Poor performance

[bikuhl]

Hi! My rig is a fx8350, 32gb, gtx1660super, ssd.
I know my cpu is a bottleneck, but this game seems to be unnatural
hungry. It runs bad and seems unoptimized.

I don't understand why a game with such simple graphics runs like a
sick turtle. I love the first game, but after waiting two year and paid for
sandrock day one cause i trusted the developers, it feel misled. :(

I would love to play the game, but i don't want to buy an new pc due to a single game.
I also have a series x, but the price is 39$ for sandrock !!

So, please devs, would you be so kind as to give me a xbox key, or a fair discount for it,
cause playing on pc would be a pain and i think that's mostly your fault.

Regards

[Rumpelcrutchskin]

That ancient CPU is killing it for you. GTX 1660 Super is perfectly fine to run it with 1080p and hell you can even play it with just 8 GB RAM.

[KaTze]

fx8350 : /

[Rumpelcrutchskin]

You have 11 years old CPU...

[bikuhl]

Sigh, I guess I'll have to buy it again. But I'm waiting for the reviews for the xbox version. In addition, the version for the series x/(s) only has about 10 gb? That's about a quarter of the PC version. Or is this incorrect store information?

[bikuhl]

Originally posted by Rumpelcrutchskin:

You have 11 years old CPU...

Yes, and with this cpu i have played AC Odyssey with good medium settings, Witcher 3 with high settings, Cyberpunk with nearly medium settings.
Sandrock looks beautiful, but compare it with the above-mentioned games.
I think its not really optimized. Or the new engines just assume too much. I don't know. :(

[The Chosen One]

This is a 'sequel' which most of the time also means you'll need a better pc then the first one.
And you got a return period which is great for testing if a game runs well (as far as you can test things in 2 hours).

But for the most part don't preorder games... time and time and time again. Wait for release and reviews. Youtube cpu/gpu overviews etc. Or... buy it and accept possible consequences like this.

[bikuhl]

I have requested a refund and will take a closer look at the console version.

[Rumpelcrutchskin]

Originally posted by bikuhl:

Originally posted by Rumpelcrutchskin:

You have 11 years old CPU...

Yes, and with this cpu i have played AC Odyssey with good medium settings, Witcher 3 with high settings, Cyberpunk with nearly medium settings.
Sandrock looks beautiful, but compare it with the above-mentioned games.
I think its not really optimized. Or the new engines just assume too much. I don't know. :(

Nothing lasts forever and your CPU is way past the need for upgrade. Honestly I´m surprised you were able to run Cyberpunk at all since it`s really hard on CPUs. Probably would not work anymore with the new DLC.

[Smartik1]

The FPS is better than 1.5 years back, but at the cost of actual ingame behaviors. When you loot stuff from piles, it appears mid air and sort of stuttery floats towards you, then vanishes. It looks ridiculous. The audio is also ahead of the video in terms of lip sync, which also looks bad. Extremely high shadow quality = sliding jagged pixels over buildings. I don't remember it being this terrible when they started.

I get 120 FPS at max details so it's not my hardware. This is on m.2 SSD as well.

[Gnasty Gnorc]

Originally posted by bikuhl:

Originally posted by Rumpelcrutchskin:

You have 11 years old CPU...

Yes, and with this cpu i have played AC Odyssey with good medium settings, Witcher 3 with high settings, Cyberpunk with nearly medium settings.
Sandrock looks beautiful, but compare it with the above-mentioned games.
I think its not really optimized. Or the new engines just assume too much. I don't know. :(

This comment tells me you don't understand how games work, lol.

Some games are more CPU heavy than others. Portia is one of them.

[leaferian]

I, too, have been having poor performance despite having a good and recently-made computer. The amount of screen tearing even with VSync on is absolutely wild. The opening movie drops to a staggering 7fps from 78 fps for the first few seconds. The loading times are way better than they have been all early access, but c'mon guys. This game is running poorly, and it's not just a hardware issue.

[MrKn4rz]

For me the game seems to run considerably worse then it did when I played it more then 6 months ago: Cutscenes take around 3 seconds to load and I think it was almost instantly before. FPS is below 60. Im having a weird tearing issue with vsynch on or off, fullscreen/borderless doesnt matter what I set that to(it also doesnt look like regular screen tearing more like parts of the screen instead of the whole screen.

[St0rmwielder]

Originally posted by bikuhl:

Originally posted by Rumpelcrutchskin:

You have 11 years old CPU...

Yes, and with this cpu i have played AC Odyssey with good medium settings, Witcher 3 with high settings, Cyberpunk with nearly medium settings.
Sandrock looks beautiful, but compare it with the above-mentioned games.
I think its not really optimized. Or the new engines just assume too much. I don't know. :(

Those are GPU-heavy games. In a game like Sandrock the CPU gets a lot of workload, calculating all the interacteable items, loot, world changes etc. The more you build, the more stuff needs to be calculated at the same time.

I'm astonished though that it runs flawless on the Steam Deck at locked 40fps/hz with the high preset.

[SimuLord]

During Early Access, I was running it on an aging PC from February 2020 (i7-9700, RTX 2060, 16 GB RAM) and getting good framerates at 1080p and lousy ones at widescreen 3440x1440 after I bought the new monitor.

Now I'm getting beefy, satisfying framerates on an i9-13900KS, RTX 4090, and 96 GB RAM. Although the game still has some serious optimization issues with textures taking a long time to load in when transitioning from one scene to the next, especially during longer play sessions. Nothing a quit-to-desktop and restart can't fix, but the game doesn't like being played for more than 2 or 3 hours at a clip.

[sallami]

I am also having really poor performance and load times. My computer is only 2 years old or so and is built for gaming. It runs games like Elden Ring at max settings with 0 issues. I don't understand why I have such long load times for this game.