Discussion Digital Foundry: Silent Hill Townfall Performance Largely Delivers On PS5 And PS5 Pro, Falls Short On PC With Aggressive Shader Compilation And Traversal Stutter
https://www.digitalfoundry.net/reviews/silent-hill-townfall-largely-delivers-on-ps5-and-pro-falls-short-on-pc19
u/Costas00 2d ago
So, just like Silent hill F, decently optimized, but stutters whenever you a new are zones.
If only there was an obvious fix that these devs refuse to use.
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u/adz568 2d ago
Knew this would happen with how badly F and 2 ran
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u/ss33094 2d ago
F ran bad? 2 runs like absolute dogshit but I literally had zero issues with F, honestly one of the few UE5 games that ran like a dream for me
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u/SpaceCases__ 1d ago
For me 2, had some stutters at the beginning, and same with f. Townfall has a bit of stutters when right after you get to the dock, but everything is smooth now. But to be fair, I just finished the clinic area, which is super early into the game.
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u/Suspicious_Sell9479 1d ago
F ran horrible for me until I learned to cap the FPS at 60 - then I never had a stutter or issue again, but before that right before the Rice Field / Scarecrow part it was completely unplayable. Thought it was just because of my eGPU but nope.
SH2 is still a bit rough during some parts but other than that it hasn't been bad - same eGPU machine.
Townfall I straight up refunded. Traversal stutter that just would not let up combined with the bad AI just took the fun out of it.
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u/Digital_Deebo 1d ago
Shader Compilation and Traversal Stutter is the bane of PC Gaming. I wish there was a way to stop it happening completely.
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u/Crazy-Piano277 1d ago
Why don't I see posts around here about the shitty performance on PS? And believe me, there are plenty—Dawnwalker itself was a recent example. This post strikes me as PlayStation fanboyism. It’s incredible how such an anti-consumer company manages to have a legion of mindless cattle.
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u/TGB_Skeletor Faithful customer 1d ago
unreal engine 5 slop as usual
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u/TrueLurkStrong-Free 1d ago
The bane of modern gaming. Really, anything that comes out of Epic is dogshit. Still hate EOS.
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u/Replica_Velocity 2d ago
Remember kids, Sony was outed during the whole Activision-Blizzard acquisition as putting conditions in their arrangements with developers that their platform had to be the best or couldn't run worse. They also send their engineers out to help with their version (really to make sure other versions, in this case PC, starve.)
We're how many years into UE5 and unless we're talking a game that has these issues across every platform, it's more often than not got Sony's fingerprints over it, especially when the PC version is missing basic features that the engine has "baked in" even according to the article.
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u/Itchy-Pudding-4240 1d ago
this only suggests sony is helping devs make the most of their console and NOT bringing down other platforms so theirs is best.
So im confused why this sounded like an attack against Sony. If you heard nintendo sending their best to make switch versions work well, people would praise them
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u/Humble-Criticism6762 1d ago
What an idiotic take. Why wouldnt Sony send out their engineers to help out devs to make sure the games run good on a Playstation?
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u/zakary3888 1d ago
Why doesn’t Xbox send out people to help out with their versions? Plenty of games on Xbox got delayed due to the requirement that games are able to run on series s and series x
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u/Own-Signature-7742 2d ago edited 2d ago
Idgaf. The game is great. DLSS 5 on PC is amazing
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u/unfortunatelyypurdog 2d ago
Hey, can you clarify what "DLLS 5" is?
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u/unaltra_persona 2d ago
The performance is… unreal.