7/13/2023 0 Comments Pixel 3 deus ex mankind divided![]() On my own PC, getting more than 30-40 frames on an R9 Nano at my silly 3440x1440 resolution was pretty much out the window unless I dove close to rock bottom, but if I dropped the res to 2560x1080 I could have most everything on Very High and get 60 - and in some scenes sitting at my monitor's max 75 refresh. Does its Ultra (and even Very High) setting have future-PCs or triple SLI silliness in mind, or is something going a bit wrong? Granted, he might well end up with very similar performance if he manually raised a few settings, but that so much is turned off or down poses the question of just how much PC you need to max this thing out. ![]() Happily, it runs well subsequent to that, but Cloth Physics, Contact Hardening Shadows, Depth Of Field, MSAA, Parallax Occlusion Mapping, Subsurface Scattering, and Volumetric Lighting were all turned off, while the likes of Level of Detail and Shadow Quality are on Very High rather than Ultra. Our own John had a very low frame rate at Ultra settings ("it staggered horrendously") at 1440p on his honking great GTX 1080 and 4GHz i7 6700K, so decided to try and sort it out with the GeForce Experience auto-optimiser. Mankind Divided is a pretty game and we shouldn't expect to max out settings on mid-range hardware, but it does seem more taxing than it perhaps should, which is particularly galling to those who are having to turn many settings off or down even on top-end GPUs. One source of online argy-bargy is performance. FYI I am not going to do that vogeuish thing where one includes hyper-sweary quotes from extremely cross people here, because to do so would be to falsely pretend that the noisiest voices are representative of how the mass of PC gamers think and behave, but I just want to try and take the pulse of reception to DXMD generally. Steam reviews are deemed 'mixed' (not, tragically, 'divided'), which breaks down into 1,591 positive and 878 negative at the time of writing - and, of course, many of the latter are absolutely bloody furious. I did a quick poll of Team RPS to see how well this sucker is running on our many and various systems and, yeah, it seems like it's not exactly Captain Smooth From Smooth Town. Those who pointed their mecha-thumbs downwards are divided between complaints about performance, and being very upset about the inclusion of singleplayer microtransactions. This time it's Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, which was released yesterday to a mostly good critical response, but a cooler reception from PC players. Just as night follows day, just as pudding follows main course, just as Westlife follows Boyzone, so too is Steam flooded with negative reviews following the release of a highly-anticipated new game.
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