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 properly within the early Steam critiques, the place it presently has a Combined ranking, largely because of gamers complaining about low framerates, stuttering, and crashes, with some saying they cannot 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 regularly, 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 the sport, I did expertise single-digit body charges in menus and proper after loading into Lords of the Fallen’s ultra-gloomy 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 may to the duty of precompiling its shaders. Name of Obligation: Trendy Warfare 2, which fits by means of a protracted shader recompilation course of each time you replace your drivers, properly sticks a message on the high of the display screen 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 after all doable that one thing else is inflicting long-term framerate issues for gamers, but when my shader compilation analysis is in any respect appropriate, Lords of the Fallen may presumably take a cue from CoD and by some means point out to gamers that they are solely in stutter hell quickly.
After that early stuttering cleared up, which did not take lengthy, I obtained Lords of the Fallen working at a good 60-80 fps on medium settings at 1440p on my RTX 2070 Tremendous. That is with DLSS on Balanced, and it appears to be like fairly good, so far as my expectations for a four-year-old GPU go.
Others of us at PC Gamer have additionally been pleased with the efficiency (together with with related settings on a 3080 Ti at 4K), so you might contemplate attempting Lords of the Fallen your self to see the way you fare, provided that Steam’s refund coverage lets you ship it again if you cannot get it working properly.
In responses to some unfavorable Steam critiques, writer CI Video games has advisable updating to the newest graphics drivers—at all times a good suggestion, after all—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 value a shot should 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.