Is the optimization better yet?

[PossessingSpirit09]

I've been holding off on buying this game till the performance gets better, but haven't heard anything concrete yet.

Anyone could pitch in with their specs and experiences with the game

[David Puddy]

13900k/4090, still stutter fest

[id795078477]

If performance is a deal-breaker for you and you don't have a NASA PC then I'd say hold on.

The game is visually great - but I'm judging after a lot of effort into optimizing it through config and having a decent GPU + still having to disable problematic stuff like RT and not having some stuff on ultra. So wait. There's a rumor going around about the next patch.

[AlexBLR]

Optimization/performance here was never be bad. Being on Ryzen 9 5900x, 24 GB RAM, GTX 1080 Ti (11GB), FullHD mon, it plays as intended, no fps drops whenever I'm went, fps is very stable 70-75. Have no idea what about is talking the others...propbaly they using RTX cards. I have that one in my laptop (RTX 3060), RTX feels more like piece of trash actually, but laptop is more modern than PC (Intel CPU from the latest line, 32GB RAM). I got tested same games (Cyberpunk 2077, this one, ICARUS) and always need to lower graphics preset on RTX card, as opposite almost 5th years old GPU and I'm using ultra/hight presents and I dont have significant FPS drops. Unbeliveable.
Probably was one exception, is Forspoken. Probably really unoptimized trash. But about HL I cant say anything bad regarding optimization...

[id795078477]

Originally posted by AlexBLR:

Have no idea what about is talking the others...propbaly they using RTX cards. <...>

it doesn't invalidate their experience. If it works for you - it doesn't mean it works for them. And for very many people it doesn't - ranging from graphics-related crashes to severe stutter and FPS drops. Good optimization doesn't not mean "there are some PCs where it runs good". Good optimization means "there are only a few PCs where it doesn't run good" - provided that everything is within the specified requirements.

[Nilserrich]

Originally posted by David Puddy:

13900k/4090, still stutter fest

I wonder what the devs did there. Have the same combination. With the difference that I have a 13900KF. Everything on Ultra, even ray tracing and everything runs well above 60 FPS/WQHD.

That the devs take so long to optimize it for everyone according to their hardware is really weird.

[StormySynapse]

Depends on how spoiled you are. For us, with a 3070 and a 3060, we've had 0 issues. If you have to have the greatest graphics ever with zero latency,,,you might wanna wait.

[AlexBLR]

I agree. But how this should be fixed if almost no one of them is provided the specs, where optimization/performance was bad, to the devs?

[Cyrovar]

1080ti here. Able to play on ultra settings with obviously no raytracing and getting over 60fps stable with a 5600x processor.

[mirta000]

I have a 2060.

The biggest thing that helped me was upgrading my RAM from 16GB to 32GB as when your system runs out of VRAM it starts eating the RAM RAM.

I play on low-medium.

Very smooth. Looks fantastic. Honestly I'm happy.

[H2S]

Originally posted by Halfenbrau:

1080ti here. Able to play on ultra settings with obviously no raytracing and getting over 60fps stable with a 5600x processor.

I feel like people don't realize this game is more CPU hungry than GPU hungry.... the FPS you get in the open world is bascially the work your gpu does anywhere in the game, but when you enter Hogsmeade and the Hogwarts, that demands your CPU to work more.

[Biff Jerky]

Well it was terrible on launch but at least for me it has already improved quite a bit with the subsequent patches. The game stay around 60 with dlss on. That said I now get constant crashes... It may be ultrawide support as I just got a new monitor but I am not sure. I'd wait.
2070 super, 5800x, 32gb 3600mhz. 1440p ultrawide.

[XiNoPingProxy]

2080 s here, all high with raytracing, np.

[Psyringe]

GPU: RTX 4090
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7700X
RAM: 32 GB DDR5-6000
Storage: 4 TB NVMe, PCIe 4, in M.2 slot
OS: Windows 11, OS and all drivers up to date

Settings: 4k resolution, no upscaling, everything on ultra including raytracing. Motion blur, depth of field, and film grain turned off.

Performance: Smooth sailing at low but tolerable frame rates of 60 or more. No noticable stuttering except in 2 very specific situations, those were both Merlin trials where I had to jump on top of stone structures which would then grow vines around them. The growing of vines somehow tanked my frame rate to the point where the controls were too sluggish to make precise jumps. Interestingly, casting Revelio stopped the stuttering. No problems in any other scenario throughout the entire game (which I almost finished now), including other Merlin trials of the same type.

For me at least, the performance has been satisfactory. If I wanted higher frame rates, I could use upscaling, but since I'm satisfied with the performance I have, I don't see the need.

[Spacebard]

3080ti, i7-13700KF, 32gb ddr5 @ 1080p on Ultra - stutterfest.

It's not unplayable just frustrating.

[Lord Dindu 69]

There's some performance mods available which help but sometimes the random fps dips to the 20s from a semi stable 70-100 does get annoying.
It's still an enjoyable game despite the random drops.