Why does it run so poorly?

[Cloud]

RE4 remake runs smooth as butter but SH2 remake stutters like crazy.

[Zhugaf]

SH2 was made on UE5, RE4 remake in RE engine which is really well optimized even for older generation GPUs

[Mala]

Whether a game from 2024 runs poorly is also a matter of having the right hardware. I have an older i9 and a 3080, and I get stable frames without stuttering with some easy ajustments.

So, what hardware do you play on, or is this just a simple attempt to troll?

[BlueStinger]

If they were on the same engine you could blame developer skills or experience, budget or time constraint differences. As they run on different engines, and one being more newer
and demanding than the other, you could point at that too.

[Zinoviev]

It runs poorly because of ray-tracing. Even if you disable it from the settings the game still uses software RT. Lumen reflections and GI. You can disable those by running the game on dx11 api. The game will look worse, but you will gain a ton of fps. Traversal stutter will remain and there is nothing you can do about it.

[shezzor]

It's simple really, because it uses UE. It's a common trend with all UE based games honestly.

[king_of_jamaica]

UE5. The engine has awful streaming code, so either you get massive stutters like this game, or the dev has to go out of their way to make their game to account for it, or flat out rewrite portions of the engine code to fix Epic's ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

Outside of the traversal/load stutter, if you don't have RT enable the game runs quite well. RT is pretty heavy in spots. It makes the game look so much better though.

[WiBBe]

Simply because RE engine is far superior to UE5. Especially in this kind of games.

[[PMA] Carl]

Originally posted by Mala:

Whether a game from 2024 runs poorly is also a matter of having the right hardware. I have an older i9 and a 3080, and I get stable frames without stuttering with some easy ajustments.

So, what hardware do you play on, or is this just a simple attempt to troll?

Currently playing on an i7-9700k and a 3080. Have most every setting on high except for shadows and shaders, running DLSS on balanced and running 1440. I do get occasional traversal stutters and random frame drops here and there. I do believe there are a few parts of the game that just need to get smoothed out a little in terms of performance(Like in the starting area of woodside apartments and a few others) but overall it's pretty decent. was wondering if there's any settings I might be missing to have an even smoother experience or if i'm just bottle necked by my cpu. Either way for the most part the game runs fine and im absolutely blown the ♥♥♥♥ away by it to say the least. (my goty)

[Ted]

Because people have unrealistic expectations of what their current hardware can do on the cutting edge UE5 engine this game runs on. You may not recall but people were also crying and ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ about in game performance when Unreal 4 was new too, as that also pushed the limits of what current hardware at the time was capable of.

If this guy can run the game on his potato PC at reasonable FPS and still looking nice, then anyone can with a half decent PC from the last few years. However people think they are going to max everything with ray tracing on their 2080 at 2k and get angry when it doesn't work out lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nitu3okqn_k

[Trevor Reznik]

Cutting edge UE5 engine made me spit out my soup.

https://youtu.be/2ZWhcYolv6g?si=CpkhzB95IU3rRB39

[Arthur]

Because its an Unreal Engine 5 game with excellent graphics. Considering the amount of details on the characters alone and the very fancy fog/lighting effects, I think it runs surprisingly well. At a first glance, it might seem like its identical to something like RE4, but look closely. I was amazed by how insanely good the characters look during cutscenes, the amount of detail on their faces and how their muscles move when changing expressions is crazy.

It does have a stuttering problem that seems to be present regardless of your hardware, and I do hope they fix it, but other than that, the game isn't poorly optimized, its just demanding. Those are two different things.

[Settings]

Originally posted by Zhugaf:

RE engine is really well optimized even for older generation GPUs

Yes it is actually, RE Engine is fantastic. It's why Capcom continues to use it for other games as well.

[Ted]

Originally posted by Trevor Reznik:

Cutting edge UE5 engine made me spit out my soup.

https://youtu.be/2ZWhcYolv6g?si=CpkhzB95IU3rRB39

It literally is, just because you're clueless or have a potato PC or you just listen to what random people on the internet tell you doesn't make it not so. I guess you may not understand the term "cutting edge"?

Tell me, what current mainstream and widely used game engine is more cutting edge than Unreal 5 at present?

I'll wait.

[wasteland drifter]

Originally posted by Arthur:

It does have a stuttering problem that seems to be present regardless of your hardware, and I do hope they fix it, but other than that, the game isn't poorly optimized, its just demanding. Those are two different things.

That right there is an immersion killer. As much as I wanted to like Downpour despite it being not what I would consider canon yet supposed to be a good survival horror game, I remember liking my first playthrough of Downpour, I was drunk! Revisited it a few years
ago, a complete stutter disaster.

[Arthur]

Originally posted by Karnacan:

Originally posted by Arthur:

It does have a stuttering problem that seems to be present regardless of your hardware, and I do hope they fix it, but other than that, the game isn't poorly optimized, its just demanding. Those are two different things.

That right there is an immersion killer. As much as I wanted to like Downpour despite it being not what I would consider canon yet supposed to be a good survival horror game, I remember liking my first playthrough of Downpour, I was drunk! Revisited it a few years
ago, a complete stutter disaster.

Yeah, the stutters kill the vibe.