Does AI quality setting actually do anything?...

[Kain Mightyena]

I have a mid tier cpu and to counter this game's insane needless cpu utilization ive lowered most cpu intensive settings, however AI quality regardless if its on low or high doesnt seem to change the AI in any meaningful way after playing several encounters with it set to low and high. Does anyone know if this settings even works and it takes the load off the cpu at all if set to low?

[Lince_SPAIN]

AI routing / path finding is not that CPU intensive compared to background texture unpacking and streaming. which exact CPU do you have? 6-core?

[Kain Mightyena]

Originally posted by Lince_SPAIN:

AI routing / path finding is not that CPU intensive compared to background texture unpacking and streaming. which exact CPU do you have? 6-core?

I5 11400, 6 core 12 thread processor. This is the only game I’ve been having issues with it. Even cyberpunk doesn’t tax my cpu this hard unless I set crowd density to high on that game. Granted the game isn’t unplayable but it’s frequent enough to bother me.

[episoder]

a 6c/12t cpu is the bottom end of the engine. that's how it runs on the ps5. don't expect miracles switching the ai to low. it will still use your rig. all it got. yep

[Kain Mightyena]

Originally posted by episoder:

a 6c/12t cpu is the bottom end of the engine. that's how it runs on the ps5. don't expect miracles switching the ai to low. it will still use your rig. all it got. yep

That is simply false. The ps5 version of this game runs flawlessly in both fidelity mode and performance mode. Why do you think the pc version got rightfully review bombed?

[Vox Maximus]

Originally posted by episoder:

a 6c/12t cpu is the bottom end of the engine. that's how it runs on the ps5. don't expect miracles switching the ai to low. it will still use your rig. all it got. yep

PS5 has a dedicated hardware unit for texture decompression/streaming... On PC it has to be emulated and run in software.

[Lince_SPAIN]

Originally posted by Kain Mightyena:

Originally posted by episoder:

a 6c/12t cpu is the bottom end of the engine. that's how it runs on the ps5. don't expect miracles switching the ai to low. it will still use your rig. all it got. yep

That is simply false. The ps5 version of this game runs flawlessly in both fidelity mode and performance mode. Why do you think the pc version got rightfully review bombed?

The PS5 has hardware accelerated texture decompression that frees the CPU from such intensive load, on PC you either do it on the GPU (DirectStorage 1.1 and newer, which devs are afraid to use since VRAM requirement would be 10GB for this game) or on the CPU as TLOU PC does, that's why you need a CPU much faster than the custom Zen 2 on the PS5.

Edit: there's also RTX IO for GPU texture decompression but being a proprietary tech (Nvidia series 2000 and newer) with somewhat high VRAM requirements (8-10GB) we've never seen it implemented in any game thus far.

[episoder]

why you gotta change the topic to texture decompression again? searching for something to piss on? just f*ck off. it's not that much of a hog as you try to make it look like. it just needs a lil ram, but is fast enough, if your cpu can muster up some cycles. and ofc a 8c/16t cpu and up is recommended for high and ultra textures.

[Lince_SPAIN]

Originally posted by episoder:

just f*ck off

I see you're a man of culture and your parents raised you with great care and attention 👍

[FIƧᄃΛᄂ DΣᄂ BΣΛƬ]

Originally posted by Kain Mightyena:

I have a mid tier cpu and to counter this game's insane needless cpu utilization ive lowered most cpu intensive settings, however AI quality regardless if its on low or high doesnt seem to change the AI in any meaningful way after playing several encounters with it set to low and high. Does anyone know if this settings even works and it takes the load off the cpu at all if set to low?

It's wears because the game mainly runs on Vulkan , and Vulkan doesn't eat so much CPU.