The Callisto Protocol

Spleen Sauce · 3 Dec 2022 at 10:13

stuman said:
anybody elses crashing now?

since yesterdays install of the most recent nvidia drivers yesterday both this and death stranding are crashing every 30 minutes or so.

No, but with these drivers I’m now occasionally getting artefacts on the desktop with my 3090. It seems nobody tests anything any more.

LtMatt · 3 Dec 2022 at 10:39

No crashing for me in this game since the update.

mrk · 3 Dec 2022 at 11:27

Any performance improvements with the other stuff now that stutter is fixed?

stuman · 3 Dec 2022 at 11:29

its still not 100% there is still stutter from time to time. I think they solved the shader comile issue. but there still stands the single threaded issues ect.

mrk · 3 Dec 2022 at 11:30

Ah yes I see their tweet says this is purely just shader comp, and they are doing more optimisations in coming days...

https://twitter.com/x/status/1598898775950790658

I won't be buying it again until it's £25 or less. Hit their pie charts where it hurts when they treat PC gamers like 2nd rate gamers.

Hudzy · 3 Dec 2022 at 11:57

Shame this. The price was already off-putting.

mrk · 3 Dec 2022 at 12:59

I've now watched the full DF tech review of the game, not just the PC section I watched yesterday. It's clear that the game has incredible level design, detail and atmosphere and that ray tracing plays a large part in that for shadows and reflections, but most importantly the ray traced transmissions option which gives skin and flesh transparent translucency making it look like real flesh from rendered CGI. I know many folks don't care much for ray tracing but games like this and Cyberpunk and others it really makes a difference and I value those enhancements, which DF shows really well side by side.

Likewise in games like Cyberpunk the RT reflections and shadows made a difference as did the RTGI, but we had DLSS on that so could get over 60fps with RT enabled.

If they patch up the game so FSR isn't broken, and the single threaded CPU limitation is fixed too, then I'll re-buy it.

speeduk · 3 Dec 2022 at 14:22

I changed some settings and now the stuttering is back lol what a pile of crap.

mrk · 3 Dec 2022 at 14:33

Maybe it needs to recompile shaders when you next launch? Seems silly but hey here we are lol

greatash · 3 Dec 2022 at 14:37

I feel like making a YouTube channel entirely dedicated to UE Stutters. Digital Foundry covering one game every couple of months isn't enough

von Humboldt · 3 Dec 2022 at 14:52

greatash said:
I feel like making a YouTube channel entirely dedicated to UE Stutters. Digital Foundry covering one game every couple of months isn't enough

I'd love to see Gamer's Nexus do a deep dive on it. It's a huge issue!

ltron · 3 Dec 2022 at 15:12

mrk said:
I've now watched the full DF tech review of the game, not just the PC section I watched yesterday. It's clear that the game has incredible level design, detail and atmosphere and that ray tracing plays a large part in that for shadows and reflections, but most importantly the ray traced transmissions option which gives skin and flesh transparent translucency making it look like real flesh from rendered CGI. I know many folks don't care much for ray tracing but games like this and Cyberpunk and others it really makes a difference and I value those enhancements, which DF shows really well side by side.

Likewise in games like Cyberpunk the RT reflections and shadows made a difference as did the RTGI, but we had DLSS on that so could get over 60fps with RT enabled.

If they patch up the game so FSR isn't broken, and the single threaded CPU limitation is fixed too, then I'll re-buy it.

Also, XBOX is broken too with missing reflections and poor performance. The game looks truly amazing but the lead platform was obviously PS5 (and the only one they bothered testing).

ltron · 3 Dec 2022 at 15:15

greatash said:
I feel like making a YouTube channel entirely dedicated to UE Stutters. Digital Foundry covering one game every couple of months isn't enough

I'm glad DF are fighting our corner on this because this has been going on for years and it's all just because developers won't give us the option to precompile shaders for our hardware.

Even if it took an hour I'd be happy as long I didn't see a single one of those stutters. Make it a manual option (perhaps with a basic and full setting) and let those without the patience deal with the stuttering if that's what they are worried about.

ltron · 3 Dec 2022 at 15:18

It's feels bad if you spend as much as Nvidia, AMD and Intel are asking for PC hardware and then you get a worse experience than a console; it's just not acceptable.

Aegis · 3 Dec 2022 at 15:32

I can't imagine AMD is too impressed either - they sponsored this title and their (current) flagship GPU is unable to run it at a playable framerate with all the bells and whistles turned on. :confused:

Kelt · 3 Dec 2022 at 15:37

Aegis said:
I can't imagine AMD is too impressed either - they sponsored this title and their (current) flagship GPU is unable to run it at a playable framerate with all the bells and whistles turned on.

All their money has done, is to ensure no DLSS at launch.

Tombstone · 3 Dec 2022 at 15:39

Aegis said:
I can't imagine AMD is too impressed either - they sponsored this title and their (current) flagship GPU is unable to run it at a playable framerate with all the bells and whistles turned on.

I doubt AMD give a damn really, their revenue for 2022 is $23.5 billion. Which is up 43% compared to 2021. Have made that much money this year they probably couldnt give a hoot if 1 game title fails. Probably weighs on their minds about as much as Ronaldo not getting 16m when departing Utd weighs on his mind.

ltron · 3 Dec 2022 at 15:40

Aegis said:
I can't imagine AMD is too impressed either - they sponsored this title and their (current) flagship GPU is unable to run it at a playable framerate with all the bells and whistles turned on.

I expect they had the 7900 series in mind, but if we go by 4090 performance it will struggle.

Subzero85 · 3 Dec 2022 at 16:27

It's not too bad now with the patch, still a bitter dissapointment, combat with the dodging against more than 1 enemy is frustrating at times, hope now dead space remake and RE 4 are better than this, shouldnt be too hard !!

CuriousTomCat · 3 Dec 2022 at 16:48

Im looking forward to playing this in 2 years when it's fully patched and costs £10.