead, the loading screens and third person transitions make it feel small.
The lore is occasionally interesting so far but I actively hate all the factions while Morrowind even evil factions like the Morag Tong had fascinating justifications. The main quest is showing some interesting stuff but the side content Is. So. Bland.
I do not understand why people try to play Bethesda games on launch. I mean, I don’t understand why people play them at all, but I particularly don’t understand why they play them on launch.
Even Morrowind at launch had problems. It would check to make sure you had the game cd in the drive which would cause periodic slow downs, very annoying.
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just turn on DLSS
Game doesn’t even have DLSS support lol
Something performs badly at launch > people complain > eventually it gets fixed by devs or community > people forget and preorder the next version, or buy as soon as FOMO hits.
Unless it gets major press like 76, cyberpunk or no man sky, it won’t matter much for the company, modern captalists don’t think about the long run, they want a big bonus today, and don’t give a shit if the company will be dead the next year.
Also, a lot of products have bad performance at launch, especially something that depends on optimizations that may not go well with different hardware. People can just calm down and wait for it to get stable.
buy
sir/ma’am/other (delete as applicable) this is hexbear
My husband is playing it on a 3090 and whatever the 9th-generation i7 unlocked is, with the highest settings and FSR enabled, running on 1080p. 45fps in cities which is brutal. 70-80 in typical areas. Strangely, he just tried it on the lowest settings and experienced no change in FPS, and furthermore the CPU is at 100% (good on them for multithreading!), that suggests it’s likely a CPU issue. Weird then that it’s running so poorly on a 12th-gen i9, that should be ripping through it.
Definitely a CPU issue you have there, my i9-12900k and 3080ti are running high-ultra settings at 4k with a solid 60fps in New Atlantis. Checking Task Manager shows 100% GPU usage but only 40-60% CPU usage.
My CPU isn’t anywhere near 100% it’s the GPU getting toasted to 100%.
Oddly enough power draw is only at 60% of the total that the GPU can draw, this leads me to believe that the usage is not accurate. I’ve seen higher power draw.
Usage % is kind of a misnomer, as it is specifying the amount of processor cycles are being used, rather than how much of the silicone in the hardware is being used. You can have a really inefficient and heavy operation that uses a tiny part of the hardware, but eats up every processor cycle, and have 100% usage with barely any thermal output or power draw. For example, writing a small script that reorganizes an extremely long list of items can use every processor cycle and bring the system to 100% usage, but it is only operating a small portion of algorithms on the processor and not actually using a lot of the hardware. So that 100% usage is likely accurate.
This basically means that the game is rather unoptimized, or at least using heavy technologies that don’t use all the hardware but take a lot of time/effort to do.
Right that clears one thing up that I’ve never seen before at least. Interesting to know! Usually in my experience I get roughly the same power draw as usage.
It is a sign that they eating things up with really inefficient operations though! Which is great.
I will say one thing for the game though, my cpu is not being taxed whatsoever, which with skyrim was completely different. I wonder if scriptlag will still be a thing when the game is heavily modded or not, or whether they’ve made attempts to mitigate that engine problem because of the modscene.
Honestly I think Gamebryo needs rebuilding from the ground up, with lessons learned from the problems their games have encountered as well as building it around resolving problems the modscene has had. In particular I think they need to modernise several engine issues that just feel dated now, their open world is one of the only AAA games that isn’t seamless for example. Loading screens and transitions from exterior to interior should be eliminated, so should entering and exiting towns. Instances are such a hacky solution to an old performance problem that shouldn’t exist on modern engines built to modern standards.
Do developers really not install games on various CPU/GPU combos before releasing them?
