With geometry at its lowest you gain a 7% performance boost, and it hardly affects the look of the game unless you're right up close checking out how spikey the floor junk is. With trees popping in left, right, and center, it can be a little jarring. There are still enough trees and undergrowth to make it look believable when standing still, but the issue comes when you're hurtling across the map at speed. Turned down to its lowest, the environment artists at Bend have managed not to make the place look like a barren wasteland. This one determines how close you have to be to vegetation (and other assets like junk on the floor) before it gets rendered in the engine. Just please, don't jam both light and shadows down fully, unless you want to be having nightmares.Īnother setting to look out for is foliage draw. Still, lighting is so impactful that a medium value might be the way to go, especially if you're desperate to get more frames out of your game.
#DAYS GONE TIPS PLUS#
That's a significant boost to your frames, but doing so makes the game look super flat and otherworldly, plus Deacon loses some of that mysterious under-brow smoulder which is a bit sad. Lighting, on the other hand, gives you a good 25% difference if you drop it down to zero. We found by dropping shadow quality right down, it would only give about a 9% boost to your fps score, so this is one you can probably afford to keep cranked up. With this setting lowered, shadows start to look like amorphous blobs, and at its lowest value, most meshes will cast no shadow whatsoever. It gives sharper shadows that move more accurately with animated meshes. Shadow quality is one of the most essential settings that determines realism. But, provided you can handle some minor sacrifices to the beautification factor, there are some minor tweaks you can make for a much more buttery post-apocalyptic experience. We covered the game's performance in its highest graphics preset above at 1440p, and 88 fps is a more than acceptable score for a game that's so graphically intensive. Here's what the game's different graphical presets have to offer at 1440p, using our mid-range rig as yardstick. So what's the most effective way to make those frames work harder? Beat them into submission with your rifle stock like the workers over at the Hot Springs camp? No, you're going to want to tweak the settings a bit, don't beat up your PC.
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Still, it means the portable GTX 1660 Ti is able to keep Days Gone motoring along at its top settings. While our high-end, $3,000 MSI Raider GE76, complete with RTX 3070, managed to push out 110 fps averages, with 1% lows of 68 fps, putting it just below the performance of our mid-range rig.īoth certainly playable, but their portable GPUs do inevitably give them a disadvantage against their desktop variants. The ~$999 MSI GF65 Thin, with its GTX 1660 Ti, scored a 72 fps average, with 1% lows of 45 fps. We've also tested on a pair of MSI gaming laptops to give an idea of mobile performance at their native screen resolutions of 1080p.
#DAYS GONE TIPS PC#
I haven't tackled a hoard head on yet, but I don't think I'd try it even at lower resolutions with the settings cranked, not on a budget machine.Īs our partner for these detailed performance analyses, MSI provided the hardware we needed to test Days Gone on different PC gaming hardware. It was just about playable, but it could cause issues through some of the more intense sections of the game.
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With a 22 fps average and most of the time only just surpassing 14 frames per second, it was like watching a slideshow of fluke after fluke.Įven at 1080p you're just about pushing a 60 fps average, with a 45 fps 1% low. I'm gonna say it now, I have no idea how I managed to play through my benchmark mission with the budget rig chugging out max settings at 4K, without getting my ass handed to me. You're going to have to do some serious setting tweaks to get this one super smooth at FHD, let alone higher resolutions. Anything above that will eat your machine alive, like a freaker ripping into a fresh carcass. The numbers say it all: this is one for the 1080p gamers only. Then we have the budget build, powered by an MSI GeForce GTX 1650 Super Gaming X and Intel Core i5 10400F.
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