Cryengine = we are so screwed.

[Runner]

Yea.
Holy cow, the levels of nightmare modding to just get the first one to BARELY run at all walking down the street in Rattay at even medium settings and with many, many cfg hacks.
Read many people who tried to run it on a 4090 and 8 cores at god knows how many GHz and still no dice.
Personally "only" have a 4070 Super and its a nightmare unless I literally edit the cfg to disable almost every single light and shadow in the game.

I have no idea how despite 3+ years of patching(first game), an engine, or the people developing on it, can be so cruel to their users.
In turn, I do NOT understand, why they would go there again, except that they obviously had to stay on the same engine for economic reasons.
So, we are all going to be made to suffer again pointlessly, having what is an actually really great RPG experience - with a loooooooooot of detail and care - utterly ruined by what clearly is one of the worst combos of bad engine meets bad use of it.

Super-sigh. I really love the first game and how moddable it is, but this is just going to be bad.

[Malum]

I am running a 6700XT which is about on par with a 4060 (let alone 4070 Super) and have no trouble getting 60fps locked in Rattay on Ultra settings.

Much of the calculations in major cities in games are still handled by the CPU (although I'm not certain if CryEngine and/or KCD1 does it differently). What CPU do you have installed? I'm running a Ryzen 5800x3D, so that probably explains why my system can handle it while your rig is struggling while still having a superior GPU.

[† ⅤΣ†𝓤𝟝Ω †]

I don't think you will have trouble running it high-ultra setting since the review codes issued to most Y-tubers playing on mid range configs (including 3070 ti) were able to play it just fine. Even Hunt was thought to be heavy on the system but while in some cases it was true, it never was at Crysis level back in the day. Optimizing is the key unlike for Unreal engine 5.1 which Stalker 2 uses is generally more of a f*cked up option.
They are issuing the day one patch that will make it even more stable and optimized so i wouldn't bother thinking that you will perform badly.

[Mouse Rat]

Originally posted by Runner:

Read many people who tried to run it on a 4090 and 8 cores at god knows how many GHz and still no dice.
Personally "only" have a 4070 Super and its a nightmare unless I literally edit the cfg to disable almost every single light and shadow in the game.

I've run it on linux through proton on 1440p getting min 70 high 90.
Rattay was never a problem, and it only dipped to 70 when i've done that night camp siege near end.

Your 4070 super should be able to run it beautifully min 60fps.

[DESTARD]

I ran the first game on a 1080 GTX now I have a 4080 RTX don't think I'll have a problem.

[Gias]

Ive seen exactly 1 UE5 game that runs good. Rest were trash so i dont see this as a problem because the swap likely wouldnt be an improvement.

[† ⅤΣ†𝓤𝟝Ω †]

Originally posted by DESTARD:

I ran the first game on a 1080 GTX now I have a 4080 RTX don't think I'll have a problem.

I ran it on RoG 1060 and had no problems. Maybe how optimized your system is/was has more of an impact on game than the actual configs.
Personally for KCD 2 i would expect blowing it out on i9 14900K, 4080 S and 32 Gb RAM without a hiccup.

[Spiersy]

The people who have played the game have shown evidence that the optimisation is great. Now that's not always a guarantee, but it's a far shot better than your assumptions.

Also an FYI, Worth A Buy has a video showing his rig on different settings. He only has an RTX 2080, and at 1080p on high (DLSS on) he got 90-100 FPS. Your 4070 super will be fine.

[Columbus]

You're trolling. I ran the first game on a 1660 very high settings and got 90-100 fps.

[Grey Or Gray]

Bro I ran the game on my laptop and got consistent 60 fps at ultra settings

[Dreaming Prince]

probably better than both unreal and unity put together.
tho i wish more devs would still make their games on inhouse engines..

[The nubinator]

Yeeah all this woke stuff back and forth. Maybe this is the biggest worry for me too. I doubt my laptops will handle it. And Im not really into buying these oveverpriced GFX cards tht have that price only cause of people mining the new fiat scheme of cryptocurrencies.

The game barely looks better than it did 10 years ago and to squeeze that last bit of realism it takes a lot...Its silly.

[SimranZenov]

It cracks me up when I see people blaming game engines for poor performance. Any game can run poorly or run great on any engine.

[AdahnGorion]

Originally posted by DESTARD:

I ran the first game on a 1080 GTX now I have a 4080 RTX don't think I'll have a problem.

What CPU do you have? This game is rather CPU heavy after all.
Also what resolution are you running on ?

[The nubinator]

Originally posted by SimranZenov:

It cracks me up when I see people blaming game engines for poor performance. Any game can run poorly or run great on any engine.

No. An engine i literally that which defines how good a certain type of optimization will be.

See this for an engine focused on performance: https://www.ultraengine.com

[paulbierley]

I have a 3090 and have had 0 issues with KCD 1 they say that KCD 2 is harder on your possessor than your graphics card. I