Dishonored 2

Dirk Diggler · 4 May 2018 at 08:33

IvanDobskey said:
Ah, this makes it pretty pointless then

It's only £7.99 on key sites, so maybe worth a punt anyway.

I think the Demo does have all the patches, download it and see... it's free.

Columbo · 4 May 2018 at 08:58

IvanDobskey said:
Ah, this makes it pretty pointless then

It's only £7.99 on key sites, so maybe worth a punt anyway.

£7.99 is a bargain for what is a superb game, there is no other way to look at it.

Dirk Diggler · 4 May 2018 at 09:39

Columbo said:
£7.99 is a bargain for what is a superb game, there is no other way to look at it.

If it runs like crap then what's the point? I paid £14 for it and I can't even play it.

Rezident · 4 May 2018 at 10:03

IvanDobskey said:
How did you find the performance? I keep hearing it had a lot of issues on release.

Yes I saw that in the reviews too which is why I did not buy it on release (I don't buy games on release anymore as they are generally broken).

I played Dishonored 2 around January this year and performance was great - really beautiful gameworld and no performance issues on my system.

Don’t buy games on release anymore – you are just paying extra to do developers’ bug testing for them! e.g. Sounds like Far Cry 5 still isn’t fixed.

Rezident · 4 May 2018 at 10:11

String said:
If it runs like crap then what's the point? I paid £14 for it and I can't even play it.

I am surprised by this. Is anyone else on an Nvidia card still having performance issues in Dishonored 2? No good reason for performance issues this long after release – although Crysis 3 is still broken for me on my AMD card.

Performance issues are a killer, I still shudder when I think how unforgiveably broken Deus Ex:MD was for me on release.

I would be very surprised if such a great game as Dishonored 2 was still not working on 70% of gpus! This is a really great game, there must be some way to get it working on such a high-end gpu.

Dirk Diggler · 4 May 2018 at 11:50

Rezident said:
I would be very surprised if such a great game as Dishonored 2 was still not working on 70% of gpus! This is a really great game, there must be some way to get it working on such a high-end gpu.

Absolutely, I've tried a lot of fixes and would be really grateful if anyone could share what they did to solve the issue. I'd love to play the game as the first one was excellent (I've completed that one twice).

My only regret is not getting the Steam refund when I could, as the game is unplayable for me.

IvanDobskey · 4 May 2018 at 12:06

When you say unplayable, do you mean completely broken? Keeps crashing?

Or just awful performance on decent hardware?

Dirk Diggler · 4 May 2018 at 12:53

IvanDobskey said:
When you say unplayable, do you mean completely broken? Keeps crashing?

Or just awful performance on decent hardware?

Juddery on every mouse movement to the point where I can't put up with it. No crashes.

IvanDobskey · 4 May 2018 at 13:47

String said:
Juddery on every mouse movement to the point where I can't put up with it. No crashes.

Just a poor console port then it would seem

Kelt · 4 May 2018 at 14:17

String said:
Juddery on every mouse movement to the point where I can't put up with it. No crashes.

That's strange. I play it maxed out (except I use FXAA) with a gamepad on a 1070 @ 1080p and it's smooth as butter.

no_1_dave · 4 May 2018 at 15:47

Runs smooth as butter for me.
No messing about needed. Just installed it and played it.

Fantastic game!!

IvanDobskey · 4 May 2018 at 19:59

So it seems a little hit and miss performance wise then.

Going to give it a try I think. Need something new to play.

IvanDobskey · 4 May 2018 at 22:48

Got it installed and did the tutorial, all settings ultra at 1440p and it seems to run well so far....

Boycey0211 · 5 May 2018 at 01:10

Smooth as butter here too on a 970, to the point where I've never even questioned the frame rate as it's good enough to never break Immersion

IvanDobskey · 5 May 2018 at 06:59

Graphics don't look quite right to me though, like someone has smeared vaseline over the screen.

Need to play with the settings.

Edit: Doing some research, it could be the adaptive resolution setting or AA. Will try those first.

Changing these has definitely improved things.

LoadsaMoney · 29 Jun 2018 at 18:48

Did all the performance problems get sorted in this ? (i presume they will have by now

), as might pick it up in the Steam sale, along with the Death Of The Outsider.

EDIT: Looks like theres a demo, i'll give it a whirl.

Gah, Denuvo crap.

heartburnron · 29 Jun 2018 at 20:50

LoadsaMoney said:
Did all the performance problems get sorted in this ? (i presume they will have by now ), as might pick it up in the Steam sale, along with the Death Of The Outsider.

EDIT: Looks like theres a demo, i'll give it a whirl.

Gah, Denuvo crap.

The game was stable for me. In terms of FPS it varied quite a bit, ranging from the 50 - 90 FPS (we the same GPU).

Changing the subject, did you have any stability issues when you were playing Rise of The Tomb Raider recently? I've having a second playthrough but am getting the occasional crash...

LoadsaMoney · 29 Jun 2018 at 21:14

heartburnron said:
The game was stable for me. In terms of FPS it varied quite a bit, ranging from the 50 - 90 FPS (we the same GPU).

Changing the subject, did you have any stability issues when you were playing Rise of The Tomb Raider recently? I've having a second playthrough but am getting the occasional crash...

I might give the demo a try then, then again, the Denuvo carp, hmm

I had a hang in the Baths of Kitezh Tomb on ROTTR, on my way out of it, when i was running up the stairs, it went really stuttery, then just hung, had to Task Manager kill and reload, where it then ran fine, was the only prob i had throughout the whole game.

heartburnron · 29 Jun 2018 at 22:26

LoadsaMoney said:
I might give the demo a try then, then again, the Denuvo carp, hmm

I had a hang in the Baths of Kitezh Tomb on ROTTR, on my way out of it, when i was running up the stairs, it went really stuttery, then just hung, had to Task Manager kill and reload, where it then ran fine, was the only prob i had throughout the whole game.

Mmm the game seems really unstable for me. Getting a couple of crashes each time I play it - only takes a notification or something to come through for it to freeze and crash. Happens regardless if I have the card overclocked or in balanced mode. No big deal as I can play it for hours without it crashing was just curious if it was a Vega issue. Thanks for responding.

LoadsaMoney · 30 Jun 2018 at 15:57

heartburnron said:
Mmm the game seems really unstable for me. Getting a couple of crashes each time I play it - only takes a notification or something to come through for it to freeze and crash. Happens regardless if I have the card overclocked or in balanced mode. No big deal as I can play it for hours without it crashing was just curious if it was a Vega issue. Thanks for responding.

Im still on the first Adrenalin drivers as well, the 17.12.1s.