Best graphics ever? Senua's Saga Hellblade 2 PC Performance Tested
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- Опубліковано 14 чер 2024
- Hellblade II is a stunning Unreal Engine 5 graphical showcase. But it has pretty steep PC system requirements • Is your PC ready? Hell... . So how does it actually run? Let's find out!
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Chapters:
0:00 Best game graphics ever?
0:24 It forces a ultra-wide aspect ratio (so 16x9 displays will get letterboxed black bars)
1:00 Preview graphic changes as well as show FPS and VRAM usage
1:32 DLSS, FSR, TSR and XeSS are all available, only DLSS has frame gen
2:00 Graphics settings, some people may want more control over post processing
2:40 RTX 4090 4K High (some discussion of UE5 stutters)
3:32 RTX 4090 4K High DLSS Quality
3:57 RTX 4090 4K High DLSS Quality Frame Gen ON
4:25 No FSR 3 frame gen, just upscaling
4:43 Testing performance scaling between High/med/low
5:50 Low still looks great! RTX 4090 4K Low
6:35 RTX 4090 4K Medium
7:10 RTX 3060 1440p High
7:38 RTX 3060 1440p High DLSS Quality
8:48 RTX 3060 1440p Low DLSS Quality
9:38 RTX 3060 1080p High
10:23 RTX 3060 1080p Medium
10:37 RTX 3060 1080p Low
10:56 RTX 3060 1080p Low TSR Dynamic Scaling 60 FPS target
11:30 RTX 3060 1080p Low DLSS Quality
11:48 RTX 3060 1080p High DLSS Quality
12:08 RTX 3060 1080p Medium DLSS Quality
12:34 Other areas can be easier to run RTX 3060 1080p Med DLSS Quality
12:55 Easier Area RTX 3060 1080p Medium
13:13 Easier Area RTX 3060 1080p Low
13:42 RX 6800 XT 1440p High (officially recommended 1440p High GPU)
14:46 RX 6800 XT 1440p Medium
15:17 RX 6800 XT 1440p High TSR Dynamic Scaling 60 FPS target
16:05 RX 6800 XT 1440p High FSR Quality
16:38 RX 6800 XT 1080p High
17:27 Final Thoughts - Наука та технологія
NOTE: when the game launched this morning and I recorded the Nvidia footage, Nvidia had not released the day 1 driver for this game. It looks like one is out now, so performance could possibly be better than what is seen in this video.
I noticed exactly a 1 fps difference at the first part you can control character. It really doesn't matter. From 46 to 47 on a 4090 @ 4k, DLAA, VRS off, everything maxxed. Worst case performance scenario.
@@innopriest i noticed 1 fps or less gain... don't even know why the update
@@gmgm2410 Like usual just to say they did it. Might have a larger impact with VRS on, I didn't try and after making a very quick video I uninstalled the game. So maybe a difference, maybe not.
Hey man can you tell us if you had any issues with ghost of Tsushima? My game keeps crashing every five minutes. I reinstalled the game and updated my drivers. Immediately after six hours in it started messing up.
Turn off frame generation, if you have it turned on
Smart move by Ninja Theory setting a new standard for bench marking. This is surely going to get them a ton of free advertising on YT.
Too bad they will probably get shut down by Microsoft for poor sales after a long wait after the first game, and the sales won't meet anything due to game pass.
New cyberpunk
@@WayStedYou apparently they have already been given funds for 2 other games. One that recently got funding
nah game is shit
3700 peak players on Steam. Nobody will be talking about this "game experience" a month from now.
BEST MATH TEACHER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
needs more pointing at the numbers
@@VelvetSky1102 Yes. I need more Tiny Cursor Daniel.
we need to see daniel the cursor back
@@taimurahmedrafe4984 Also know as The Human Cursor ; )
Does Owen still teach?
i remember when the first hellblade released, I was blown away by the graphics. this sequel also looks beautiful!
UE4 it was and UE5 is now
If you like to play as the cameraman
This game is complete CRAP.. Only 5 hours long and thats with taking your time. Call of duty has a longer story than this game. Graphics are meh... DLSS blurs... Game is a total pile of crap.
@@SemperValor the length of a game has nothing to do with how good it is
@@SemperValor ahahahahahhahahaha
Alex Battaglia‘s gonna love that menu.
I like seeing DF love!
As do we all! but yeah this is an Alex wet dream, I can't blame him, this is god damn glorious!
It also gives me hope for UE5 titles actually having ok performance (although it takes a lot of manual effort, which we can't count on from most developers, especially shader compilation)
He's on vacation recovering from the release of Stellar Blade, it was only 99% censored instead of the 100% he demanded, so he had a stroke.
@@NeoCyrus777 he's never gonna live that down haha, still really like Alex's content at DF though...
@@NeoCyrus777 lmao y'all still obsessed at that passing comment of his, soft little 😺
ultra wide screen here, no letterbox for me playing this title. 4080 TSR, high settings 70fps..very good looking game.
Letterbox means? How to turn off
@@shfd3832 Letterbox is those black bars at the top and bottom of the screen. That's the default render style for this game when when you are playing at what has become a more tradition aspect ratio of 16x9(3840x2160, 2560x1440, 1920x1080). However, OP said they are running the game on an ultrawide monitor(something like 3440x1440 I would guess given his combo of graphics card and settings/frame rate. Given that OP's aspect ratio is more like 21.5/9, they don't need the letterboxing to get the developer's desired visual output and in fact might be missing a bit from the top and bottom that might be rendered at a more traditional aspect ratio(can't say for sure). However, there seems to exist no such simple setting to change it in the options menu. Perhaps there's a way by editing an ini file or something, but I really couldn't say. I personally have the first game but haven't played it yet(look forward to it at some point, though) and don't have this one yet(gonna wait a while for it to go on a decent discount like at least 50% off, maybe more).
great info, I also use 1440p ultrawide
@@shfd3832forced aspect ratio, theres black bars at the top and bottom of the screen
Are you using TSR and not DLSS? Why?
It’s a stunning audio/visual feast
Bonus points for great HDR on my QD-OLED
trying to configure it, on my alienware 34DWF, I'm at -41
I'm blown away playing this on a 1440p OLED monitor with my 4070ti. The audio is EXCELLENT with 5.1 surround sound.
qd is not oled...😂
@@pc-easyuh yes, qd-oled is definitely an oled. its the newest panel technology that came out about 2 years ago..
@@pc-easy dumbest reply I’ve ever seen
Daniel, thank you for taking the time to bench the game with not only the best GPU on the market (for comparison) but also with a couple of GPUs which are much more comparable to what people may actually have. I know it takes even more time to DDU the system and physically swap cards, than it normally would to just benchmark a new title with a 4090 and call it a day. But going the extra mile like you do definitely makes all of your subscribers feel considered and appreciated. Thanks again and great video!
playing this on a 7900 GRE on a 3440 x 1440 ultrawide, all high - it's visually breathtaking. would definitely recommend using the dynamic res option, i used it with TSR and gave it a target of 48 for freesync, not much of a pixel peeper but it still looks great to me :D
Enjoy it bro
Do you still get black bars on an ultrawide by default?
UWQHD or QHD better?
GRE owner here, should I go with FSR or TSR? Really excited about playing this soon.
@@Arjun-eb1ycJust change it…
This is like how god of war and other console games punched above their weight, make the world seem big with clever angles and staging, and pre rendered spots, but what is actually being rendered in real time is actually very small so you can really pack the details.
It's Not, Microsoft literally implemented the same technique of Forza and Flight simulator of taking video footage of the actual place/country and implemented in the game but this time with Unreal Engine 5, its insane how they captured Iceland for Hellblade 2.
@@hdz77 yeah that’s what a pre rendered background is…
@@ArmFanatic False pre rendered backgrounds are drawings of the place then implemented in the game, not actual footage, I literally just asked verified on Google and also asked AI, so you are wrong.
@@hdz77 lmao no they record the footage then they add baked in lighting, volumetric effects, and whatever else they need to make it match the desired look they are going for, then they “pre render” that scene as a movie clip that plays continuously in the background and your avatar is just moving over it, it’s not like ff7 where it’s just a static picture that is generated in the background. Its really not a hard concept but it always brings me back to my favorite George Carlin quote, “think of how stupid the average person is, and realize that half of them are stupider than that” keep using AI instead of
Your brain though 😂😂
Tell me you're an idiot, without telling me you're an idiot.
Gsus, some people are just absolutely clueless about UE5.
Pro tip: Don't write about stuff you know nothing about
God bless you for the chapters
Definetly gonna play this one. I remember playing the first one and although it was kinda short, it was really an experience.
Edit: Btw if this is just like the first one gameplay-wise, and from what i've seen it is, really the most important thing to enjoy this game is having a good pair of headphones 😄
It sucks, really, really, bad. A good tech demo but the Matrix UE5 demo was more fun.
@@bodasactra I actually find it tortuous playing this game. I've just spent about an hour and a half in a cavern which included completing some of the most uninspiring puzzles known to man, following a light for 10 minutes and spent about 2 minutes to crawling through a rock crevice by pushing forward on the thumbstick occasionally.
Oh and during this time there was a single combat sequence whereby enemies attacked me one by one (always one by one) which I easily dealt with by pressing whatever button took my fancy, on the hardest difficulty!
Running along a linear path to trigger the next cut-scene does not make for a compelling experience.
I'm constantly thinking to myself "Is this it, is this all there is to it?"
GoW had numerous cut-scenes but had meat on it's it's bones, it had a purpose had a substatual amount of gameplay.
This is more akin that other graphical showpiece of it's time, The Order 1886, which also had story elements/cutscenes far outwheighing the gameplay and was also poor but probably a little better than Hellblade 2.
This a non-game/interactive movie and I for the life of me I cannt fathom why it's had such positive reviews?
Eurogamer rated it higher than Tears of the Kingodm and Balders Gate 3!
@@Coxy_Wrecked I think you hit it on the head with your comparisons, you can get the full experience watching the story in a video much like the games you mentioned. I would like to add that Rome game into the comparison mix, I watched the entire game through the cut scenes on UA-cam, it was a great miniseries show, very memorable story. Sadly, Hellblade 2 does not have chops enough for the story to carry it. The ending is exceptionally unforgivable, I thought I did something wrong and missed the proper end. I am glad if anyone can enjoy the experience but I will never understand how that is possible without short of substance use assistance.
Hi Daniel, is there a specific reason why the VRAM of your RTX 3060 only runs at 7301 instead of 7501 (default) “MHz” ?
Would the black borders be visible on a 21:9 or it will nicely scale ? I have a 21:9 and in some YT videos, the video just stay in the middle surrounded by black borders instead of scalling on all display area.
Hi Daniel, could you test that "lossless scaling" software you mentioned briefly on your pc hardware news? I think people would benefit a lot from it, especially in games like this one
How do you get in opening scene 40fps? I got 4080 and Im in 70-100fps with DLLS quality mode? Do you have new drivers?
I only played about an hour of the first game but I'm so tempted to play this just for the graphics. I do have Gamepass so I guess I can go back and finish the first game then jump into this. Great analysis as usual.
Now imagine a king Kong game looking like this
Why king kong? It seems so random lol.
Dude, a proper King Kong game made in this style would dope as hell!
@@Marko-ij4vy You must have never experienced the King Kong Ps2 game
@@Marko-ij4vy King Kong, Godzilla, Pacific Rim, whatever, are games with big cinematic destructions in wide view angles. So basically 10x the render requirement of this game. They can only make it look this good because every area is relatively confined.
@@Marko-ij4vy my man likes King Kong i guess
My benchmark video for it on a R5 5600 and 6700 xt is proccesing (1hr 55m) testing hellblade on every setting with xess,fsr and tsr at 1080p,1440p and 4k,it actually runs good for the looks
TSR has a fixed upscale option too; I wonder how the quality+performance compares to FSR and DLSS at equivalent upscaling ratio?
I hate film grain. Its the first setting I always turn off.
Yeah I turn that one off as well.
thats another line added to the engine.ini file, takes seconds to get rid of it
Film grain helps masking banding. I like it.
I think I'd leave it on for an interactive movie like this.
This and motion blur. That's the heresy we have ulmb and high-hz monitors for.
Looks awesome, sounds awesome.
I am getting around 57fps in 4k on my AMD 7900XTX.
Is this series worth it? Im thinking about playing it but I havent played the first one. I heard its short but thats perfect for me, I want a slow paced short single player game.
this game is more like a interactive movie...but i realy liked the first one
You can force off the black bars, but you loose some of the FoV unfortunately. You can also force off the chromatic aberration and lens distortion all in the engine ini file.
Thanks men for the nice vid!
How do I get the other (top-left) overlay you have on your screen, pretty nice and non-intrusive :D
MSI Afterburner, that tool called RivaTuner comes with it
What do you think about the reflections? I think at Medium it switches to RT reflections and at High it increases the resolution of RT reflections.
I'm assuming it is Lumen reflections, which is a type of RT. Not sure whether it is the hardware accelerated version, or the software based version. Most UE5 games so far have been using the software version. Hopefully Digital Foundry eventually goes in depth on this game's tech.
@@danielowentech the are some artifacts on the light, I think it’s only software lumen.
if it was hardware RT the AMD would be much slower
@danielowentech i think they would be shouting from the rooftops if it was hardware lumen
@@WayStedYou looking at marketing of this game
i don't think they wanna shout anything
As I have subtitles on I actually like the letterboxing as an artistic choice as it puts the voices in Senuas head bellow the action.
Looks like Daniel got a new game to use for benchmarking all kinds of GPU’s
We already have the Matrix UE5 demo for this. It would have been nice if they remembered to attach game play and a coherent story with the 7 years spent making this mess.
@@bodasactra that demo is horrible, it dips down to 14 FPS on PS5, very poorly optimized
@@bodasactra Matrix Awakens isn’t a game
@@ViceZone Finish that sentence. I trust you will capture my intended confirmation of the equivalency.
can u do fps text on Xdefiant ? on multiple gpu ranges?
I got a fluctuating 44 to 55 FPS on low settings in 1080p with a Ryzen 5 5500, rx 6600 and 16 GB of RAM.
I have FSR3 on Ultra Quality (native AA) everything below looks terribly blurry and pixelated in 1080p, including TSR and XESS.
Only in the puzzles with the blue beacons did the FPS drop below 20 for a few seconds when you lit or extinguished them. No exact idea why.
I have those exact specs! Can’t wait to try this out.
Previewing graphic settings is AMAZING! This isn't my type of game but I'll play it just for the eye candy. Best looking game Ive ever seen. Hope to see some future big UE5 titles looking good as this..
Yeah it is 100% the best looking game available right now..
Just wish they made the game slightly longer
I noticed you didn't test XeSS, but at brief look at 4:35 it seem to give suspiciously higher FPS than FSR or even DLSS. Maybe it's not working correctly or it's ultra high performance setting under the hood but I see, at least in the conditions you had, FSR showing ~85, DLSS shows the same despite reporting that Frame Gen is enabled(looks like it's not working in menu), but jumps to about 120 when you switched to XeSS and drops again to 85 when switched back to DLSS Quality + Frame Gen. Strange.
Intel has recently changed the base resolution for the 1.3 version. They are upscaling from lower resolutions compared to DLSS and FSR, hoping they can fool people into thinking their upscaling is faster.
I have a 3070ftw on an ultrawide, BUT with a i7-7700k, what are my chances of seeing 50+ fps?
Chromatic aberration is one I just don't get. Photographers and videographers pore over and test out different lenses to try and get the best image quality, and chromatic aberration is definately a negative there. I guess in games it exists as a "positive feature" because that flaw makes it look more like it's a real video. But... Just... Why?
Yeah I always turn off chromatic aberration whenever possible.
I have enough of it from my own glasses. I always turn it off in games.
youmight also ask why motiuon blur :P
I have been asking myself that question for years! I have no idea why games devs insist on putting chromatic aberration in games...I have never seen an implementation of it that looked better than not having it...I can understand film grain, motion blur, and bloom in some circumstances but the first thing I do when boot up a new game is turn off chromatic aberration!
I don't get it too. Chromatic aberration as well as distortion are optical defects. The film grain is film / sensor defect. Hellblade 2 truly shows why they are defects - they dramatically decreases level of details, makes image blurry. And hides this stunning graphics from player.
Someone posted a video saying that on UW its not letterboxed? Is that not accurate? (meaning they lied and are actually running the mod to remove letterbox)
And I thought the first game was stunning, excited to get into this on my 5700 XT soon
Looks superb
It is but I personally feel like I need to be in the mood to watch a movie vs play a game as most of the time I’m only watching scenes and not doing anything else
Yep, those graphics are pretty sick. Even the first game could have been argued to have top 5 all around texture/graphic fidelity with the only two games really coming out ahead to the point where it is obvious being Alan Wake and it's sequel. The slow moving pace with so few models on screen most of the time allows for absurd levels of detail most other games can't even dream about. One more thing I noticed is how low the VRAM usage is for the quality of what is being displayed. Really impressive stuff. Kinda reminds me of RE7 in that regard, which is another game from the same general time period that holds up ridiculously well.
Wtv the case, it is in impressive tech demo at the very least.
I'm not entirely sure if some of the twitchy visuals aren't intended to convey some of Senua's psychosis. I thought some of it was a VSync issue in my settings until a particularly heavy hallucination scene left me wondering if the increased visual unease was purposeful. Game looks absolutely beautiful and we'll see where things go.
man this looks absolutely beautiful and performs beautifully as well, I wonder how good the 6700xt would do
It would do worse than the 6800xt. And that means it will not reach 60fps 1080p high settings in that scene.
@@adlibconstitution1609 honestly I wouldn't mind playing this game on medium or low if that means I'll be always above 60... dunno how good the FSR / XeSS implementation is to enjoy a highish refresh rate experience
@@nahuelcarrizo308 a 6700 XT should perform a fair bit better than the 3060 tested, so that's something.
Its 60 fps+ 1080p high, slight dips into the 50ish fps in NPC heavy spots. The variable resolution is on by default but you have to set it to 60 fps. At 1440p 35-40 fps before up scaling or overclock. Overall, its a great graphical experience on the 6700XT with lots of tweak options to try but the game itself blows Blue whale balls.
Cracks knuckles lets see when i get the game in sure the 6700 xt will do fine just not at 4k lol @@adlibconstitution1609
Hey Daniel. Thanks for the video! Got a quick question for you. If you have time: Do you still think it's worth buying a 4k monitor and game it at 1440p with upscaling? I saw one of your videos from two years ago where you said it could actually look better thanks to technical advances such as DLSS. I ordered the AW2725DF (1440p 360hz), but I am wondering if I should cancel it and get the AW3225QF (4k 240hz) instead. I have a 7800x3d and 4080 super, so I can run either display. I was just wondering what the best experience would be. Thanks in advance.
Imo the 4k monitor is better. 😊
Get 4K and use upscaling, way better having tried both.
idk if those are oled screens so my comment is pointless if so but the response time of certain high refresh rate monitors will actually be really bad if they're not being used at those high frame rates. as in you could get a 360hz monitor but at 70 fps it'll look worse than the 240hz monitor, assuming the 240hz monitor has better response times across the refresh rate range. if they're oled tho they're all insane response times anyway
and I also agree with the other replies that the 4k would probably be better, you'll certainly notice the jump from 1440 to 4k even if people say its not that different, you definitely will. I sit a little close to my 1440p and sometimes wish I had 4k. but I can't run 240fps anyway so I got a 180hz lg monitor lol. just a monitor with very good response times tho. would you even notice the difference of 360hz to 240hz? probably not honestly, let alone the fact that only 1 or 2 games even run that high of fps, if you play those games, just get 540hz. lol jk.
and trust me I'm a hardcore advocate for high refresh rate lmao the jump from 60hz to 144hz was literally game changing. the jump from 144 to 180 did basically nothing however. and less and less games even run higher than 200fps. I have a 6800xt but am honestly not happy with the performance I wonder why in csgo I drop below 100fps when I thought that game should run at like 300. idk what changed, my frame rate tanked after they rebadged that game. used to get 2 or 300 now I get like 120. idk. I'm rambling now and off topic. cheers yall!
In my opinion, Alan Wake 2 was like "ahh that's cool". But this game, the first 10 minutes, was like when I first saw MGS2 for the first time on PS2. Like what? Is this for real? Or even Ryse, Son of Rome for the previous Gen. And I can't forget MGSV Ground Zeros (Not the phantom pain) That blew my mind too! IMO, this belongs with all of them!
I've been anticipating this game since they announced it. It looks so good with a 4090 on a qd oled. And good headphones are the way to go to get those voices inside your head.
I'm glad to see that I've got around the same result as you, with a RTX 4090 paired with 5600X instead of 7800 X3D (the GPU is almost at 100%, around 340W)
Either your cpu is choking your frames pretty bad, or the game is optimized incredibly bad for nvidia. Cause I'm getting 80-100fps at native 4k max settings with no upscaling or frame gen, with a 7900xtx.
@@traptinmymind186 I don't know, but the result is fine for me 😊
What overlay are you using for the fps counter?
Rivatuner statistics server.
Many thanks
Does the letterboxxing also happen in UW resolutions?
Not if your ultra wide matches the aspect ratio the game is designed to run at.
Is the Intel XeSS in this game 1.3?
The Graphical detail of the world in Hellblade 2 is insane, it's amazing how they really captured Iceland, Microsoft literally implemented the same technique of Forza and Flight simulator of taking video footage of the actual place/country and implemented it in the game but this time with Unreal Engine 5, AMAZING.
Good ole Stutter Engine 5 never disappointing in that. Pretty yes but does the gameplay hold up? First game was pretty basic from what I saw.
How is TSR compared to DLSS? I'm assuming DLSS looks better?
If tsr is like other UE demos I have tested, then it is utter garbo
Cool baseline video cheers,..
Volumatric fog n godrays has a bit of breakup artifacting at Medium n Low, its a nice gain to fps so pick your poison.
You just used the starting area where they dont show it much but in 10 mins into it, the breakup is more noticible.
16:9 is cool to mod in but FOV is very low, but another mod exists to fix that too. (Flawless Widescreen)
Putting motion blur settings in accessibility menu is a choice...
lol ikr
Bro every game needs to have setting like this game that frame counter vram that's super man wish everyone would implement settings like this so people who like to mid maxing and stuff with ease of use that would be awesome I only have a 6700 and I find myself trying to tweak for best performance/quality and at times it feels like a chore and can take some time im not rich and can't afford a 4090
The game looks PHENOMENAL! I started it today and my jaw dropped wide open seeing what I was seeing. The only issue is there are severe FPS drops randomly. I mean it will tank from 60+ FPS to 6... anyone else experience this? It seems like a shader compilation issue.
im playing on a 4070super.. day 1 driver.. 4k dlss balanced.. im locked 60fps for 3/4 of the game .. a few small stutters with alpha effects in combat.. and the odd dip down into the low 50's high 40's... very impressed with the lighting and geometry detail.. not to mention the story.
Yes thank you. I have 4080 that runs this in average of 90-100fps without frame generation. It might be buggy on 4090 for some reason. Even the opening scene i was flat 60 because at first i turned on Vsync. Then someone said that 4090 cant run this game so i turned lf Vsync and got 100fps with 9ms frametime.
beautiful game. letterboxing is probably forced to help the console hit the framerate target. it would be nice to have a PC option for other aspect ratios. i wish you could turn off some of the postprocessing like CA and noise.
path tracing? HDR with 2000 nits?
Help me out here. I've got a 3070 playing at 1440p DLSS Q medium settings, by this video I should be getting 80 fps? But I seem to be at 40 fps in the scene, also I'm getting shimmering on her face and ghosting on characters like I've got FSR on, is somthing wrong with my game? Also Senua has lots of black shimmering on her face
Also medium to high settings only changes my fps by about 4 fps 😵💫
A) Did you get the latest game ready driver from Nvidia?
B) What CPU, and how much RAM?
@@andersjjensen a. Oh shit you're right! Rookie mistake
2. R5 2600x. I know it's old as shit but I don't see it being maxed out
@@Alipro0077 Set task manager to show logical cores instead of total utilization. One of your threads is likely hitting the ceiling. If not then it's system memory bandwidth/latency.
if u still have one, a short part with a 1080TI would be nice (If u even can start the game without rt cores ^^)
I notice biggest gains are global ilumination and shadows without impacting visuals, i turned them to medium while the rest on high on 2080ti at 4K, using dlss perf. Frames between 40 to 60. But 40fps in this game is actually really good frames, cause it's a rather slow game.
Starting with 40fps on a 4090, I was really wondering what the heck was going on. Glad to see the scalability, it looks good even on low and through youtube compression.
It has to be the TSR setting with are Epic proprietary solution. I run this in average of 90-100fps on 4080 with DLLS quality mode and without frame gen. I think it might be buh because i can show you videos. It runs better than AW2 or CP2077 in some areas. My guess is that it might be optimized for 4080 because it launches on GFN? I dont know but him not hitting at least 80 is crazy.
Low still looks good but damn the jump to medium looks a LOT better imo
I removed the borders bu using Reshade cshade i detest borders in games strange it has no rtx reflections i had no sutter what so ever in game.
On a 6700xt Ryzen 7 3700x, getting a solid 30 FPS on high at 1440p with no upscaling. I have to double check when I get home it I had dynamic resolution, on but I don't think I did.
it's a shame that the traversal stuttering is hard coded in every game running Unreal Engine, doesn't matter what hardware you throw at it.
is it same on consoles
There are virtualy none man. Like i have notice 4 statters and 2 of them were in the caves. Its good.
there is a fix to remove black bars but fps is lower buy 15 to 20 %
So on ultrawide monitor i will have black bars on top bottom left and right? No thanks.
No, on a 16x9 monitor it will use black bars to force ultra wide. On an ultra wide it doesn't need to do this.
@@danielowentech On Unreal Tournament 2004 with Unreal Engine 2.5 i can use any aspect ratio. Why i can't do that on Unreal Engine 4 and 5?
They went from Epic to Vomit.
Even Low on Hellblade could be compared to High in some titles.
I'd be interested in testing it on my machine 🤔 Especially because- besides Starfield- I don't have any games that have FSR 3. Plus the game looks gorgeous.
Why not use HDR?
This is not a game, it's the perpetual tech demo that will make you buy the next best hardware because what you have now is trash
Getting 90 plus FPS on my 3070 with frame gen at 1440p high settings. The game looks amazing.
The Frame Gen mod works, but it has some bad ghosting.
It’s so nice to have media that perfectly fits ultrawide screens. Not that I think the letterboxing should be forced on 16:9 players tho
For the first time ever in the history, the holders of 16:9 displays must fight with letterboxes while on ultrawide there is full image all the time :)
In the next area where it gets sunny, my fps was HALF of the first area. It also looked much worse, could be a bug. Also, there is no letterbox on my 3440x1440 monitor.
There are no black bars in Super ultrawide and it's gorgeous. Playing on 32:9 and is stunning.
Disappointed not to see a 3080 10GB in there somewhere (as the price of used cards has oft dropped below $400), but I understand you have a full time job and life at home. Still, it'd be nice to see a 3080 or 3080 Ti in the results
Forced letterboxing should be illegal, no matter the game. This is PC though, so I hope someone makes a mod soon.
its just a line added to the engine.ini , this is pc master race
How to remove black bars:
1. Go to C:\Users\\AppData\Local\Hellblade2\Saved\Config\Windows
2. Open Engine.ini
3. At the bottom of the file copy paste:
[SystemSettings]
r.NT.AllowAspectRatioHorizontalExtension=0
r.NT.EnableConstrainAspectRatio=0
4. Save
@@gmgm2410 man, this is why I left consoles years ago. Stuff like this.
Should be possible. If you go to photo mode, there's anything you want. I tried 16:9 and adjusted the FOV slight (again in photo mode) and it worked perfectly fine. No reason not to have these options in the menu. Forcing this letterbox is stupid. You can have it on by default, as a suggestion and their "intended" way of playing the game, but that doesn't mean my prefered method of playing the game shouldn't exist.
What makes it even more annoying is that they know things like this will be modded in 1 day, so why play dumb? Add it from day 1, officially.
There is a mod on nexus mods but you get about 20% increased frame rate letterboxed in my VERY limited single scene testing.
You should have also tested an Intel GPU and XeSS.
It's a feast for eyes, playing on a 21:9 34" oled, very impressive
Low settings look better than 95% of other games, holy shit. I just beat this game, and the entire time my jaw was on the floor. Best graphics ever.
You can remove the letterboxing in the engine ini file add
[SystemSettings]
r.NT.AllowAspectRatioHorizontalExtension=0
r.NT.EnableConstrainAspectRatio=0
Yep, that easy, and LOSE allot of DETAILS in the picture looking very much blurred in the process 🤨.
Hence, why iam convinced they've done that on purpose to boost game performance 🙄
@@freddylippstick674 Looked fine to me
@@MrBeetsGaming Look closer then 🤨 .. Honestly, details DOES NOT look crisp sharp anymore when black borders is removed !!
And i play on a QD-IPS HDR600 monitor @highest setting 😏.
The image looks dull after doing because you not only remove borders, but it also affects visual quality in some way..!
Not only that, but the image is STRETCHED → DISTORTED !! Every character looks like 30 feet trees 🙄
There is a bug with this game. With my RX 6600 at lowest settings 1920x1080 with FSR set to the quality I was getting 10-15 FPS in the opening scene and after the cinematic it still was 10-15 FPS, then I wanted to go into settings to change from FSR to TSR at 67%, then I hit Preview and my FPS jumped to a more than playable 60 - 70 FPS. And that FPS "increase" was on both FSR and TSR. I hope they patch it. It will kill completely the experience, playing at 60 FPS and all of a sudden getting under 30.
Would it be easy for someone to mod in the Dll. For FSR 3 frame gen or no?
Can't you just turn on frame gen in the Radeon driver panel? No game I have yet played has frame gen in the graphics options for AMD, I just enable at driver level.
@@Fearlessphil100 sorry for context I have an rtx 3070 and have been using mods such AS DLSS to FSR3
@@Fearlessphil100 interpolation and frame gen is diffrent
Good news for AMD GPU users, Ancient Gameplays managed to enable frame generation with FSR3 and he's getting upwards of 150-160fps with 7900xtx with a mod, silky smooth and also makes FSR3 look much better than the native implementation!
Kind of odd it wasn't implemented officially... I'd expect at least support for XeSS, DLSS (+ FG) & FSR (+FG) in a game these days...
I understand that singleplayer eye candy games can be fine below 60fps. But my PC with a 4090 etc, $5k+ system, I expect to get at least 60fps in 4K. If quality upscaling looks the same, then it might be ok. Just don't understand how games can be released and not run native on the best hardware money can buy.
You're best off using DLSS quality or DLAA. The other options are going to offer bigger visual tradeoffs.
Because there is no reason to artificially limit how far graphics options go. You can always use reconstruction, frame generation, or just lower settings, but you can't just add higher graphics options when a 5090 or 6090 is released.
Because hardware progresses and this game could still be played then at much higher frame rates. You must be new around here
I'm going to put this a bit rudely: The game developers don't care if you feel you "deserve" to be able to run the game at the highest settings and highest resolution at 60FPS just because you payed a lot of money for your computer. They care about their game not looking dated in just 2-3 years.
Personally I wouldn't give a rats ass if they had Ultra, Mega Ultra and Absurd Mega Ultra, above High, as optional downloads (as the disk space requirement would probably be stupid) for people who are good with 10FPS today and 30FPS in a couple of generations. Not picking the highest option doesn't kill you. But having higher options down the line, when you revisit a game on new hardware, is nice.
If the game is good enough to still be relevant in 4 years, sure, maybe people with the newest hardware can get decent performance.
Truth is though that most games make their money on release, or some kind of pay to win aspect. Subscription based MMO's or loot boxes are far too common.
I'm not a snob, I just happened to be in need of a PC that can do Deep Learning. Being able to game on it is just a bonus. It's considered entry level and a budget option for students getting into NN.
My previous gaming PC had a 2600x and a 1060. I enjoy playing older titles, if a game is fun and engaging the graphics don't matter much.
I just see these UE5 titles coming out with no way to get 60fps in 4K native. If it is poorly optimised I'm not happy, but if it's a matter of future proofing for future hardware, then hey, good job game Devs.
Cyberpunk is a bit of a sandbox game for Devs to try out new things. I'm not a Luddite, I enjoy progress, so as long as a new title is playable and enjoyable, there doesn't have to be an upper limit at release.
The Xbox Series X runs this game at between 906p and 1070p (so technically sub-HD which is 1080p) using dynamic resolution scaling at 30 fps so that tells you just how demanding this game is. Not surprised to see it running sub-60 fps on a RTX 4090 at native 4K resolution.
What makes the performance harder to swallow is that visually there really isn't a whole lot of see during the opening 30 minutes, just lots and lots of rocks with little in the way of vegetation or trees and only one character on screen for most of that time. Yes, it has gone for a more photo-realistic look but this game is also running with top and bottom borders to reduce the amount of rendering it has to do!
it's lumen and nanite right? actually it runs very fast with my 7900 XT, 120fps with medium settings and FSR
UE5 is great visual tech, but if it can’t be performant for the majority of users, then it fails as a gaming technology.
i've gotten to about Chapter 4 (it's a short game, heard estimates from 5 to 8 hours), and i would encourage you to play further - there's a fight scene in Chapter 2 where my jaw was on the floor the entire time, there's some striking visuals and tricks done with Senua's psychosis and hallucinations. it doesn't make the strongest first impression, but the visuals are utterly incredible.
Meh, it's UE5. At this point I've just given up on games actually performing well when they're on UE5. Back to
Later chapters are even more demanding. Drops below 60 fps on 1080p quality does with a 3070. Don't forget the letterboxing so the render resolution is sub 720p, closer to 600p. This is almost as demanding as Alan wake 2 with Path tracing.
Damn the vram consumption is great
Hey man, really impressed with the performance of the 4090, game's really (I mean REALLY) intensive. I have tested it on my RTX 3090 Ti (know you have one but you don't really test it that much 😪) and, at native 4K maxed out settings with DLAA, it could only push 36fps on average with 1% lows at a cinematic 24fps, pretty unplayable. It manages to get around the same FPS as your 4090 at native, but with DLSS Balanced, insane!
My 7900XTX runs this game at 80-100fps at native 4k with no upscaling or frame gen. And costs $1000 less than the 4090 lol.
@@traptinmymind186 That is simply not true. An RX 7900 XTX gets between 40 and 60fps at 4K native without FSR or FSR3 FG.
@@Hateroz 😂😂 Why would I lie? Also, I have a video posted showing settings and frames. Try again.
@@traptinmymind186 Most 7900 XTX I have seen run the game at the performance I've mentionned above. Unless you have a magic card that can double the performance of the others, there's no way you're getting 80 to 100fps at native 4K in most of the game's sequences. I see that you have tested the card on a pretty empty scene ; try and restart a playthrough at max settings with native 4K and show us your frames!
@Hateroz As I said before. I made a vid for someone else showing settings and frames. Guess people hacking games and faking the in game frame count these days too🤦♂️
It's a nice tech demo, that's about all.
Gonna be waiting for an upgrade to play this, no way I can run native on my current card. Seems like most people would have to use upscaling. Demanding games aren't bad, we just don't want upscaling to become the norm, that every game requires you to run a blurry lower resolution.
i have an ultrawide its fking gorgeous
Daniel: Kids arriving, hurry up!
Best graphics ever but hided behind chromatic aberration, distortion and film grain. My first look was very disappointing, everything was blurry. I find mod that disables this postprocesses and it finally looks fantastic! I don't understand why developers are adding optical defects which any photographers wants get rid of them.
If RDNA3 and RDNA2 perform similar in this game then according to the Techpowerup chart my XTX at 1440p High should get around 45FPS * 1.58 = 71FPS which is kinda insane for this good looking graphics. This looks better than Alan Wake 2 but doesn't seem tank performance nearly as hard.
It would be nice to be able to turn off the Lumen and UE5 global trash.
im playing on a alienware 34 curved ultrawide quantum dot monitor , no black bars
I honestly dont mind the devs locking the post processing and letterbox ratio in this case, As This game is really like a 6 hour movie. it kinda works
This games seems to be playable even on older gpus.