Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance

Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance

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soulgamer31br Feb 22, 2024 @ 8:48am
Poor performance
I have a laptop with a RTX 3060, i7 12700H and 16gbs of RAM, yet the game quickly falls down to 30 FPS the second any action starts going on, even on the very first mission. I had similar problems with the demo, but i expected the game to be more optimized now. Any ideas of a fix?
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Bluti Feb 22, 2024 @ 8:50am 
Wait for update.....
soulgamer31br Feb 22, 2024 @ 8:53am 
Originally posted by Bluti:
Wait for update.....

I shouldn't need to tho. Game was already like this in the demo, the least you can expect from a finished product is for it to work correctly on launch. Its not even that large or pretty of a game either, no reason for it to run poorly like this outside of bad optimization
Rage Feb 22, 2024 @ 8:54am 
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stop trying to play games on gaming laptops they are a scam more then a gaming computer, and yes everyone knows its better then any office pc out there. but its power and heat capacity are horrible
soulgamer31br Feb 22, 2024 @ 9:44am 
Originally posted by Rage:
stop trying to play games on gaming laptops they are a scam more then a gaming computer, and yes everyone knows its better then any office pc out there. but its power and heat capacity are horrible

Obviously Tower PCs are better for gaming, but laptop are much more convenient and not everyone has the money or expertise required to build a whole ass computer.

Plus, that's not the point. Not only is my laptop well within (and dare I say above) the reccomended requirements, it can also run MUCH more demanding games like Armored Core 6 and the new Helldivers with no problem, while struggling with this indie RTS game, which is frankly kind of absurd.

If this game had crazy graphics or massive scale I'd understand more but there's really no excuse for it to perform this bad, and I've seen others complaining about performance as well
dilinho Feb 22, 2024 @ 11:43am 
Originally posted by Rage:
stop trying to play games on gaming laptops they are a scam more then a gaming computer, and yes everyone knows its better then any office pc out there. but its power and heat capacity are horrible
I play on a tower PC and still saying the Game is not well optimized, it freezes every 30 secs and doesn't use all the CPU Cores. So are you going to tell me "Stop complaining and buy an i9 14th Gen"?

My CPU is R5 7500F 6C/12T @5GHz
Big McLargehuge Feb 22, 2024 @ 12:21pm 
Anyone figured out how to use more than one core yet?
Big McLargehuge Feb 23, 2024 @ 3:39pm 
Bump - looking for some news or help, devs.
DatBoi302 Feb 23, 2024 @ 5:56pm 
Stop being dismissive over the laptop, I run this game on a tower with good specs and the game runs horrid for me. Its not so much as the performance sucks while in game, but more that the game crashes during loading, takes literal tens of minutes to start up, and alt-tabbing is usually a guaranteed crash.
I'd like to play more, but just getting into the game is a 30 minute endeavor.
LoneWolf Feb 23, 2024 @ 6:14pm 
Originally posted by dilinho:
Originally posted by Rage:
stop trying to play games on gaming laptops they are a scam more then a gaming computer, and yes everyone knows its better then any office pc out there. but its power and heat capacity are horrible
I play on a tower PC and still saying the Game is not well optimized, it freezes every 30 secs and doesn't use all the CPU Cores. So are you going to tell me "Stop complaining and buy an i9 14th Gen"?

My CPU is R5 7500F 6C/12T @5GHz

And what is your GPU? Don't ell me you're trying to play it only using a CPU.
Nobody cares about what cpu you have, when it comes to gaming, it's the GPU that matters.
I don't have the best PC, but I haven't experienced any freezing with my desktop pc; and, of course, to avoid any lag, Vsync should be on. If you then need to play on 1080p instead of 4k, then do it; a slight increase in visual quality doesn't justify lower performance/performance problems.

I also have a gaming laptop (Asus TUF), but I have noticed that with laptops you will frequently deal with lag or mini-freezes, and they're not as well cooled - that's the simple truth. So whether you play on a desktop or laptop PC does have an impact on how well it performs. Laptop GPUs also have significantly lower performance than their desktop counterpart - a laptop 4080 is not the same as a desktop 4080.
Last edited by LoneWolf; Feb 23, 2024 @ 6:22pm
Rococo Era Feb 23, 2024 @ 6:50pm 
Originally posted by LoneWolf:
Originally posted by dilinho:
I play on a tower PC and still saying the Game is not well optimized, it freezes every 30 secs and doesn't use all the CPU Cores. So are you going to tell me "Stop complaining and buy an i9 14th Gen"?

My CPU is R5 7500F 6C/12T @5GHz

And what is your GPU? Don't ell me you're trying to play it only using a CPU.
Nobody cares about what cpu you have, when it comes to gaming, it's the GPU that matters.
I don't have the best PC, but I haven't experienced any freezing with my desktop pc; and, of course, to avoid any lag, Vsync should be on. If you then need to play on 1080p instead of 4k, then do it; a slight increase in visual quality doesn't justify lower performance/performance problems.

I also have a gaming laptop (Asus TUF), but I have noticed that with laptops you will frequently deal with lag or mini-freezes, and they're not as well cooled - that's the simple truth. So whether you play on a desktop or laptop PC does have an impact on how well it performs. Laptop GPUs also have significantly lower performance than their desktop counterpart - a laptop 4080 is not the same as a desktop 4080.


CPU doesnt matter huh

Try playing the game with an i5-2400 then and get back to me.
LoneWolf Feb 23, 2024 @ 7:05pm 
Originally posted by Rococo Era:

CPU doesnt matter huh

Try playing the game with an i5-2400 then and get back to me.

So I take it you have no gpu?

"Try playing the game with an i5-2400 then and get back to me."

Dude, I played on a i5-13400F, on ULTRA, and had no problems.
Last edited by LoneWolf; Feb 23, 2024 @ 7:06pm
HAZZARD Feb 23, 2024 @ 7:46pm 
Originally posted by LoneWolf:
Originally posted by Rococo Era:

CPU doesnt matter huh

Try playing the game with an i5-2400 then and get back to me.

So I take it you have no gpu?

"Try playing the game with an i5-2400 then and get back to me."

Dude, I played on a i5-13400F, on ULTRA, and had no problems.

I have tower that has an Ryzen 5600X, a RX 7900, 32GB of ram, and I'm playing on an SSD and the game struggles to get even 60 FPS on Ultra at freaking 1080p. I can play games like Resident Evil 4 Remake, Dead Space Remake, God of War 4, and more at over 200 FPS. This game is poorly optimized in every regard. But of course, there will always be those clowns who say ♥♥♥♥ like "iTz uR pC bRO i rUN tHe GaEmE FiNE" but don't provide any proof of their performance but feel the need to talk down to others having issues.

And for your information, CPU DEFINITELY matters. You can have the strongest GPU in the world and if you don't have a good enough CPU to utilize it then it's worthless. Not to mention that certain games are more CPU bound than GPU, so they work better on weaker GPU's with stronger CPUs than they do more powerful GPUs with weaker CPUs. And then there is of course the issue of games that only use a single core of your CPU, like this one apparently does, where single core performance severely matters, because the game isn't going to use any of your cores except one. For example: You said you have a i5-13400F. It's a 10 Core CPU. Well, I'm sorry to be telling you this, but only 1 of those 10 cores are being used when you run this game, and you can't argue against that. That's a fact you yourself provided. Imagine how amazing it would run if it wasn't single core bound.
Last edited by HAZZARD; Feb 23, 2024 @ 7:48pm
LoneWolf Feb 23, 2024 @ 8:25pm 
" but only 1 of those 10 cores are being used when you run this game, and you can't argue against that. That's a fact you yourself provided. "

Lol, I said no such thing about it. I said that even with my cpu, I can run it without problems - you said it only uses 1 core - so, it is thanks to the gpu, not cpu.
Cenotaph Feb 23, 2024 @ 8:28pm 
the game only utilizes about 5% cpu and 30% GPU, even with that i mostly hit 60fps every graphic setting maxed, but the FPS does tank to 30 sometimes. There's definitely something wrong with resource utilization and there seems to be a lack of multithreading/multi process support/optimization
HAZZARD Feb 23, 2024 @ 8:44pm 
Originally posted by LoneWolf:
" but only 1 of those 10 cores are being used when you run this game, and you can't argue against that. That's a fact you yourself provided. "

Lol, I said no such thing about it. I said that even with my cpu, I can run it without problems - you said it only uses 1 core - so, it is thanks to the gpu, not cpu.
Are you being willfully dense? YOU stated what YOUR CPU is. Therefore we KNOW your specs. Your CPU has 10 cores. Only 1 of them are being used by this game, as the game is unable to use more than 1. FACTS.

You keep saying it runs "fine"... What the ♥♥♥♥ is that? 60 FPS? Doubtful, as even I ain't getting that. 40 FPS? That's not "fine".30 FPS? That wasn't even fine in the early 2000s by PC standards. Maybe actually tell us what your actual performance is instead of purposely being vague. I'm sure once you stop purposely circumventing and we get your numbers we'll know it's not "fine" for you by any means.
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