Terrible cutscene quality, does it get better?

[Saberris]

Hey all, so I just started up a save and made it through to the crash, and I have to say that the quality of the cutscene was basically the exact same as it was in beta and I was wondering if later cutscenes are more polished or if I should expect more of the same?
To clarify, the game is set to ultra settings but the characters in the cutscene had poor or unloaded textures, animation was kinda wonky(as was when I first started, my character was standing straight up, phasing through the pod, kind of like a T-pose but just standing straight through solid matter).
It feels very unpolished for a game on release, I am just hoping it gets better.

[Izuzul]

Are you playing on a HDD or SSD?

[elxicdegris]

It is fine for me, no problems with textures or similar...

[Teddy]

feels great to me?

[†WeedZebra†]

The cutscenes are way better than they were in beta you can tell they reworked almost every scene. Beta cutscenes really turned me off to the game right away because they felt so jank and the cut scenes are so much better now.

[Saberris]

Was running it on my secondary drive which is a HDD, going to completely reinstall and move to my main SSD and see if that improves things.

[Izuzul]

Originally posted by Saberris:

Was running it on my secondary drive which is a HDD, going to completely reinstall and move to my main SSD and see if that improves things.

It will help dramatically. Also there is a setting for slow HDD's that uses more RAM and Video Memory to speed up texture loading. you may wanna try that before reinstalling. It's called Slow HDD mode or something like that.

[dulany67]

No issues. How much ram, vram? Hdd or SSD?

[Damage Case]

Originally posted by Saberris:

Was running it on my secondary drive which is a HDD, going to completely reinstall and move to my main SSD and see if that improves things.

mate, SSD is REQUIRED, not just recommended. Don't listen to all them trolls that pretend to be tech-savvy and say that you'll have no problems if you install on HHD. SSD is Required even with the minimum requirements of the game. We had all these trolls here, the previous days, trying to convince everyone against the official Steam requirements. And now, we are trying to help people play their game...What a world, man...

[Neoyoshi]

If you aren't playing on a SSD, then... i don't know, what happens if we play on a HDD? o.O

I installed in on my SSD because i saw that it was a requirement in the full version, so i didn't feel like playing with fire. xD

EDIT: i recall during early access playing on a HDD or SSD had some pretty noticeable difference, especially during cutscenes, but the biggest differences for me is when i would switch between DirectX api mode and Vulkan api mode.

During EA for me, DX11 had the more stable frame rates, but more bugs during cutscenes, while Vulkan was less stable with the frame rates, but far far less bugs.

This sort of thing with the api modes 'might' carry over for some people? I mean this may be full release, but there are still going to be bugs that crop up that will need to be patched as time goes on.

[DBAA3]

I noticed it too. Almost Baldurs Gate 2 level of quality cutscene. I'm running on a NVME M2 SSD, Geforce RTX3070 (18GB) and 24GB RAM, but the whole game is running awful. Character models sliding across screen with no animation, T poses, frame rate issues, freezing for few seconds before every interaction, etc etc. Started the game on ultra settings but when I got to the first camp, had to change to medium just to do anything. Weird. Will play with settings this evening and see if I can make it better.

[Damage Case]

Originally posted by DBAA3:

I noticed it too. Almost Baldurs Gate 2 level of quality cutscene. I'm running on a NVME M2 SSD, Geforce RTX3070 (18GB) and 24GB RAM, but the whole game is running awful. Character models sliding across screen with no animation, T poses, frame rate issues, freezing for few seconds before every interaction, etc etc. Started the game on ultra settings but when I got to the first camp, had to change to medium just to do anything. Weird. Will play with settings this evening and see if I can make it better.

From what I gather, maybe running on Directx 11 is better for nVIDIA users. In any case, i am reading mixed opinions about the Vulcan, you know?

[Captain Poopdeck]

Originally posted by Saberris:

Was running it on my secondary drive which is a HDD, going to completely reinstall and move to my main SSD and see if that improves things.

You can also just move it over between drives, Steam has an option to do that. Otherwise you'd have to download the whole thing again.