Gus is the new pen name for Jeff Gerstmann. He's having to lay low because of his piss poor Fallout 4 console review. It looks like he's becoming another John C Dvorak. Or he might have been one all along and no one really knew it. Except for Gamespot. They fired him.
So nobody cared about Rise of the Tomb Raider, and it sold better on PC. This game was a total dud. Sounds like XB1 has nothing going for it in terms of exclusives. It's stuck at 720p and 30fps to boot.
Judging by the video, even if you have a $4000 rig (i dont even know if that exists) it would still run like crap. Honestly, if I didn't know any better, it sounds like the pc "port" is just emulating the xbox one version lol. It honestly sucks that Remedy Entertainment is in microsoft's pockets now. They were one of the developers that had integrity back in the day. They were a pc developer that made great looking games that didn't require any high end hardware and made solid console ports.
lol at how badly optimized the port is. The XB1 has the equivalent of a Radeon 7790, and it's crippled by DDR3 system memory. If they had done the port properly, any half way decent modern GPU should have been able to run this.
This is the absolute worst PC port I've ever seen in 25+ years of playing PC games. It makes Batman Arkham Knight look like a masterpiece of optimization and stability. -720p upscaled to your monitor's resolution. The game can't actually run at the native resolution of your monitor -crashes to the desktop with an nvidia driver error every 2-3 minutes. The crashing is so bad and so frequent that the game isn't really playable. I'm not even sure if it's possible to finish the game because the crashes are so frequent. -ugly low res textures that look as bad or worse than a PS3 or 360 game. I think the slow DDR3 system memory on the XB1 is to blame for this. Those low res textures are probably all it can handle. -horrible stuttering and mouse lag even when nothing is happening -The youtubers were right. Even if you turn everything all the way down, the game won't run at 60fps. -16:10 doesn't work properly. It stretches the game. Looks horrible. -no option to exit the game. -The graphics on ultra actually look worse to me than Alan Wake. The textures are so ugly. I downloaded it illegally and I'm glad I did. Uninstalled after 15 minutes. Anyone who pays $60 for this mess is getting screwed. The game is so fundamentally and completely broken that there's no way a patch could ever fix this. They would have to recall the game and overhaul it for a year to fix all of the issues. If it had been released on Steam, it would have gotten downvoted and refunded to where Valve would have considered it broken and removed it from their store like they did with Arkham Knight. I'm absolutely certain that's why MS didn't want to release it on Steam. They knew it was so broken it would just get taken down and everyone would get refunds. How did this even get a 6/10 from Gamespot? Should be a 0/10 since the crashes every 2 minutes make it totally unplayable.
They didn't release it on steam because they started their own ecosystem. MS titles will be launching on PC (windows 10) and will be windows store only. Currently it's Killer Instinct, Gears of War ultimate ed, and Quantum Break. Forza should be launching soon.
Will all of those games have unplayable performance on $500+ GPUs? If so their platform is already dead.
It's weird that the quick fix from Remedy is to roll back your NVidia driver. While AMD had a patch ready to go on day one. http://www.pcgamesn.com/quantum-bre...ers-to-fix-quantum-break-pc-issues-say-remedy They also, oddly, have a section on preferred graphics drivers. For AMD this is the Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.4.1 which, as far as I can tell not being an AMD-guy, is part of the most recent package. So far, so normal. However, for NVIDIA Geforce they’re recommending 362.00 - a driver from the 1st of March that has been replaced twice, with the current version being 364.72. Moreover, 364.72 promises “the optimal experience for Quantum Break” as part of NVIDIA’s Game Ready program. This is the second time in as many days we’ve seen an older NVIDIA driver be recommended over a new one for performance reasons, with Dark Souls 3 apparently running better on a Bioshock Infinite-branded driver from 2013. Odd. And QB does run way better on AMD. No crashing and a 50% boost in performance over NVidia.
there was a huge fail to begin with as they used windows store for this. windows store can't handle preorders which means there is no preload capability.
Why is performance so terrible on UWP? Apparently the Steam version of Rise of the Tomb Raider works pretty much flawlessly, while it's a total shitshow on Windows Store/UWP. I've also heard the Windows Store version of Gears of War has terrible peformance, which is ridiculous because it's a ten year old game that already had a PC version that ran fine. Why is Microsoft doing this? Are they making an intentionally bad platform to try to make the Xbox One look good by comparison? Or is MS just extremely incompetent? I'm not exaggerating when I say that Quantum Break is the worst PC port I've ever seen. I have never seen a game that crashed so much, had such bad performance, or was such a mess from a technical standpoint. It's an embarassment.
Quantum Break fell from top shelf locaction at BestBuy... only $32 now. Might be worth waiting another month for $5 bin, or grab it out of the dumpster at the end of summer.
I guess consumers weren't quite as excited with the idea of 50% TV show/50% video game as some of the reviewers were.
Quantum Break had live actors and video episodes that you watched in between game sequences. I'd say that's different.
Weren't the live segments really long too? Seemed a real throwback to the early to mid-90s in that regard.