Not going to lie, when someone says there's a few dips in fps below 30 while fps was already below 30 with nothing going on, makes me think this channel is too soft on what's expected
Downloaded it yesterday, so eager to try today. The last time I bought stalker, I was like 14 years old or so in 2008 In guess. Have been waiting for this one since Early 2010s
On the same boat! I played the Spanish translations but I played them so many times I know most of the unique dialogs on the first one by heart lol. But I might wait until I get a new GPU next year, been waiting for so long that it makes sense to just wait a bit longer
@@RandomGaminginHD now is the best time. Sometimes those are sold as a bundle on Steam(shadow of Chernobyl, Clear Sky, Call of Pripyat), for very small price, that's how I bought it again. (In addition to the original DVD of Shadow of Chernobyl that I bought in 2007-2008)))))
@@AN-fl1yt Stalker Anomaly is free and has a mod to enable Stalker Gamma, which makes the game 2x better. It IS a sandbox type of game though with simplistic story and basic voice acting, but it's very much replayable. Hopefully the Anomaly team will make a mod for Stalker 2 in the future.
Every single reviewer I'm seeing is doing basic rookie mistakes. Hoarding tons of broken guns, keeping the headlamp on, completely disregarding tactics ... you know .. I think maybe they're all ex-monolith with amnesia.
Currently playing it, absolutely loving it. They kept all the good stuff from the first STALKER including the inventory. Overall, it's a really good game but even on a beefy spec, there are traversal stutters.
I just got game pass for 14 days for a quid, just tried out Dead Island 2 and am downloading stalker 2 now. Glad you uploaded this. Wish I had your speedy 1gig fibre broadband though I bet it makes installing new games a breeze.
@@bigt4135 £1 for 14 days and I get to try out all the latest releases… Vs £70 for 1 game that I might not even like, or do like but it’s a buggy mess, you do you and I’ll do what I like thanks.
@@bigt4135 Buying this game physically when you don't know if your hardware can run it is shooting yourself in the foot. Better to pay a month of game pass (which costs 12 USD) than to by the game and find out it does not run on your computer. Then if the game doesn't work, you get a month of a backlog of 400+ games thatare likely to work.
That is brutal, seeing the Arc 750 compared directly to the 1060 and RX580. But it's also wonderful seeing how they break the hardware requirements down, this seems like a great game for modern benchmarking.
I would assume a750 will run game better than 580 or 1060, just not enough to reach the medium preset with current drivers, intel do update drivers quickly, so it may get better for Arc
I tried bro and it literally doesnt work if i stay at one place i have 60 fps if i tries to move i have big freeze and 12 fps while moving, but hoping for fixes in future) and game have BIG problem with memory leaking
thats why i upgraded my 3050ti laptop at Grey Zone Warfare release, it was playable but sub 30 fps at 1080p.. chillin now with 4080 laptop at 1440p epic all UE5 games
My 4070 mobile will run this game just fine at 60FPS 1440p then suddenly drop into the 10s-20s until I restart it. There is some kind of memory leak going on in this game.
my 3070 ti ran it at 100ish with DLSS and FSR + 32gb of ram at 1440p. There's definitely something wrong that it's not running better for you. I refunded the game for now, it felt unrepsonsive and looked kinda blurry due to all the upscaling stuff.
@@PinePizza I get between 100-120 at max when unlocked but I'm on a 70inch 4K60 TV so I lock to 60. Its just the game seemingly will drop like 90% of performance for no reason without being limited in anyway according to Rivatuner. I expected this tho and will probably wait a few weeks to play. Shame, they had so much resources and time that Microsoft provided them, especially in GSCs situation.
I can say that in my personal experience, the GTX 1070 and an AMD Ryzen 5 1600X paired very nicely. I never had any complaints in 1920x1080 gaming, and with the GTX 1070 you get 8GB of VRAM vs 6GB, plus a good performance bump. Yes, the GTX 1070 would likely still have to make a sacrifice in terms of settings, but I can bet it would do closer to 60 FPS solid instead of 30, while paired with the Ryzen 5 1600X.
@RandomGamininHD: I suggest looking into modding to get the most performance out of older hardware, as you'll learn what makes UE5 tick, and how to squeeze out performance without a loss in quality. For starters, disabling Nanites and forcing a fixed LOD quality would help out the most. Then disabling Lumen and trying to find a way to enable better lighting like in older Stalker games, is a decent way to gain some lighting without a loss in frames.
Engine.ini and Scalability.ini Are your friend here in the 'modding' possibility of UE5 games, but how long you can do so depends if the devs are protective of Epic's tech narrative on 'nanite/lumen' being the future of gaming... I cannot mod Abiotic Factor to have better frame rate now because the devs imposed hardcoded functions into their exe, to ditch your engine.ini settings you put in, to overwrite it with their own.
My only problem with this game is stuttering and textures never loading in time or fast enough. I would sit for minutes after reloading waiting for the world to load around me. In cities is totally unplayable. My hardware is rtx2070 super 32 gb ram i9 9900k on an SSD. I would expect to run this game in at least constant 60 fps on low, somehow its impossible. And as i stated before, my issue here isnt the framerate itself, but the game not loading things fast enough, making the experience unplayable. My weapons will randomly go low Poly, foliage and shadows are having a disco party in the distance, terrain would unload, suddent firing and spawn of particles would freeze the game, its a mess and have no idea if these things can even be adressed at this point
I remember when the first STALKER was released, it had very high system requirements for the time and it took around 13 or 14 patches to make playable.
2008 - "Can it run Crysis?" 2013 - "Can it run ArmA?" 2015 - "Can it run StarCitizen?" 2020 - "Can it run Minecraft?" 2024 - "Can it run S.T.A.L.K.E.R?"
Thx for this, I have 1060 and 16 GB RAM and wasn't sure if it's worth it the time for downloading for me. Looks like it is, so once again, thank you. (I'll go play the older one first nonetheless, but good to know I can continue into new one as well.)
An armless one cannot cut a diamond to its best form, just as a brainless. I am not offending anyone btw. Everybody relay on DLLS too much RN, not giving a sh..t about optimization because people still buy such products, so why spending time (money) on it.
@@v.m.6549 or maybe it tokk a few years for the gpu's to get better? I mean nvidia isn't making as big of an upgraades to the generations as they used to, so i dont see when we will be able to play such games at high performance with high visuals without a kidney's worth of pc parts
Hi guys. Do you think I can play this game at 1080P low settings (maybe medium?) with this PC configuration: GTX 1660ti, Ryzen 5 3600, 32GB RAM ? I am a fan of the Stalker franchise and I have been waiting for this game for ages...
I'm running DLAA on my 4080 Super, got a nasty bug in the first town you go too where a cinematic bogged to like 20 FPS but other then that been 100+ fps.
I have everything low with the frame filter thing set to 45% on a 1660 Super, my GPU is at 70-85% load most of the time and the game decided it was a good idea to change the preset to medium when i first launched it which was a stutterfest :P, i am rather surprised though since i've heard people talk about needing a better CPU for the new light calculations tech in unreal 5 and my Ryzen 5 3600 seems to be handling it rather well all things considered. Still enjoying the game even with the performace troubles.
What i have noticed is the game seems to have some kind of VRAM issue similar to how RE4make would crash if you exceeded VRAM usage at any point (at least i'm pretty sure it does.) I have a 12gb 3080 and when i first played on epic, I had nonstop crashes within 3 minutes (even though the game would run noticably fine, around 70-80 fps even without frame generation) but it was unsustainable and even more unstable with frame generation enabled. I've managed to get the game to run for an hour or two at most between sessions with medium texture settings and high on everything else. Yes, this was tested with the latest nvidia drivers and a BIOS version that is optimized and supported by my CPU.
@Nemofishman stop suggesting braindead crap like this. Start holding developers responsible for optimization. A 3080 should have no issue running this game.
It’s definitely a work in progress, I have an i9 11900k with a 4070ti and it’s all over the place with any setting, we all know how difficult it’s been for the team to get this out. People are giving them a chance considering. It will get tweaked and will play beautifully, Just give the dev team time. However it plays far better than the release of Cyberpunk, so they did incredible work. That being said the nostalgia is a welcome treat.
I was curious if I could run it decently on my AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT with 13th Gen Intel Core i5-13600KF ? I use a 4k display but I already know I would be playing 1080 or 1440 unless I had a better video card
Ive been running a ryzen 7 2700x, gtx 1060 6bg, 32gb dual channel ram for years and for the past couple years Ive been neglecting to upgrade. As a long time stalker fan I may now have to make an exception as my experience running stalker 2 was not horrible, but bad enough to make me viscerally jealous at the people complaining about this game running at 60fps and not 120. I also understand that it's mostly the issue of the inconsistent frame rates. I am waiting for that to be fixed soon along with A-life
I'm running it on a 6gb 1060, 16gb of ddr3 ram, and an amd 6300. It is playable around 30fps on the lowest settings, though does have ocassional hiccups. No crashes yet. As a total aside, I really hate the aiming. Feels super sluggish and imprecise even on high sensitivity, I have an unusually hard time lining up accurate shots, despite being good at fps games. It was a good benchmark for me. I haven't upgraded in ten years, so this was the game that is finally forcing me too.
I am playing it with A770, on Epic settings, 1080p, XeSS balanced with FSR FG on. Fps drops below 60 sometimes on busy areas but overall it runs great. 16GB VRAM helps a lot.
Capping your FPS with riva tuner makes system latency insane and I don't know what is causing it. The game already has about 40-60ms latency which you can check with Nvidia overlay by pressing Alt+R but if you cap with riva tuner it goes up to 100ms which is bizarre.
G'day Random, I love your "Minimum System Reqirements" videos, I am happy with FPS between 25-60 as long as it is relatively smooth so my Gaming PCs RX580 would still be good enough for me... 🤔As the 7700K is 4C/8T I wonder how my R5 1400 would do ???
I'm playing on an HDD, my PC is an RTX 3080 and a Ryzen 7 2700. I assure you that it has wild stutters, I mean, it doesn't reach the level of unplayable incompetence like Starfield is, Stalker 2 is in a much better state on HDD... but yeah, it's not worth it. These days I will buy a 1TB M2 to solve this.
@@arch1107 His question is valid, money doesn't come from trees lol. Tbh, if Cyberpunk 2077 with its "slow disk" mode can be easily played on an HDD, games like Stalker or Starfield have no excuse to have these problems.
I'm actually trying this on a GTX 1650, and it's miserable. I thought going in that it'd have similar performance because two GPU is almost neck & neck, but I guess the extra VRam comes in clutch. The pop in and the shimmering is eye watering horrendous. Might upload some footages within a day or two.
I have a 5 2600x RTX3060 should I also be using FSR Balanced? Also what about Frame gen? every other setting is on medium except shadows and screen space but it feels very janky looking around and a bit blurry. I was using TAA and frame gen and it said I was getting 75FPS but it certainly didn't feel like it more like 30fps.
Had to fiddle with settings a bit but managed to get it to run high 1440p native with FRS 3 frame gen on a 5800X3D and a 6700XT. slightly below recommended for high. Seems like its varies system by system but i imagine the requirements for this may get lowered in the future due to optimizations. I can say my experience has been super positive for this game, just hopefully sooner rather than later we can get bug fixes and even just a few optimizations. Sucks for the people on low/medium end PCs tho. :/ and the few high ends that just wont cooperate
They were true though. He did the exact specs for the lowest recommended settings which said that you'd get 30 FPS, and he got 30 FPS. Unless you're talking about the other recommended setups.
I have 4070S and put all settings to low with dlss quality. It looks so much better than what is shown in this video, plus I average around 135-150fps. I think DLSS quality makes it so much better in my case.
@slipperyfish7560 idk, I don't feel like it has bad graphics at low settings, and maybe because of DLSS quality. But once the game became more optimized in the future, I might change my settings a little bit more.
i have a dell g15 ryzen edition with a ryzen 7 5600h, gforce 3050ti 6gig, 64 gig ddr4, 1 terabyte m.2, and can barely get 30fps in low. verified game files, played with so many video settings. 1 thing i found is the 1080p monitor is greyed out and in a wierd 15??x ??? cant remember but not 1080p. sometimes i start and it works great and then it just goes to crap. updated all my drivers totally confused by this.
even on RTX 2080 Super + 5700x + 32gb 3200cl16 it runs bad. All lowest, native res it is just about 50-60, sometimes 70. Really putting me off the game, ngl. And on top it looks like shit then. The game doesnt look good enough to justify this performance
could you do a full video of performance please, I think it would do well in the algorithm, For example Steams most average PC (RTX3060 12gb) with a 12400f/5600X a RTX 4060 and a i3 14100f RTX2060 and a 2600X AMD 7700XT and a 5700X3d ect ect.
Interesting... Those minimum requirements seem to be quite accurate, and yes the 1080p 30fps specs are not true 1080p, because of the asterisk and the point about using TSR (or equivalent). Native 1080p might just get 30fps, but I'd probably play with FSR (or TSR) set to Quality, if using this hardware configuration.
My Rx 580 on 4GB's is struggling for real. I can squeeze rubbish 30 FPS on 720p with Frame Gen and Balance/Quality FSR on low Or stable 30 with same stuff but on 800*600. I've yet to still play around with slightly higher resolutions but I can probably squeeze just a little bit more :D
I'm still searching on google or UA-cam if the new Stalker 2 will work on this PC setup: AMD Vishera FX-8350 4.0GHz 8x cores, RAM: 4x HyperX 8GB DDR3 1866MHz=32GB together, Graphics card: MSI GeForce RTX 3050 GAMING X 8G, OS: Windows 10 Home 64 bit Will I run the game? And how many FPS will the game run for me?
@@RandomGaminginHD oh thanks for the answer I don't expect the game to work on medium or high. Hopefully I could get to low settings and 30 fps maybe. I don't know I can't test it I haven't bought the game yet. If there was a demo available it would be better for testing. Then I would buy the game if it worked well on my pc
@@tacticalmattress I play Resident Evil 4 Remake and Dead Island 2, Need For Speed Heat on it at the highest details in 1080p resolution without Ray Tracing turned on and it gives me around 40 FPS+ so it works quite smoothly. I also want to point out that my RTX 3050 is an 8 GB version from 2022, I bought it right after it was released
@horvisnone4997 There is nothing smooth about a FX cpu. I GUARANTEE you have massive stutters and are just coping. I owned one pre covid and even back then, that thing was a stuttering mess in virtually any modern game I played. Upgrade already. Your setup is the definition of one of the worst bottlenecks possible. You aren't even getting 50% of the performance that your GPU can actually do. Which is crazy because a 3050 isn't very powerful. It's underpowered actually.
Wht i have learned from Unreal Engine: leaving everything at the highest preset is not a great idea, even on higher end PCs. Turning down some settings for minimal visual differences is always recommended,
yeah, i had to turn some settings down, but some to epic aswell thanks to my cpu bottleneck but overall stable 60 fps on 7800 xt with 5700x and 32 gbs with FSR on native
Honestly if they optimize it so that the frame times are more stable it would be a large game changer as playing on higher difficultys sucks for these numbers.
@ the real question is how long it’ll take the Crossover folks to get it running; odds are solid my M2 Max Mac Studio will do better in six months. Thanks for the reply!
@@vadnegru Yeah, no doubt. I wonder if it’d be worth it over just trying to run it at 720p… or if 720p + XeSS would be the answer. That’d be pretty scuzzy though.
Yeah I made a poor pc rookie mistake when I got a gaming laptop last year sadly, it has a 3050 and only 8gb ram which of course I upgraded to 16gb but I didn't understand about the limit of the 4gb vram on the graphics card, coming from console gaming I didn't understand about the ram and vram being separate pools, I'm an idiot I wasted almost £800 it can't play a lot of modern games 😢
Laptop specs will always be worse than desktop counterparts as well, they are drawing less power and usually struggle with thermal throttling. £800 for a 3050 laptop is actually not terrible, my 1050 (4gb Vram) laptop cost £600 (on sale down from £800) 5 years ago. Modern games are just sadly very unoptimized on all platforms, especially Unreal Engine 5 games.
"Haven't played the first one" Well clearly, because there have actually been three games in this series so far 😄 Fair's fair though, it's confusing that they decided to call THIS one Stalker 2.
Rx 588 900p, fsr quality, framegen, med textures, lock it to 60fps and have NO ISSUE AT ALL, play with sharpness (that setting DO A LOT!!!) and anti-aliasing to find best lookin result🎉 my gpu lil bit “overclocked” just maxed all up in radeon settings😅
8400 is still somewhat capable but 10400f would be better as it has hyper threading. Different socket of course though. A 12400f and cheap h610 board would be even better for a 4060
I'm having a very hard time getting the game to look good regardless of performance. I can't seem to get good antialiasing even with it all the way up, I tried fsr or dlss aa but those just made it look muddy. :(
Interesting, 2:03 my game looked exactly the same on an RX 6950XT all settings high, motion blur off / DoF low. 1440p res native upscaling. After turning on TAA it looked a lot better.
allow me to sum up my 7 hours in stalker 2 - it's a tarkov single player mod for new vegas. if this game had the skyrim leveling system it would be the best bethesda rpg made in the last 10 years.
This guy and Digital Foundry are about the only people I trust to know what they're talking about when they check out a game's performance.
@@beepboop9348 Can't go wrong with DF :) I love how they're trashing on the PS5 Pro. It's so bad.
Next time watch some threat interactive ❤
Not going to lie, when someone says there's a few dips in fps below 30 while fps was already below 30 with nothing going on, makes me think this channel is too soft on what's expected
GamersNexus sends their regards
zWORMz Gaming also works fine
randomgaming, wormz, digital foundry and gamers nexus are usually the ones i trust.
I will run it in 720p, on a CRT and GTX 1050, as god and Zone intended
The vram would be a problem i know its a joke but it tested it on my rx570 4gb
Its unplayable no matter what mod i use im buying an rtx 2060 8gb or a rx6600
@@ivansniper5837 wait a few months if you can, the new generation of cards are on the way.
@@sorousha.s9002 i wont spend more than 200 bucks i need a new monitor
@@sorousha.s9002 You mean "New overpriced generation of cards" you are better off buying current gen cards then waiting
The goat has uploaded
Thanks for watching :)
@@RandomGaminginHD Thanks for uploading :)
Why you're calling him a goat? I know Brits have bad they but that seem excessive, he's not even that hairy
@@sonodietrodithe4iltuoincub848have bad they?
@@SirFairPhi I wrote theet but the auto correct kept changing it to they and there :(
Well that's actually surprising! I thought it was going to run worse on the little 1060 and 1600x.
Good to know! Thanks for the video 😃
omg its kryzzp
Yeah wasn’t expecting 30fps at all. Nowhere near 😂
@@GreenG_07 ik bro is copying the best youtuber (RandomGaminginHD)
@@diddyparty-yay i like both but I really like the humor zwormz brings to the table
@@alexholt-x8t fair enough
Downloaded it yesterday, so eager to try today. The last time I bought stalker, I was like 14 years old or so in 2008 In guess. Have been waiting for this one since Early 2010s
On the same boat! I played the Spanish translations but I played them so many times I know most of the unique dialogs on the first one by heart lol. But I might wait until I get a new GPU next year, been waiting for so long that it makes sense to just wait a bit longer
I need to play the original now always meant to but never got around to it. This one is amazing so far
@@RandomGaminginHD now is the best time. Sometimes those are sold as a bundle on Steam(shadow of Chernobyl, Clear Sky, Call of Pripyat), for very small price, that's how I bought it again. (In addition to the original DVD of Shadow of Chernobyl that I bought in 2007-2008)))))
@@AN-fl1yt OR you could just play Lost Alpha?
@@AN-fl1yt Stalker Anomaly is free and has a mod to enable Stalker Gamma, which makes the game 2x better. It IS a sandbox type of game though with simplistic story and basic voice acting, but it's very much replayable.
Hopefully the Anomaly team will make a mod for Stalker 2 in the future.
3:32 rare footage of RandomGamingInHD cracking open a cold one with the boys
😂
In the zöne you're cracking open oddly warm one with the cold boys.
145 gb download with my bad connection will take few days 😂
With a bit of luck there will already be performance patches available as soon as you're finished downloading lmao
Meanwhile in Texas with 2TBmbps: WOOOOO BABY!
@@SeriousDragonify it might be fsster for you to ship me na external drive from US, haha
@@RevanBartus Except im not from usa 😅
@@SeriousDragonify "meanwhile in Texas" got me.
Love how you found a basically brand new SMG, but instead of using it kept using the half broken one that kept jamming
Every single reviewer I'm seeing is doing basic rookie mistakes. Hoarding tons of broken guns, keeping the headlamp on, completely disregarding tactics ... you know .. I think maybe they're all ex-monolith with amnesia.
@@johnturtle6649 They probably are🔥
@@johnturtle6649 pretty sure the loading screen says, that lamps do not matter?
@@eVuLeX why would that be? they mattered in every other single stalker up to now.
@@eVuLeXLol no the game tell you that using the flashlight attracts attention from enemies in general making you easier to spot lol
As a happy RX 580 owner still it finally is starting to look like upgrade time.
I have 480 with 580 firmware. Stalker can run 30 FPS most of the time with similar settings as on the video.
And yes, I agree, it's time to upgrade :D
yea we are cooked brodda 🗿
Currently playing it, absolutely loving it. They kept all the good stuff from the first STALKER including the inventory. Overall, it's a really good game but even on a beefy spec, there are traversal stutters.
There are very rough stutters around garbage town
It's because of a memory leak, most people are having it just wait for a patch
I just got game pass for 14 days for a quid, just tried out Dead Island 2 and am downloading stalker 2 now. Glad you uploaded this. Wish I had your speedy 1gig fibre broadband though I bet it makes installing new games a breeze.
Definitely worth a try at that price!
Just buy your games.
@@bigt4135 £1 for 14 days and I get to try out all the latest releases… Vs £70 for 1 game that I might not even like, or do like but it’s a buggy mess, you do you and I’ll do what I like thanks.
@@bigt4135 Buying this game physically when you don't know if your hardware can run it is shooting yourself in the foot. Better to pay a month of game pass (which costs 12 USD) than to by the game and find out it does not run on your computer. Then if the game doesn't work, you get a month of a backlog of 400+ games thatare likely to work.
@@scoopstacey3112 pirate and download pretty much every game for $0
That is brutal, seeing the Arc 750 compared directly to the 1060 and RX580. But it's also wonderful seeing how they break the hardware requirements down, this seems like a great game for modern benchmarking.
I would assume a750 will run game better than 580 or 1060, just not enough to reach the medium preset with current drivers, intel do update drivers quickly, so it may get better for Arc
my 3050ti laptop will combust into flames if i buy this
don't buy it yet it has a vram leak and after a few minutes fps will drop to a constant five-ten
I tried bro and it literally doesnt work if i stay at one place i have 60 fps if i tries to move i have big freeze and 12 fps while moving, but hoping for fixes in future) and game have BIG problem with memory leaking
Cries in 1650 laptop
@@bashbarnard6241 ohhh...
thats why i upgraded my 3050ti laptop at Grey Zone Warfare release, it was playable but sub 30 fps at 1080p.. chillin now with 4080 laptop at 1440p epic all UE5 games
My 4070 mobile will run this game just fine at 60FPS 1440p then suddenly drop into the 10s-20s until I restart it. There is some kind of memory leak going on in this game.
Yeah I had that at one point near the building I thought it was the card! I’ll have to test again with my main rig
*an anomaly
my 3070 ti ran it at 100ish with DLSS and FSR + 32gb of ram at 1440p. There's definitely something wrong that it's not running better for you.
I refunded the game for now, it felt unrepsonsive and looked kinda blurry due to all the upscaling stuff.
@@PinePizza I get between 100-120 at max when unlocked but I'm on a 70inch 4K60 TV so I lock to 60. Its just the game seemingly will drop like 90% of performance for no reason without being limited in anyway according to Rivatuner. I expected this tho and will probably wait a few weeks to play. Shame, they had so much resources and time that Microsoft provided them, especially in GSCs situation.
i have EXACT same issue and im running on a 2070, get average 50-60 fps then suddenly the frames sink and you gotta restart thank god its not just me
stalker series is awesome, nuff said
It is, but this S2 game is utter trash.
I can say that in my personal experience, the GTX 1070 and an AMD Ryzen 5 1600X paired very nicely. I never had any complaints in 1920x1080 gaming, and with the GTX 1070 you get 8GB of VRAM vs 6GB, plus a good performance bump. Yes, the GTX 1070 would likely still have to make a sacrifice in terms of settings, but I can bet it would do closer to 60 FPS solid instead of 30, while paired with the Ryzen 5 1600X.
This is my setup, nice to hear
Very surprised it performed this well, nice one!!
That's actually pretty good!
Definitely better than I was expecting!
After all the vids you made you still have great content , from the early vids too the new ones .
Keep up the good work 👍
0:40 "take a good look at this because this, because this is the last you'll see of the game looking this pretty today" killed me
You should test the base with friendlies, it tanks performance quite a bit.
The recommended specs are insane
@RandomGamininHD:
I suggest looking into modding to get the most performance out of older hardware, as you'll learn what makes UE5 tick, and how to squeeze out performance without a loss in quality.
For starters, disabling Nanites and forcing a fixed LOD quality would help out the most. Then disabling Lumen and trying to find a way to enable better lighting like in older Stalker games, is a decent way to gain some lighting without a loss in frames.
Engine.ini
and
Scalability.ini
Are your friend here in the 'modding' possibility of UE5 games, but how long you can do so depends if the devs are protective of Epic's tech narrative on 'nanite/lumen' being the future of gaming... I cannot mod Abiotic Factor to have better frame rate now because the devs imposed hardcoded functions into their exe, to ditch your engine.ini settings you put in, to overwrite it with their own.
My only problem with this game is stuttering and textures never loading in time or fast enough. I would sit for minutes after reloading waiting for the world to load around me. In cities is totally unplayable. My hardware is rtx2070 super 32 gb ram i9 9900k on an SSD. I would expect to run this game in at least constant 60 fps on low, somehow its impossible. And as i stated before, my issue here isnt the framerate itself, but the game not loading things fast enough, making the experience unplayable. My weapons will randomly go low Poly, foliage and shadows are having a disco party in the distance, terrain would unload, suddent firing and spawn of particles would freeze the game, its a mess and have no idea if these things can even be adressed at this point
It's not great even on a high end pc, I imagine they will patch most of the issues in time though, how good is your SSD?
The blurriness from upscaling is pretty awful
Yeah definitely looks worse in the video tbh but still not ideal.
This is why all DLSS games need a sharpness slider. Cyberpunk and Starfield do this and it helps SO MUCH.
@@ThunderTheBlackShadowKitty It has it
The minimum is actually a 4090
I remember when the first STALKER was released, it had very high system requirements for the time and it took around 13 or 14 patches to make playable.
2008 - "Can it run Crysis?"
2013 - "Can it run ArmA?"
2015 - "Can it run StarCitizen?"
2020 - "Can it run Minecraft?"
2024 - "Can it run S.T.A.L.K.E.R?"
2020 to 2023 was Cyberpunk 2077
Yeah not sure where that minecraft mention came from.
There is no such game as Star Sitizen, sorry. Unless you mean those paywalled tech demos
Moster hunter wilds is more demanding
2030 can it run Windows 12?
Tonight I'll try this game, such a joy, all stalker games were so magical.
Thx for this, I have 1060 and 16 GB RAM and wasn't sure if it's worth it the time for downloading for me. Looks like it is, so once again, thank you. (I'll go play the older one first nonetheless, but good to know I can continue into new one as well.)
I will praise the devs for not forcing TAA on the game.
Especially at low framerate and resolution TAA is just abysmal.
The TSR Upscaling is also considerably better looking than FSR
Mate have you seen how horrendous it looks with no taa?
@@Ayva_K That's entirely on UE5 for over-relying on TAA for basically every single effect
This. I've been playing without anti aliasing and it may not run great or look great but it's better than ghosting and horrible input lag.
no thanks, i prefer my games aliasing free
I think I can swallow my pride and play on low. The vibes of this franchise are immaculate.
Thanks for the upload ❤❤❤
I am playing at dogshit settings on a 1660 basic and 9600k. It's fuzzy, I can barely see, I'm playing at 1440x900. I'm still loving it
Love these videos done with a games minimum required system
Metro Exodus Looks better while having more fps, this new trend of UE5 is really messing up the gaming comunity, its just so sad...
An armless one cannot cut a diamond to its best form, just as a brainless. I am not offending anyone btw. Everybody relay on DLLS too much RN, not giving a sh..t about optimization because people still buy such products, so why spending time (money) on it.
Metro Exodus isn't a full open world, it's an open area game. This game has a way bigger map
Well, same happened when UE4 came out, it took a few years for the industry to properly use the newest tools.
@@v.m.6549 or maybe it tokk a few years for the gpu's to get better? I mean nvidia isn't making as big of an upgraades to the generations as they used to, so i dont see when we will be able to play such games at high performance with high visuals without a kidney's worth of pc parts
@@speedforce8970 play fallout 4 instead
yeah you said in one of your videos you will try the r5 240 crossfire please make a video about it
Hi guys. Do you think I can play this game at 1080P low settings (maybe medium?) with this PC configuration: GTX 1660ti, Ryzen 5 3600, 32GB RAM ? I am a fan of the Stalker franchise and I have been waiting for this game for ages...
you can press the mouse wheel for the flashlight, it's faster than tab+e or L button
I have a 3070 and an amd ryzen 5 5600g and I’m barely getting 50 frames. Is this expected or?
@@Nemofishmantry touching grass
I'm roughly the same with a 3060, it can run on high and get sixty but certain areas or cutscrnes it plummets to 20
I'm running DLAA on my 4080 Super, got a nasty bug in the first town you go too where a cinematic bogged to like 20 FPS but other then that been 100+ fps.
I have everything low with the frame filter thing set to 45% on a 1660 Super, my GPU is at 70-85% load most of the time and the game decided it was a good idea to change the preset to medium when i first launched it which was a stutterfest :P, i am rather surprised though since i've heard people talk about needing a better CPU for the new light calculations tech in unreal 5 and my Ryzen 5 3600 seems to be handling it rather well all things considered. Still enjoying the game even with the performace troubles.
How is the game running on your 4070 super? I've been wondering how my rig will handle it.
Pretty well with highest settings and dlss quality. 60fps plus but needs the upscaling
@@RandomGaminginHD QHD resolution ?
What i have noticed is the game seems to have some kind of VRAM issue similar to how RE4make would crash if you exceeded VRAM usage at any point (at least i'm pretty sure it does.) I have a 12gb 3080 and when i first played on epic, I had nonstop crashes within 3 minutes (even though the game would run noticably fine, around 70-80 fps even without frame generation) but it was unsustainable and even more unstable with frame generation enabled. I've managed to get the game to run for an hour or two at most between sessions with medium texture settings and high on everything else.
Yes, this was tested with the latest nvidia drivers and a BIOS version that is optimized and supported by my CPU.
@Nemofishman stop suggesting braindead crap like this. Start holding developers responsible for optimization. A 3080 should have no issue running this game.
You're correct, right now this game has a memory leak issue that most people are experiencing. The performance outside of it actually is not too bad.
Doing the gods work 🙏
It’s definitely a work in progress, I have an i9 11900k with a 4070ti and it’s all over the place with any setting, we all know how difficult it’s been for the team to get this out. People are giving them a chance considering. It will get tweaked and will play beautifully, Just give the dev team time. However it plays far better than the release of Cyberpunk, so they did incredible work. That being said the nostalgia is a welcome treat.
Disappointed. I have an old 2070 super and Ryzen 5 and I'm getting like 35 fps on medium settings. Wtf.
I mean yeah it's a 2070 super with only 8gb. That's expected.
With dlss or native?
I was curious if I could run it decently on my AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT with 13th Gen Intel Core i5-13600KF ? I use a 4k display but I already know I would be playing 1080 or 1440 unless I had a better video card
Just curious, how great is the visual uplift from Metro exodus Enhanced Edition?
Ive been running a ryzen 7 2700x, gtx 1060 6bg, 32gb dual channel ram for years and for the past couple years Ive been neglecting to upgrade. As a long time stalker fan I may now have to make an exception as my experience running stalker 2 was not horrible, but bad enough to make me viscerally jealous at the people complaining about this game running at 60fps and not 120. I also understand that it's mostly the issue of the inconsistent frame rates. I am waiting for that to be fixed soon along with A-life
I'm running it on a 6gb 1060, 16gb of ddr3 ram, and an amd 6300. It is playable around 30fps on the lowest settings, though does have ocassional hiccups. No crashes yet.
As a total aside, I really hate the aiming. Feels super sluggish and imprecise even on high sensitivity, I have an unusually hard time lining up accurate shots, despite being good at fps games.
It was a good benchmark for me. I haven't upgraded in ten years, so this was the game that is finally forcing me too.
I am playing it with A770, on Epic settings, 1080p, XeSS balanced with FSR FG on. Fps drops below 60 sometimes on busy areas but overall it runs great. 16GB VRAM helps a lot.
i have a rtx 4060 with a ryzen 5 and 16 gb of ram with an ssd do you think ill be able to run it pretty decent
Some sort of Rabbit animal damn son, had me rollin a bit there.
Capping your FPS with riva tuner makes system latency insane and I don't know what is causing it. The game already has about 40-60ms latency which you can check with Nvidia overlay by pressing Alt+R but if you cap with riva tuner it goes up to 100ms which is bizarre.
Metro Exodus looks so much better visually and I used to run it on 1050Ti.
thank you for the testing
G'day Random,
I love your "Minimum System Reqirements" videos, I am happy with FPS between 25-60 as long as it is relatively smooth so my Gaming PCs RX580 would still be good enough for me...
🤔As the 7700K is 4C/8T I wonder how my R5 1400 would do ???
A bit worse, about 10-15%.
Yo, can you do a HDD vs SSD comparison video on this? Since the game's description has SSD "required" in the requirements
😂 game will stutter due to HDD.
we are in the year 2024, move to a ssd, dont make us look at that please
I'm playing on an HDD, my PC is an RTX 3080 and a Ryzen 7 2700. I assure you that it has wild stutters, I mean, it doesn't reach the level of unplayable incompetence like Starfield is, Stalker 2 is in a much better state on HDD... but yeah, it's not worth it. These days I will buy a 1TB M2 to solve this.
@@arch1107 His question is valid, money doesn't come from trees lol. Tbh, if Cyberpunk 2077 with its "slow disk" mode can be easily played on an HDD, games like Stalker or Starfield have no excuse to have these problems.
@@Rainbow_Crash69 I think most of those stutters *should* be fixed in upcoming patches
I'm actually trying this on a GTX 1650, and it's miserable. I thought going in that it'd have similar performance because two GPU is almost neck & neck, but I guess the extra VRam comes in clutch. The pop in and the shimmering is eye watering horrendous.
Might upload some footages within a day or two.
I have a 5 2600x RTX3060 should I also be using FSR Balanced? Also what about Frame gen? every other setting is on medium except shadows and screen space but it feels very janky looking around and a bit blurry. I was using TAA and frame gen and it said I was getting 75FPS but it certainly didn't feel like it more like 30fps.
It looks like you are cpu bound. I get nearly 50fps on that settings on 6600XT. 100+ if used with framegen.
Had to fiddle with settings a bit but managed to get it to run high 1440p native with FRS 3 frame gen on a 5800X3D and a 6700XT. slightly below recommended for high. Seems like its varies system by system but i imagine the requirements for this may get lowered in the future due to optimizations. I can say my experience has been super positive for this game, just hopefully sooner rather than later we can get bug fixes and even just a few optimizations. Sucks for the people on low/medium end PCs tho. :/ and the few high ends that just wont cooperate
The requirements are either a lie or only for specific areas of the game
They were true though. He did the exact specs for the lowest recommended settings which said that you'd get 30 FPS, and he got 30 FPS. Unless you're talking about the other recommended setups.
too much power for that "visual fidelity"
You should make a 1060 in 2024 video, the once mainstream beast seems to have aged quite well ❤
I have 4070S and put all settings to low with dlss quality. It looks so much better than what is shown in this video, plus I average around 135-150fps. I think DLSS quality makes it so much better in my case.
Why wouldn't you take a lower fps and get better quality? Just curious, I would aim for 60-90fps personally
@slipperyfish7560 idk, I don't feel like it has bad graphics at low settings, and maybe because of DLSS quality. But once the game became more optimized in the future, I might change my settings a little bit more.
7800 XT runs at maxed settings beautifully with native AA.
150 GB download for a game that looks mid at best is actually nuts, where the hell does all that data come from?
i have a dell g15 ryzen edition with a ryzen 7 5600h, gforce 3050ti 6gig, 64 gig ddr4, 1 terabyte m.2, and can barely get 30fps in low. verified game files, played with so many video settings. 1 thing i found is the 1080p monitor is greyed out and in a wierd 15??x ??? cant remember but not 1080p. sometimes i start and it works great and then it just goes to crap. updated all my drivers totally confused by this.
even on RTX 2080 Super + 5700x + 32gb 3200cl16 it runs bad. All lowest, native res it is just about 50-60, sometimes 70. Really putting me off the game, ngl.
And on top it looks like shit then. The game doesnt look good enough to justify this performance
could you do a full video of performance please, I think it would do well in the algorithm, For example Steams most average PC (RTX3060 12gb) with a 12400f/5600X
a RTX 4060 and a i3 14100f
RTX2060 and a 2600X
AMD 7700XT and a 5700X3d
ect ect.
Interesting... Those minimum requirements seem to be quite accurate, and yes the 1080p 30fps specs are not true 1080p, because of the asterisk and the point about using TSR (or equivalent).
Native 1080p might just get 30fps, but I'd probably play with FSR (or TSR) set to Quality, if using this hardware configuration.
My Rx 580 on 4GB's is struggling for real.
I can squeeze rubbish 30 FPS on 720p with Frame Gen and Balance/Quality FSR on low
Or stable 30 with same stuff but on 800*600. I've yet to still play around with slightly higher resolutions but I can probably squeeze just a little bit more :D
I'm still searching on google or UA-cam if the new Stalker 2 will work on this PC setup: AMD Vishera FX-8350 4.0GHz 8x cores, RAM: 4x HyperX 8GB DDR3 1866MHz=32GB together, Graphics card: MSI GeForce RTX 3050 GAMING X 8G, OS: Windows 10 Home 64 bit
Will I run the game?
And how many FPS will the game run for me?
The cpu may be an issue but it should start and run
@@RandomGaminginHD oh thanks for the answer I don't expect the game to work on medium or high. Hopefully I could get to low settings and 30 fps maybe. I don't know I can't test it I haven't bought the game yet. If there was a demo available it would be better for testing. Then I would buy the game if it worked well on my pc
Still running a FX line is crazy. I can't imagine how stuttery all your games are. Huge bottleneck even with a 3050.
@@tacticalmattress I play Resident Evil 4 Remake and Dead Island 2, Need For Speed Heat on it at the highest details in 1080p resolution without Ray Tracing turned on and it gives me around 40 FPS+ so it works quite smoothly. I also want to point out that my RTX 3050 is an 8 GB version from 2022, I bought it right after it was released
@horvisnone4997 There is nothing smooth about a FX cpu. I GUARANTEE you have massive stutters and are just coping. I owned one pre covid and even back then, that thing was a stuttering mess in virtually any modern game I played. Upgrade already.
Your setup is the definition of one of the worst bottlenecks possible. You aren't even getting 50% of the performance that your GPU can actually do. Which is crazy because a 3050 isn't very powerful. It's underpowered actually.
Wht i have learned from Unreal Engine: leaving everything at the highest preset is not a great idea, even on higher end PCs. Turning down some settings for minimal visual differences is always recommended,
You wanted to say: EVERY game engine, my friend?😅
yeah, i had to turn some settings down, but some to epic aswell thanks to my cpu bottleneck
but overall stable 60 fps on 7800 xt with 5700x and 32 gbs with FSR on native
Honestly if they optimize it so that the frame times are more stable it would be a large game changer as playing on higher difficultys sucks for these numbers.
how long did you compile your shaders?
Looks like the little Ryzen 5500 I frankenstein’d together would manage, though the GPU’s an Arc A380. I’m willing to bet it’d still run manageably.
Worth a try if you’ve got game pass the cpu is definitely enough
@ the real question is how long it’ll take the Crossover folks to get it running; odds are solid my M2 Max Mac Studio will do better in six months. Thanks for the reply!
You'd need a ton of XeSS
@@vadnegru Yeah, no doubt. I wonder if it’d be worth it over just trying to run it at 720p… or if 720p + XeSS would be the answer. That’d be pretty scuzzy though.
So i have RX 6600 should i even try downloading this game?....😅
No
On Ally X it takes 30 mins to open, every single time for loading shaders
Yeah I made a poor pc rookie mistake when I got a gaming laptop last year sadly, it has a 3050 and only 8gb ram which of course I upgraded to 16gb but I didn't understand about the limit of the 4gb vram on the graphics card, coming from console gaming I didn't understand about the ram and vram being separate pools, I'm an idiot I wasted almost £800 it can't play a lot of modern games 😢
Laptop specs will always be worse than desktop counterparts as well, they are drawing less power and usually struggle with thermal throttling. £800 for a 3050 laptop is actually not terrible, my 1050 (4gb Vram) laptop cost £600 (on sale down from £800) 5 years ago. Modern games are just sadly very unoptimized on all platforms, especially Unreal Engine 5 games.
Your problem is purchasing a 3050 laptop to begin with. You could have gotten used 2070 laptop or maybe 3070 laptop which are massively better.
"Haven't played the first one" Well clearly, because there have actually been three games in this series so far 😄 Fair's fair though, it's confusing that they decided to call THIS one Stalker 2.
suprising that this runs way better than MechWarrior 5: Clans, both in UE5 and forced DX12
at least before you get to the first village
i have an Intel core i5-11400 with a GTX 1660 Super and i can NOT run this game.
You should have turned on Frame Gen just out of curiosity
Frame gen is not a usable technology.
Rx 588 900p, fsr quality, framegen, med textures, lock it to 60fps and have NO ISSUE AT ALL, play with sharpness (that setting DO A LOT!!!) and anti-aliasing to find best lookin result🎉
my gpu lil bit “overclocked” just maxed all up in radeon settings😅
Cheeki-breeki build
they really were serious abt minimum lmao
I have a ryzen 1600 and a rx 480 8gb however I get 60fps idk if its the microsoft store version or whatever
I have a feeling that 1600x is not gonna enjoy the bigger towns with a lot of NPC's. Even the 7800x3d struggles to maintain 60fps
I have a 7700X and a 6900XT on mostly High(none on Ultra) settings with TSR at 75% and I haven't dropped below 60 yet.
@@IceNinja2007Yea well, there is a massive difference between a 7700x and a 1600x... a 7 generation difference to be exact 😂
Cries in i7 3770 😢
What would you recommend with mid range gpu 4060 but older cpu like here . I5 8400?
8400 is still somewhat capable but 10400f would be better as it has hyper threading. Different socket of course though. A 12400f and cheap h610 board would be even better for a 4060
Sorry I meant like game settings wise to avoid bottlenecing! I’m stuck with a mini msi trident 3 so not really upgradable unless I go 8700:9700
@@RandomGaminginHD sorry I meant settings wise!
I'm having a very hard time getting the game to look good regardless of performance. I can't seem to get good antialiasing even with it all the way up, I tried fsr or dlss aa but those just made it look muddy. :(
Think you should have tested settlements with NPCs thats where the CPU gets hammered and the FPS drops like crazy
Thx for representing us plebs
Interesting, 2:03 my game looked exactly the same on an RX 6950XT all settings high, motion blur off / DoF low. 1440p res native upscaling. After turning on TAA it looked a lot better.
Does a frame rate cap devote that released power to the frame rate dips?
In a fashion, yes.
allow me to sum up my 7 hours in stalker 2 - it's a tarkov single player mod for new vegas. if this game had the skyrim leveling system it would be the best bethesda rpg made in the last 10 years.
It might be reasonable to think that people will create a mod for that eventually
The low spec req is bs. It barely holds 30fps, at 1080p for what? So that i can clearly experience how bad the visuals look on low?
So I can run this at about med on my ROG Ally then?
can you do one for the high settings, they state that is the recommended setting