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[Kenzodielocke]

Game crashed in prague, first time it did not. What to do?

 

[ISee]

People getting crashes on Nvidia GPUS: Try setting the power management mode to prefer maximum performance in your nvidia control Panel (Manage 3d settings).

 

[nOoblet16]

This shot is from a built-in benchmark btw which looks considerably better than whatever I saw in the game itself yet.

That part is in the game.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

Okay, wow. You know what is the real killer at 4K resolution? It's not CHS, turning it off does nothing in 4K. In fact from CHS Ultra to CHS Off is literally about 1 fps difference. Nope, the murderer's name is Depth of Field.

Depth of Field: Very High -> On

Average: 32.9 fps
Minimum: 28.2 fps
Maximum: 39.2 fps

Depth of Field: On -> Off

Average: 34.4 fps
Minimum: 29.3 fps
Maximum: 41.5 fps

I'll probably just go with DoF On because it does make things look a lot nicer.

If you're also attempting to reach 4K/30 fps with a 1080, here's my final settings. I think this is as good as I'm going to get until 2017 and Volta comes along. I'm going to go play the game now.

Resolution: 3840x2160
MSAA: Off
Vsync: Double-Buffered

Texture Quality: Ultra
Texture Filtering: 16x Anisotropic
Shadow Quality: Very High
CHS: On
TAA: On
Motion Blur: Your choice (I chose Off)
DoF: On
Bloom: On
Volumetric Lighting: On
Subsurface Scattering: On
Cloth Physics: On
Ambient Occlusion: Very High
Tessellation: On
POM: High
SSR: On
Sharpen: Off
Chromatic Aberration: Your choice (I chose On)
Level of Detail: Very High

 

[ekim]

Whelp. Rolled back the drivers and now the game crashes every time I try and load it up.



This is insanity.

What are your specs?

 

[dr_rus]

Is that the only setting you changed?

Yep.

Okay, wow. You know what is the real killer at 4K resolution? It's not CHS, turning it off does nothing in 4K. In fact from CHS Ultra to CHS Off is literally about 1 fps difference. Nope, the murderer's name is Depth of Field.

Depth of Field: Very High -> On

Average: 32.9 fps
Minimum: 28.2 fps
Maximum: 39.2 fps

Depth of Field: On -> Off

Average: 34.4 fps
Minimum: 29.3 fps
Maximum: 41.5 fps

I'll probably just go with DoF On because it does make things look a lot nicer.

If you're also attempting to reach 4K/30 fps with a 1080, here's my final settings. I think this is as good as I'm going to get until 2017 and Volta comes along. I'm going to go play the game now.

Resolution: 3840x2160
MSAA: Off
Vsync: Double-Buffered

Texture Quality: Ultra
Texture Filtering: 16x Anisotropic
Shadow Quality: Very High
CHS: On
TAA: On
Motion Blur: Your choice (I chose Off)
DoF: On
Bloom: On
Volumetric Lighting: On
Subsurface Scattering: On
Cloth Physics: On
Ambient Occlusion: Very High
Tessellation: On
POM: High
SSR: On
Sharpen: Off
Chromatic Aberration: Your choice (I chose On)
Level of Detail: Very High

There's like no DoF in-game but in cutscenes so if you're judging from the benchmark it's very misleading.

 

[Maxximo]

I am. It's preventing me from taking more screenshots

I don't know but maybe it's not a bug.

After the events in the beginning the hud should be defective. Maybe it's intended. XD

 

[arts&crafts]

I am on PC but I get a crash at this exact moment everytime. Anyone know how to fix this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1bswVNTs-M

 

[Vuze]

So no word on disabling the intro videos?

Probably stored in one of the slightly customised(?) bink video files in the game data directory. I couldn't be bothered to install the appropriate tools tonight and try to figure out which of the hashed files is the correct one or if they can be played by the official bink tools at all, but I'd start there.

 

[Rhoc]

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIUxfI8vZ4Y

Intel Core i5-750 @ 4GHz
EVGA GTX 970 SSC

FPS 55-75, scripted sequences are usually what make it dip below 60

Thanks for the settings i have the same 970 and getting constant 50-80 fps. Really smooth and beautiful.

 

[Lashley]

The time it takes to load my save is crazy

 

[Chubzdoomer]

Does anyone else hate how the augmentations are mapped to F1-F4, which are laid out horizontally on the keyboard, yet on the HUD they're represented in the shape of a cross/D-pad?

Why do developers keep doing this shit on PC? Would it really have been hard for them to lay the icons out horizontally when using M&KB, that way you can actually tell at a glance which augmentation corresponds to which F-key?

I feel like I can already write a book on everything wrong with the PC version. Another thing I hate is how you're supposed to constantly hold E while dragging bodies, which in turn makes it ridiculously difficult to simultaneously steer yourself with WASD without tying your fingers into a knot. Seriously, did they even test this shit with M&KB?

 

[Kenzodielocke]

I am on PC but I get a crash at this exact moment everytime. Anyone know how to fix this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1bswVNTs-M

This is fucking ridiculous.

The checkpoint before that and the fucking walk that id unskippable.

 

[rtcn63]

I am on PC but I get a crash at this exact moment everytime. Anyone know how to fix this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1bswVNTs-M

I didn't crash there, but I had the game on medium settings, in-game vsync off, and my drivers are 368.69.

Did crash earlier once duing the Heli fight though.

 

[BigTnaples]

What are your specs?

3770k
970 FTW SLI
16GB
W10





I just disabled SLI again after rolling back the drivers, the game is finally giving me playable framerates in the intro.

Geting 30-50fps in the intro now at 1440p 70-100% GPU usage on my single 970.

As long as this holds up I can manage. Hopefully it gets patched/drivers get fixed so I can use my second card.

For now, I have half an hour to play before work, 6 hours of tweaking later.

 

[mandiller]

Does this game come with SLI support. If not, has anyone had luck with some nvidia profile settings?

 

[Corpekata]

I am on PC but I get a crash at this exact moment everytime. Anyone know how to fix this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1bswVNTs-M

It's a common crash. Try running the game in Borderless windowed, that fixed it for some.

 

[arts&crafts]

This is fucking ridiculous.

The checkpoint before that and the fucking walk that id unskippable.

haha ya I dont want to keep doing it

 

[Lashley]

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIUxfI8vZ4Y

Intel Core i5-750 @ 4GHz
EVGA GTX 970 SSC

FPS 55-75, scripted sequences are usually what make it dip below 60



There's a reason it's called sharpening and not disabling blurring. It's post processed and faked. There isn't any more information you're getting out of the image.

Will try this, have a 970 and an i5-6600k

 

[arts&crafts]

It's a common crash. Try running the game in Borderless windowed, that fixed it for some.

I will try that and report back.

 

[Zomba13]

I am on PC but I get a crash at this exact moment everytime. Anyone know how to fix this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1bswVNTs-M

Getting issue there too, so far nothing I've tried has fixed it but I've not tried something like putting all settings down to lowest. Funny to see there is also an issue there on PS4.

 

[ekim]

3770k
970 FTW SLI
16GB
W10





I just disabled SLI again after rolling back the drivers, the game is finally giving me playable framerates in the intro.

Geting 30-50fps in the intro now at 1440p 70-100% GPU usage on my single 970.

As long as this holds up I can manage. Hopefully it gets patched/drivers get fixed so I can use my second card.

For now, I have half an hour to play before work, 6 hours of tweaking later.

So SLI fucked up your performance? Bummer really. 50 FPS at 1440p sounds reasonable assumin your are on ultra minus MSAA as I get above 60 on 1080p on a 1070.

 

[Kenzodielocke]

haha ya I dont want to keep doing it

Turn of subtitles. Worked for me.

 

[Intheflorsh]

I am on PC but I get a crash at this exact moment everytime. Anyone know how to fix this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1bswVNTs-M

Might be a total coincidence, but I seemed to fix it by enabling exclusive fullscreen.

 

[ekim]

I am on PC but I get a crash at this exact moment everytime. Anyone know how to fix this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1bswVNTs-M

The game is switching to a pre rendered cutscene video in that very moment. Maybe if there is a possibility to delete the video file you can fix it? Maybe it's just a problem with a certain language version?

 

[bbd23]

yea I dont see how people can call this game ugly. looks amazing.

 

[dark10x]

This shot is from a built-in benchmark btw which looks considerably better than whatever I saw in the game itself yet.

I couldn't as well so I made the shots. With CHS being Ultra you're getting very wide shadow penumbra - which is probably the reason for a performance loss here as this is calculated on the fly via filtering / gaussian blurring of shadow map values depending on how far they are from the light source. I don't know about you but I can't say that Ultra looks better than Off there. Off gives you a more detailed shadows with twice the performance so... I'll think about turning them off - at least until Nixxes will make them work without loosing 50% of performance on a GTX1080.

Oh, the area from the benchmark is in there and looks unbelievable even on the consoles (less so, obviously). It's a beautiful area.

 

[Azzanadra]

Um is this normal? For the first level of the game, I am getting 30-40 FPS on ultra with a 970 and an AMD XII Phenom 955. I ask if its normal because this seems like surprisingly good performance despite what I have been told.

 

[vocab]

yea I dont see how people can call this game ugly. looks amazing.

Once you get to the city, and doing some conversations. Oh boy. This game is not a looker.

 

[Wallach]

Jumped on quick to check out the benchmark. 980 Ti & 4790k, Very High preset:

Avg: 59
Min: 53
Max: 64

Looked good to me. Really like this engine. May wind up playing with the Elite until they suss out mouse input, but otherwise seems like it is good to go.

 

[icecold1983]

So yeah, about these CHS:

Ultra:


Off:


You be the judge if +100% of performance on a 1080 worth turning them off.

im assuming that checkerboxing is an nvidia issue and not how they are suppose to look. shadowing in general looks very wrong there to begin with tho

heres 1440p gtx1080 gameplay with perf metrics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qvas03CjDg8

 

[WhiskeyDiver]

4790k @ 4.7ghz
16gb ddr3 @1866mhz
980ti - 30% OC over stock speeds

I'm gonna be playing it at 1440p. What minimal setting changes would I need to make to ensure a smooth 60fps at nearly all times? I don't mind the occasional dip in fps honestly.

 

[Allnamestakenlol]

Does this game come with SLI support. If not, has anyone had luck with some nvidia profile settings?

Latest drivers and I have even scaling thus far with my 980ti's.

 

[Vuze]

Does anyone else hate how the augmentations are mapped to F1-F4, which are laid out horizontally on the keyboard, yet on the HUD they're represented in the shape of a cross/D-pad?

Why do developers keep doing this shit on PC? Would it really have been hard for them to lay the icons out horizontally when using M&KB, that way you can actually tell at a glance which augmentation corresponds to which F-key?

I feel like I can already write a book on everything wrong with the PC version. Another thing I hate is how you're supposed to constantly hold E while dragging bodies, which in turn makes it ridiculously difficult to simultaneously steer yourself with WASD without tying your fingers into a knot. Seriously, did they even test this shit with M&KB?

Fortunately you can easily remap the augmentation hotkeys, almost on the fly (I think it was the B menu). Also I don't think you need to keep E pressed to drag a body. Keep pressed initially to pick it up, then letting go and moving around seems to have worked for me. But I could be wrong, didn't pay close attention.

Does sb know how to use quick saves and quick loads?

Here is how you disable them;

Spoiler

You can wait a few seconds, chill out.

Great advice. This game has like 4 or 5 logos, I wouldn't be surprised if you end up staring at them for an hour or more during a play through of the game. It's just a waste of time to leave them on.

 

[designgears]

So no word on disabling the intro videos?

Here is how you disable them;

Spoiler

You can wait a few seconds, chill out.

 

[ekim]

4790k @ 4.7ghz
16gb ddr3 @1866mhz
980ti - 30% OC over stock speeds

I'm gonna be playing it at 1440p. What minimal setting changes would I need to make to ensure a smooth 60fps at nearly all times? I don't mind the occasional dip in fps honestly.

Contact Hardening Shadows --> off
Volumetric lightning --> on (but not ultra)
MSAA turned off

Should be enough. Rest can be turned to maximum.

 

[redblack85]

hi guys,there are setting for my Palit Gamrock 1080 stock and i7 6700K stock?

 

[Chubzdoomer]

Also I don't think you need to keep E pressed to drag a body. Keep pressed initially to pick it up, then letting go and moving around seems to have worked for me. But I could be wrong, didn't pay close attention.

You're right, someone else let me know about that and I can confirm that thankfully you don't have to keep it held down. For some reason the first couple times I tried the "hold, then let go" method the body kept dropping. I don't know if I was just running into a bug or what.

 

[DeathSparks]

Hey guys I fixed the title.

 

[Zyae]

How do I run the benchmark test everyone seems to be running?

 

[Wallach]

How do I run the benchmark test everyone seems to be running?

It's under Extras from the main menu.

 

[Dictator93]

MFAA seems to be doing its thing if you turn it on to modify the MSAA. At least it yields the same artifacts in stills that I remember seeing (sawtooth pattern).

Screenshot comparison with 2XMSAA

MFAA on:

MFAA off:

 

[Arcteryx]

Game crashes no matter what at the train station. GEE GEE

Done with this until we get a patch.

 

[arts&crafts]

verified game cache and then put exclusive fullscreen and I got past crash

 

[zXe]

They need to fix the mouse acceleration asap.

 

[Carlius]

They need to fix the mouse acceleration asap.

THISSSSSSSSSSSSSS! SERIOUSLY MAN!

 

[Nzyme32]

Hey guys I fixed the title.

Spoiler

Better than a 7hrs gameplay review without completing the game

They need to fix the mouse acceleration asap.

THISSSSSSSSSSSSSS! SERIOUSLY MAN!

Me as well. No idea how they got the game out like that. Frustrating to play with it

 

[leng jai]

Is it just me or does the game feel a bit stutters even at 60fps?

 

[Blitzhex]

They need to fix the mouse acceleration asap.

and the x and y sens... and the sens slider.

 

[heringer]

Ugh, buggy game. First it crashes in the

Spoiler

bombing

part, not saving the game. Then I pass the scene but right after the game freezes and keeps running at 1-2 fps until it fucks up my system entirely.