How bad is the performance?

[Turbo Soggy]

If there’s one thing I’ve come to expect from Bethesda, it’s that their “recommended” system requirements don’t mean anything. Like, a 2080 alongside a 6800XT? Those cards are not equivalent. Starfield did the same thing. Anyway, will this game hammer my 7800X3D and 4080 Super? It’s insane that I even have to ask that, but this is where we are.

[✪ GIGO]

you can have a locked to 30fps experience with a 3070ti and a ryzen 5600x with 16gb ram.

[Aivokuollut]

I agree, the fps is fine but the stuttering is terrible.

[axenation]

Im running i7-7700k (I get a warning on load because the game wants 6 cores and this CPU only has 4), 48g of slower RAM, a slow hard drive (not an SSD), and an rtx 3090 at 4k resolution. All settings on Medium (except lumen settings are maxed) and DLSS to the most perfomance setting. Overworld I get 30 - 45 FPS and in dungeons I'm getting stable 60 FPS.

With that being said the game actually looks great with these settings. Sometimes when I load into an area the meshes look like garbage or are invisible for 1 - 2 seconds. I crashed once while playing and once while exiting the game after it was tabbed for an hour and I have around 15 hours so far.

Modern games and hardware are at a weird point where you need to understand that the game engines give you options to tweak, but you likely won't be able to max them all. If anything the devs would have to start adding different settings (low / med / high / epic) for each series of card by each vendor and that's honestly too much of a hassle for what it's worth. Just tweak the settings to how you like it and play the game. People are going to complain no matter what so..

[edit: I haven't had the Unreal Engine "stutter" issue surprisingly]

[EasyOut]

it needs a patch but it's not too bad

[Sgt. Flaw]

If you don't have anything against FG then stuttering isn't an issue...Not really without it either TBCH

I have a 5070 ti and play at 1440p native...

Overall FPS is rather low tho lol...I'd expect 100+ no FG all the time with a new 70 series card but things are changing I guess

[Gunsaremagic]

runs like trash

[TR1PLE 6]

Starts off alright in the tutorial section running at about 80 FPS but as soon as I get outside the framerate takes a massive drop all the way to around 45!

5070 Ti / 9700X / 64GB DDR5
Running at 1440p ultra.

Oh and I'm on Game Pass if anyone is wondering.

[AoD_lexandro]

Runs like a champ but likes to CTD after a few hours or at random if using lots of doors.

High/Ultra settings 60fps @1440p smooth as butter with only a tiny bit of micro stutter on zone traversal.

And that is on a cheap stake crap rig. So....those saying it runs like trash are usually trying to play ultra on hardware that cannot manage it.

[Lv5 Zubat]

It runs pretty well though I have an altered engine file. I used a file from nexus mods that tweaks the engine.ini file to run smoother so I haven't experienced stuttering issues like other people have thankfully.

On High/Custom (lowered some shadow settings) I can achieve 100+ FPS in a lot of outdoor areas. My hardware is a RTX 3090 with an i5-13600KF CPU and 32GB of DDR4 ram. However to even achieve the 100+ FPS on practically any graphics setting I have to enable FSR3 and FSR Frame Gen. In general on my end FSR3 worked out a lot better than DLSS did plus with FSR3 I can actually enable frame gen which has helped a ton. I don't know if it helps but I also have Nvidia Reflex turned to "Enabled + Boost" and even with Frame Gen on I don't experience input lag like a lot of people seem to have with Frame Gen.

I don't like that I have to use AI upscaling to get good performance though. And even with those settings on, Lumen Hardware RT turned to OFF and Lumen Lighting Quality switch to low I still have areas of the game outdoors where my framerate mysteriously drops from 100+ to between 70-55 FPS. The game could definitely do with some better optimization but that seems to be the case with a lot of games that use UE5.

[Sgt. Flaw]

Originally posted by TR1PLE 6:

Starts off alright in the tutorial section running at about 80 FPS but as soon as I get outside the framerate takes a massive drop all the way to around 45!

5070 Ti / 9700X / 64GB DDR5
Running at 1440p ultra.

Oh and I'm on Game Pass if anyone is wondering.

Turn on FG..I have a 9600x with a 5070 ti and it smooths it out...Even if you don't like it it still beats the hell outta the 45 fps you'll get in intensive areas

Also, other parts of the map run WAY better....45 should be about as low as you go.

Also 9700x/9600x really arn't ultra setting CPUS TBCF

[catch22atplay]

Originally posted by Turbo Soggy:

If there’s one thing I’ve come to expect from Bethesda, it’s that their “recommended” system requirements don’t mean anything. Like, a 2080 alongside a 6800XT? Those cards are not equivalent. Starfield did the same thing. Anyway, will this game hammer my 7800X3D and 4080 Super? It’s insane that I even have to ask that, but this is where we are.

It should do the same as mine but use Framegen for 4k as below. 2k you can avoid Framegen use but needs DLSS Balanced if you don't want to see a dip below 60fps when it rains. I haven't tested all areas yet. My test area is Aleswell settlement north of Imperial city as it seems to really struggle there. Below is Leyawiin city and not a good place for testing really as city's aren't very demanding. Your cpu should be fine.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3474067424

OK here's my test area north side of Aleswell looking at that cave. It won't survive DLSS Qaulity if it rains. So 4k Ultra settings need DLSS Balanced+Framegen imo.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3474093487

Lot of people having issues so you may not get as good results. And oddly unlike many i'm getting very good results with 576.28 drivers and using Latest for dlss and framegen. Meaning it's using the K model preset which normally causes smearing like motion blur is on and i have it off btw. But this driver is fine. Do note that i did have to force a Shader recompile though else it ran awful. I have Autoexpose ON for DLSS via engine.ini as below. Not that i've noticed an improvement. But it is different.

[ConsoleVariables]
r.NGX.DLSS.AutoExposure=1 ;0 is default Off

[Bagel]

I'm running a 4070 and some cheapo i5, I haven't turned the settings down, just enabled DLSS and frame gen, and the fps counter keeps hitting 200 basically everywhere...

Guess I'm just lucky?

[TRUCK]

"How bad is the performance?"

How bad is your toaster?

[pambapuma]

Tons of CTD, stutter, bugs that weren't even in the original, broken game systems ....

Wait for sale.

[JaBoosted]

Plays great no issues on my end. So as you can tell by my response and others the performance is based on your PC and build. It'll vary, so buy it, try it out and see for yourself.