Update: I have found a key thing that has helped my performance immensely- I turned off Fraps. I don't know why it was affecting gameplay, but my FPS jumped up by 10-15 frames when I unloaded Fraps. I've been using Nvidia Ansel for screenshots, and performance has been really nice. Sitting at a 45 FPS on medium, with very little stuttering at all.
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Hello! I have an older Laptop, and was very curious to see how my rig would run PZ. I know I'm probably not the only one who has a PC that doesn't quite hit the recommended specs, so I thought I'd start a thread documenting how my PC handles the beta. Optimization will be improved in the full release, but I have to say, I'm already pretty impressed! The game is beautiful even on medium, and my FPS were solid, even when moving the camera around quickly and focusing on water and foliage heavy areas.
I took a screenshot of my PC's specs for reference:
I turned on FRAPS to monitor my FPS, And then used the adorable Saidah as a model. I then took screenshots, starting from the Lowest settings, and moved on up to Ultra. My FPS stayed relatively the same throughout, with noticeable jumps only occurring in the lowest possible settings, and Ultra. Note: I did not modify any individual settings, I just used the preset modes. I scaled down the images so they would post in the forums, but all screenshots were taken at 1080p resolution.
Lowest Settings:
Low Settings:
Medium Settings: (Game crashed and I had to hop back in, tried to get the same angles as before)
High Settings: (note: I was running Photoshop cs6 in the background, as well as chrome, so I saw a hit to FPS. Might improve if I close other programs. Had to reload again, game crashed a second time.)
Ultra Settings: (still running Photoshop)
Ok! So it's not the most perfect comparison. There were a few crashes as I tried to get these screenshots, so I had to reload the game a few times, as well as having different programs running. I noticed that when I loaded up the game just for myself, before I started Photoshop, had chrome open, and wasn't alt- tabbing out of the game (a guaranteed way to take a performance hit) I maintained a solid 29-30 frames, even on High. Ultra went down to around 26 Frames. I'm feeling confident about being able to run the game well at release; the PZ team is optimizing things further for the final build, and any beta is going to have some technical issues.
I am so in love with this game already, and I've hardly touched it so far. I'm going to keep working on trying to find the perfect settings to run the game as prettily as possible, while maintaining solid performance. If I find anything that has a huge impact on performance, I'll post about it here. I'd love feedback from anyone struggling to run the game or if anyone found this thread helpful.
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Hello! I have an older Laptop, and was very curious to see how my rig would run PZ. I know I'm probably not the only one who has a PC that doesn't quite hit the recommended specs, so I thought I'd start a thread documenting how my PC handles the beta. Optimization will be improved in the full release, but I have to say, I'm already pretty impressed! The game is beautiful even on medium, and my FPS were solid, even when moving the camera around quickly and focusing on water and foliage heavy areas.
I took a screenshot of my PC's specs for reference:
I turned on FRAPS to monitor my FPS, And then used the adorable Saidah as a model. I then took screenshots, starting from the Lowest settings, and moved on up to Ultra. My FPS stayed relatively the same throughout, with noticeable jumps only occurring in the lowest possible settings, and Ultra. Note: I did not modify any individual settings, I just used the preset modes. I scaled down the images so they would post in the forums, but all screenshots were taken at 1080p resolution.
Lowest Settings:
Low Settings:
Medium Settings: (Game crashed and I had to hop back in, tried to get the same angles as before)
High Settings: (note: I was running Photoshop cs6 in the background, as well as chrome, so I saw a hit to FPS. Might improve if I close other programs. Had to reload again, game crashed a second time.)
Ultra Settings: (still running Photoshop)
Ok! So it's not the most perfect comparison. There were a few crashes as I tried to get these screenshots, so I had to reload the game a few times, as well as having different programs running. I noticed that when I loaded up the game just for myself, before I started Photoshop, had chrome open, and wasn't alt- tabbing out of the game (a guaranteed way to take a performance hit) I maintained a solid 29-30 frames, even on High. Ultra went down to around 26 Frames. I'm feeling confident about being able to run the game well at release; the PZ team is optimizing things further for the final build, and any beta is going to have some technical issues.
I am so in love with this game already, and I've hardly touched it so far. I'm going to keep working on trying to find the perfect settings to run the game as prettily as possible, while maintaining solid performance. If I find anything that has a huge impact on performance, I'll post about it here. I'd love feedback from anyone struggling to run the game or if anyone found this thread helpful.
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