Is it as bad as we feared? S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 Heart of Chornobyl PC Performance Analysis, Benchmarks

[@danielowentech]

Get moving this Black Friday with FlexiSpot’s brand new walking treadmill! bit.ly/4fzOINq Use my code WP20OFF to get a $20 off discount! Act now!

[@jasonbrody1134]

Hey have you thought about talking about Lossless scaling any time soon? I've seen a video on it by vex but I'm curious to see how stalker 2 & some other game's could benefit from the boost in FPS it gives.

[@diuran1919]

I am extremely disappointed. 1. The developer didn't put much effort into tweaking the display settings. Even though I play on OLED, I can't see much at night on the default ones. At the beginning, a group of soldiers attacks, you can't see them at all, but they have perfect eyesight and shoot accurately from a distance. In HDR, there are 6 sliders to adjust the image, including 3 for brightness... In SDR, the problems are similar, only there are fewer sliders, but the image also looks worse. The lighting looks terrible, with no gradation in the transition from brightness to shadow. The guy is standing in the house at sunset and he cannot be seen despite the window in the room. Increasing the brightness may slightly reveal its outline, but it leads to black crush. There is no gradation in shadow details. Once you manage to set one scene to look relatively coherent, the next time (change of time of day, internal specific lighting) the whole coherence falls down like a house of cards. After an hour of testing on HDR or SDR, I gave up - it should be the developer's responsibility to prepare presets tested on reference displays, not the player's responsibility to work wonders with 6 sliders. 2. Even though the game is on UE5, it is not visible at all. It looks mediocre, has lighting problems (and UE5 games are usually really well made in this respect), which I wrote about earlier, and the whole thing freezes terribly on Series neither Lumen nor Nanite. 3. The game mechanically stopped in 2007. It literally feels like a graphical mod for the first Stalker. The word that comes to my mind is "clunky", both in terms of mechanics, gameplay characteristics and gunplay. Stealth? Forget about it, only in the rain (????wtf). The creators did not refine the game on a gamepad, aiming with almost zero deadzone is very unpleasant. This is one of the worst gunplays I've ever encountered. Chernobylite was more fun to play. The only thing this game has going for it is its atmosphere and sound. Pity.

[@brichardson342]

i gotta do better

[@CaveyMoth]

3:39 "The GPU can't fully stretch its legs." This would have been a perfect time to segway into the sponsor.

[@peterfranz6696]

If you think the cpu is weirdly underperforming, check if all cpu cores are enabled for the cpu in task manager>details>right click stalker2(while running)>set affinity. Mine was set to half the cores by default(so fn weird) now it’s obviously running better with all on. Let me/us know what it was for you (I have intel cpu btw)

[@whiplash2891]

The fact that we're in 2024 and 4k60 isn't even warranted with 1600$+ GPUs is crazy.

[@ziginaigra]

only on unoptimized games like this

[@McLeonVP]

​@@ziginaigra unoptimized would be cpu at 100% or cpu at 60%and gpu at 60% Not full utilization. this maybe have a bug or vram problem.

[@Need4FPS]

​@@McLeonVPby your statement, playing games at higher resolutions like 4 K... Would end up in majority of games being not optimised as GPU load will be 95/100 percent while CPU is gonna be 15/25 percent.

[@JeremyBell]

If you're buying quality OLED 4k monitors, then you aren't budget limited in the first place. Your 1440p monitor is more than good enough.

[@ICaImI]

And yes if you expect this game to run 60fps 1080p with a graphics card that is 8 years old (the 1080ti) then you are delulu as well.

[@E騰]

What feared me the most was seeing u benching 225 with ease

[@anitaremenarova6662]

I need to get back to the gym, can't let nerds catch up smh

[@yoursecrxt]

nerd strength is real 🙀

[@keashaneverts4452]

They coming over the Hill quick! Hahaha​@@anitaremenarova6662

[@isagahd6142]

And dad strength, he’s too op

[@IAmBetterThanIWasYesterday]

Anyone can bench 225, overtime you get stronger. Stay consistent.

[@Osprey850]

That ad really shows a side of Daniel that we never get to see... his lower half.

[@GemayelDaniel]

😂

[@NkosanaMakhubele]

Now I can finally relax😂

[@despairdx]

So true i could never see anything below his neck or chest for such a long time🗣️🗣️

[@Unprotected1232]

Dan got legs. Who would've thought...

[@FleischYufka]

some1 know the anime Naruto ???? and Kakashi with his Mask??? we had the same problem wiht daniel XDDDD ..... but for me was fun. i stoped the video at the ad and didnt realize its daniel ;P hahaha

[@DefaultDimension]

Daniel's got that sleeper strength build irl benching 225 for reps

[@rms9611]

Also good solid form. My respect for this dude can only go up :D

[@benchcylinder]

at the speed he was benching 225 i wouldn't be surprised if he could do 315 😲

[@danielowentech]

@@benchcylinder My PR is 320 but that was a few years ago. Might not be able to hit it today

[@benchcylinder]

@@danielowentech Thats incredibly impressive. I teach undergraduate kinesiology and in my 4 years of teaching I haven’t seen a single student bench 320 during our 1RM testing classes.

[@jonrossi5110]

​@@danielowentechMighty impressive 👏 👏

[@vapecat1982]

Funny that at the exact same time you explain the 5600X cannot maintain 60 FPS there's a NPC saying "What do you expect from a place called Garbage? It's full of trash."

[@Thunderhawk51]

I bet most people would be much happier if the games looked just a bit more dated, but ran on much cheaper hardware with high FPS and settings. More people could play the game which means more money for the developers. But this seems to be the new normal. I don't understand going above and beyond with the graphics, making the games basically unplayable for a lot of people. Gaming is slowly becoming a luxury that fewer and fewer people can afford anymore.

[@1738-l1j]

It looks dated no reason to run like this

[@DaRealMaus]

Doesn’t even need to look dated. Look at BF1, it looks incredible, better than this game imo, and runs 4k60 on a 3060

[@GlebOrwell]

no

[@bb5307]

Metro Exodus with full ray tracing looks and runs a lot better than this.

[@PsycosisIncarnated]

@@1738-l1jit does look dates. People are kidding themselves if they think it looks next gen. Even GAMMA has moments where it looks better with all the shaders, and runs better as well. And has real a-life ai system.

[@NothingCoherent]

tech youtuber casually benching two plate

[@l-e-v-117]

Maths teacher + tech youtuber

[@triggerIV]

Different type of benchmark

[@No_body_2077]

Daniel Owen is the only KZbinr with genuinely good sponsorships.

[@roskobiwan]

Sus

[@dededede9257]

why people say that at every youtuber that do sponsorship

[@sinenomine4540]

@@dededede9257 because they are simps.

[@pR0ManiacS]

It's their sponsors acc​@@dededede9257

[@DenienN]

Narc spotted

[@VisturgAkter]

the fact that a 4090, priced in my area at 2084 euro, won't net you 60fps at 4k feel like some kind of hate crime gonna come check back on this game in 6 months

[@SonOfTheDawn515]

A Ryzen 7800x3d, MSI GTX 4070 Super, 32 GB DDR5 at 4600 Mhz... I was getting more than 144 FPS consistently at 2k (my monitor is 1440p and capped at 144 fps) on mix of high and epic settings. My complete build was $2k back in May sans monitor. Liquid cooler, fans, motherboard, case, etc.

[@africanricc3458]

Are u running DLSS quality with frame Gen ? Because I’m getting no less than 80 fps with the 4090….and averaging around 95 fps at 4K…..of course with DLSS and frame Gen enabled

[@pothitoskourtis]

4K is still not applicable with high settings even on a 4090, either you use DLSS or play at 2K. ( and theres people now believing that the ps5 pro plays games in 8K lmao )

[@zuundasz1700]

Ue5 also affects processors alot, i have a rtx 2070 and im geting 70 80 fps, setings are on medium, some on high, rez 2500, performance boost at medium if i remember, ut looks good and moves good, and its the first time on ue5

[@user-if9pp4vg7g]

​@@africanricc3458with DLSS and frame gen running you might aswell just play on low. Youre pretty much playing on 720p. 😂

[@Forgetthereality]

MAN WORKS OUT WHILE GRADING PAPERS?! WTF

[@TheParentYouNeverHad]

Multitasking 💪. Well as long as I don't get my papers back with dried water marks on it lol

[@77Arcturus]

DANIEL OWEN the ultimate experience in teacher education. BY THE INTERNET! I HAVE THE POWER!!!

[@elpomidor2k]

I just love how everyone is complaining about 4090 not being able to run this game maxed at 4K, when the real problem is clearly the CPU. When 7800X3D cannot hold consistent 60fps, you know there is a big problem. GPU scaling looks absolutely fine, Daniel even showed 1060 running 20-30 fps which is pretty amazing for low end GPU from 8 years ago.

[@TheHuffur]

but is it "the CPU" when the CPU is clearly not maxing out any of the cores? No one would claim "Its the GPU!" if the game limits the GPU usage to 20% or whatever. I mean yeah technically it might be the CPU but the CPU obviously has more to give and the game is not making use of it. That is not the CPU, that is "optimization".

[@elpomidor2k]

@TheHuffur CPU usage alone is not as reliable to show CPU bottleneck. It's generally more reliable to just look at GPU usage, if it's dropping below 90% at times then it means that GPU is waiting for something (it might not be CPU, something else could be also bottlenecking). In the video you can clearly see that dropping internal resolution on 4090 at some point gives no fps gain, therefore it's limited most likely by the CPU. Overall the game is clearly super heavy on both GPU and CPU but there is little you can do to help with parts of the game where the CPU is struggling. Usually graphic settings do not scale with CPU and only framegen can basically go around the limitation. Daniel has other very informative videos on the CPU bottleneck and how to better recognize it

[@TheHuffur]

@@elpomidor2k Which is just word salad for "the game is for some reason not able to use the CPU to its potential" and sweeping it under the rug. I know that, I also know that not a single person would accept if it was the GPU getting the same performance/optimization treatment where the game only uses 50-60% of the GPU basically no matter what you do while the game is also GPU bound.

[@elpomidor2k]

@@TheHuffur I don't even disagree with that. If they would spend more time on optimization it would perform better, that's a given (easier said than done btw). My initial comment was just pointing out that people in comments are focusing too much on GPU performance when in this case it seems like it's mostly CPU performance that's unacceptable. Also most games can run into the CPU bottleneck before even one thread is 100% used. CPUs just don't work like that and judging everything on utilization doesn't tell the whole story.

[@MelodeathMassacre]

​@@TheHuffuryou should watch Daniels video about cpu optimization

[@gnomekingclive]

I remember my framerate tanking massively in Call of Pripyat when i went to hubs with many NPCs around, back in the day. Pretty odd a handful of NPC's basically doing nothing is having that big of a hit on the CPU.

[@Dregomz02]

Yeah but it was never that bad.

[@thefinalboss2403]

Those npcs must be deep thinkers.

[@pira707]

@@thefinalboss2403 we need brain scorcher...

[@dra6o0n]

CPU bottlenecks are forms of data computing, basically something is constantly wasting time calling for data all the time, stalling itself and not sending said data to GPU in time.

[@dra6o0n]

STALKER 2 Dev Says UE5’s Nanite and Lumen Were the ‘Right Bricks’ to Properly Finish the Game Alessio Palumbo (WCCFTech) • Aug 25, 2023 at 02:00 PM EDT So go into the config file and use cvar to turn off nanites and lumen.

[@retep188]

I look stronger but based on that 225 reps I am definitely weaker. These undercover beasts

[@alexg9155]

Same, looked like he could do them all day, sheesh.

[@fredEVOIX]

his real name is Kent....Clark Kent lol

[@Circleglide]

My man Daniel has a family, is a teacher, bench presses and dedicates time to test rigs for us viewers. What a legend

[@SloppyMcToppy]

Damnnnnn Daniel throwing around 225 like it’s nothing 😮

[@kunka592]

Bad CPU performance is even more worrisome because you can't effectively turn down settings for increased performance. 7800X3D getting 60-80fps in town is pretty damn bad.

[@anitaremenarova6662]

Just use framegen, eliminates this issue entirely.

[@hiddendragon415]

60-80fps is fine for this style of game and it's not the first game released that sees it's full graphics potential a few years later.

[@anitaremenarova6662]

@@hiddendragon415 It's really not, first person shooters need 90FPS to feel fluid.

[@pira707]

@@anitaremenarova6662 generated frames don't drop the responsiveness..

[@oropher1234]

I think dropping settings does help in this game. You can see clearly that the older CPU can get close to the fps of 7800X3D on the medium settings. view distance can be an fps killer... and maybe some lumen related setting also can give gains in this game. Such as the distance up to which the GI is calculated.

[@jackbrown6788]

It's got to the stage where you need to wait at least a year after a game's release for the bugs to be ironed out and 2 years for the hardware to become affordable enough to run it.

[@AndrewH9999]

The positive about this is, it will almost always be $30 or less too. I'm really trying to hold off on games I want to play these days because of these problems.

[@davidtokas6259]

just like cyberpunk

[@Veheloth]

Only if you totally suck at gaming. Im on series s having a blast.

[@jackbrown6788]

@@Veheloth What does skill level have to do with game optimisation?

[@Veheloth]

@jackbrown6788 what youre all whining about is trivial bs and doesnt stop a real gamer, with skill, from enjoying it. It only stops you if youre trash. Ive been playing on series s since 11am wed and im having a blast, even with the minor glitches. Thats how...

[@Bu11sEyes]

sadly unreal engine games seems to always have these kind of issues

[@ryanrob-m2z]

I know right, how can they release a engine they know has problems knowing fine well that almost every new game is going to be made on it, why are game companies making games on a engine that has problems. We have gotten to the point now where it should be a legal requirement that game companies HAVE to release a demo so people can see if they can actually play it before spending money on it. I have a 13600 and a 3070 (not the best I know) but I preordered hogwarts and I still can't play it to this day due to stutters, silent hill 2 i was really hyped for but havent bought it because of the stutter issues, monster hunter wilds seems to be a unoptimized mess as well which im going to skip out on. gaming is dead rn

[@ryanrob-m2z]

oh and dragons dogma 2 i was really hyped for but i havent bought that because i know its unoptimized, almost every game i've been looking forward for I can't play

[@DBTHEPLUG]

Yet Wukong wins GOTY.

[@Satori-Automotive]

@@ryanrob-m2z thats actually what happened. But only on steam and similar sites as far as i know. u can play 2 ingame hours and if u dont like it, give it back for free. i dont know how it is handled with hard copys of games

[@henson2k]

I will probably avoid games on Unreal engine until RTX5080 arrives

[@prauwnsauce]

Stalker? I hardly know her!!

[@DrymouthCWW]

Baaaaah hahahahaha

[@yuriy5376]

That's exactly why you need to do it in the first place 😂

[@JA-gz6cj]

Noah? Who said i don't know her

[@Iowcatalyst]

the sad thing is the 'town' area had a handful buildings and about 5 people walking around. It's amazing to me how fast the 4090 has gone from breezing through every game imaginable to games coming out that don't look any different but aren't even hitting 60fps at 4k. This game looks like a game from 10 years ago but with better tree models and i'm guessing ray tracing

[@ohmkhai8989]

The generation that Dev don't care about Optimization has come.

[@emz9ra253]

6700xt wich is a 2021 gpu can ran game that came out on 20.11.2024 on 50-70 fps why you complane?

[@Clint_Beastwood87]

@@emz9ra253 i run max settings with 6700xt on 1080p with FSR and game runs smooth and looks gorgeous. Its high res snowflake pussies that complain all the time. Muh 1440p muh 4k

[@1738-l1j]

With frame gen that adds insufferable amount of latency ​@@emz9ra253

[@doctorboot7191]

@@emz9ra253 the gpu isn't his bottleneck, i have the same card. the 5800x3d CPU that just came out would give him more performance.

[@emz9ra253]

@@doctorboot7191 so it's a good thing?

[@숀레인10]

do not play modern AAA game at day 1 if you dont want to suffer

[@psychopigeon8973]

hype too overpowering... must.. buy... day 1..

[@imo098765]

well great this isnt a AAA game

[@nathanmitchell7961]

@@imo098765 It is.

[@dreskine]

@@imo098765it is

[@bushmonster1702]

I always follow the Total Biscuit strategy. Buy the best version of the game at a cheaper price in a few months or more.

[@kenshinhimura6280]

People be like "i can play 120+fps epic settings" Then you see their configurations: DLSS performance + fake frames Super delusional 🤣

[@Argoon1981]

Indeed welcome to the modern age of PC gaming, where fake resolutions and fake framerate numbers, are now used has benchmarks and the real thing, the native raw power, is now "old news". IMO this is largest con GPU makers ever did to PC gamers, all to increase GPU prices, while not increasing that much real GPU raw power and many eat it like is the best thing ever. I encounter from time to time, people that complain their game running at, for example 120fps, with frame generation, somehow feels sluggish, proving this people have no idea how frame generation works and just fell for the GPU makers marketing bs.

[@Dempig]

And then they call out consoles fake 4k lol

[@LipColt]

​@@Dempigbold of you to imply consoles don't do something similar. I remember that Quantum Break game having something like rendering the effects at lower resolution to achieve higher frame rates or some shit like that.

[@Dempig]

​@@LipColt Consoles are inanimate objects, A console can not call out anyone about anything.

[@LipColt]

@@Dempig I have to admit, you are slick.

[@-Rizecek-]

This is only stupid unreal engine 5. Ruined every games

[@UnsettlingDwarf]

Unreal engine is a plague to gaming.

[@-Rizecek-]

@@UnsettlingDwarf Engine optimize only for frame generation and tested on RTX 6090 and Ryzen 12800x3d 👌🤮

[@DarkSession6208]

@@UnsettlingDwarf Im a UE5 dev and yes UE5 is to blame. Its barely possible to optimize without making it look like shit. You can optimize and disable Lumen, Nanite, SM6 etc. but the game would look like ARK I so theres no point. Its impossible to properly optimize because all that stuff is hardcoded into the engine. The render pipeline is the culprit and i really hoped that GSC Gameworld would actually make huge improvements. But if even they can't do it, then im 100% positive i can't do it either and nobody else will do. UE is shit for optimization, theres not much you can do. The only way to have decent performance is with static lighting instead dynamic, so use the same as Source II Engine.

[@Ludek-Internetowy]

​UE5 used CPU core max GAMING?? 12 cpu is better? ​@@DarkSession6208

[@KRawatXP2003]

No student will ever talk back at you 💀

[@AceStrife]

Now if only he could talk without the "uh" "um" "y'know" trap that many people suffer from. Really frequent user too, becomes distracting then irritating. Would escalate him to a whole new level.

[@o74769]

all unreal engine games run like shit.. there is no cure to it.

[@DBTHEPLUG]

Yet Wukong wins GOTY.

[@K.S-w5s]

@@DBTHEPLUG And STALKER 2 is still very fun to play. Wukong got the Chinese Clout buff, if STALKER 2 had released in time to compete with Wukong, nobody would be talking about monkey boy furry lover game. Wukong was fortunate enough to release in a year where there were hardly any decent games in the first place. Wukong was just as shit performance wise if not WORSE, memory leaks leading to frames plummeting from their already piss poor average paired with "we've got dark souls at home" great-value gameplay.

[@C-F98]

@@DBTHEPLUG Because Game Science actually had to get their hands on actual instruments of the Unreal Engine 5 which relies on mostly artificial features of Lumen and Nanites and what-not. Game Science flexed their fingers in code while most UE5 devs let the unoptimized Engine run the game processes for them.

[@DBTHEPLUG]

@@K.S-w5s 2,415,714 all-time peak vs 113,587 all-time peak... yeah, for sure man.

[@NoKkiDuDe]

@@DBTHEPLUGits because of Chinese, lol, I thought people understand that. Same shit was with pubg

[@MarioTainaka]

Daniel is benching in more ways than one. Absolute legend!

[@Blur_009]

moving the camera and pointing at the values is great! i imagine many people dont know what to look at and im sure this greatly helps! awesome content, keep it up :)

[@pravnav]

9.5 GB ram usage but 20 GB allocation.. Have they ever heard the word optimisation in their entire lives?

[@reallyeffingcooltechnodude]

I love how concise this fella is with the explanations. I'm a fresh PC gamer and have learned many of the basic concepts how modern gaming hardware works while watching a few vids from this channel.

[@BuckScrotumn]

I was getting 50-70 fps and then I went to Wendy’s to get a cheeseburger, fired the game back up and got 140+ fps even in the dense towns. Had to set an fps limit because I was getting more frames than my monitor is capable of. Never experienced something so bizarre in my life.

[@eaqwallbender8269]

Haha The game seems to be loading files even after the loading screen. Still it's strange

[@tarakivu8861]

@@eaqwallbender8269 Resource Streaming is pretty normal, cant fit all that stuff into VRAM at once.. certainly with such artificially limited cards from a green company..

[@BIGFESH]

Im pretty new to the pc gaming world and i cant tell you how much i appreciate people like yourself doing this amazing work. Its such a help. Thank you so much. I have a 5700x3d with a 7800xt im hoping to run this in 1440p with decent frames. I might wait a few weeks to see what gets any better. 🍻🍻💚

[@birdsoup777]

Shocked. I thought would be a technical disaster to. I bought Shadow of Chernobyl release day in 06. Built a new system and bought a 8800 GTX to prepare and it ran like shit but I still loved that shit. so far, im really happy with shadow of Chernobyl

[@nikkenikNick]

I was expecting Cyberpunk launch level bugs. So far none. They should have had the media review the full release.

[@PsycosisIncarnated]

@@nikkenikNickyou are totally lying saying there are no bugs. The game is FULL of audio bugs, graphical bugs, objects popping in and out in the disyance, and the ai is braindead

[@an0nycat]

@@PsycosisIncarnated Yep. And Cyberpunk was conceived as a great game, and Stalker 2 is a game from the 2000s, just made on a modern engine, which has a bunch of graphic and audio bugs.

[@PsycosisIncarnated]

@@an0nycat that doesnt excuse the bugs. Especially when modders have done a better job with stalker and the bugs than the devs will ever be able to do. It is a joke release. Infact the modders have already released a day 1 patch for optimization issues. Lmaooo

[@MrEvans1]

You didnt play cyberpunk at launch and it shows 😂😂😂. He said no bugs at that level not there are no bugs at all.​@PsycosisIncarnated

[@nerdedkyle3515]

i have a 5600x and a RTX3080 im super excited for this game i loved the original i figured it have some issue the original did plus its on unreal 5. Also these are some of my fav video you make. been building computers for 15 plus years and have always watched a lot of tech youtubers and im pretty sure u are the only one breaking games down like this shower different builds and settings. Keep up the good work.

[@lukasgroot]

Massive drop in frames in towns, classic S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

[@stickydude8921]

Classic incompetent ukrainians

[@arch1107]

people complaining do not know stalker, this is normal, yes

[@C-F98]

@@arch1107 Do not normalize mediocrity (if it's even called that seeing that 4090 and Intel I9 CPU is barely able to handle this trash,) friend.

[@arch1107]

@@C-F98 you really must be new to the zone, you never played the original stalker, i see you can complain about other games, your arguments must be corect, but stalker, it is always like this if you dont like stalker, it is fine, stalker is not for everybody, something tells me you will hate running to a cave looking for cover with the first storm and if the cave has bloodsuckers, well, lol

[@C-F98]

@@arch1107 Jokes on you, friend. I played OG game in 2000s, then Call of Pripyat, not really knowing what a good optimised game was. I'm 26 now and know better. This game is not something to be excused for, given technological advancements since then.

[@dager_hot]

I just remember how cyberpunk 2077 realised, and honestly, Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl realised quite decent, considering all the challenges the studio faced. They will fix everything with patches, as it happens with every game

[@samson7294]

Daniel lives that good life! Physically fit, very smart, lives the trad life with a wife and kids and makes good money! I'm over here living with a spinal cord injury (in a wheelchair). in my mid 30's, no wife/kids, broke as a joke but I/m still happy to see him living it up.

[@DrymouthCWW]

Make the "not Daniel" or "not perfect" channel and start doing some well researched game reviews. Trust me

[@latro666]

I bet he has a weird addiction. Like collecting antique ornamental frogs or something.

[@oropher1234]

I can see your point, but only seeing what such a man goes through in a day puts me off enormously. I do not think humans are mean't to be on the move all the time, we need to relax as much as that we need to put effort in our life's. I think Daniel just doesn't stop putting effort in his life no matter how much he did that day already. It comes with some nice results, but i think he also does alot of video's where 90 % of the content is just not interesting because it's just talking about how many % faster something is compared to something else. For that matter i rather watch DF who delve a bit in whats behind all the tech and issues.

[@123Suffering456]

I mean, if it helps, I think not all of what Daniel is doing is necessarily everyone's idea of a good, happy life. Looking at myself, for example, having kids would be my idea of a nightmare because they take so much freedom away from you and I've never cared for kids at all. I assume you do, but what I mean to say here is that I think there are many ways to live a good life. Even if your circumstances being in a wheelchair undoubtedly make it harder to achieve. I hope you can find that happy place for you, even if it might be a different happy place than Daniel's.

[@JakeA6956]

"Town environment" Why am I noticing a pattern? It seems like every game with shitty optimization is always involving NPCs... How is it that the hitman series managed to get like 100 NPCs on the screen at once but these newer titles struggle to manage 7?

[@George-um2vc]

Because clowns will buy it anyway, there is no incentive to optimise.

[@thaddeus2447]

RX 7900 XTX at 4k native with epic settings can do only 40-45fps, dropping down to high gives 50-65fps~, turning on fsr quality and frame gen gives 100-120fps and i tried adding AFMF2 on top it gave me 220fps , framegen ontop on framegen works, game feels smoother and stutters doesn't feel as bad but motion fluidity is definitely here. I am not sure about requirements saying that 7900 xtx is recommended 4k epic gpu, it definitely can't do 60fps at native

[@EmilyStoneMarxistFan]

Requirements say 7900 xtx is for 4k with upscaler enabled.

[@darkfire3691]

So you are having 60 fps of base? and getting 220 fps in visuals? Surely the gameplay feels real smooth...

[@alexg9155]

So you need lower quality settings, upscaling from 1440p internal AND two frame generation techniques on top of each other to get what you should be getting at 4K native from a 1000€ graphics card, got it.

[@aurimasmaldzius5345]

@@EmilyStoneMarxistFanwith upscaler even rtx3060 can do 4k60fps

[@cxngo8124]

Xess is better looking than fsr in this game. I know this because I have a 7700xt

[@RhetoricRex]

Had no idea you were yoked fam, good video as well

[@ThrobRoss]

I’m only four hours in. After switching around some key binds and tinkering with my settings to a mix of high and epic, I am absolutely blown away. The world is so immersive, the gameplay mechanics and everything about it is amazing. I am hooked. I am not a veteran of the series.

[@ChrisCopeland-ob8jc]

Slava

[@LipColt]

If tou ever feel like going through the classics, install the Reclamation Project mods for bug fixes while keeping the experience close to the original as much as possible.

[@R_301.1]

0:45 That's really cool, setting up your own home-made gym is a brilliant idea.

[@Reedg333]

Bro is optimizing his chest by repping 225 with ease

[@taktojonotvl]

It´s Stalker, its meant to be ugly and broken 😂

[@florianschollbrock]

There is a nice Optimizing Mod on Nexus Mods already which stopped all the Stuttering and my 5600x runs like a truck now in this game with a RTX 4060 TI 8GB.

[@SubjectX07]

Interesting, got a link?

[@florianschollbrock]

@@SubjectX07 i cant post a direct link but just google for: Stalker Optimizer , then it is the first search result which leads to the mod on nexusmods

[@pira707]

@@SubjectX07 you cant post links, just search stalker optimizer nexus on google

[@Creationseed9]

It s hard to have a account on nexus mods no? To type it for yourself. ​ very hard...@@SubjectX07

[@borjan.]

@@SubjectX07 its called STK2 - SPF search it up

[@lelilimon]

01:00 my back hurts even looking at this

[@danielowentech]

With proper form, barbell rows are totally safe, and improving back strength with lifts like these (deadlifts and squats are great as well) helps reduce back pain and injuries.

[@Exploding_Barrels]

Its like Metro Exodus' ugly little brother

[@Trisstan20]

tell me you never played stalker game without telling me..

[@VortexViper21]

older*

[@ayooo454]

first metro game came out 10 years later than the first stalker game

[@lolkek030]

@@Trisstan20 oh brother this piece of trash doesn`t deserve to be called an stalker game

[@TDK-Ouros]

Nice sponsorship. I am all for office/ home setups. Too many of my coworkers started out in good shape, full of energy but just 2 years in, they get flabby and ghostly. It´s not easy to squeeze in some exercises but it´s a must if you don´t want to become a regular at your doctors. I am glad that I can keep my doctor meetings on a semester level. We meet, greet, check the sheet and I am out of there. Best relationship :D

[@jonrossi5110]

My 3080 ti is getting around 70-75 fps on epic im pretty happy about it. (Edit) to clarify 1440p, 32gb RAM and R9 7900x

[@thefinalboss2403]

Nice I'm downloading the game now. I'm running a i7 12700f a 4070ti and 32 gb. So, hopefully, it runs decent.😅

[@BintiNobe]

Did the introduction mission on my 3700x and 2070 super and it did pretty well with normal graphics taa and fg and did pretty good at around 70-80fps, later set to epic settings and FPS didnt drop more than 15 FPS, althoigh it is not as bad as some people are saying it stills needs some optimization to get a litle more FPS when graphics are turned down

[@michasitek3713]

@@thefinalboss2403 i have 4070 TI(not Super) 32gb Ram and i5 13600k - it runs flawless(80-100 fps) with dlss Q, without FG and all on Epic settings at 1440p. Also make sure to download latest drivers(those from 12 november) ;)

[@LowRiderFuckYou]

@@michasitek3713 lol literally my pc. did you notice any lags in the city? it dropped down to 9 fps i guess thats a bug tho

[@DerekDudage]

3080 12 GB and i7-9700k, here. Smooth 60 FPS at Epic, 1440p, DLSS Quality! Running and looking beautiful!

[@favoritodiavolo]

I dont know your or this channel just trying to figure out when performance fixes are coming. Thanks for promoting physical fitness! I keep missing my shots because my mouse is sluggish/the game is a tiny bit laggy idk. It sucks

[@1GTX1]

Search on google: Ultimate Engine Tweaks (Anti-Stutters - Lower Latency - No Film Grain - No Chromatic Aberration - Lossless. Mouse movement is almost instant even with frame gen. If you want you can turn on film grain again with - r.FilmGrain=0 to r.FilmGrain=1 in [SystemSettings]

[@samyt681]

wish 60 fps was the norm with developers with at least midrange gpus, this is just insane.. 6700XT should be flying these games.

[@JZStudiosonline]

I don't understand how this is supposed to run on console.

[@samyt681]

@@JZStudiosonline consoles always been having a rough times with games, the time i played with ps3 borderlands and battlefield 3 both of these reached under 20 fps constantly an i was used to that. ps5 run games at 30fps many times, i doubt people on console really care.

[@JZStudiosonline]

@@samyt681 Games on the Xbox and PS2 targeted 60, most games coming out now struggle to hit 30. Incidentally, Battlefield also didn't run that well on pc's either.

[@cryptocray4184]

Daniel Swole-en casually repping out 245 on the bench?! The hero we dont deserve.

[@RelaxingNostalgia]

Performance is awful,tons of people reporting controllers not working,the game is buggy as hell PC port is simply garbage,maybe in 3 years they will fix it.

[@xrayxray683]

PC original port only for Xbox )))

[@CaH6633]

Why is Stephen Colbert testing video game performance now?

[@BladeRunner031]

I have artifacts with VRR sadly. Like ghosting of objects, trees,everything basically

[@kotboyarkin5032]

This is because your monitor/tv have VA panel. Never buy VA monitors/tv because it's piece of dog poo

[@BladeRunner031]

@@kotboyarkin5032 It make sense,in 50 different games its working and in Stalker no so....VA panel,yes,VA panel,that is the problem.cmon,be serious

[@Zarathustra-H-]

Sounds like I am just going to have to wait for the 5090 before I play this game I have been waiting 15 years for.

[@patriciaborowiec2224]

Back in 2016 you could play in beautiful witcher 3 at ultra settings with 1060 6gb. Now same gpu but the game doesn't look... like a game anymore? Masterpiece of optimization.

[@Vex-st3hb]

Yes, I did the same but with crippled 3.5GB GTX 970 on 1080p, most settings on high. Game was beautiful, FPS was between 50-60.

[@ricardocavazos1316]

I was waiting for this video, thanks for the insight Daniel!

[@wlvvzor]

17:08 It's bad boy, baby.

[@Cup_70]

You know you're a computer nerd when even your gym has a few old PCs laying around for that never-to-come rainy day.

[@LoneWolfFromEast]

15 hours on Steam. There are FPS drops, but only sometimes in big settlements, never in the open world. Zero bugs. Crashed ones. Overall I expected a much worse release. On a 2K monitor, rx 5700xt,24 Gigs of RAM. Some settings low, some epic, native resolution. 62-78 FPS.

[@dra6o0n]

I suggest looking up UE5 tuning guides to modify the engine.ini files to turn off things you don't like. Nanites and Lumen especially if it's forced on.

[@dra6o0n]

For some reason KZbin really don't like me sharing config file modification as a form of optimization for users, post gets deleted almost instantly on various tech tuber videos. These method of config file modifications are as old as tuning Elder Scrolls Oblivion, where mods like 'Oldblivion' existed to enable people to play the game on even weaker potato PC.

[@1hp831]

and the cpu you have is ?

[@ivanvladimir0435]

Poor RX 5700 XT is getting disrespected by this game

[@dra6o0n]

@ OP: Go into your explorer window, and type %LOCALAPPDATA% then hit enter, and it will bring you to "appdata/local/" directory. Find the Stalker 2 game folder in there and look for the engine.ini and then look up cvar for UE5 games to disable nanites/lumen or other features to try to gain back fps.

[@Torso6131]

Honestly at this point I'm just happy to see that there wasn't a massive amount of blur/smearing on the leaves floating by with FSR. I think I'll wait a bit for some patches (and a discount) and then see if I can't run 4k Medium with my 6700XT at performance upscaling. If I can do that at 50-60fps I'll be pretty happy.

[@Stardomplay]

I feel sorry for the conditions the employees had to work under, the external pressure. However, this is still unacceptable.

[@UnsettlingDwarf]

Facts. AAA game prices should be top notch quality and not a single game this year has delivered that.

[@lightspectr]

Unacceptable that you can't run this 120 FPS 4K with no dlss and FG, on a 10 year old PC ? Come back down to earth...

[@woKenVFX]

​@@lightspectrah yes bro i got a 3080 and a ryzen 7 5700g and i'm playing w all the settings on low framegen + dlss and i'm struggling to hit 60fps on 1080p you're definetely tweaking this game is awfully optimized 😂

[@NineS5]

​@@lightspectr10 years old? its struggling on a €2k 4090...

[@lightspectr]

@@woKenVFX yeah yeah and me on Ryzen 7 3800x + RTX 4070 Ti super getting 110-120 FPS with frame gen all epic on 1440p. Only exception is towns, where it drops to 60 but it doesn't bother me. Someone forgot to update GPU driver, have issues with pc or simply lying

[@allantsoutlandishvideos2156]

Thank you for the informative content! Just found your channel today

[@kingx1180]

Truly a stalker experience Buggy af Terrible performance Good enough Welcome back, stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl

[@roys.1889]

I always assume that game bugs happen just because the Zone is where reality has taken a dump and left

[@blooocki]

​@@roys.1889it's even crazier in the book. Slightly touched a small translucent strand of web? You gonna die from heart failure a few hours later

[@TheStrengthScholar]

The performance seems super reasonable. I swear the collective gaming community is making up new rules on the fly.

[@oobynooby1]

this mindset is so ass bro

[@kingx1180]

@@oobynooby1 not a stalker fan 👎🏻

[@emilgustavsson7310]

Cancelling a gym membership is the real world version of uninstalling ASUS Armory Crate (completely...), so well done Daniel... Well done.

[@godsstruggler8783]

I'll stick to classic games from fourteen and ten years ago - you know, where everything worked out of the box and you had fun INSTANTLY.

[@lsq7833]

It couldn't be any more obvious that you never played the originals that came out unfathomably borked 😂 Either that, or you're definitely under 20.

[@MultiTheGamerman]

As someone who played Shadow of Chernobyl years ago. No, it did not work straight off the box. It barely works at all

[@przemeklewandowski7476]

Bro, your memory must be very selective

[@MrAden1307]

Clearly the post was about other games that worked & provided instant fun. Reading the comments made it obvious too many felt hurt 😂 weak sh** Funny, the author of the comment made a good point. I've been playing 3/4 games in rotation from 10/15yrs ago. Having instant fun & no issues with performance. Good times from old times. Still can't be beaten

[@TBou_nyncuk]

2:08 this two stalkers just spawned and move together with exact same walk animation 😂

[@erickalvarez6486]

They tried to make us buy GPUs and failed, now they want us to buy CPUs lmao

[@sammiller6631]

9800X3D are flying off the shelves

[@DBTHEPLUG]

Who is 'they'?

[@K.S-w5s]

@@DBTHEPLUG little hat people

[@Vengeful_James]

​@@K.S-w5s Oy vey! Shut it down!

[@samuelm4021]

It’s a crazy good looking game. Just look at the batshit crazy amount of foliage, particle effects, lighting etc. Turning foliage to low gave me the biggest performance gain.

[@proklet4694]

1% lows are terrible, that is why game feels like 30 fps even when it is 70 fps. Even the best CPU's struggle to keep 1% lows at 60.

[@Volfur2251]

Yet the "Best" cpus are technically outdated before they even come out thanks for covid. They are not nearly as good as they should be it seems impossible for a cpu to release without issues these days

[@tarakivu8861]

@@Volfur2251 Intel has massive problems, the AMD X3D's are pretty awesome. Though price and availability of the latest is pretty high. But 7800X3D was quite cheap a few months ago

[@jjjjaja]

Congrats on your channel's success :)

[@mantid83]

I'm getting 90fps with my 7900XT on epic settings on 4k.

[@Dempig]

Im getting 140 fps at 4k max settings with a 2060 , dang amd cards are that bad?

[@sanitygone-l9y]

Watching this man bench 225 for reps is crazy. Did not expect that sleeper build.

[@Ground_Effect]

Thx, Im struggling with my 4070s 12gb. Thinking about getting 4080s 16gb. Its an amazing Game with weird UX and questionable Performance levels.. I get lost in the zone so its good.

[@UbanGerd]

Please dont

[@corey2232]

The game doesn't use much VRAM. It's the one good thing about UE5. So it's not the 12GB that's a problem, the game stays under 12GB of VRAM epic settings at 4k.

[@rexthecoolvideo]

What are your settings?

[@NewishJordan]

Why would you spend $1000 when the next generation GPUs are coming out in the beginning of next year? As someone about 4 hours in on a 4070s I see absolutely no problem on Epic settings at 1440p with DLSS Q/FG. VRAM is not a problem here and if you spent 2 seconds double tapping alt+R you'd see that lmfao.

[@NineS5]

1. youre gonna spend €1k (maybe €500 if you sell your 4070s) for 1 game? 2. In 2 months nvidia is gonna release new cards.

[@edwinooi9166]

The secretly swole teacher is the one that you dont wanna mess with.

[@johnconnor5124]

so it performs worse than EE version of Exodus and on par with Cyberpunk with RT enabled, damn

[@anitaremenarova6662]

Exodus is an old game, this thing has stunning textures, particles and all that.

[@TheWretchedWorld]

you aren't cpu bottlenecked on cyberpunk

[@CorykingRR]

@@TheWretchedWorldI have a 5600x with a 7900xtx. The cpu bottleneck is the biggest I’ve had. Average of below 60 fps on epic 1440p. I’m sure with a better cpu it would run well tho

[@TheWretchedWorld]

@@CorykingRR there is something wrong with your setup or your version of the game because post phantom liberty update the game runs amazingly well on amd cpus

[@CorykingRR]

@@TheWretchedWorld I’m talking about stalker. Cyberpunk run smooth as butter

[@emp1985]

Having recent games run slowly is one thing... but for the life of me, I can't wrap my head around the fact that there are considerably older, BETTER looking, FASTER running games than current ones. I mean... we're like going backwards, while requiring much more expensive hardware.

[@1theprince1]

Upgrading the X ray engine for the game would've been a much more interesting outcome instead of using UE5 that ends up making every game that uses it, look/feel the same.

[@christianl728]

This game looks and feels like Stalker

[@Phil_529]

Yep, looks and feels just like that Unreal Engine classic Yoshi's Crafted World. /s

[@Tobbzzy]

Probably the best channel when it comes to testing games

[@bodasactra]

The $500 MSRP 4060 ti 16 GB cant keep 60 fps at 1080p without up scaling features and its not even a 2 year old GPU. And they wonder why the PC gaming industry is hard crashing.

[@mattblyther5426]

I only wonder why Nvidia guys waste 500+ on a 4060ti lol.

[@albert8997]

​@@mattblyther5426because dlss.

[@notmandolorian]

Pc gaming industry hard crashing?. Console os dying since 20 years, and even worse nowadays. PC most third party publishers sales coming from PC.

[@sammiller6631]

That's how Nvidia designs lower end cards. They want you to buy a new card sooner. 4090 takes the crown, but Nvidia's lower end cards are gimped as bad as the 4090 is good.

[@Phil_529]

@@mattblyther5426 You can get one for $429

[@marcelinouzerrio4937]

I play it on a 4090 in 4k and DLSS in quality preset. I've never seen an image in 4K as blurry as this one. The input lag is also ridiculous. So in 10 years you could at least have expected that it wouldn't be such a bad pixel mush. The ridiculously high number of bugs and glitches aside, I didn't expect anything else. But basic things like a clear image and lag-free input at 100+ fps should already be included. Difficult development conditions or not. This game will become an illustration of all the weaknesses of the unreal engine in the coming months. Above all, this caustic blurring that we already know from many other titles is particularly oppressive here. There's also something wrong with the vegetation or moving objects in general in UE5. It would be interesting if this stuff was finally discussed.

[@MrAden1307]

Thank god someone spoke the real truth from observation. I know exactly what you mentioned and have played too many of these blur fests RDR2 which was my first wake-up call. Then down the line. Terminator/RoboCop. Noticed it in MK11 years ago. And too many more I just can't think off Not sure if this game is using some kind of TAA. Or maybe it's what I suspect from DLSS now. Another out of focus stain on gaming visuals. Not to mention artifacts I stay away from so many new games now. They run like shit & look blurry with bad AA Thanks for pointing out the truth about this game. Made a difference to me

[@marcelinouzerrio4937]

​@@MrAden1307 disabling any upscaling method turns stalker 2 into a freakingly flickering pixel mash. FHD, WQHD or 4K, it makes no difference. Never saw anything like this oO. Without DLSS in quality mode it stays that way to a certain extent. Something is really wrong with UE's Render-Pipeline. I would love to see/hear people who really have an idea about it talk about it and shed light on the darkness. You're welcome, have a nice day!

[@F1neW1ne]

7900XT here... Game set to 1440P Epic Preset with 100% Native FSR getting 70 fps and almost double with Frame Generation. Running smooth AF. Love it so far. Only playing through the initial training tho.

[@yoursecrxt]

that’s good to hear i’m buying a cpu to pair with my 4080. the 7900x is at 328 and is honestly what i’m leaning to first time pc builder here 😸

[@mantid83]

I'm getting 90fps on 4k with my 7900XT on epic settings.

[@Zer0Hour17]

How bad does it look though with FSR?

[@UnsettlingDwarf]

That’s not a lot of frames dude. I get more frames at 4k dlss quality ultra on rdr2 with a 3070ti.

[@F1neW1ne]

@@Zer0Hour17 I don’t see anything noisy yet. We’ll see. Only enabled it to ret frame gen. TSR looked completely fine as well. We’ll have to play more.

[@XBnPC]

7900 XTX plays this completely maxed out at native 4k at over 100fps with frame gen. It's glorious 🙌

[@DrakenhofTemplars]

Been playing on my 1700 dollar gaming laptop no issues at all

[@isthatyoursomnomnom]

I don't get all the crying over graphics when the AI is as busted as it is. Graphics are NOT this game's major issue.

[@meisterwu8922]

Modern gaming is a joke. How come these nearly empty wastelands have such a huge CPU limitation?

[@lightspectr]

Are you..... Blind?

[@wejustsawmanfly]

@@lightspectr yes, they are fuckin empty. There is no life there - no mutants, zero to none stalkers, anomalies are rare... My experience afet 4hrs is this game is empty, AI sucks, A-life doesnt exist and graphics are atrocious. Fuck GSC honestly, another money grab based on nostalgia and another half baked game that shouldnt be out for at least 6 more months...

[@arch1107]

it is clear that you never played stalker welcome to the zone stalker

[@ICaImI]

Bugs? Compared to BG3 this has zero bugs. People don't really care about bugs. They just use it as a excuse to hate on a game they do not like personally. Stalker just isn't for everyone.

[@antonflystrup932]

I’m playing with an RTX 2060 Super, 16gb of ram and an R5 3600 in 1080p. with DLSS balance and frame gen I’m getting about 110 frames everywhere except for when I’m in the town. My settings are a mix of Low\medium/high but the still looks great.

[@diabolicalfox]

Weird, I have basically the exact same pc setup as you, but I'm only getting around 70 fps that's dropping to 40 in towns. All of my settings are on low

[@BintiNobe]

@@antonflystrup932 haver you tried epic? Ir didnt Change much in terms of fps here with R7 3700x 2070 super on TAA with frame gen enabled at 1080p

[@sabi771]

I have an overclocked 2060 12gb with an i5 11th gen and 32gigs of ram. you think i can at least get over 60fps at 1080p?

[@antonflystrup932]

@@diabolicalfox use framegen. Also you can turn up textures to epic and some of the other top settings to medium. It won’t cost you much performance.

[@antonflystrup932]

@@BintiNobe yeah I heard that epic textures doesn’t take more fps than high.. so I’m gonna try that tonight.

[@Cleric314]

I have an rtx 4080, a Ryzen 7 9800X3d, and 64gb of ram at 6000 m/t. I play at 1440p high settings, DLSS at quality, and frame Gen on. I get 180 fps, and 150 in the town. I get 75-90 fps without frame gen

[@McLeonVP]

that 18 gb ram Swapping 🥺

[@IraFuse_422]

My first impression of the game was via Steam reviews. Lets just say I wasn't impressed... 90% of reviews hours after release (spam that's mostly deleted 24 hours later): "A moment of silence for our fellow stalkers who passed away before they got here. See you in the Zone, Stalker!".

[@JamesSmith-sw3nk]

It's just like any new game today, it will need multiple patches before it works well. I have little doubt it will eventually be fixed because it's a passion project by the devs. Given the extreme difficult current conditions in Ukraine I'll give them a pass on judging them.

[@sandorclegane3658]

Cope.

[@lolkek030]

the dev studio is based in czech republic, stop the cope and stop eating shit man

[@Plus_Frames]

I was going to skip the ad but then I saw you rep 225 so now I’m gonna buy the treadmill

[@Mmmmb651]

I have a 4060ti w a i9 32g ram blah blah. Averaging about 120fps. Very minimal stuttering and glitches. Very happy so far

[@CommodoreStubbz]

Damn, how is this possible? We have the same graphics card but mine is constantly stuttering and getting 40 fps on low.

[@Mmmmb651]

@ I’m sorry to hear that brother I honestly am not sure. I have my graphics settings all on high and all that shit. I do have stuttering but it’s really not bad and I assume those things will get hashed out. All of these crazy glitches and bug and frame drops I see others have was just not my experience. I hope others have their frame issues remedied cuz it’s such a good game

[@Mmmmb651]

@@CommodoreStubbz I screwed up the tag for you but I responded

[@sinenomine4540]

any stuttering is UNBEARABLE.

[@Mmmmb651]

@@sinenomine4540 I guess man if that’s your take. I disagree w you and I try to take several other factors into consideration before I swear off a game and uninstall. I respect others decisions but for me, I’ve played enough games to know these stutters can and will get fixed w upcoming patches.

[@jasontodd5953]

Seen some great reviews on the 7900 xtx performance.

[@RobertleeEtn]

oh so this game is for 5090

[@alvinamana1459]

Fck no I'm sure 4070 an above is more than enough

[@sinenomine4540]

and looks like it's a 10 years old game.

[@Trickzter1337]

@@sinenomine4540get your eyes checked buddy

[@GemayelDaniel]

Go look at shadow of mordor graphics from 2014 before you say stupid shit like that man @@sinenomine4540

[@MoltenPie]

​@@sinenomine4540 no it doesn't. it's head and shoulders above likes of starfield, elden ring and many other modern games that are based off older engines

[@BrutalFoX.]

Metro exodus looked Good and managed to capture the atmosphere of an apocalypse better and it's system requirements are much lower

[@EmilyStoneMarxistFan]

My Rx 7900 xtx gets a stable locked 60 fps at 4k with fsr quality. Like a cyberpunk 2077 with rt local shadows and reflections. And stalker looks good