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Post by GroundSquirrel on Aug 18, 2020 17:53:05 GMT
Might be nice to have its own thread? I made some progress on PC, despite all of the crashes. I really hope they fix this soon, because it's getting ridiculous. I don't know of any games that crash this often after they were released. Well, maybe Star Citizen, but seeing as that one's still in development I suppose it doesn't really count.
Anyway... the other day I had issues where I'd have to reboot my PC everytime the game crashed. That seems to be gone now, so it makes it a bit more bearable. In some situations the game offers you different responses. Not sure if the response you choose has an impact on the rest of story though. Nonetheless it is nice. I'm intrigued enough to really want to finish this game Some of my screenshots: There's photo mode too, but the few times I tried moving the camera around wasn't possible?
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Post by Tup on Aug 18, 2020 17:59:01 GMT
So the latest patch didn't help yet? I'd rather start playing once it doesn't crash for sure.
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Post by GroundSquirrel on Aug 18, 2020 18:09:19 GMT
I read somewhere that the latest patch was only 1.5 MB. Mostly to help report issues with the game? Didn't think you had issues with the game crashing?
Either way for me the game no longer crashes like every 10 minutes, so in some way it did help?
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Post by GroundSquirrel on Aug 20, 2020 19:45:19 GMT
Another patch was released yesterday (Patch 1.02) That only seemed to make things worse. At least in the location where I was currently at. Game would crash every minute or so, making it no longer playable Some people commenting on the latest patch suggested turning the Steam Overlay and Cloud Saving off. This didn't help. In a final attempt I turned down the disply resolution a notch and the FPS Limit. Also set the Adaptive Performance FPS to the same value. And no more crashing every minute! Let's see how that will hold.
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Post by GroundSquirrel on Aug 21, 2020 20:25:28 GMT
Well... one more crash since changing the settings: this crash occurred after over 2 more hours of gameplay, so it seems to be holding and I was able to make a lot more progress since then I wonder if the frame rate's the issue here. Read somewhere that on the PS4 frame rates were capped to 30 FPS max and since changing the settings of my game to 30 FPS the crashing issues have almost gone... Might experiment with that by upping the FPS setting again.
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Post by Tup on Aug 22, 2020 13:33:37 GMT
Hmh... Might try again soon. If all's fine then good but if it crashes, I'll wait.
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Post by Tup on Aug 22, 2020 19:25:56 GMT
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Post by GroundSquirrel on Aug 24, 2020 13:57:22 GMT
Nice screenshots, Tup. Made more progress these last couple of days. Game completion's currently about 25%. The game still crashes every now and then, but maybe once every 1.5 hour on average, so it's definitely playable again. Dumb question: if it turns out that the main culprit is the fact that frame rates were capped to 30 FPS on the PS4 and this limitation was also ported to the PC version, then how hard would it be to change this? I'm assuming it wouldn't mean they'd have to change countless lines of code to fix this? NVIDIA 30XX series? Which card are you aiming for, Tup?
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Post by Tup on Aug 25, 2020 18:24:31 GMT
Nice screenshots, Tup . Made more progress these last couple of days. Game completion's currently about 25%. The game still crashes every now and then, but maybe once every 1.5 hour on average, so it's definitely playable again. Dumb question: if it turns out that the main culprit is the fact that frame rates were capped to 30 FPS on the PS4 and this limitation was also ported to the PC version, then how hard would it be to change this? I'm assuming it wouldn't mean they'd have to change countless lines of code to fix this? NVIDIA 30XX series? Which card are you aiming for, Tup ? I think it's probably some kind of memory leak/management issue. That being said, there is numerous ways to screw up so who knows. If everything has been done so that they assume solid 30 fps then it's not simple to just change things but it doesn't really look like that's the problem here. Biggest issue seems to be that some animations are 30 fps and that's pretty much it. I'd imagine that it's fixable. Definitely waiting to see what it brings. Ideally I'd wait for what AMD has to offer. Intel will launch their Xe graphics cards next year too but at this point I really want to start fiddling with my PC again...Getting RTX 3090 would likely cause me a buyers remorse if it costs more than RTX 2080 Ti. Also it would be totally bottlenecked by my CPU at this point too. RTX 3080 should be sweet spot for 2560x1440 gaming at high refresh rates. It would too be bottlenecked but I'll probably upgrade to Ryzen 4000 series when it comes out soon. If it turns out that my i7-3770K @ 4,4 GHz isn't a massive bottleneck I might wait until DDR5 hits the desktop.
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Post by GroundSquirrel on Aug 26, 2020 18:34:08 GMT
Kinda not wanting to spend over €1400 for a new GPU at the moment. It's probably pointless too unless you build a whole new system. RTX 3080 will probably still be a lot of money (equivalent to the RTX 2080 Super in price maybe?)
Either way, not something I'm willing to fork out at this point.
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Post by Tup on Aug 29, 2020 12:20:25 GMT
Kinda not wanting to spend over €1400 for a new GPU at the moment. It's probably pointless too unless you build a whole new system. RTX 3080 will probably still be a lot of money (equivalent to the RTX 2080 Super in price maybe?) Either way, not something I'm willing to fork out at this point. Even if it was 2000 € that wouldn't be a problem and it would likely last half a decade just fine. I'm rather stingy though (however I do buy the toppish end stuff). I still remember my full GPU upgrade path (with side steps for various reasons and/or RMA replacements): ATi Rage IIc 4 MB AGP -> RivaTNT 2 Pro 32 MB -> GeForce 2 Pro 64MB -> GeForce 2 Ti 64 MB -> GeForce 4 Ti 4200 128 MB -> GeForce 6800 GT 256 MB -> GeForce 6800 Ultra 256 MB -> ATi Radeon X1800 XT 256 MB -> GeForce 8800 GT 512 MB -> GeForce 9800 GTX+ 512 MB -> GeForce GTX 570 1280 MB -> GeForce GTX 680 2 GB -> 2x GeForce GTX 680 2 GB SLI -> GeForce GTX 780 3 GB -> AMD Radeon R9 290 4 GB -> back to GeForce GTX 780 3 GB again -> GeForce GTX 970 4 GB (overclocked like crazy) -> GeForce GTX 1070 8 GB. Also I'm not going to buy a card that doesn't have at least double the VRAM than my GTX 1070. That leaves the RTX 3080 out unless 20GB versions come out. Same applies to RTX 3070 which has 8GB. After four years upgrading to card that has 8GB is a no go since Xbox Series X has 10GB dedicated for the GPU (out of 16GB of total).
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Post by GroundSquirrel on Aug 29, 2020 15:08:10 GMT
Well, buying the most expensive version of that new GPU series wouldn't be a problem I suppose. It's just that I picked up my new car 3 weeks ago, so it's time to do a bit of saving again Not that I'm stupid enough to spend all of my savings on a new car. I have a decent savings buffer, which I don't want to touch unless there's an emergency (like losing my job or something). Other than that I bought a new office chair recently, since the cat didn't fancy the old one. Also the new one has adjustable armrests, which the old one didn't have. And I got some more shelves for my office/PC room. And I fear I may have an expensive vet bill coming up soon, since my cat's not been doing so well lately. The poor little thing
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Post by Tup on Aug 29, 2020 19:29:43 GMT
I like to keep rather large buffer too. You never know what will happen...
This time I'd probably be willing to buy the RTX 3090 it if it's less than 1400 €. That being said, large power usage is an issue. If it's too noisy or if it's to hard to cool in normal case, that wouldn't be fun (no matter how fast it would be). Of course, if they would release RTX 3070 with 16 GB that would be good enough for me. If RTX 3090 ends up costing too much - there's no way I'll ever pay close to 2000 € for a card; that would be just waste considering how badly these things actually age - and there's no sign for RTX 3070/3080 with decent memory amount, I'll just keep waiting. Not going to do upgrade that doesn't feel quite right. AMD's new cards are also coming out "soon" but I'd rather not go that route... Rage IIc was worst graphics card I've ever had and I still hold grudges. That 3d-deaccelerator ruined my gaming experience in elementary school.
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Post by GroundSquirrel on Aug 31, 2020 17:00:51 GMT
Only downside is that if you keep a large buffer the government punishes you for it by making you pay more taxes. So, I guess the only way to deal with that is to treat yourself to something nice every once in a while. Like a new badass GPU or a car. In my case I spent it on the car. Talk about how fast some tech things lose their value... Btw can't even remember what my first graphics card was. After that I've only really had NVIDIA cards.
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Post by Tup on Sept 1, 2020 18:00:48 GMT
Soo... Interesting. Pricing wasn't that bad for the "normal" cards. RTX 3090 is obvious halo product and at 1589 € it's not exactly cheap*... RTX 3080 is 739 € but the problem is that 10 GB VRAM (and it's not exactly cheap either)... I'd want more. 8 GB on RTX 3070 is kinda meh since my GTX 1070 is over four years old soon and has 8 GB. The way I see it that paying almost double for RTX 3090 is not worth it. So I'm going to wait. There's definitely going to be a card between them with double the VRAM of RTX 3080.
*Prices from NVIDIA's Finnish site. In Germany for example they are cheaper.
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