9 out of 10 graphics cards people use on Steam are a 3000 series card or below. The 4070 is #9

[lockwoodx]

So... who is the marketing and research genius for this? TO decide Stalker 2 should be created with the 4000 series card in mind but 90% of your entire user base uses something that will feel awful in game. I appreciate it will look great for years to come but you boneheads sabotaged your own launch!

[Mezziaz]

What?

If you are on 30 series you can combine DLSS upscaling with AMD Frame Generation.

There is no hardware accelerated ray tracing in the game.

Those with 4080/4090 cards cannot make use them fully in this game because it is so extremely CPU limited right now.

So how does it favour 40 series exactly?

[Cyrano]

It runs pretty good on a 2080. CPU and RAM are way, way more of a limiting factor in this than most titles. If you dont' have 32gb you're probably going to be hurting.

The game is a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ in a lot of other areas and people should probably wait to buy, but performance is shockingly not the issue.

[causality]

Originally posted by Mezziaz:

What?

If you are on 30 series you can combine DLSS upscaling with AMD Frame Generation.

Even 20 series can do this. In fact I think there was a 'hack' somewhere allowing both 2 and 3 series to use DLSS frame generation in other games as there is no hardware limitation but a software based one.

[lockwoodx]

Originally posted by Mezziaz:

So how does it favour 40 series exactly?

It's the recommended settings for starters.

[Frostea]

You can’t hold back progress forever old man.

[Jamisia]

The limiting factor in this game is not the GPU it's the CPU.

[MrSpacePenguin]

Originally posted by LockwoodX:

So... who is the marketing and research genius for this? TO decide Stalker 2 should be created with the 4000 series card in mind but 90% of your entire user base uses something that will feel awful in game. I appreciate it will look great for years to come but you boneheads sabotaged your own launch! :mllrrad:

just to let you know I have RTX 4060 Ti and Im having fps drop from 100 fps to 2 fps. Im gonna wait for the patches cuz game has great atmosphere

[Blue Cloud]

Originally posted by causality:

Originally posted by Mezziaz:

What?

If you are on 30 series you can combine DLSS upscaling with AMD Frame Generation.

Even 20 series can do this. In fact I think there was a 'hack' somewhere allowing both 2 and 3 series to use DLSS frame generation in other games as there is no hardware limitation but a software based one.

Lossless scaling software has frame gen now

[Loudness]

Originally posted by MrSpacePenguin:

Originally posted by LockwoodX:

So... who is the marketing and research genius for this? TO decide Stalker 2 should be created with the 4000 series card in mind but 90% of your entire user base uses something that will feel awful in game. I appreciate it will look great for years to come but you boneheads sabotaged your own launch! :mllrrad:

just to let you know I have RTX 4060 Ti and Im having fps drop from 100 fps to 2 fps. Im gonna wait for the patches cuz game has great atmosphere

What are your other specs? What resolution? What settings? Nothing you tell us makes any sense without that.

[Mezziaz]

Originally posted by LockwoodX:

It's the recommended settings for starters.

From the Steam page

"RECOMMENDED:
Graphics: Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Ti / Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 / AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT"

Oh would you look at that, 3070 Ti mentioned.

Even it wasn't no System Requirements page lists every possible piece of compatible hardware.

How you read system requirements, is that you look at what is written as recommended and then look up yourself what other products on the market are just as powerful if you don't see what you own listed anywhere on the page.

[MrSpacePenguin]

Originally posted by Loudness:

Originally posted by MrSpacePenguin:

just to let you know I have RTX 4060 Ti and Im having fps drop from 100 fps to 2 fps. Im gonna wait for the patches cuz game has great atmosphere

What are your other specs? What resolution? What settings? Nothing you tell us makes any sense without that.

RTX 4060 Ti OC 8gb Vram and I have AMD Ryzen 8 5800X also settings are at high and I also activated DLSS DLAA and FSR 3 and resolution is 1920x1080

[Jamisia]

Originally posted by MrSpacePenguin:

Originally posted by Loudness:

What are your other specs? What resolution? What settings? Nothing you tell us makes any sense without that.

RTX 4060 Ti 8gb Vram and I have AMD Ryzen 8 5800X also settings are at high and I also activated DLSS DLAA and FSR 3

This game eats CPU's for breakfast. Even my 9800X3D tanked in some scenarios.

[MrSpacePenguin]

Originally posted by Jamisia:

Originally posted by MrSpacePenguin:

RTX 4060 Ti 8gb Vram and I have AMD Ryzen 8 5800X also settings are at high and I also activated DLSS DLAA and FSR 3

This game eats CPU's for breakfast. Even my 9800X3D tanked in some scenarios.

my game was fine until I reach the first safe camp and then it dropped to 5 and cant get it back up lol I will just wait for patches and hopefully they will fix it. I just wanted to play it while I had week off damn it

[Bandy]

Originally posted by LockwoodX:

So... TO decide Stalker 2 should be created with the 4000 series card in mind but 90% of your entire user base uses something [else] ...

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
MINIMUM:
OS: Windows 10 x64 / Windows 11 x64
Processor: Intel Core i7-7700K / AMD Ryzen 5 1600X
Memory: 16 GB RAM
Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 6GB / AMD Radeon RX 580 8GB
Storage: 160 GB available space
Additional Notes: Graphics Preset: LOW / Resolution: 1080p / Target FPS: 30. 16 GB Dual Channel RAM. SSD required. The listed specifications were evaluated using TSR and comparable technologies.

RECOMMENDED:
OS: Windows 10 x64 / Windows 11 x64
Processor: Intel Core i7-11700 / AMD Ryzen 7 5800X
Memory: 32 GB RAM
Graphics: Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Ti / Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 / AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT
Storage: 160 GB available space
Additional Notes: Graphics Preset: HIGH / Resolution: 1440p / Target FPS: 60. 32 GB Dual Channel RAM. SSD required. The above specifications were tested with TSR, DLSS, FSR and XeSS.

[Loudness]

Originally posted by MrSpacePenguin:

Originally posted by Loudness:

What are your other specs? What resolution? What settings? Nothing you tell us makes any sense without that.

RTX 4060 Ti OC 8gb Vram and I have AMD Ryzen 8 5800X also settings are at high and I also activated DLSS DLAA and FSR 3 and resolution is 1920x1080

Try running medium with max AF/max textures instead. Compare graphics and fps and report back.