Given the bad reviews, I decided to find someone who could let me try out the game first. I was absolutely blown away by it. I love how the randomly generated worlds look, and the game makes you feel completely lost in a huge world. The game also manages to get me curious about the underlying storyline, which pushes me to find more and more words of all the alien languages. The thing I don not care about it the whole "shared universe" thing. But I can play single player just fine and not worry about that at all. In the meantime, I've tried this game on 3 separate systems, because I was wondering about the performance issues. I have no idea what all these people are complaining about. On all systems, it was running as smoothly as could be expected. Only on PC3 the game would't start at first. But it worked immediately after installing the latest NVidia drivers. Details below: PC1: -CPU: Intel i7-2600K -GPU: NVidia Geforce GTX970 -RAM: 16GB -OS: Windows 10 + latest NVidia drivers -Settings: 1080p, AA on FXAA, Anisotropic filtering on 2. Medium settings. Vsync off. FPS lock to Maximum -Result; 110 - 150 FPS PC2: -CPU: Intel i5-5600 -GPU: NVidia Geforce GTX770 -RAM: 8GB -OS: Windows 7 + latest NVidia drivers -Settings: 1080p, AA on FXAA, Anisotropic filtering on 2. Medium settings. Vsync off. FPS lock to Maximum -Result: 50 - 70 FPS PC3: -CPU: Intel i3-4160 -GPU: NVidia Geforce GTX460 -RAM: 8GB -OS: Windows 10 + latest NVidia drivers -Settings: 1280x1024, AA off, Anisotropic filtering on 1, Low settings, VSync off, FPS lock to maximum. -Result: 30 - 50 FPS (Low, but certainly playable) To all people having issues, i'd recommend checking the following - Install the latest GPU drivers. - Check performance hogs and temporarily disable them (e.g. Virus Scanners.) - Set VSync off - Set FPS lock to max - If still not perfoming well, turn AA off - Procedural Generation is CPU heavy. Can your CPU handle it? Is it thermal throtteling? Clean dust out of heatsink if needed.
