There aren’t any nice way to say it so I’ll just say it. This game runs terribly on a halfway decent computer. I know it’s a bit dated but my PC isn’t into the garbage heap yet. I have the following hardware:
I7-9700K (8 physical cores, no hyperthreading)
GF 2080 RTX (Not super, Not TI) Not overclocked.
32GB of I believe not sure DDR4-3200, got it at Microcenter (I believe it is Crucial)
M.2 SSD 2TB R: 3400 MBp/s (Write should be irrelevant to gaming more or less).
1 gbp/s Verizon Fiber Internet
By NO means a monster system and a bit dated for sure. However, this game SHOULD be able to run 4k DECENTLY with maybe low/medium settings? IE: 60 - 100 FPS maybe 120 if you go low? However, I barely get this in 1080p. Just comparing it to another equal level game ARPG, IE: Diablo 4, that game runs totally fine at 4k on this setup. Smooth on a 120 Hz 4k monitor. So more than likely over 100 FPS. I think I even have fairly high texture/processing settings as well. Somewheres between Medium and High I believe. This game DOES look better in some places than D4 and vice versa, so I could understand some slowdowns maybe in these areas. However, really 4K on ANY setting is more or less unplayable, and I say unplayable for ME, I can’t tolerate anything under 60 FPS and there even becomes points where you can actually die from some sort of extreme lag that occurs on particle effects like fire/cold spells. This is at low settings by the way at 4K. I’m not looking for 120+ FPS @ 4k with Ultra settings on a dated computer with a two generation behind video card, but I think with lower to medium settings it should at least be able to run in 4K pretty smoothly. Diablo 4 certainly does and this game doesn’t look THAT much better than D4 overall. My guess is you haven’t had enough time to optimize your programming (I am NOT a coder) for a wide array of setups. I know it is particularly hard in the PC market because you have 50 billion different possible configurations in contrast to a console where you know exactly what hardware everyone has more or less. I’m not expecting a miracle overnight, I just want to be sure that it is a priority of the development team in the long-term because I know this game can run much much better than it does currently and at this point, I believe it is decently detracting from my personal enjoyment of the game. Just knowing you are aware of the issue and working on it is enough for me. So if you guys could provide some feedback on this, it would be greatly appreciated. I’m sure someone has posted this before, but I just wanted to put in my own two cents on the topic because I want it to seem as if a lot of people are clamoring for it (I am sure there must be). Thanks for responding if you do and I wish you all the best. <3 and suches.