Gears of War 4 Xbox One/PC Multiplayer/Horde Mode Analysis + Frame-Rate Test

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Mr Puggsly said:

Captain_Yuri said:

They are certainly playable and there is no denying that. Its just not what I would call good optimization. Its 2016, we shouldn't just expect a game to be "playable" and give it a pass imo. And there have been several cases with several titles from MS where 970 and/or 390 had issues keeping up with a smooth 60fps at 1080p. Forza Horizon 3 for example. Fps can go down once a while sure, but it shouldn't go down that frequently.

I skip games generally cause if they aren't up to snuff by launch, by the time they are, a new game comes out that peaks my interest instead and its better optimized or exclusive to blah platform. Since I can't play two games at once, I just go with the better optimized one or exclusive.

True dat.

I don't think optimization needs to be ideal for a port to be considered, "good." As long as its playable product on reasoanble specs with better graphics, I don't think there needs to be so much complaining.

You can argue FH3 isn't where it should be on a 970 or 390, but its gonna look and play better than the X1 version. So lets not pretend those specs are just giving X1 visuals and performance.

If that game only intrigued becuase it was new... well I don't have a response to that. Just go playing something else and I look forward to inevitably seeing you in other threads just to complain about performance in new games. That will never get old...

I think it does. We do have quite a few other words that can be used for "playable" like Acceptable but not ideal optimization or Minimal optimization. Good optimization while cards that are more than twice as powerful struggling to only hit 60fps at 1080p doesn't sound good to me.

Does it though?

TL:DR 390 goes below 30 fps and in order to get the 30fps lock that the x1 has, they had to turn down the AA settings to below (0x) what the x1 had (4x). And the 970 isn't exactly performing well either. Both the x1 and PCs are running at 1080p Native.

And well, complaining is what I do when I have a game that isn't very well optimized to my standards and no new games/exclusives came out that interest me. And I do/will complain until they fix this stuff and I will praise when they do. If I order a pizza and its cold, wouldn't I complain about that? I would bitch until they either gave me a fresh one or a refund.