I love GOG for the DRM-Free experience, and will GLADLY PAY for making our good old game last longer. But this DMC4 SE is NOT WORTHY of GOG PRESERVATION PROGRAM Label. If anything, this is a bad example of preservation program not doing what it should. Startup issue, settings crash, exactly like the Steam version, need to manually hex edit the exe dan edit the config (4K Display here). I'm happy with the Game, I'm NOT Happy with the startup issues. Suggestion : Either fix the startup issue, or remove the GOG PRESERVATION PROGRAM label from this game.
I bought the game with the plan of testing some PC hardwares with it, so here's my take on it : On the visuals aspect, pretty impressive graphics, and some of the ray tracing effects like reflections are nice, but mostly it is located on the beginning of the game (on the Material world, not so much in the Spirit World), and I feel it rather lacking impact. The game is mostly dark, so sometimes it's quite hard to see the difference between RT ON and OFF. As for performance, even without RT the game would crush last-gen midrange GPU especially during the dual reality scene, with 1080p Medium setting, a GTX 1060 would drop its framerates to sub 25 FPS, while getting around 35-40 FPS on the single viewport scene. On the ex-flagship RTX 2080 Ti, running the game on 1080p High + RT ON + DLSS Quality, you'll get around 50 FPS range on some of the dual viewport scene - very heavy. There's really weird issue with RT Ultra setting that will drop the framerate to around 10 FPS, not really sure what went wrong. The graphics load is really variable, that you will likely see big swings in framerate across multiple scene - framerate limiter is recommended. I find it acceptable to limit FPS to 30 using Nvidia control panel. When traversing across certain area, there's some noticeable stutter as well, not really sure how to fix that. There's also noticeable texture pop-in and some textures only loaded after a delay of 3-5 seconds, even though I'm using nvme gen3 x4 ssd - so texture loading/streaming will probably need improvement. Finally, as a game, I like the idea of a visually immersive, slow-paced horror game. The action is rather minimal, and the puzzle is quite shallow. That said, I wish some of the old classic game being remastered with upgraded graphics like this.
