The Medium - Dual-Reality horror game

For those who have accessed the Day Room - what was performance like in the cutscene as you entered?? At one point i dropped down to 6FPS on a 10850k, 3080FE, 32gb 3600mhz - FPS relatively stable throughout the game, didn't like the swimming pool area - its dropped quite a bit in there. This game definitely needs some performance tweaks. Be interesting to see how it plays on Xbox.
 
So yeah if you have issues installing or downloading it from pc game pass must be C drive initially (wherever your OS is installed basically!) but after install & launching once you can move to another drive by going to settings\apps (on windows desktop).

1920x1080 with DLSS + RTX On FPS seem passable with max everything else. Not much difference visually between 4K or 1920x1080 with DLSS either. Nor RTX on or off (you get slightly shinier reflections with RTX enabled but FPS are way lower overall). HDR enabled makes it look better though but the screen is a little washed out as no HDR strength sliders yet (Unreal engine supports those hopefully the devs patch them in!). Graphics are passable & at times quite good but RTX is yet another dead end really for the visual difference the FPS reduction is ludicrous & beyond belief!

Gameplay is very much a mixture of Silent Hill 1,2,3 with Resident Evil circa late 1990s camera angles like an old classic PC game series called Alone In The Dark. Good job its part of game pass not sure its going to have much depth to it though!
 
So I tried all 3 different versions (steam, gog, gp) and it seems to be that the issue may have been DX12. With GP it didn't launch at all, that's DX12 only afaik (also tried it through MS store and same story). With gog & steam they launch in DX11 fine but if I try to launch dx12 it also fails. Only once I have managed to see an actual epic error message, and it kept saying stuff about raytracing objects or some such. Mind you I hadn't turned anything on since the game didn't load so who knows. This is with an RX6800, so there may be driver incompatibility present also.

Either way I give up, really only wanted to test it out for RT and maybe play for a bit but I've spent enough time on it. Not really a horror fan in the first place. I'll maybe check it again in the future if they fix it, I actually had great performance & stability with Observer redux (with RT maxed out) so I wouldn't write them off completely. I knew the launch for Blair Witch was also a total mess so it's not totally unexpected but supposedly that's better now. I guess we'll see, I'm back to finishing Telltale's TWD games meanwhile, which I have been greatly enjoying, interspersed with State of Decay 2, so by no means bored.
 
Just put the game on and its massivelty laggy at 4k with 3080 Nvidia Card. Goes from 60 down to 50 non stop every time you walk in to a room , doesn't feel stable. This is with normal Ray tracing on & you can forget Ultra Ray tracking ! 4k = 20 FPS max lol
 
Sick of these buggy crappy performance games at launch now. Nearly every game launched seems to need a fix somewhere down the line
 
Running fine for me, though I dont have raytracing on (I'm still convinced its a fad which sacrifices too much performance for the sake of a few shiny surfaces, to me its like having a cool looking Ferrari in inner city Winchester where you can only drive the shiny Ferrari at 30mph anyway but look at how great it looks when its sat still :) ) and I dont have 4k, but in 1440, on my rig its running decently and I'm enjoying the game :D
 
Mensy said:
Sick of these buggy crappy performance games at launch now. Nearly every game launched seems to need a fix somewhere down the line
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Seems pretty evident that the problem on PC is down to the myriad different HW configs people have. Pick pretty much any PC game and someone will have serious performance problems.

The only universal issue with The Medium seems to be frame times, which were patched today I believe.
 
I love it. I was luke warm at first, but once I heard a demon thing call me a skin suit and ask to try me on, I was all in. IT ALL ENDS IN ME!

My Verdict so far: it's very messed up, remind me a bit of Senua's sacrifice (but more horror) , but the puzzle bits are not as fiddly and don't really slow you down as much as guide you to more narrative. It's rather like playing a DEAN Koontz novel.
 
Devrij said:
I love it. I was luke warm at first, but once I heard a demon thing call me a skin suit and ask to try me on, I was all in. IT ALL ENDS IN ME!

My Verdict so far: it's very messed up, remind me a bit of Senua's sacrifice (but more horror) , but the puzzle bits are not as fiddly and don't really slow you down as much as guide you to more narrative. It's rather like playing a DEAN Koontz novel.
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Thats one of the things I so liked about Alan Wake, that it felt like I was playing a Stephen King book or something.
 
smeemi said:
No super ultrawide support on this, even though the resolution allows you to select 5140x1440... unless im missing something?
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I can see why when the screen splits into the 2 worlds at once (not even the same way either sometimes horizontal sometimes vertical) how on earth could they render that when the game world & cinematic events camera angles are designed for 16:9 aspect ratio!
 
Game play wise its very much a Silent Hill 2 & 3 clone with dashes of Resident Evil from the late 1990s (1,2,3). Not sure its a great game but the gfx look ok at times when you have DLSS + RTX enabled (1920x1080 is barely playable but FPS are ok).
 
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