Jason Moyer on 10/11/2016 at 05:51
My first playthrough of the first game was on a PC far below the minimum specs, so it could just be that they're overshooting a bit again.
Renault on 10/11/2016 at 05:51
Lots of reports on Steam that the game isn't optimized very well and is running poorly even on high end machines.
Jason Moyer on 10/11/2016 at 05:57
GeForce Experience will probably whip out a winning profile like always.
Also, whoa, as soon as DH2 finished decrypting, Tyranny started it's final download. What a great week (except for all the important stuff).
Edit: Spoke too soon, still 10 hours to go on Tyranny. But that's enough time to do 2 DH playthroughs going by what the ADHD folks will probably say.
Aja on 10/11/2016 at 06:55
Quote Posted by PigLick
I feel you Aja, my 7870 died earlier this year, and am currently using an older card (6950). I would take pc specs with a bit of caution though, for example Witcher 3 runs fine on this old card at medium settings. The Cpu is the thing that is killer for me though, all the new stuff that is coming out I want to play has stepped up a generation to what I have now, and I cant afford to replace motherboard and cpu.
Not even sure if getting a new gpu would make much difference if my cpu is just going to bottleneck the performance anyway.
Yeah, I have an i5 760, which is probably 6 years old. I don't know how to tell if it's a bottleneck or not, but my limited research tells me that upgrading the gpu or cpu but not both wouldn't give great gains.
Renzatic on 10/11/2016 at 07:22
Quote Posted by Jason Moyer
Double check your GMG order. I received 2 keys from them. They should be in your emailed receipt. I can't actually see a way to access previously purchased game codes on their website anymore for some reason.
I checked, only got one. It might be because I bought it on discount just a few hours before release. Not that I'm bothered too much. I've already got the first game anyway.
So...the game itself? Great! I'll write up more later, but for now, I'm going to bed.
Sulphur on 10/11/2016 at 08:00
Quote Posted by Aja
Yeah, I have an i5 760, which is probably 6 years old. I don't know how to tell if it's a bottleneck or not, but my limited research tells me that upgrading the gpu or cpu but not both wouldn't give great gains.
If you guys want to see whether you're CPU or GPU limited, I'd suggest downloading RivaTuner and running the overlay on your game. It shows you % CPU/GPU usage along with your frame rate. If there's any maxing out happening for one or the other, that's likely your bottleneck.
Speaking as someone who moved from a first-gen i5 last year - yes, it will bottleneck your games regardless of whether you have a fast GPU, but different games have different CPU utilisation ratios on a per-scene/level basis. Crysis 3 tends to be fairly CPU and GPU heavy, for instance, while Dragon Age: Inquisition isn't that hard on the CPU
except for places with a high NPC/object count. Similarly, if CPU overhead isn't too high but the GPU's being taxed really hard, your issue will lie there.
Either way, if you're more than a few generations behind in CPU/GPU, you'll find that recent releases aren't very merciful on PC hardware since the baseline for minimum keeps moving, while even at the recommended spec there's stuff in these games than can tank a flagship GPU.
faetal on 10/11/2016 at 09:01
I might meet up with Digital Nightfall in the near future, so if you have any nice comments about the game, it could be nice to pass them on (I'm not sure how often he is in the forums these days).
Thirith on 10/11/2016 at 09:03
I'm waiting for some benchmarks and possibly a first patch or so, since I hear that performance may be an issue on PC, but other than that I think I'll be getting this pretty soon. The first Dishonored very much brought back that Thief feeling for me, even if its stealth was more forgiving and combat had a much more important role. I loved the level design in the first one, and from what I've seen of the sequel, they've definitely not got worse at it.
Malf on 10/11/2016 at 12:23
I'm a little alarmed at reports of poor performance for a couple of reasons:
1: The first game was a triumph of stylised yet low impact graphics driving excellent performance. This sounds like they may have stepped away from this design ethos.
2: I was of the understanding that this game uses the id engine. If that's the case and it performs badly on my machine I'll be a mite confused, as new Doom runs incredibly well on my rig.
Anyhoo, maybe I'm worrying about nothing; I'll see when I get home :)
By the way, anyone know if there's any way to turn off achievement notifications in Steam?
I'm of the opinion that they promote bad habits in games like this. See, it sounds like they've made the game so that it's at it's best when things go wrong and you have to adapt. But if you're chasing achievements, the first thing you'll do when things go "wrong" is load your last quicksave.
Jason Moyer on 10/11/2016 at 15:54
AFAIK it uses an engine that Arkane developed themselves.
Edit: Well there's this "The Void engine is based on id Tech 5,[nb 1] with art director Sebastien Mitton saying the team kept "[roughly] 20 percent" of the original engine."
