Image quality is pretty bad on PC, disabling FSR doesn't seem to run the game natively, there's too much shimmer.
What I ended up with is running 5120x2880 DLDSR with FSR2 Quality to fix the shimmer.
Yeah, still looks really bad.Rendering resolution is tied to quality preset. Are you running on Epic?
Gotta put out the illusion your doing something to the public even if it doesn't actually do much I supposeI love these "placebo" patches!
I wonder if they put them out sometimes just to see how many people will suddenly have their issues solved.. and then have a good laugh.
Sorry yes I missed the aggregate CPU usage counter. Something weird is happening as prior to the settings change at about 1:40 it is as you say around 46%, but then when he turns RT on (but it's not really on according to GPU utilisation) it drops to about 25%. Then he really turns it on and it's around 35%. Possibly just an issue with changing settings having an unexpected impact on the game performance (wouldn't be the first time). The best way to really test this would be to restart after each setting change.
You would be surprised how much that worked in the real world when I worked for Creative Labs tech support in the 90's. LOL
I really hope they manage to fix perf because the game looks absolutely ridiculous, a giant leap over the first game.
I did the exact measurements on a Ryzen 5 3600 (launch vs. current patch) - it was 13% higher average FPS, but it has the exact same hitches/high frame-time spikes. So it subjectively actually feels worse than the launch version as the highs are higher but the spikes are the same, so their contrast is even more obvious than launch.
It starts to looking good on PC
I did the exact measurements on a Ryzen 5 3600 (launch vs. current patch) - it was 13% higher average FPS, but it has the exact same hitches/high frame-time spikes. So it subjectively actually feels worse than the launch version as the highs are higher but the spikes are the same, so their contrast is even more obvious than launch.
Something that we know would improve things (Dictator talked about that once) is to update UE4 engine to the latest version. Maybe they simply did that.Good to see a reasonably hefty CPU performance uplift though. Hopefully it's a sign of more to come. Makes you wonder what they changed within a couple of weeks to get such a sizable CPU performance boost. Hopefully they haven't already used up too much of the low hanging fruit. The hitching needs to be sorted before I'll consider it buyable though.
It's still terrible.
It starts to looking good on PC