Question about dmc4 and SE

[Dante Deviler]

How come some people prefer to play dmc4 over the special edition? Do the two versions have different functions? Or did something with the engine change?

[ProjectXsent]

Probably the engine change and some users experience problems when running 4SE for the first time. Like there are a lot Steam discussions that this game crashes while some workarounds work for people (especially the hex edit method) and some don't.

[Director Bison]

Vanilla DMC4 was an in house PC version made by Capcom, DMC4SE was ported to PC by a secondary studio. So DMC4SE when it comes to optimization isn't anything close to DMC4 despite them basically being the same game, DMC4 can run on a toaster. DMC4SE is more demanding then it should be.

Aside from that You'll probably only ever notice the finer difference if you become a high technically player. I found an older post from a member of the community I know that goes into more depth on this so i'll copy paste what he said.

"- MechaMike98

A lot of high level players prefer the original version for many reasons.

First off is they made a lot of small changes that ♥♥♥♥ with you at a higher level. Some examples are the hit box on full house being messed up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUHIq2eA9JI

and things like not being able to properly attack the Gladius’ as any character other than Nero.

Here is a picture with basically all the complaints I’ve seen.

https://imgur.com/AiVRXDT

Lastly; the person saying the original version doesn’t run well is mistaken, it’s DMC3’s original PC port that needs mods to run properly. DMC4 vanilla runs a lot better than SE and will run on basically any computer. It also has no input lag unlike basically every capcom game these days. Speaking of mods the original version has DMC4 Hook which offers much more features and training options compared to SE’s DDMK.

https://github.com/muhopensores/dmc4_hook/releases

TL;DR yes SE is probably better for most people because it’s got more characters but it’s far from being “objectively better”"