Posted April 18, 2018
Greetings,
I purchased this game as pre-release special and took a liking to the skills available. Sadly, getting single-digit FPS while playing quickly started to kill my enjoyment. I searched for numerous posts on performance, and all pointed the finger at drivers. I point the finger at the gfx engine used (CryEngine) - it is a dog with three legs and all of them different lengths.
I remember trying the first-person game Crysis(?) a long time ago, and that was based on CryEngine - it ran so badly, I immediately uninstalled it as it was unplayable. Sadly, this is still the case with the latest incarnation of CryEngine.
I can play Grim Dawn and Path of Exile quite happily on my Tecra A50 with GT730M GPU, but I don't hold out any hopes of playing Wolcen with this current machine - the engine is so badly written/designed/optimised.
I had thought of refunding the purchase, but I'll keep the game for when I finally get a machine capable of running it properly. But there is no way I will get another machine just because of one game.
I purchased this game as pre-release special and took a liking to the skills available. Sadly, getting single-digit FPS while playing quickly started to kill my enjoyment. I searched for numerous posts on performance, and all pointed the finger at drivers. I point the finger at the gfx engine used (CryEngine) - it is a dog with three legs and all of them different lengths.
I remember trying the first-person game Crysis(?) a long time ago, and that was based on CryEngine - it ran so badly, I immediately uninstalled it as it was unplayable. Sadly, this is still the case with the latest incarnation of CryEngine.
I can play Grim Dawn and Path of Exile quite happily on my Tecra A50 with GT730M GPU, but I don't hold out any hopes of playing Wolcen with this current machine - the engine is so badly written/designed/optimised.
I had thought of refunding the purchase, but I'll keep the game for when I finally get a machine capable of running it properly. But there is no way I will get another machine just because of one game.