Nobody who’s affected by technical issues in a recreation is keen on the man who chimes in to say, “Effectively, it is working fantastic for me,” however I’ve no selection however to be that man right here, as a result of Lords of the Fallen is working fantastic for me. Sorry, I am sorry!
It’s not working fantastic for everybody: The just-released motion RPG is not faring so nicely within the early Steam critiques, the place it presently has a Combined score, largely attributable to gamers complaining about low body charges, stuttering, and crashes, with some saying they can not even get to the primary menu.
Our Lords of the Fallen reviewer Harvey did encounter a small variety of crashes himself, however that was over the course of 30 hours. One other of us crashed extra continuously, whereas I and one different author at PC Gamer have not seen any crashes, though we have solely simply began the sport.
After first launching Lords of the Fallen, I did expertise single-digit body charges in menus and proper after loading into the beginning mire, however I acknowledged this because the first-launch stuttering that usually happens when when a recreation has turned all of your PC’s would possibly to the duty of precompiling its shaders. Name of Responsibility: Trendy Warfare 2, which fits by a protracted shader recompilation course of each time you replace your drivers, properly sticks a message on the prime of the display whereas it does this in order that gamers know why it is working at 5 fps, and that the scenario is short-term.
It is in fact doable that one thing else is inflicting long-term body charge issues for gamers, but when my shader compilation analysis is in any respect appropriate, Lords of the Fallen might probably take a cue from CoD and one way or the other point out to gamers that they are solely in stutter hell briefly.
After that early stuttering cleared up, which did not take lengthy, I obtained Lords of the Fallen working at a decent 60-80 fps on medium settings at 1440p on my RTX 2070 Tremendous. That is with DLSS on Balanced, and it seems fairly good, so far as my expectations for a four-year-old GPU go.
Others of us at PC Gamer have additionally been proud of the efficiency (together with with related settings on a 3080 Ti at 4K), so you might think about attempting Lords of the Fallen your self to see the way you fare, on condition that Steam’s refund coverage lets you ship it again if you cannot get it working nicely.
In responses to some adverse Steam critiques, writer CI Video games has beneficial updating to the newest graphics drivers—at all times a good suggestion, in fact—and if that does not assist, deleting your PSOs, that are associated to shader compilation:
- Go to: “X:UsersMYUSERAppDataLocalLOTF2Saved”
- Delete the *.UPIPELINECACHE file
- Proper click on on the sport. Choose “Properties” > “Put in Recordsdata” > Click on on “Confirm Integrity of Cache”
I attempted this and nothing noticeable occurred, however I wasn’t having points within the first place, so who is aware of? It is price a shot when you’re having troubles, and we’ll preserve our eyes open for more information from the writer on what to anticipate from Lords of the Fallen’s first patches, and if it is recognized any particular bugs associated to efficiency.
