Textures are outright broken

[Terepin]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3010298456
The fact that 12 GB of VRAM is not enough for texture quality above medium is ridiculous on its own, but even on that setting there are plenty of textures that are stuck on low quality. Whas this game made for 4090 only or something? Because even if with everything set to the absolute minimum, the game still eats well over 8 GB of VRAM. If this is the baseline, then what the hell can actually handle high quality textures?!

[Vladiator]

The game was made for the PS5 that has about 16GB of RAM/VRAM for the APU.

[Terepin]

It is a SHARED memory and good chunk of it is reserved for the system, so it is not even full 16 gigs. Furthermore, the minimum specs list NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 or AMD Radeon RX 470. The 960 had only 4 GB VRAM. That does not add up.

[Captain Furious]

Originally posted by Vladiator:

The game was made for the PS5 that has about 16GB of RAM/VRAM for the APU.

PS5 only has access to 12.5 gigs of RAM for games

[Melody]

My 4090 can't handle it properly at max settings (properly = buttery smooth). Also crashes at the same moment right after the juggernaut boss when I start entering portals. Just wait for a patch. Notice that most of the positive reviews were from people with 0.1 hours on record.

[sempaisanosuke76]

Texture problems also with 4090 which has a little more dedicated video ram than ps5 (where these problems didn't exist)
Maybe with a few patches they'll fix it.
There would also be other little things to fix here and there in addition to the textures in fact ...

[Melody]

Texture issues don't seem to happen on Linux, although the game won't run buttery smooth and without crashes on a 4090 on both Linux and Windows. DEFINITELY needs patching, also because of the crash I mentioned above, I can't get rid of it.

[tr00]

PS5 uses AMD hardware, I wonder if this game is just better optimized for AMD then?
Game runs fine with my RX 6750 XT and Ryzen 7700X, using high settings with very high textures, 1920x1080 res, 90-130 FPS

[tr00]

uses 11,4 GB VRAM out of 12

[Melody]

Originally posted by tr00_kvlt:

PS5 uses AMD hardware, I wonder if this game is just better optimized for AMD then?
Game runs fine with my RX 6750 XT and Ryzen 7700X, using high settings with very high textures, 1920x1080 res, 90-130 FPS

Which brand is it? My friend with 6750 XT can't get past the tutorial level because the gpu driver just crashes.

[Crimsongz]

Yup my game run smooth when using medium textures. Anything higher and my performance become inconsistant on my GTX 1080 TI.

[tr00]

Originally posted by Melody ♡:

Originally posted by tr00_kvlt:

PS5 uses AMD hardware, I wonder if this game is just better optimized for AMD then?
Game runs fine with my RX 6750 XT and Ryzen 7700X, using high settings with very high textures, 1920x1080 res, 90-130 FPS

Which brand is it? My friend with 6750 XT can't get past the tutorial level because the gpu driver just crashes.

Card is ASUS Radeon RX 6750 XT DUAL OC. I did update my gpu driver just before I started to play though, as the game told me to do that.

[Melody]

Originally posted by tr00_kvlt:

Originally posted by Melody ♡:

Which brand is it? My friend with 6750 XT can't get past the tutorial level because the gpu driver just crashes.

Card is ASUS Radeon RX 6750 XT DUAL OC. I did update my gpu driver just before I started to play though, as the game told me to do that.

Ah, my friend's one is updated and still crashes, we even tried different windows builds to no avail. Tried tampering with drivers settings and such, also tried a modded driver. I'll tell him to send the card back and get yours, thanks for telling me the model.

[Kain Mightyena]

If they recommended a 3070 in thier official spec sheet for 1440p high settings with medium ray tracing on at 60 fps then its very clearly a vram optimization issue. Tlou had the exact same issue, 8gb cards couldn't play the game unless you played with the medium textures that looked like absolute ass. Once they patched the game not only did textures across the board look way better they consumed less vram as well. This game needs a similar patch to optimize vram usage. it aint the hardware, its the port.

[ko]

Sony/Nixxes' system requirements chart is complete hogwash, unfortunately. Simply an embarrasing lie.

There's no way for an 8 GB GPU to currently run this game on the high preset with RT reflections enabled at 1440p. Not even just RT reflections and RT shadows/AO off, not using DLSS Balanced and not even if you turn details and shadows to medium. It might run well for a short while, but sooner or later the frame rate will tank completely. My RTX 3070 Ti can run the high + RT preset at 1440p just fine in terms processing, but the VRAM issue will trash performance sooner or later.

Since Medium textures look like garbage I just run the game at 1080p@60 fps IGTI Ultra Quality with high textures and RT reflections enabled. Luckily it still looks great on a 1080p monitor.

That's what it takes to get the rame running decently with RT on an 8 GB GPU.

The system requirements are a total lie and Nixxes should be embarrassed. They need to fix this game for the "average" PC, not everyone has 16+ GB VRAM. And most of all, they definitely need to release system requirements that aren't totally made up.

[ko]

Originally posted by tr00_kvlt:

PS5 uses AMD hardware, I wonder if this game is just better optimized for AMD then?
Game runs fine with my RX 6750 XT and Ryzen 7700X, using high settings with very high textures, 1920x1080 res, 90-130 FPS

You're not using ray-tracing. Running the game without ray-tracing isn't an issue. It uses a fair bit of VRAM.