Stalker 2

mrk · Saturday at 14:46

needforspeed · Saturday at 14:47

ak22 said:
Any idea how to fix the flickering light rays? Also the lighting seems bit off in places, it's to dark at times.

Do you ever notice that when you're inside a building looking out through a doorway, it appears brighter outside, but as soon as you step out, it feels darker?

ak22 · Saturday at 16:53

needforspeed said:
Do you ever notice that when you're inside a building looking out through a doorway, it appears brighter outside, but as soon as you step out, it feels darker?

Yes and when entering builds some parts are to dark...

pooley · Saturday at 21:25

ak22 said:
Yes and when entering builds some parts are to dark...

It sounds very similar to the Terminator game they did, turning shadows to high helped iirc..

SkScotchegg · Saturday at 22:46

Scarfacé said:
130 fps is good going... I'm assuming that's with the settings turned down or with frame gen on? From looking at benchmarks, even a 40/5090 doesn't appear to get anywhere near 130 fps at any resolution so I'm assuming you've got frame gen on? If so, your 'real' (rendered) fps will be significantly lower and that will result in input lag, which is probably what you're experiencing.

I'm having similar issues. I've recently started playing it as well and I'm getting into it (although it's a steep learning curve!) but this game is so poorly optimised it's bottlenecking my CPU in the busy areas. I have a 7900x and whilst it's not an X3D chip with the extra vcache, it's hardly a slouch. I'm dropping down to near 40 fps at times from an average of about 65 fps (3090, 1440p, epic settings), which is kind of ruining the experience. Dropping quality settings doesn't really help, it still does it in the towns - it just lowers the load on my GPU which appears to confirm it's CPU limited in these areas.

Cheers for the details, yeah mate I got DLSS and frame gen on.

And yeah I agree with your experience, even when I set it to low settings it felt exactly same when I turned. And when you go to towns with more AI it takes an even bigger hit.

I did install a new Nvida driver last night and it does feel slightly better so just kinda dealing with it for now. Hopefully after a few patches they fix the performance issues.

I'm playing with a 9900k + 5070ti @ 1440p on ultrawide. Loving the 5070ti so far, runs Cyberpunk in ultra settings with path tracing no problem!

arknor · 2025-03-16T14:12:51+0000

mrk said:

Imagine being a billionaire gamer with apparently up to 10billion , you own a gaming company, but they don't make any games...

Dood must have loads of cool game concepts just floating around in his head?

Surely every gamer has the "I wish they still made games like" or "wouldn't it be cool if someone made a game based around"

mrk · 2025-03-16T14:27:31+0000

They do still make games, they just don't need to hype about them ever until release as they don't need to appease a board of shareholders etc.

arknor · 2025-03-16T14:58:31+0000

mrk said:
They do still make games, they just don't need to hype about them ever until release as they don't need to appease a board of shareholders etc.

since 2013 like 3 tech demos

Alyx, Artifact , dota underlords
Currently working on some moba shooter.

It's not a whole lot for how much money the company makes and what they could do if they had some vision.

As of 2021, Valve Corporation employed approximately 336 people, with 181 dedicated to game development.
pcgamer.com
However, more recent data from 2023 indicates that Valve's total headcount has grown to around 1,160 employees worldwide.
carettaportal.com
This increase suggests a significant expansion, but specific numbers regarding the current count of developers within the company have not been publicly disclosed.

Maybe they are actually working on a few games now

mrk · 2025-03-16T15:00:24+0000

As said, they don't need to do normal dev house things like satisfy an upper oversight board or even the public, Steam prints money all by itself and Valve just sit back and casually build on HL3 and whatever else they are working on for 10 years time lol.

arknor · 2025-03-16T15:03:15+0000

mrk said:
As said, they don't need to do normal dev house things like satisfy an upper oversight board or even the public, Steam prints money all by itself and Valve just sit back and casually build on HL3 and whatever else they are working on for 10 years time lol.

hopefully the increase in staff is for a new game engine and hl3...

Suprised hes finished the stalker 2 game with 4 endings though, am I the only one still waiting for patches?

KNiVES · 2025-03-16T21:08:54+0000

Valve isn't a charity, in fact it's not even a publicly traded company so there's no myopic pandering to shareholders every quarter. Gaben can do whatever he wants.
HL3 is clearly in development anyway, just have a little patience.

mrk · 2025-03-16T21:16:59+0000

Yup no rushing, nobody wants another incident like we say in the... TEST CHAMBERRR.