Is the game still unoptimised? Should I buy it?

[ꑭCaliph of Hyperboreaꑭ]

Hi, several months ago I pre-ordered this game, and when I got a chance to play it, the performance was rather poor. Around 10-15 fps on low-medium settings at the darn graveyard at the beginning. Now that the dust has settled, and it seems there have been some patches, is the optimisation better now?

My specs: Rx 550 2gb vram version, Amd fx 8350, 8gb ram

And yes, I know; They don't seem very good, but I managed to run Yakuza 0 and Kiwami 1 with no issues whatsoever at 60 fps on high settings with no problems whatsoever.

[rellik630]

Can't speak on optimization, as we're still waiting on a patch that's being tested. But this game is more demanding than the other two. Just to give some reference, Yakuza 0 and Kiwami 1 run on a standard PS4 at 1080p60. Kiwami 2 on a PS4 Pro struggles to play at 1080p30. I know it's not a direct comparison, but based on the fact that these games were built to play and optimized more for PlayStation, you get the idea.

[DustyShinigami]

The optimisation is poor. For me anyway. And the game is prone to crashing at random. I had to watch the post-credits scene on YouTube thanks to the game crashing right after the credits. >_>

[LatinG]

Originally posted by ≋λLambdaλ≋:

Hi, several months ago I pre-ordered this game, and when I got a chance to play it, the performance was rather poor. Around 10-15 fps on low-medium settings at the darn graveyard at the beginning. Now that the dust has settled, and it seems there have been some patches, is the optimisation better now?

My specs: Rx 550 2gb vram version, Amd fx 8350, 8gb ram

And yes, I know; They don't seem very good, but I managed to run Yakuza 0 and Kiwami 1 with no issues whatsoever at 60 fps on high settings with no problems whatsoever.

get better gpu and processor the ones u listed are horrible its not the game fault its ur components

[lPaladinl]

I do feel like something is off with optimization.

I'm running a Ryzen 1600, 6 cores, 12 threads, @3.5GHz, 16 Gigs of DDR4 2400MHz RAM and an RX 480, 4GB VRAM system with Win10.

The intro scene was getting me around 45 FPS on max settings. I managed to get it up to 55 FPS by lowering shadows, but then nothing I change seemed to raise FPS. Turning shadows off completely didn't get me any more FPS. Turning off AA did nothing. Lowering Texture Quality did nothing. All I had left to try was lower the resolution, but I do not want to have to go below 1080p.

But then I get in-game and I'm getting 170 FPS walking around Kamurocho...

[NGxWinGeR]

I just bought the game several days ago, a big fan of Yakuza 0 and Kiwami 1, but they were done on a totally different graphics engine. My PC (core i5 8600K (6 cores), 16 GB RAM, GTX 1080TI) could run both of them easily in 4K 60 fps wih max settings, including 4x or even 8xAA.

However, Yakuza Kiwami 2 is build on the same graphics engine which is used in the newest Yakuza 6 and it is impossible not to notice the difference in the image quality. Though my PC is quite powerful compared to most mainstream builds, I think the game is optimized okay, there are many games which run worse in 4K for on my PC while the visual part is arguably worse than in Yakuza Kiwami 2.

I get 60 fps in 4K resolution most of the time, however, had to lower Shadows quality to Medium, turn off annoying Motion blur and Depth of Field (this one really impacts the performance badly in some scenes), also lowered Resolution Scale to 90%. AA is turned off because I don't like the way both FXAA and SMAA blur the image.

Oh and yeah, I also tried to play the demo on PS 4 Pro and the game looks and feels ugly, that's a bad job from the developers considering how stunning are games like Horizone: Zero Dawn and God of War, while running in 4K at 30fps.

Overal, I have the impression that Yakuza Kiwami 2 requires a CPU with 6 cores or 4 cores/8 threads, it loads all of them fairly well, but of course you need to have a good gpu: something like RX 580 8GB or GTX 1060 6GB for 1080p, GTX 1080 or Vega 64 for 1440p, and RTX 2080TI for 4K.

[DustyShinigami]

I find the game runs worse in Kamurocho, and particularly at night with all the lights and shadows. Nakamichi Street tends to be bad. I'm not sure if it's a combo of optimisation or my CPU. Despite using an i7 4790K, maybe the game benefits from a Skylake CPU...?

[BesenwesenTTV]

Originally posted by RealG4Life:

Originally posted by ≋λLambdaλ≋:

Hi, several months ago I pre-ordered this game, and when I got a chance to play it, the performance was rather poor. Around 10-15 fps on low-medium settings at the darn graveyard at the beginning. Now that the dust has settled, and it seems there have been some patches, is the optimisation better now?

My specs: Rx 550 2gb vram version, Amd fx 8350, 8gb ram

And yes, I know; They don't seem very good, but I managed to run Yakuza 0 and Kiwami 1 with no issues whatsoever at 60 fps on high settings with no problems whatsoever.

get better gpu and processor the ones u listed are horrible its not the game fault its ur components

I call BS. Yes, the Components arent the best, but they are enough to run almost any game on low/mid settings with relative decent frames.
The game is Poorly optimized, i had an 4770k and an Vega 56 and the game was stuttering like crazy, didnt matter the settings.

now i have an Ryzen 2600 and it didnt improve.

I love the Series, but Yakuza 0 and Kiwami 1 had Stuttering on the ps4 aswell, and now kiwami 2 is having problems even on the Pro.

so yeah, spare us with your " your PC is not enough " The game is poorly optimized, read the SpecialK Thread instead.

[Tony72495]

You may struggle with those components, if I'm being honest. Kiwami 2 is built on the Dragon Engine for next-gen hardware, so whereas Yakuza 0 and Kiwami run at 1080p @ 60 fps on a standard PS4 (and for the most part hold 60 fps), Kiwami 2 targets 900p @ 30 fps and regularly falls into the mid 20's in more intense scenes.

I'd say optimization is average to below average. I have a Ryzen 9 3900X and an RTX 2070 Super with an overclock, and I can run the game at max settings using 70% resolution scaling from 4K, not too dissimilar from how I run Assassin's Creed Odyssey.

For those complaining of stuttering, try running the game in Borderless Window mode, it seems to have helped immensely with any issues I was having, and I'm now 10 hours in with very little issues.

Even if you have to run the game at 720p, it's still worth it. The Yakuza games are amazing.

[HyenaTron]

Originally posted by Tony72495:

You may struggle with those components, if I'm being honest. Kiwami 2 is built on the Dragon Engine for next-gen hardware, so whereas Yakuza 0 and Kiwami run at 1080p @ 60 fps on a standard PS4 (and for the most part hold 60 fps), Kiwami 2 targets 900p @ 30 fps and regularly falls into the mid 20's in more intense scenes.

I'd say optimization is average to below average. I have a Ryzen 9 3900X and an RTX 2070 Super with an overclock, and I can run the game at max settings using 70% resolution scaling from 4K, not too dissimilar from how I run Assassin's Creed Odyssey.

For those complaining of stuttering, try running the game in Borderless Window mode, it seems to have helped immensely with any issues I was having, and I'm now 10 hours in with very little issues.

Even if you have to run the game at 720p, it's still worth it. The Yakuza games are amazing.

Yeah, I have to run all the Yakuza games in Borderless Windowed mode because of Windows 10. Frankly I've had far more trouble with my operating system than anything else with this game and I can run it no problem in 1080 with 60Fps consistantly. The game is gorgeous and now that they've added the ability to disable the DoF I have no complaints with the port

[DarkSonicPT]

Yes. No.