Immortals of Aveum, Ascendant Studios’ first-person shooter rooted in magic—not weapons—isn’t performing all that magically on PC. Its August 22 launch day is preoccupied by stuttering, generally, crashing, and making the typical PC sweat with the sport’s formidable Unreal Engine 5.1.
There was all the time a danger of this taking place. Earlier than Immortals’ launch, Ascendant stated in an Digital Arts weblog put up that crucial factor was for the sport to “be a really next-generation (now present era) expertise on a technical stage.”
“You possibly can see in different fantasy video games the place they backed off on among the element as a result of it wasn’t sensible,” Ascendant chief know-how officer Mark Maratea stated. “We selected to not be sensible. However to be able to do all this we needed to make the arduous choice to not assist older video playing cards and the earlier era of consoles. However there’s a hell of much more sport to play.”
Immortals requires on its 1080p, 60fps low-end, 2019-era AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT or Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Tremendous graphics playing cards. On its excessive finish, Immortals received’t carry out in 4k or 120fps for any lower than a contemporary AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX or Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 GPU.
Reviewers are calling these aspirational (and considerably unreasonable—Steam’s ongoing 2023 {hardware} survey signifies 0.68 % of customers have the RX 5700 XT and 0.62 % personal the RTX 2080 Tremendous) PC specs correct, although they received’t assist with efficiency points.
“Immortals of Aveum has by far the worst implementation of [RTX 40-series cards’] body era characteristic […] that I’ve ever seen,” Rock Paper Shotgun wrote. “The UI is affected by flashing afterimages of incorrectly generated imagery. It’s not simply ugly however unplayable.”
“Most video games don’t stress out a weeks-old, mid-range GPU to anyplace close to this extent,” RPS stated.
Immortals began to really feel doomed the second its launch date bought shoved to August 22, so near blockbuster Starfield’s September 6 launch. That’s a troublesome window to attempt to put ahead one thing new.
The sport is “set in a fictional world of warring mage armies the place you play as a street-rat-turned-spell-casting-chosen-one underneath the command of Basic Kirkan performed by Gina Torres (Firefly, Future 2),” senior Kotaku author Ethan Gach wrote earlier this summer time. “On the similar time, Immortals of Aveum is making an attempt to do lots of different stuff, as nicely. Possibly an excessive amount of.”