Optimization issues?

[Litol Kyet]

So, I've been passionate about this game for a while, played a lot of it on my friend's PC, but when I finally bought it and loaded the game up, it's like it's trying to set my gpu on fire running very hot (about 85~90C) at 100% usage.
All I wanna know is if it's normal, and if not, what to do about it.
I don't think the GPU is the problem, it runs RDR2 smoothly at the highest settings and with good fps, but when it comes to Pathologic 2, it's already screaming for it's life at the menu, and it makes me kinda afraid of leaving it running or even playing it.
I've tried turning some settings to lowest, including shadows and whatnot, and it seems to help with the GPU load, making it run at about 70~80C and at like 80%, but the game got hella ugly and the loading screens were still taking a lifetime.
I honestly don't remember experiencing those issues when I played it on my friend's pc wich was considerably less capable than mine.
Am I remembering it wrong? Was it always like this? Or is there something I did wrong?
Could'nt get past 20mins of playing it like this, the loading time for opening doors were the absolute worst offender.

[eZudo]

Yeah, I think the performance could probably be better for what is offered visually (it's by no means ugly, but it shouldn't require as much performance as it does, really).

You can try the following, that helped me quite a bit with performance, and helps with other Unity Engine games too that do not have these settings applied:

Go to your Pathologic\Pathologic_Data folder, in there, there's a boot.config file.
Edit the following two lines in there:

gfx-enable-native-gfx-jobs=1
gfx-enable-gfx-jobs=1

One of these just has a blank space after the = by default, change that to 1, and one of these lines is missing entirely. Just add the missing one. This SHOULD give you a significant performance increase.

[Unseen]

Also remember to enable borderless window. It doesn't really do anything different from fullscreen and it makes it run a lot better for some reason.

Originally posted by eZudo:

Yeah, I think the performance could probably be better for what is offered visually (it's by no means ugly, but it shouldn't require as much performance as it does, really).

Its definitely not an ugly game, its really striking and beautiful. The characters are some of the most artistically done for a lot of games, and also have a ton of realism. Its an incredibly artistic game in its look and detail. Even just the brick working and architecture are amazingly well done. What is a bit backwards however for this game is just how stiff it feels. The physics feel like an old man who lost his limberness 2 decades ago. It just feels incredibly stiff, the physics feel extremely structured and predictable. This isn't really a terrible thing as the games physics aren't whats cool about pathologic 2. But the game does feel extremely awkward at times.

[Heresy]

Just like most russian and Ukrainian games it is poorly optimised with a unique engine. The graphics might not seem that great but they are actually insane. Ever notice the thousands of tiny mice hopping around on the ground? That prob takes up lots of memory. It will be raining with literally thousands of mice scampering under your feet. Thats pretty damn good graphics I dont understand people who say this game has bad graphics. Its not shiny but its more realistic than most games.