Data: Actually Good Performance on Low-End System

[Fridge Lord]

(Specs Below) Hey, I just thought I would submit that I actually have really good performance on what would be considered a low-end system. This was a "good" gaming PC years ago and I've kept it kicking with a few upgrades, and it still does fine.

I usually get 40-60 fps which is really, really just fine for a narrative game like this where I don't need twitch reflexes. Even the combat isn't frustrating (not for fps reasons at least, haha).

The only issues I get is the occasional hang-stutter, probably from textures loading off the hard drive. It's not so constant that it bogs down my gameplay though. Also, and this is pre-optimization patch, occasionally when I've run the game for like 4 hours, this hang happens fairly regularly, and restarting the game has ended it.

But there is definitely no "micro-stutter," the bane of my existence in many AAA games. You know, that annoying frame jitter that happens on a regular period about every 1.5 seconds. That kills my desire to play games. This game? None.

I play at 1600x900, all default graphics settings except I took the textures down to Medium for the 3 gb VRAM requirement, as my card's 4 gb.

No overheating, normal high range of gaming temps, but fans stay pretty maxed out.

Specs:

Windows 7 64-bit
AMD Phenom II x4 965 Black Edition @ 3.6 GHz
MSI Radeon r9 380 4 gb
8 gb DDR3 @ 1600 MHz
Samsung 860 Evo SSD (probably helps a lot)

[JackWalters222]

Yup, I basically second this. This is particularly notable after the demo was just one freeze after another, which made my purchase of the full game a real gamble. While still far from perfect, I find the game to run actually pretty damn well. Loading can sometimes be a bit of a pain, but it's never anything that has gotten in the way of my playing (which is good considering how many things are *intentionally* designed to get in my way, so having as few other things in the way as possible is pretty damn important). Should be noted that I also capped the game at 30 FPS before I even even started playing it, though, and haven't really felt a need to try a higher FPS limit since. My specs are actually very similar to yours, too, right down to having a Phenom II (albeit with six cores in my case). I do not have an SSD, though, and I think that's probably why my experience isn't as smooth as yours sounds to be but nonetheless much smoother (and totally playable) than I was expecting given the demo.

I will mention that I did have a problem with crashing for a bit, but I think this had to do with things I was editing in the game files to try out different optimization techniques/control schemes. And I mean *real* crashes. Like, "my ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ computer restarted completely for the fifth time in the row" crashing. As far as I can tell, though, I think defragmenting the game specifically using Razer Cortex has totally fixed that, and I haven't had that problem since.

So, yup. This game is doing a lot better on release than I was fearing. Far from perfect, naturally, but considering my ancient hardware with the latest hardware I have being my Geforce GTX 950, I'm quite pleased with my purchase and pray to God every day that we see the release of the Bachelor and the Changeling in our lifetimes. Even with just the Haruspex, I'm finding this far personally preferable to the original already.

Additionally, I just noted that the latest patch let's me cap the FPS in-game manually with the V-Sync option now. So that's pretty awesome.

[C O R P S E Y]

I have a very high end computer and I get frequent drops in frame rate and sometimes it'll freeze up for half a second.

[NoTimeToWait]

Yep, playing on my laptop with good but non-gaming grade hardware with 1960x1080 resolution and medium settings. Runs pretty smoothly, much better than the demo version. Also, maybe Samsung 960 Evo SSD and 16 GB ram help a lot