The Evil Within

Matson said:
Does crossfire work at all or is it another case of it runs better on a single card?
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Well I have crossfire of what's essentially two 280X's and I dip below 30fps quite a bit.

If you make a custom Xfire profile and set it to AFR you get a huge fps boost, but the game has horrible flickers, and texture tearing. You can be standing perfectly still and you can see the alternate frames causing parts to flicker blur, and break apart. :/
 
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Winnter said:
was the console commands ment to take away the black boarders?
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Yeah, but it wont save and you will have to re-enter it when you restart the game.

You can place those commands in

C:\Users\(YourName)\Saved Games\TangoGameworks\The Evil Within\base

Open "the evil withinConfig.cfg" with notepad and add it to the very bottom like so

megashadow_resolutionScale "1"
con_IconWindowY "24"
con_IconWindowX "24"
r_forceaspectratio "2"
r_swapinterval "-1"

The above is my setting.

Really dated feel to this game and ridiculous fov.
 
i have just seen someone on twitch tv and they seem to like it. im not to sure if i could spend £23 for it. i will go over to the console forum thanks.
hope they dont think im trolling lol ;-)
 
Worthy said:
I'm not sure the slating is entirely fair. The reviews surfacing today generally say it's a fantastic game, just poorly optimised on PC. Poorly optimised doesn't mean it's a bad game, just as usual we'll have to wait for a patch or two. I don't get the crashing on startup, but I agree the framerate / letterboxing issues are odd. I wouldn't write it off just because of those issues though.
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sorry m8, but poorly optimised means it's rubbish and should never have been released right now, lets give it two weeks !!!!

FAR CRY 4 will be out soon ;)
 
I played this at EGX and thought it was OK at best. When there is so much coming out over the next couple of months, I'll file this under ""when it's £10 or less on Steam"
 
Worthy said:
I'm not sure the slating is entirely fair. The reviews surfacing today generally say it's a fantastic game, just poorly optimised on PC. Poorly optimised doesn't mean it's a bad game, just as usual we'll have to wait for a patch or two. I don't get the crashing on startup, but I agree the framerate / letterboxing issues are odd. I wouldn't write it off just because of those issues though.
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Its entirely fair the game optimisation issues massively affect gameplay/camera/controls making it play very unresponsively. Some of the ingame events where its clearing the Vram cache take several seconds where the screen is frozen whilst it clears the cache to load the animation its really obvious to me but it depends on your resolution if this is a massive issue or not.

For the dated gfx this is obviously not acceptable I think the game should have been held back a few months to optimise on PC but it seems the PC port company has no experience & when you use the command console to remove those black bars it also disables steam achievements.

Its not just me either the Steam forums have plenty of people from all over the world saying similar things some are very harsh most of the reviews are negative as well on Steam.

Bethesda pushed this game out the door on PC it need more QA & more dev time. 16:9 monitor owners & or 4Gb VRam GPU owners are the only people getting much gameplay out of this right now.
 
...and one other thing this game causes my GTX 780 Ti to go well over 70% GPU loading causing the fan to scream its so badly unoptimised the gfx should not even use 40-50% they are so dated & the shader FX is minimal there is little to no post process screen FX.

Another example of how poorly coded this game is!

The Evil Within Unoptimised Edition ;)
 
AWPC said:
I think the game should have been held back a few months to optimise on PC
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It was held back and was originally penned as a Summer release, god knows what they did in that time?, the textures are shocking, that fov arrgh!!!, the character is massive and practically hogs most of the screen, so much so that it's hard to see up ahead and becomes a real pain in the ass when your trying to sneak, the game it self runs fine for me and is relatively smooth, I just can't believe that I am playing a 2014 game, feels more like 2004 :rolleyes:

Hopefully the community will come up with some fixes.
 
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So, this 4gb VRAM thing the devs were banging on about.

Does the game REQUIRE 4gb to get the Ultra setting and its locked out to rigs with less than 4gb.

Or is it simply RECOMMENDED to have 4gb for Ultra settings? (presumably because it is an unoptimised piece of poo poo)
 
neoglow said:
So, this 4gb VRAM thing the devs were banging on about.

Does the game REQUIRE 4gb to get the Ultra setting and its locked out to rigs with less than 4gb.

Or is it simply RECOMMENDED to have 4gb for Ultra settings? (presumably because it is an unoptimised piece of poo poo)
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Its unoptimised garbage right now. But not everyone is having issues although I suspect some people do not notice the severe issues. Try playing the first scene where you are behind the bad guy & have to sneak up to him to get the keys. On my GTX 780 Ti it pauses for several seconds while the VRam caches are flushed then stutters on the basic animation to pick up the keys :eek:

After that I stopped playing as camera/controls are linked to FPS its broken for me right now & many other players.

I can believe 4GB VRam minimum spec GPU :rolleyes: based on my experience so far. But some people do not seem to notice or have GPUs with more than 3GB VRam!

Even if this game had native 21:9 support, no black bars & no camera/controls/FPS issues it would still be a dated last gen survival horror game. They took 4 years to develop this game is mind boggling actually :eek:
 
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