I have 980ti and i7 6700K. 60 fps with drops to 56-57 fps is achievable for me on Very High 1080p. You can do the math for your rig.
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Dishonored 2 PC performance thread
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I have 980ti and i7 6700K. 60 fps with drops to 56-57 fps is achievable for me on Very High 1080p. You can do the math for your rig.
grandwizard
Member
This is going to be another game where the reputation of the port's quality leads to people buying a console version instead of on their more powerful PCs that would actually run it far better.
Deathknell
Member
So they spent 100k for denuvo and not a single day of optimization before launch..
They don't deserve any money from pc crowd.
They don't deserve any money from pc crowd.
Agent_4Seven
Tears of Nintendo
But it won't run it far better cuz it's console version and even console versions have performance problems.
Oh btw, I just realized that Arkane is making a new Prey game which is supposed to come out next year. So, the chances are that they're using the same "reworked id Tech 5" engine is really high and that means only one thing - Prey will be just as terrible on PC as Dishonored 2.
Hopefully after such a disaster they'll choose to work with id Tech 6 and then delay the game (or at least PC version) to 2018, but if they don't.... no one will buy PC version of Prey for obvious reasons.
I believe the new Prey game is using CryEngine.
As a matter of fact they dont give a shit about pc players, look at the state in which the game was released, speaks for itself.
Agent_4Seven
Tears of Nintendo
Really?
Well, considering how "well" they've reworked 70-90% of id Tech 5 to suit their needs, I don't have high hopes for Prey, In fact I don't have any at all.
From what (little) I've seen it is pretty vanilla CryEngine.
Locuza
Member
There are two different Arkane Studios, one in Lyion (France, since 1999) and one in Austin (USA, since 2006).
The France studio did the Void-Engine and Dishonored 2, the people in Austin are making Prey with the CryEngine.
My tweet to Harvey Smith:
https://twitter.com/SimplexPL/status/802533553070309376
Source of my quotes: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2016-dishonored-2-face-off
https://twitter.com/SimplexPL/status/802533553070309376
Source of my quotes: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2016-dishonored-2-face-off
dr_rus
Member
Or DisplayPort. DVI should be always Full by default.
Thanks. I checked and they're all on Full.
But it nvidia control panel as I mentioned, it's on limited, and when I change it to full I get black crush.
I think I might have to calibrate my tv settings under full.
Hm, that is really strange. What happens if you turn the TV setting to Limited for the PC input?
I bought it for my PC (980ti, i7 6700k) and am wondering if I should have gotten it for my PS4pro instead. It's playable, but I could have gotten the console version for cheaper.
Brerlappin
Member
I thought the patch had worked really well when I tested it. So I said screw it ill start a new game (I was only at karnacka, 1st mission). Big mistake. Going back to the opening level, throne room is still a lowest point of 38fps, Dunwall streets dipped down to high 30s, and once I got past the bloodfly house in karnacka it hit about 40fps. Fucks sake. This is the shittiest damn port ive played in years. I wouldn't mind if it was an amazing looking game but its only decent looking, and the IQ in the game is sickeningly bad. something like infinite warfare looks way better, has an almost solid 60fps at 1440p, ultra settings on my machine. Dishonored 2 cant even do 1080p60.
GTX 970, 16gb ram, i7 4770k.
GTX 970, 16gb ram, i7 4770k.
When I told them that this garbage is a fucking piece of shit a lot of folks got triggered.
"HOW DARE YOU SAY THAT ??!?!?"
I also like how they describe this garbage as affecting only "SPECIFIC' machines
Yeah well I guess 99% of pc gamers have 1070 and 1080, where 1% have some other gpus like a gtx 980ti which according to their devs is like an nvidia MX 4000 from 2002
Its really bad when you have the high end GPUs struggling with the game. Not even in the performance, just in the game behaving in weird ways. Just bad optimization for sure.
1.2 seems to have made my game perform worse (GTX 970, 4790k). Not only does my framerate still fluctuate even on very low settings, but now I have constant flickering along edges unless I turn AA off, and stuff in the distance looks blurry as hell even when my settings are turned up. I didn't have those issues pre-patch but I know many people did and now I'm in that same boat. Really disappointing.
Lockjaw333
Member
So should I still hold off on this game? Seems like its still a mess.
Brerlappin
Member
After getting frustrated as shit with it, I've just gone full console on it. I've plugged in a pad so the weird feeling m&kb is gone, and bumped the res up to almost 4k so it doesn't look like a jaggy shimmering mess of IQ. FPS is mostly 30. I would lock it to 30, but guess what, you can't have vsync and frame limit on at the same time!
Depends on your card, a 980 / 1070 / 1080 will give you an absolutely fine experience. Anything less than that it's going to be hard to hold 60 FPS right now, regardless of settings.
Locuza
Member
Yes, probably till the first half of 2017.
There will be more updates, also content patches, with a new game+ mode and maybe the ability to play certain episodes of the campaign whenever you want.
Lockjaw333
Member
Sure, very easily. I have the same card with an old 2500k and I play with everything set to High, textures at Ultra, and 1080p. Over 60 FPS constantly, with plenty of room to spare usually (70-90 is average).
That really should have been a thing already. This game makes me so sad. Have been wanting to play all weekend but the game runs like shit.
BRocknRolla
Member
Going to counter point here and say no, locked 60 isn't going to be a given. You're likely going to have to turn down setting to get you to 60 across the game, but even then there are areas where my card drops 10fps for no apparent reason. 60fps just isn't am abdolute in this game.
I'd say what baffles me the most design-wise is that, unlike the original, you can't restart a mission upon completing it. This means that you're entirely reliant upon saves to correct a mistake and your only option is to start a new game should said saves not undo an action.
Why not? You can't force vsync in nvidia control panel and lock to 30 in game?
Or you can lock to 30 using Riva Tuner Statistics Server.
Or play in borderless window and lock to 30 (borderless windows is always vsynced)
Digital Foundry disagrees:
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2016-dishonored-2-face-off
Also: https://youtu.be/BZrR7JVSSq4?t=342
That's not exactly damning. Digital Foundry is running the game with the Ultra preset whereas only his texture setting is set to Ultra.
I'm thinking of buying it for my girlfriend, but not sure what platform to choose.
I have a 2600k @ 4,4 Ghz, GTX1070 and 16Gb of ram. The thing is, the monitor is 1440p, so it might be of the table to get it anywhere near 60hz? It's a G-sync monitor, so that might mitigate some of the issues.
Or should I just make it easy and get it for the PS4 pro?
I have a 2600k @ 4,4 Ghz, GTX1070 and 16Gb of ram. The thing is, the monitor is 1440p, so it might be of the table to get it anywhere near 60hz? It's a G-sync monitor, so that might mitigate some of the issues.
Or should I just make it easy and get it for the PS4 pro?
grandwizard
Member
Your PC will run it better than the console versions. At 1440 though you might run into issues, but worst case scenario is you cap at 30 and then you'll still have a more stable version with a higher resolution so might as well.
The difference between Ultra and High is really quite slim. Immediately noticeable changes to visual fidelity don't occur until you drop down to Medium as it's the point at which bloom, depth of field, etc. (literally all of the No/Yes graphics options) are completely disabled:
https://abload.de/img/20161127164758_1mgywf.jpg (Ultra)
https://abload.de/img/20161127164813_1z4yfm.jpg (Very High)
https://abload.de/img/20161127164834_1ctadn.jpg (High)
https://abload.de/img/20161127164930_11jyds.jpg (Medium)
https://abload.de/img/20161127164949_166bfj.jpg (Low)
https://abload.de/img/20161127165002_1bezsw.jpg (Very Low)
(In hindsight I should have enabled the option to have Steam save lossless copies of screenshots, but no matter.)
The PS4 Pro version is also 30fps. If you can't maintain 60fps often enough for your liking, just cap the framerate (there are instructions in the OP on how to do this externally if the game's own framerate limiter feels off).
True, but they are using a friggin' Titan XP.
Nonetheless, I think they should have investigated if it is possible to achieve locked 60fps by lowering settings.
jim2point0
Banned
Absolutely. Durante would be the first one to tell you never to judge a game's performance on ultra\max settings.
When I turn things down to a mix of high\very high, the experience is vastly improved. No stuttering and a stable framerate. Seems to stay that way so long as the game isn't bumping up against my VRAM limit (which sadly requires a lot of VRAM to prevent).
It is possible, easily. Like I said, I'm over 60 FPS probably - no exaggeration - 99% of the time with a 1070 / 2500k using high settings and ultra textures. Visually it's barely distinguishable from all ultra and I hover at 70-90 FPS most of the time.
Setting everything to ultra is just asking for this game to run badly, I don't know why people are still trying to do it at this point when it offers almost no perceptible visual benefit.
I'll definitely be happy when they patch in a mission select. For my first run obviously I don't care but there are some really excellent missions like Clockwork Mansion or Crack In The Slab that I'd love to have on hand to just play over and over, or to show someone to sell them on the game.
I agree, but it also begs the question why would the developers even put these ultra and very high settings in the menu, when they obviously:
- offers virtually no perceptible graphical improvements over high
- absolutely crush performance
Right now you need to remember to save at the beginning of each missing, which is PITA.
Signor Rossi
Banned
I'm a bit confused because on my machine (i5, 390) lowering the options doesn't help performance, in fact the difference between low and ultra hovers at about 5-7 fps and I'll get something between 30 and 90fps at ultra (and about the same on low). It's bad.
Locuza
Member
At least not on midrange GPUs (Version 1.0 I believe):
https://www.computerbase.de/2016-11/dishonored-2-benchmark/
The patches did something to the graphic settings, so there might be a bigger change.
Also the Gamestar says that patch 1.2 decreased the draw-distance and the LOD is more aggressive in comparison to 1.0 (PC-Version).
https://www.computerbase.de/2016-11/dishonored-2-benchmark/
The patches did something to the graphic settings, so there might be a bigger change.
Also the Gamestar says that patch 1.2 decreased the draw-distance and the LOD is more aggressive in comparison to 1.0 (PC-Version).
jim2point0
Banned
I'm loving how the game looks and plays with settings at high \ very high. I'm maintaining 60 FPS with no drops or stuttering. Also disabled depth of field.
People should really try backing off the ultra settings. I don't have a single thing set to ultra anymore. The only argument I could make for that is view distance, as pop-in always sucks.
The game was probably released a bit too early so it could get holiday sales, but I wouldn't say lack of mission select or NG+ mean anything...they're not remotely standard features in so many games. My own campaign experience hasn't even been more buggy than the last game. I'm happy they mentioned NG+ up front, and responded to people asking for mission selection.
Performance, and weird stuff like tying mouse acceleration to frame-rate indicate the PC port didn't get the attention it should, and that sucks because it was fantastic with the 1st game. Console ports are better, but still some performance problems. I just hope Arkane will continue to make improvements, and not just drop it after a few more patches. I'd like my GoTY to run well instead of now just ok on a gtx 1070.
yes
little fucking pricks
https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/...reviews-dishonored-2-significant-problems-pcs
Let's compare to the previous installment, not other games - AFAIK mission selection was available in Dishonored.