Comment on Borderlands 4 Launches To Mostly Negative Steam Reviews Over Performance Issues And Crashing
Drbreen@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I briefly watched Jackfrags video on it. The graphics aren’t even anything special, the world isn’t overly populated and I can’t agine there would be any over complex calculations running in the background and it performs like shit.
Fuck these fucks.
Hubi@feddit.org 1 month ago
It’s Unreal Engine 5, so the bad performance is included by default. I’ve played 4 UE5 titles in recent months and all of them ran terrible even though they were far from groundbreaking graphically.
Hell, I could play the gorgeous KCD2 on high settings at a buttery smooth 60FPS but apparently I need to set everything to the very lowest and down to 720p to get the same result on much worse looking Unreal games.
teft@piefed.social 1 month ago
Now is a great time to play it again. The newest DLC just dropped. Henry gets his own forge. I'm liking it a lot so far.
Drbreen@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I bought at release played 60hrs so far barely touching the story… I haven’t even saved Haans yet but decided to stop and wait for all the DLC drops then play the shit out of it in its completed glory.
jaycifer@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Kinda there with you. Just bought the base game, played through it once, ~70% through a hardcore Henry playthrough, and then I’ll wait for all the DLC to get that and do one more playthrough.
Hubi@feddit.org 1 month ago
I’m kinda waiting for all the DLCs to be released for my next playthrough. I’ve already spent hundreds of hours on the first one alone.
Dojan@pawb.social 1 month ago
I’ve played two games (off the top of my head) that run UE5. Remnant II and Payday 3. Both have performance problems.
Remnant II is just overall poorly optimised. Payday 3 has weird random hitches. Granted they seem like they might be server side because when I get them my friend does too, almost simultaneously, and vice-versa.
Screen_Shatter@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I played Remnant 2 on my rtx 3080 and had no issues with it performance wise. I think I had one instance of getting stuck on world geometry but that was it really. Mostly in multiplayer too, played the whole thing with 2 friends.
I also had great experiences with Claire Obscur, Split Fiction, Tempest Rising, The Alters, and Talos Principle 2. All of them are UE5. I dont really like Epic or Tim Sweeney so I wouldnt normally defend them, but its more that I wouldnt be too quick to blame the engine when all these other devs can do it right.
Dojan@pawb.social 1 month ago
I don’t have bugs with Remnant, it just doesn’t perform all that well without all the AI up scaling and whatnot. I think it’s more of an optimisation problem than anything else.
I’ve a friend who experiences problems after ~40 minutes of play time though, the frame rate just tanks.
caut_R@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yes, those are lagspikes from the server IIRC.
Katana314@lemmy.world 1 month ago
When listening to the dev commentary of Valve games, they talk about how much work goes into level design planning even just for the sake of optimization, like clearly delineating barriers between major regions (doorways) so the engine can unload objects from other areas.
I get the impression the “First step easy” setup from UE5 may have made it so that more people can give us unoptimized messes, but still only a few rare devs understand proper optimization at all levels of development.
RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 1 month ago
Wayfinder uses ue5 and runs just fine.
That is the only example I have.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 1 month ago
Clair Obscur and Hellblade 2 also ran great on my Steam Deck. And I suspect Fortnite does as well.
My guess is that developers of the other games just pour in high def assets without using any of UE5’s crazy LoD techniques.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 1 month ago
Yes, that’s the thing. UE5 CAN run well, if you don’t use most of its fancy features. But then what’s the point of that dumb engine?
Dagnet@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Expedition 33
arudesalad@piefed.ca 1 month ago
The only ue5 game I have played with good performance is satisfactory and that's because good performance is necessary for a game like that (so they put a lot of effort into it)
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks ago
Thing is, you absolutely CAN make UE5 games perform well, but all the shit they advertised as making photorealism performant, Nanite, Lumen, Megalights etc… Can be used wrong and make performance worse instead of better. Or so I keep hearing. Nanite in particular is only good if you have REALLY detailed assets, in which case it helps perform better.
Threat Interactive on YouTube explains a bunch of things that are often done wrong.
arudesalad@piefed.ca 5 weeks ago
As someone looking in from the outside, the problem is with the way UE5 markets itself, (people using UE5 can correct me). The appeal of UE5 is that it does all the boring stuff for you. For example, instead of buying a good light system off of your engine's marketplace or making your own you can just use lumen. Any system marketed as something you can "just use" is going to get implemented wrong because its appeal is supposed to be that it is low effort.
^(no shame to devs that do think like this, game development is hard and having solutions like this just gives more time to make the game you want)^
Gork@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Same. My graphics card upgrade did little to help out performance on S.T.AL.K.E.R. 2.
Hubi@feddit.org 1 month ago
The weirdest thing to me is that the graphics settings don’t make much of a difference. There’s like a 20 FPS gain between “Ulra” and “Lowest” and I could barely tell which one it is just based on the visuals alone. How do Unreal devs mess up their optimization so consistently across many games? Surely the problem must be somewhat related to the engine itself.
odelik@lemmy.today 5 weeks ago
UE5 performance is fine these days if the game developer actually utilizes the tooling in place to catch problematic assets, sequences, blueprints, and more. Now, those tools may not be the easiest to use, but they do exist, and, with official documentation. It’s got challenges, but the tooling exists. In 5.6 there was even an expirmental plugin released that’s supposed to help with the burden of integrating this work, so it’s obvious there’s effort being put into providing tools for developers to make performant games
The problem is that takes additional time in a production pipeline, and is uaully pushed off to the side til the end of a game’s dev cycle instead of the beginning, if it’s done at all. And due to the way that many game studios are funded and operate, it’s not uncommon for product quality to follow the model of delivering features first to meet funding milestones instead of focusing on making sure the work that’s being introduced is also performant.