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Assassin's Creed Shadows hits 2 million players, putting it on track to be the series' most successful game yet (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I got excited after hearing how much people love this one, I usually play every ~5 or so they release and just pick out the best, but sadly the performance was so bad I had to refund it. I have a bit better than the minimum specs on steam (and the minimum specs are a ryzen 5 and gtx 1070, shouldn't this be the standard target?) and ran everything at low, 1080p, and couldn't get past 15fps.

There are better looking games from ~5-10 years ago I can run at 1440p or even 4k 60fps on high settings, I wish game studios would stop trying to go for the most intensive possible graphics effects with how diminished the returns are for it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What are you running, I was playing this on my steam deck and it looked really good with a solid 30 fps. I have a B580 in my main pc and have been bumping settings up from medium to a mix of medium high with ambient and specular RT on and I'm still getting 75fps without framegen or upscaling at 1080p. Xess and FG hits 120+. Not bad for a £250 card.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I also play on SteamDeck but it isn’t constant 30 fps at all. Still completely playable without question but I get a lot of drops down to 20 fps as stuff loads in.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Are you playing from an SD card? I get a couple of little drops but no extended issues.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Yes from a class 10 micro sd card (64 GB model, which is painfully limiting due to shader caches having to be on the ssd)