Unreal Engine 5

[Absimiliard]

I think BHVR neglected to fully think through the consequences of moving the game to UE5. My CPU is an older one, and does not support SSE 4.2 which UE5 requires.

This means that a game that I have been playing for over a year and have spent a decent bit of money on has just been stolen from me.

There is a reason why you don't raise the minimum requirements to run a game seven years after its release...

[BbQz]

Yeah this is a definite blunder and it has been a disaster since launch of the new engine as seen by the forums

[Mors_Indecepta]

This is what live service gaming is.
Hopefully, people eventually get tired of paying for things they don't own...

[Kryptic]

since when did the devs have to run this by you? do you call the shots at bhvr?

[Disrespectful]

Originally posted by Moderately_Merciless:

This is what live service gaming is.
Hopefully, people eventually get tired of paying for things they don't own...

You'll own nothing. And you'll be happy. - Klaus Schwab

:)))

[Exyon]

Looking at the system requirements from June 2016[web.archive.org], the only things that have gone up since then are OS and storage. So if your CPU starts causing issues now, it wasn't guaranteed to work before either.

Originally posted by Absimiliard:

This means that a game that I have been playing for over a year and have spent a decent bit of money on has just been stolen from me.

It's more like you bought a car and drove it without a driver's license for over a year, and now you got caught out. But the car is still yours.

[Old Habits Die Hard]

Originally posted by Absimiliard:

I think BHVR neglected to fully think through the consequences of moving the game to UE5. My CPU is an older one, and does not support SSE 4.2 which UE5 requires.

This means that a game that I have been playing for over a year and have spent a decent bit of money on has just been stolen from me.

There is a reason why you don't raise the minimum requirements to run a game seven years after its release...

You're using a CPU that is ~14 years old and complaining that a game updated, a game that you never met the minimum requirements for even at launch?

[SarahJade69_ IG]

The only thing I have issue with is it feels buggy. I was running and tried to jump in the hatch but my character kept stuttering.

[SarahJade69_ IG]

Am sure they will be a fix soon.

[Old Habits Die Hard]

Originally posted by SarahJade69_ IG:

The only thing I have issue with is it feels buggy. I was running and tried to jump in the hatch but my character kept stuttering.

Use something simple to monitor your CPU/GPU usages and temps. Just a guess but your CPU is probably maxing out hard and if it's max'd out it can't deal with anything including networking.

Frameview is great for that but you could also even just use Task manager even though it's not super accurate.

Here's a quick video I made showing how simple it is to install frameview and fire up DBD to get a bunch of information instantly without needing to do anything fancy.

https://youtu.be/lz18WNarydI?si=bQbD4sDAzrKw6RJt

[AregoSauce]

Originally posted by Absimiliard:

I think BHVR neglected to fully think through the consequences of moving the game to UE5. My CPU is an older one, and does not support SSE 4.2 which UE5 requires.

This means that a game that I have been playing for over a year and have spent a decent bit of money on has just been stolen from me.

There is a reason why you don't raise the minimum requirements to run a game seven years after its release...

No possible way to accommodate every little thing/difference for personal machines. Also, you have to ask yourself if they even care.

[Absimiliard]

Originally posted by Exyon:

Looking at the system requirements from June 2016[web.archive.org], the only things that have gone up since then are OS and storage. So if your CPU starts causing issues now, it wasn't guaranteed to work before either.

Originally posted by Absimiliard:

This means that a game that I have been playing for over a year and have spent a decent bit of money on has just been stolen from me.

It's more like you bought a car and drove it without a driver's license for over a year, and now you got caught out. But the car is still yours.

You fundamentally don't understand what I said in the OP. Unreal Engine 5 has a requirement that Unreal Engine 4 did not.

[Stroggs]

Originally posted by Absimiliard:

My CPU is an older one, and does not support SSE 4.2 which UE5 requires.

I got an old PC in a closet which has an ancient i7-2700 and even this dinosaur of a cpu (2011 year A.D.) has SSE4.2.

[eh why not]

What the hell were you running it on? I think all the i3 i5 i7s have it, amd I believe has had it since the FX days... Basically pretty much any cpu from the last 13-14 years has it. All the CPU's listed in min requirements support it..

I'm guessing maybe you're on an old Athlon or Phenom maybe Core 2 series?

Regardless... can't really complain if an update makes the game un-playable for you if your PC never met the listed requirements in the first place.

[#Bunnyfengmin]

imo they should have done a dbd 2 instead of keep trying to improve this one on a broken foundation.

[Blue_Raptor*24*]

technology keep changing we'll just need to keep up with it that's what BHVR is doing , because i got old pc games that would work with windows 7 that will not work on my 1 year old pc that's windows 11 Victus ryzen 5 you know what i mean right