Early Dishonored 2 PC Impressions Report Troubling Performance for AMD

Early Dishonored two PC Impressions Report Troubling Performance for AMD

[Update]

Y'all can observe more info on this, including a FAQ past Bethesda and their confirmation that a performance update is coming soon, here.

[Original Story]

Neogaf'south user Dmax3901 just reported his starting time Dishonored 2 PC impressions after receiving the review copy from Bethesda ane twenty-four hour period before launch (he lives in Australia).

Unfortunately, his report points out to disappointing Dishonored 2 PC operation at least for AMD users.

The graphic options are reasonably all-encompassing, with a lot of the settings having everything from Very Low to Ultra. Following on from the previous game, you lot can even disable/enable rat and bloodfly shadows. There is a rather claustrophobic vignette that appears only when Emily or Corvo are crouching, which unfortunately cannot be disabled. Despite the all-around spectrum of these options, I was unable to maintain 60 fps at 1440p with my current PC setup(Specs: r9 290, i5 4690k, 16gb ram). What I settled on was 1080p with mostly High settings and some of the more demanding on/off settings switched to Off (volumetric lighting, depth of field). This allowed me to maintain 60fps with dips downwardly into the loftier 40s. I have to admit this is pretty disappointing, while the art fashion is only as gorgeous as its predecessor, the visuals don't seem similar they should be all that demanding.

After that is where things started going really pear-shaped. I was playing with my compromised settings, putting upwards with the occasional frame rate dip, when I leaned around a corner and saw the FPS counter driblet to 18. I turned downward all the settings to Very Low and all the on/off settings to off and the frame rate didn't change. To be fair this item room, the throne room right at the start of the game, is quite detailed with lots of flowers adorning the columns and in that location's several dead bodies littering the floor. Just I'm afraid something weird is happening here, check out the post-obit shots, taking note of the FPS counter in the elevation left.

Facing towards the dorsum of the throne room I get a solid 60fps, but after turning 180 degrees it drops to 32. Going back to the door through which I first entered the room it drops even farther to 18 fps. Keep in mind this is all on the lowest possible settings at 1080p. I figured it was perhaps a driver outcome. So I did a clean uninstall and and so installed the drivers Bethesda specifically recommend for AMD cards. Frame rates were exactly the aforementioned in those particular areas of the throne room. I so considered that possibly this was an isolated incident, it was early on in the game after all, perhaps information technology'll even out from here on. Unfortunately this is not the case. Whatsoever fourth dimension I faced a particular open area, as you can encounter from the following screens, the frame rate tanked. Now bear in mind not all of the below shots are on the lowest of low settings (I turned some of them back up after testing the throne room) simply to be honest with such weirdly specific and enormous dips, I don't recollect information technology's got much to do with settings.

As a reminder, Dishonored 2 PC supports NVIDIA technologies similar HBAO+/TXAA/Surroundings and Ansel; y'all tin can find the official requirements hither. In that location's still hope though, between an AMD driver release and the day one game patch which has been confirmed to be around 9GB in size.

We'll report our kickoff Dishonored 2 PC impressions as before long as nosotros become our hands on the game. In the meantime, accept a await at these uncompressed screenshots captured at 1440P; Bethesda likewise shared the official launch trailer for the game, which is embedded below.