S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl PC Benchmarks and System Requirements Analysis

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[@inkredebilchina9699]

maybe their 14900K degraded so much it's capping the game? or maybe the game is unoptimized? or maybe it's on purpose to upsell the nvidia dlss?

[@PuppetMasterdaath144]

the system that you should always test against is my system , 8700k and 1080ti

[@Phumy]

They are also testing 64GB RAM which could indicate they are using all 4 RAM slots and isnt that worse than 1 stick per channel ?

[@valentinvas6454]

At this point I'm just scared of bad performance whenever a new UE5 game comes out.

[@daver1975]

Same - as soon as I saw it's a UE5 game my heart sank. Traversal stuttering ahoy. every Ue4/5 game in recent times have run really badly.

[@aberkae]

Lead developer was claiming that performance will be smooth. If this is the case, gamers will compare 2 unreal engine games that are well optimized going forward. 1st one being Blackmyth Wukong.

[@gorillagroddgaming]

It will be garbage and stutter every 5 seconds. Don’t buy this crap unless we know it’s not woke and doesn’t have traversal stutter.

[@clouds5]

Oh this is UE5? No thx.

[@AQDuck]

Looking at the trailers released so far, I'm seeing some jagged lines even at 4K which indicates that the devs have at least toned down the TAA which gives me a lot of hope that they know WTF they are doing. One of the big reasons why UE5 games runs like crap is because devs just shoves in the hyped features without thinking much how it actually affects performance (misusing Lumen, Nanite, etc.) which often results in much worse performance and visual quality.

[@Ark_Strike]

The fact they didn't call the highest preset "Anomaly" or "Meltdown" is kind of a bummer, I love it when games have these little details on the menus

[@gorillagroddgaming]

I don’t care for that stuff. Waste of development time for something you’ll look at for 2 seconds

[@stunytsuR]

Imagine people not buying the game because of something like this 😅

[@duarteribeiro1520]

​@@gorillagroddgaming "development time" typing in a word

[@tablettablete186]

​@@stunytsuROP didn't say he won't buy it. You are interpreting things that don't exist

[@Ark_Strike]

@@gorillagroddgaming The best games have always been those that have those small details, it shows love for the game and that the people behind it are having fun.

[@Zer0Hour17]

4090 can’t even hit 60fps without dlss. AI upscaling is the worst thing that’s ever happened to pc gaming.

[@bricaaron3978]

The Great Consolization of 2008 is the worst thing that ever happened to PC gaming.

[@DBTHEPLUG]

Didn't he just tell you that the CPU was being a bottleneck, or do you have selective hearing?

[@GDRobbye]

​@@DBTHEPLUGhe said that it would indicate a CPU bottleneck, not that it is a bottleneck. I find it hard to believe that a 14900K is causing a bottleneck. There must be some sort of bug.

[@DBTHEPLUG]

@@GDRobbye I mean, if a RTX 4070 Super is performing almost the same as a RTX 4090 IT IS a bottleneck. Or do you think that the 4070 Super and 4090 are close in GPU power?

[@kotboyarkin5032]

No. Upscalers is the best thing happened to PC. Because of them you can play on shitty cards at 1440p or even 4K. When there was no upscalers you had to buy top video cards every 2 years to play only @1080p 30-60 fps. And 060 and 070 GPUs couldn't even handle 1080p resolution @ ultra settings. Look at the old tests for GTX 780/980/1080 in the games with best graphics at the time of release of these cards and 2 years after. Every GTX 080/ti GPUs was turning into a shit after 2 years. And now you can use GTX 1080 TI, use upscalers and play at 1440p or 4K. And 1080 TI was released 7 years ago. And Nvidia has never advertised their RTX 4000 GPUs to play at native resolution. Jason at the release of 4090 was honestly telling us that with no upscalers this GPU suck balls and with DLSS this GPU is the king. Also, millions of people buy Nvidia because Nvidia have the best upscaler on the market. If you don't need upscalers then you don't need Nvidia GPU because AMD is better value for the money for all DLSS haters. Because if you don't want to use DLSS then there is no reason to buy Nvidia at all.

[@GabrielFeaR]

I said come in, don't stand there

[@laszlodajka5946]

And then 'get out of here stalker'

[@michaelthompson5252]

Marked one, what the hell?!

[@zmielov50]

da-da-da-da-da-da....

[@daedalus6433]

Dog food is more valuable than this!

[@flat_stickproductions209]

UE5, Nanite and Lumen, you already know it's optimization is going to be terrible.

[@vyor8837]

No, nvidia drivers are going to be terrible.

[@garethflook5706]

@@vyor8837 What?

[@Swoxie1]

@@vyor8837 What?

[@Eleganttf2]

​@@garethflook5706 yeah that vyor guy is funny, its funny his other comments i saw were him just blaming Nvidia driver, like wtf does it have to do lmao

[@nipa5961]

@@vyor8837 There are slowly getting better.

[@tomynaumann]

52 fps on a 4070 (1440p) without dlss is criminal, and this is directly from Nvidia... We're on the shit optimization era folks, Batman Arkham Knight looks better than most games released nowadays and it was released almost 10 years ago...

[@chrisking6695]

Honestly it seems that optimizing games isn’t the answer necessarily. Even when they’re optimized well games are sooooo demanding.

[@bodiwire]

This coming direct from Nvidia actually relieves me a little bit. Because if you ever made the mistake of trying out the auto-optimization feature in geforce experience or the Nvidia app now, you find out that Nvidia's idea of optimized settings bear no resemblance to the optimized settings of any sane person. I bet there's plenty of settings to tweak that will save frames with little to no noticeable change in fidelity. Stuff like depth-of-field, motion blur, film-grain, chromatic aberration etc are the first things I turn off because I hate the way they look even if they didn't cost frames. Then there's stuff you leave on but turn down slightly one by one.

[@aflyingcowboy31]

It is UE5 unfortunately, considering how much they have delayed this game, I can almost guarantee the Devs have done all they could to try and optimise this game. UE5 is just demanding, this isn't all that different to what we were seeing with Wukong.

[@minbari73]

Yeah, it's not all the graphical effects and new technology baked into games these day chewing your framerates, it the lack ooooooooooooppptimisatiooooooooooooon. Nyahhhhhhhh

[@FurBurger151]

It's a joke that's what it is.

[@PaulsGamingLive]

UE5 game no surprise it will hit CPU limits unfortunately

[@despairdx]

and ray tracing hits cpu even harder there is a lot of off point data in these charts i suspect lets see real fkn benchmarks on 20th

[@DBTHEPLUG]

Still better than RE Engine.

[@birdsoup777]

Im debating on not buying after last few AAA UE5 titles I bought. All ran like crap on a 4090 not matter what settings

[@despairdx]

@@birdsoup777 if u bought “geforce rtx 4090” then it wont matter which game u buy as u could spend 2k$ on gpu

[@Overlord598]

​@@despairdxray tracing doesnt hit CPU at all, it only hits the GPU a lot

[@scotsmanship4987]

The way you move yourself with a pointed finger to show things is quite entertaining :)

[@OOOcannal]

He's actually good at doing this thing 😂

[@iluvmusicqwe]

"Just build a pc bro"

[@IIKraftI]

Stalker does have a a very CPU demanding A-Life 2.0 system for all NPCs and Mutants in the Zone that continue to "exist" and "act" beyond what the player sees, ie factions fighting/taking over specific areas, characters dying to mutants or Anomalies etc. Even the old Stalker games have pretty tought CPU usage due to the original A-Life 1.0. In some mods you could turn up the A-life to cover the whole map which usually crashed the game, stalker 2 supposedly covers 62km2 with its new A-life so I imagine thats a lot of CPU usage just to keep track of all these entities and their events in the background. I love the system btw, because you could come across a patrol and instead of despawning like they would in Fallout or some other game, you may end up hearing gunshots way beyond your view range and if you check it out that patrol just got ambushed by a mutant and you can loot their stuff or help them out if you are quick, its very immersive.

[@ChrisM541]

These background tasks should have next to no impact on CPU. Remember also, nothing is being seen/rendered. It's all dice rolls + a few preset rules.

[@JZStudiosonline]

@@ChrisM541 It depends on how much they're actually simulating. Realistically, yeah it should be pretty simple to take a squad of bandits and have them move through zones. I don't know the details of A-life but it always seemed like it was more complicated than it needs to be. Why do we need to calculate NPC movements in locations we aren't in, when realistically they don't ever actually do anything?

[@kishaloyb.7937]

​@@JZStudiosonlineIf you play the old stalker games along with mods like gamma and anomaly. Then you'd realize the "why" of the Alife system. It just completely changes the game and makes it feel more alive.

[@kishaloyb.7937]

​@@ChrisM541Alife system is not a few dice rolls and presets in Stalker. Its an entire script based game AI simulation which keeps track of every spawned NPC in the game world and dictates how they interact with the other entities and objects in the game world. So its understandable why its soon demanding on the CPU.

[@JZStudiosonline]

@@kishaloyb.7937 I played the old games and anomaly. It really doesn't. Certain groups still spawn in certain areas and periodically attack other groups. They never take over other areas, and even if they did you don't need to simulate that in areas you're not in.

[@-Rizecek-]

The game is powered by Unreal Engine 5, so no PC is ready. The game either looks a little better or average, but requires high demands on the PC... The stupidest game engine ever created.

[@DBTHEPLUG]

Let me give you some game: Lower your graphics settings. Fortnite doesn't run well at max settings on a 3080 but is yet still able to run on an android phone. UE5 is known for its scalability. The only thing required is the usage of your brain by lowering/turning off certain settings.

[@draco2xx]

if its optimized properly, your rig should be able to run it

[@Dregomz02]

It will look like ass even in screenshots it doesn't have dynamic shadows from using your flashlight like in og games. And it's only one source of light, you have lamps artifacts and lightning.

[@PuppetMasterdaath144]

@@DBTHEPLUG You are the only smart person this entire comment section so im done wp bye all

[@-Rizecek-]

@@DBTHEPLUG I play everything on a 3080 at high detail with DLSS and it doesn't even run like it should, as it seems many times.

[@idkwhattohaveasausername5828]

160gb is insane. It’s kinda wild how fast storage can fill up these days

[@pira707]

thats what Im thinking. This game better be good asf

[@aberkae]

Steam allows for secondary drives installation.

[@gorillagroddgaming]

100gb of that is probably the EA launcher, skins or controller

[@JohnDoeWasntTaken]

Yeah, and it's an Unreal Engine game so everytime they patch it you'll need to rewrite that 160gb. Even if they just modify a 4mb file.

[@WyFoster]

Game is huge, probably an obscene number of textures and assets. Most of the 60 sq km (37 sq mile) map is supposed to be hand crafted. I can see why it would be so big. GTA6 will probably crest 200 lol

[@DragonBane299]

Man, who remember seeing that UE5 tech demo back in 2020 and getting hyped about the future of gaming? Instead of pushing new boundaries, we're getting stutters, hitching, 40fps on an RTX 4090 and nearly 200gb game sizes for games that look on par with a game from 2017 but runs like its on the original Playstation.

[@JeyKalda]

Yeah, thats the cost of innovation in graphics. The further "graphics" are pushed, the less you'll get in return and the performance cost is going up exponentially. People just don't understand what it takes to render such complex things and rendering the stuff isn't all that it takes to play/run a game either.

[@EmpyreanDreamer]

To be fair this particular game is clearly pushing the boundaries. Even with the more recent "downgraded" footage it still looks extremely good especially vegetation etc and people crying that it looks bad are crazy. I've literally seen someone say it looks worse than Fallout NV. I mean how blind/disingenuous can you be? To me this feels like a doom 3 situation where PC's simply aren't ready to run it. If I can run it on high with DLSS at 90+ FPS and it doesn't look too blurry I'll be satisfied.

[@eventhori3on]

​@@EmpyreanDreamerstalker doesn't care about graphics kid! It's the gameplay

[@THEJimmiChanga]

Most anticipated game of the year for me. I adore the original trilogy and have played the shit out of the standalone mod projects that take all 3 games, morph them together, and add a bunch to them (anomaly and gamma) These mods are free btw for anyone interested! Don't need to own the og games!

[@despairdx]

bro it was the most awaited game for me since April 28, 2022 when they claimed release date... ever since then i was hoping to play :(

[@Dregomz02]

Fake fan as always that never played the og games only shitty dado maso mods.

[@xPhantomxify]

Skip this game and save your money. This game looks unpolished, just look at the faces and the animations. It's the same chernobyl shit we've seen in Metro games and older stalker games which had way more atmosphere.

[@THEJimmiChanga]

@@xPhantomxify You can skip it, I will not. Im honestly tired of this negative echo chamber that gaming has become. Every game release these days is followed by a bunch of people who have nothing good to say.

[@_mortuis_3047]

​@@xPhantomxifyomg..

[@Drakaziel]

If the EU5 ooptimization is shit, devs just should drop UE5. Simple as that

[@JeyKalda]

The optimization is not shit, the engine allows devs to do things that were before just not possible. Its an actual "next gen" engine, that allows you to use insane tech. People just seem to not understand that graphics hit their "easy to improve and very visible improvement" levels years ago. The improvements now are getting more and more subtle and the overall rendering is more and more costly. Its just the way things are and always will be, its not that hard to understand.

[@dd805100]

​@@JeyKalda you sound so ignorant if the improvements are negligent and they cause the game to be less optimized or run slower, whatever then drop the engine id rather a game that looks like anomoly with a better a life system and have it run well then a game that looks like the last of us but with the new a life system it runs on 30 fps games gonna get bad reviews if it doesn't run simple as that.

[@eventhori3on]

​@@dd805100this! Visuals do not maketh the game! People still playing the OG stalkers to date with mods! It's the gameplay. Fuck the visuals!

[@Maurizio1971TheMaus]

It's not an engine fault (well ok, beside traversal stuttering). Optimizing it's hard, insidious and takes a long time. Simply, modern developers prefer not to invest too much time in this task (why? i don't know... maybe lazyness? too short release time?)

[@watching_events447]

Those 4K numbers look brutal.

[@peterjohnson5872]

4k gaming is a meme

[@TheDarksideFNothing]

High end UE5 title, open world at that. Kinda par for the course, really. Those new features are obscenely expensive to run still.

[@tysopiccaso8711]

a ton of UE5's graphical features scale directly with internal resolution, this is to be expected

[@andrewsneacker1256]

You need to turn off any AA on 4k res. It gonna say a lot of performance, and you dont need it anyway.

[@aberkae]

Blackwell inbound. 😅

[@SpainSpace]

Hello Daniel, in case you read this, please pin it. Mol1t, one of STALKER 2's community managers, said on the official Discord, and I quote: "To achieve similar performance on the specified PC characteristics, you should use TSR upscale technology for minimum settings. To achieve the specified performance at medium, high, and epic settings, you need to use DLSS, TSR, and their analogues." They literally straight up lied and deceived everyone by not mentioning this in the chart itself.

[@PixelatedWolf2077]

It's a UE5 game, I dunno why you're expecting anything super optimized. As an engine, it's very mediocre but it's easier to develop on and add stuff like RT, which in this game, would help with shadows alot It's also not surprising they didn't put that on as many people use upscaling anyways with modern stuff, even at at 1080p.

[@birdsoup777]

With how Stalker Shadows of Chernobyl, Clear Sky, and Call of Pripryiat released, I don't doubt what your saying. I followed Stalker Chernobyl from announcement to release. It was not the game they said it would be along with horrendous bugs. Bought a new gpu 8800gtx at the time just for it. what a waste

[@ja-pm9hn]

That’s kind of insane

[@Dregomz02]

Fuck them then. It's the worst optimized game of all time.

[@Dregomz02]

@@birdsoup777 I was playing clear sky and cop at launch super smoothly never had issues with them. I skipped first game and played it many years later so I dunno about first games perf.

[@faessle4067]

Remember that those numbers do not have optimized settings cause a lot of times some settings look very much the same on lower settings but give you way more fps. In almost any game you can squeeze out at least 10 fps by playing with your graphics settings or watching some of the really good guides on youtube.

[@rhythmmandal3377]

Man Nvidia is so deceitful. Instead of saying with DLSS FG they are saying DLSS 3.

[@Dynasty1818]

Only showing the 40 series is either marketing and/or they're scared to show the 20 and 30 series' poor performance, as DLSS 3 is only availble on the 40 series. I don't know whether to feel deceived or not.

[@Simon_Denmark]

Nvidia now bundles both upscaling and frame generation as DLSS 3.

[@rhythmmandal3377]

@@Simon_Denmark you understand that most people aren't savy enough to understand this isn't purely upscaling. They will think this is just upscaling which is what Nvidia is counting on by not saying dlss + fg.

[@Simon_Denmark]

@@rhythmmandal3377 Yeah I know, the naming scheme is horrible and feels deliberate because of how confusing they made it.

[@rhythmmandal3377]

@@Simon_Denmark It's not horrible it is deliberate to fool people.

[@jorge69696]

Yeah that's a huge cpu bottleneck. The gap between the 4070 and 4070 Super seems normal but beyond that, there isn't a huge gap to the 4090. That's where the cpu bottleneck kicks in. More interestingly, I wonder if the x3d cpus are faster than the 14900k.

[@labiates]

Nah its not huge, that's enormous......

[@userblame632]

that would be an interesting test, would be disappointing if the game doesnt benefit from x3d.

[@clouds5]

It's UE5, so it's expected. UE just can't do 90+fps no matter how much hardware you throw at it.

[@JohnDoeWasntTaken]

Just wait for 9800X3D vs 14900k benchmarks in this game, it won't even be remotely close.

[@DBTHEPLUG]

Did they mix up UE5 with RE Engine?

[@WorksForMeBro]

So basically, it's gonna run like dog shit on my 3050

[@DBTHEPLUG]

3050 is dogshit by default tho

[@draco2xx]

lower the settings😂

[@xPhantomxify]

Skip this game and save your money. This game looks unpolished, just look at the faces and the animations. The game has been delayed MULTIPLE times, meaning they have shitty producers and management, as well as devs. It's the same chernobyl shit we've seen in Metro games and older stalker games which had way more atmosphere.

[@squidwardo7074]

3050 is worse than a 1080 from 8 years ago 🤣

[@davesthedude]

​@xPhantomxify you realize game was delayed due to Russian invasion of Ukraine, right? Delays can be annoying.. but i don't think it has effected quality of game

[@MikhailBardikov]

I believe the issue here is because the game running on UE 5 I watched a video where shows how engine itself would bottleneck cpu because it would pretty much dump majority of the load only to one core. Since then epic has released updated version of unreal engine 5.4 which fixes such issue and difference is big, there was concluded about 20-30 fps increase in performance on the same hardware.

[@staryimoze]

Sad thing about this is that they likely won't migrate to the 5.4 version. I remember another game, I think Satisfactory, that went from UE4 to UE5 and they said that they won't be updating to the latest version. It probably means that it isn't very easy to do, and I'm guessing that the Stalker devs will be too busy with multiplayer, bugs and DLCs.

[@Dynasty1818]

Yeah this all feels like a combo of bad engine coding, plus an underskilled dev team as much as I love what they've created. STALKER was a mess of performance issues and still is due to the old engine plus coding skills.

[@SlyMonsieur]

i may be coping, but i'm sure it will be playable and even look good with optimised settings. cpu bottleneck is an issue, but maybe in the future they will update the engine, because it seems they truly care about the game and will support it for a long time

[@zacbranch2083]

First time on your channel and can I just say I love the way you drag your facecam to point at the screen XD

[@ChrisM541]

It's super annoying, treating us like braindead kids. When you grow up you loose such childish things.

[@zacbranch2083]

@@ChrisM541 lol ... wait you're serious??

[@corey2232]

I'm so hyped for this game! Even though I'll be playing it on PC Game Pass, I'll probably buy the game on Steam to support the devs too (if I enjoy it). Developing this game throughout the Russian invasion must've been tough, so I really hope this succeeds for them.

[@xPhantomxify]

Skip this game and save your money. This game looks unpolished, just look at the faces and the animations. The game has been delayed MULTIPLE times, meaning they have shitty producers and management, as well as devs. It's the same chernobyl shit we've seen in Metro games and older stalker games which had way more atmosphere.

[@truecaliber1995]

​@@xPhantomxify This user copied and pasted the same comment in another reply chain. My best guess it's a bot, most likely of the Russian variety. Don't give it attention.

[@chrisklaffi9425]

@@xPhantomxify HAHAHA. You are so fucking funny.

[@nameless3191]

@@xPhantomxify funny moscowite peasant

[@apathypeace]

frame gen is so pointless, getting 20-30 extra frames while FEELING like im getting 30 LESS! what a great innovation xD

[@AQDuck]

Upscalers I can understand and don't have _much_ issues with (only when they are basically required or used in benchmarks) Frame-gen is literally fake frames, get that garbage out. Only time I can accept it is for slow-paced simulators.

[@Gamez4eveR]

frame gen is really only good if you already have a solid 60+FPS average with very, very rare drops below that. if your average is under 60 frame gen feels like ass

[@Gamez4eveR]

@@AQDuck what is your experience with frame gen? for me, in witcher 3 and cyberpunk 2077 it feels quite nice, and the extra visual smoothness is definitely preferable. i'm running a 4090 and playing at 4K.

[@JohnDoeWasntTaken]

@@AQDuck I believe the same thing, I strongly dislike frame gen just because of the concept. We're excusing developers' poor optimization and just generating the frames that we should be getting natively. That being said, when I got my 4080S recently and turned up everything in Cyberpunk it was unplayable without frame gen. So I turned it on and I actually couldn't even tell, I've put in probably 20 hours so far with it turned on and don't even notice it, I forgot that I was using it when I came back to the game after a short hiatus. Although it's just like DLAA, in some games it's really good and in others it's really bad. In Ghost of Tsushima it causes ridiculous amounts of HUD ghosting, although that game has the best DLAA I have ever seen, just perfect implementation. FG is also really good in Black Myth Wukong, I can't tell it's turned on in that game either. Shame that we even need to use it to begin with. I remember back when buying a high-end GPU meant you could actually run the newest games maxed out natively.

[@minbari73]

It's only pointless if your system isn't capable of the hit. It's magical to those who can use it successfully.

[@HectorDomino.]

You can bet on the release day, you will find several years old titles which will have much better graphics running on half the spec.

[@Dregomz02]

Like og stalker games on mods. You have dynamic light with shadows unlike shitty downgraded and botched fake stalker 2

[@JohnSmithWesson]

@@Dregomz02 dynamics shadows yes but overall visuals still look outdated in modded original trilogy games, old engine gives it away.

[@dd805100]

​@@JohnSmithWesson yeah but 60 to 120 plus fps vs 30 to 60 max with best hardware lmao

[@plg_bb]

this is the most thorough and helpful video I've seen on this. Particularly the bits about cpu scaling with resolution. Thank you!

[@heithemghasali9371]

Why the hell is frame gen considered performance?! What a joke

[@jonrossi5110]

Awesome! Thanks for dropping this so quick can't wait!

[@ricardocavazos1316]

Still can't believe the game is coming out next week... Thanks for covering this up so soon Daniel

[@worthywizard]

There's apparently still a misunderstanding - all nvidia charts show fps WITH DLSS on (quality preset for 1080p/1440p, performance for 4k) so it's even worse

[@03chrisv]

I didn't realize I have the OG Stalker on my Steam account library until I was browsing through it earlier today. I guess I'll be doing a comparison to see how almost 18 years of technological progress manifests into actual graphical improvements.

[@Deliveredmean42]

And I guess add the Metro games for good measures. It will be extra amusing.

[@puffyips]

⁠@@Deliveredmean42I got bored playing metro exodus ngl

[@Dregomz02]

All you will see a massive graphical regression (no dynamic shadows with your flashlight or different kinds of lights or artifacts) but 200x higher requirements for nothing.

[@jagildown]

@@Dregomz02 If you see a regression you better get your eyes checked dude 🤣

[@xPhantomxify]

Skip this game and save your money. This game looks unpolished, just look at the faces and the animations. The game has been delayed MULTIPLE times, meaning they have shitty producers and management, as well as devs. It's the same chernobyl shit we've seen in Metro games and older stalker games which had way more atmosphere.

[@PinePizza]

FSR 3.1 is a godsent and I am very curious to see how this will perform. I only have a 3070 ti and 16gb of RAM and will play at 1440p so yeah, a bit of a gamble. The 5800x3d should be enough, I hope.

[@The_Geni]

Why does nothing run well without DLSS anymore what is this stupid trend in games now where all of the games run like shit??

[@Dregomz02]

Crisis of competence. Old vets got kicked out of their companies and replaced by interns or outsourced third worlders that only know basics of unoptimized engine 5 and their automations (since they are too lazy to do actual work).

[@sturmmagnunstein1008]

Its as predicted. Sad state of affair

[@BastianRosenmüller]

this is so crazy i recently build myself a pc with rx 7700xt , a 400 buks graphics card expecting it will run everything at 1440 p flawless, but with the new games coming out i can barely run those without upscaling and other tricks to get decent frame rates. it is a shame.

[@squidwardo7074]

Because games are much more complicated than they used to be and games have insane deadlines now. Just look the huge crunches that some studios do it says a lot and even with that they still push out unfinished games

[@JeyKalda]

@@BastianRosenmüller Almost as if your expectation was not based on reality ? Is that a You issue or the GPUs / softwares issue ? Ever gave that a thought ?

[@I2obiNtube]

14:50 it's just ridiculously heavy GPU load, there's no CPU bottleneck otherwise when DLSS went on you'd see a much smaller differential but you're seeing as much as 100% increases in fps when the GPU load is cut down. when you have games that are that graphically intensive then the percentage performance difference between top level cards is gonna be very small. performance on gpu cards doesn't scale with workload, it's fixed per card and relative to what you're testing. there were plenty of new games back in the day that just obliterated all GPUs on the market at the time, Crysis and Doom 3 are some of the ones that stand out in my mind. we've just gotten very used to having high fps in our games as standard.

[@AlienAmongst]

Oof this is a hard pillow to swallow a 4060 that came out last year can only run this game at medium 1080p? Also they said they're gonna allow mod support, but a lot of mods are big in file size too so in the future a modded STALKER 2 might be around 400-500gb that's kinda rough. I'm really not so sure about this unreal engine 5 what do you guys think?

[@Meansoduck]

unreal engine 5 blows. it is heavily unoptimized, with nanite and lumen being a huge performance loss over traditional LOD and baked lighting systems. The only benefit is that development time is cut by a lot, but this is coming at the cost of needing insane hardware requirements and the use of shitty upscalers

[@minbari73]

Sorry, just imagining you swallowing your hard pillow.

[@tomthomas3499]

And they all have the same wet-ish look which on first glance, you will know it's running UE5, First Descendant, Hellblade, Robocop, Silent Hill2, gone are the days when each game publishers have their own engine that look different to one another.

[@despairdx]

@@minbari73

[@auturgicflosculator2183]

@@minbari73 🤣

[@Strawberry_ZA]

08:43 i suspect the settings bump for this game might also increase the range at which AI is active - so NPC stalkers and monsters - which might put increased demand on CPU?

[@arch1107]

i invite people to buy and play the previous 3 games, because this game continues the story from what i have heard, i would play all 3, specially stalker 1 and call of prypiat

[@THEJimmiChanga]

Clear sky is an important play too, probably more so than cop as it's the prequel to soc and explains a lot of why the zone is the way it is in the other 2 games as well as S2

[@arch1107]

@@THEJimmiChanga while you are correct, it is clearly the worst of the 3, at east in my opinion

[@THEJimmiChanga]

@arch1107 the most casual of the 3 for sure. Nice to have the great swamp introduced as it wasn't in SOC. Outside of that and getting the important story bits, i agree. I loved how anomaly brought all the maps together and can't wait to see the zone fully flushed out and seemless in S2

[@xa_reno]

@@arch1107 Just search for Stalker ClearSky ABR mod.. Clearsky for me is the best in the series in terms of game mechanics it just really got a bad reputation due to the bad Vanilla version and the hurried ending but the entire game with ABR simple improvements made Clearsky the best game among the 3 for me. Common without it the legendary great swamps would not exist.

[@jeremyjohnson7676]

I'm using a i7-8700 + RTX-4060 + SSD, and I can play nearly every game at 1440p/60fps without stutters or other problems because my system is clean and perfectly optimized. I'm playing Silent Hill 2 right now at 1440p/60fps and it runs perfect. So I'm very sure I can play Stalker 2 also in 1440p/60fps with DLSS and tweaked settings.

[@Chidorin]

too bad there are no 1% low fps, avg doesn’t tell much

[@jricardolobo]

The actual generations of GPUs feels like is behind 2 generations. That performance is absolutely unacceptable. Even for someone with unlimited resources no getting 60fps on 4K with 4090 is simply ridiculous. Imagen buying 1000$ or more OLED 4K with True Blacks and high refresh rate to play under 120fps because NVidia is not capable of performing.

[@BDR8810]

I like laptop graphics graphs . Nice to see, considering i normally have to interpolate

[@Ark_Strike]

Wonder how much Intel paid Nvidia to not utterly humiliate them by testing the game with a 7800X3D

[@flat_stickproductions209]

Nothing because in an actual game scenario it's going to be 5 fps faster.

[@sirab3ee198]

????? Ahhhhh the synthetic benchmarks are what matters for us gamers and we should ignore the gaming X3D CPU benchmarks as they are not real scenarios. Gotta, thx.

[@despairdx]

intel was meat riding hard on nvidia to test on their degrading cpus this whole year imagine avoiding testing on r7 7800x3d which is about 30% faster than 14900k for majority of all newest games

[@msg360]

calm down fanboy Nvidia been using intel for testing before the 7800x3d came out and they still using intel

[@ehenningsen]

This Game is GPU bound

[@michaelthompson5252]

I better see Stalker 2 on Gamers Nexus benchmarks for the next Nvidia, AMD, and Intel gpu tests in the coming year.

[@VoodooZ]

I had some of the most intense gaming sessions in any single player experience in the original. It feels like 20 years ago now.. time flies. Looking forward to it.

[@XScythexXx]

Those numbers are quite concerning if i remember the original stalker games ran like crap on avarage hardware back in the day. (even with the massive modpacks like Gamma/Anomaly modern hardware can struggle) And it being an Unreal 5 title knowing how badly a lot of titles (altough early access) perform on my machine I really don't have much hope especially since I would have preffered 1440p without that damn crutch of a framegen. I guess we'll see but I see myself just going back to modded old stalker instead.

[@AchmasSmati]

the stutter festival that is UE5 will stutter on any hardware, I personally plan to play this on medium, on a 11900k and 3090, I don't have much hope for unreal

[@XScythexXx]

@@AchmasSmati medium is kind of a sad but realistic oulook nowdays. ​My main concern is how they "recommend" the high settings which may indicate that visually it may look quite bad on lower settings such as wukong, nightingale etc. Mainly because of lumen and nanites which the devs comfirmed they used. And in other games with it anything lower than high settings it didn't work well, it either "ticked" like a clock, or had strange visual issues, while eating up all the performance.

[@lolsalad52]

​@@XScythexXx Medium is the old ultra tbh, most titles look almost as good at medium than at "ultra" or equivalent

[@Dregomz02]

No og games ran well on my low resolution of 1280x1024.

[@BUCCIMAIN]

I know its too early to say but the game might actually not be badly optimized from the CPU side. If they are trying to recreate and modernize old systems from the previous Stalker games then a CPU bottleneck is inevitable, having enemies, events and other things calculated for the whole map is obviously not possible without sacrificing performance. Im mostly worried and wondering about the GPU performance.

[@Dregomz02]

It was possible back then but now it's like ancient alien tech for worthless lazy millennial devs that hate hard work.

[@BUCCIMAIN]

@@Dregomz02 It's harder to do now because games are full of complex stuff, and with better hardware you want to make more complex systems. Its a loop that never seems to end. The devs also don't have the money or time for systems like these, nothing to do with lazyness.

[@HifeMan]

⁠​⁠@@Dregomz02Simulation has always been hard to run and I will hope it’s be greatly improved but that improvement comes with needing more resources.

[@squidwardo7074]

@@Dregomz02 you're crying about video games online you're probably one of them

[@RayRiv73]

Just bought a Zotac 4070 for on sale for $455 from Microcenter...cant wait to play this with all the eye candy.

[@despairdx]

W purchase. I have geforce rtx 4070 from MSI and Zotac also a nice company so excited for this game

[@bricaaron3978]

What GPU are you replacing?

[@RayRiv73]

@bricaaron3978 3060ti which is still a great GPU but i want to play high frames 1440p with my 1440p monitor.

[@thereshi6599]

As someone with a 1080ti, 8700k, and a 1440p monitor this gives me a LITTLE hope which I need rn because upgrading/building a new pc is out of the question (2 kids lol), so thanks for the video.

[@HourRomanticist]

Alr alr I get it's overblown but stalker 2 before GTA 6 is actually kinda crazy

[@laszlodajka5946]

And even more crazier it would be if after gta 6 hl3 would be announced

[@FurBurger151]

Once GTA6 comes out.. not many other games are going to matter.

[@despairdx]

imagine half life 3 before gta 6. it will be wild asf

[@bricaaron3978]

@@FurBurger151 I feel sorry for you. There will never be another GTA game. The dev has outright admitted that they're not making a GTA game. You're in for a rude awakening.

[@FurBurger151]

@@bricaaron3978 What.....🤣

[@Audiosan79]

This is a game i will buy on the day of release. I'll estimate 130-140FPS avg at 1440p high settings without the use of upscaling or frame gen.

[@TheWeeky]

i just hope my 8700k and 3070 can pull through, i really dont want to wait a year to play this game when i might actually upgrade my pc, tired of waiting for literally everything

[@Gogohobbytv]

Same. I hope at least to hit the medium 60 even with 8700k and 3070ti, but probably wouldn't.

[@m0gg83]

The fact that the 4090 only gets 85fps at 1080p max setting im worried this game will be unplayable on most systems.

[@yercules]

Hell yeah, this is the sequel to my favorite childhood game. Glad you made a video about this!

[@xPhantomxify]

Skip this game and save your money. This game looks unpolished, just look at the faces and the animations. The game has been delayed MULTIPLE times, meaning they have shitty producers and management, as well as devs. It's the same chernobyl shit we've seen in Metro games and older stalker games which had way more atmosphere.

[@Simon_Denmark]

@@xPhantomxifyAre you ok? You’re literally spamming this under every comment. Let people decide themself if they want to buy the game or not.

[@fafnirymd]

hmm they don't mention about frame gen, how do we know its not a frame gen results that we see here?

[@MunitionsDudTester]

Frame generation is the 3rd worst thing to happen to gaming.

[@mort996]

Now you have to tell us what the first two are 😂

[@GreyDeathVaccine]

What are 1st and 2nd in your opinion?

[@paderborner5213]

@@GreyDeathVaccine Maybe DEI and Microtransactions?

[@Estoc_Bestoc_]

​@@paderborner5213Definetly those

[@Nworthholf]

​@@GreyDeathVaccineUE5 is #0

[@theoldspiceguy7977]

Stalker 2 requirements in 2024 are basically the equivalent of metro exodus requirements in 2019 lol

[@zretil]

What do you mean, I run Metro Exodus on the 1660s at 1080p with high settings, this game is way more demanding.

[@delayeedbms]

i ran metro exodus enhanced edition at 1440p 100fps on my 3060... what the fuck are you talking about

[@theoldspiceguy7977]

@zretil so was metro exodus in 2019

[@hyperixz]

​@@zretil I don't think you realize that the 1660s was released AFTER metro exodus

[@zretil]

@@hyperixz True, but at the same time the 1660s is less powerful than the GTX 1070, which is the recommended GPU for that game, and visually Metro and Stalker 2 look pretty similar imo.

[@prezlamen7906]

CHEEKI BREEKI Cant wait

[@charlesearl4321]

Something tells me a 7900XT will get aprox 70 - 80 fps at 1440P. Can't wait to try this! FSR 3.1 at 80% and FG? It's going to run great. I really hope they did not fudge up the FSR implementation.

[@j.w.5510]

It's BULLSHIT that they lied about DLSS / FSR + frame gen needing to be required. The game is an unoptimized hell for the GPU's. And it's BS they optimized the game for the Series X|S but nah screw the optimization for the PC.

[@theturkishprince]

Overclocked i7 6700k, 32GB ram, RTX 3080 10gb vram, playing at 1080p, loaded from an SSD. What do you predict? Decent experience or unplayable? My CPU is begging for an upgrade, but still works really well. Hopefully i'll be able to play this game nicely in the mean time....

[@Lujantony]

My pc is ready for medium lmfao

[@Daniel-gb9ex]

Haven't been excited like this for a game in a long time, big fan of the series !

[@despairdx]

yessir this game was my all time top 1 in the wish list to play since april 2022 when it was scheduled to get released. ever since then i was just hoping to play and I cant be any happier to play in a week

[@BryceCzirr-jz7ju]

That 4k/60 is 100% with dlss on probably balanced or performance. We'll need a 4090+. I know this from playing every other UE5 game released and owning a 4090 myself. This game isn’t gonna magically make UE5 run better. Edit: Made this comment before he went over the nVidia charts, knew it. Exactly like I said.

[@Z3t487]

I was interested in switching from 1080p gaming to 4K gaming, but if even the next generation of graphics cards won’t be able to maintain 4K 60fps for its two-year lifecycle before another new generation arrives, I don’t see any reason to invest in an RTX 5090 and a 4K monitor. It would be much better to go for a 1440p monitor, considering how well the RTX 4090 still performs at native 1440p without upscaling or frame generation.

[@DraconianEssence]

@@Z3t487 That is exactly what I did. Bought myself 2 1440P monitors and have my self a 7900XT (20 gig VRAM) 64 gigs of RAM with a R7 7700X( Upgrading to the Ryzen 79800X3D). and people wonder why I get the stuff I get for my PC.. lmao. There was 1 person in another YT channel comment section telling people NOT to future proof, I replied are u Rtarded(Not you, the other guy)? lmao.

[@Dynasty1818]

If a game or engine demands a 4090, that's piss poor coding for you as a dev team, or the engine is trash. I suspect it's mostly the engine, as this won't be UE 5.4 that alleviates a lot of the CPU bottlenecking, and no offence to the dev team but they're a small Ukrainian team with no AAA funding behind them, just like Battlestate Games for Tarkov. They receive lower priority on hardware/coding help from Nvidia and Intel and AMD etc, lower on the list of server rental priority or sales, and if they hire in-country only their country lacks the education on the engine and coding.

[@squidwardo7074]

@@Dynasty1818 same thing with the original trilogy. they were a buggy and unoptimized mess. whats with slavic studios and making good games with horrible performance

[@DraconianEssence]

@@Dynasty1818 uhh? Im not part of ANY dev team so no idea wtf your talking about there. Other then that yeah I agree it IS piss poor programming. Does NOT mean YOU cant buy the proper parts for your PC and atleast "try" to future proof.

[@f.miller801]

When you see your GPU on the recommended specs you know you are cooked. I'll prolly get 60 fps on 1080p medium on my 4070.

[@michaelthompson9798]

It’s obvious, and we’ve seen in the past that Nvidia partners with Intel for many pc and laptop builds and not AMD Ryzen considering AMD makes Radeon gpus and is ….. sorta some competition to Nvidia.

[@Albert41122]

This shouldnt be discussed until game is out and the sys req are tested irl...why ? Cause this version of UE5 is modified by GSC and it could behave unexpected

[@l0boen]

Love the added laptop numbers so I don’t have to guess

[@l0boen]

@ fair enough. I enjoy being able to move it around for VR. I do get over 80 fps to 140 fps on most games maxed so not sure on the low fps part. I have been playing God of War Ragnarok recently at around 110 fps maxed out. I do play only on 1440p native so maybe you do 4K native. I don’t have a 4K monitor. Got my MSI 4080 laptop for $1600 so the price worked for me too. Definitely not desktop level though but happy with it.

[@niebuhr6197]

​@@despairdxthose laptops are very fast, what a 🤡

[@lanelesic]

R5 5500 is technically zen3 but its Cezanne core like the 5600G without the igpu, unlike theR5 5600(x) and 5800x3D that are Vermeer core zen3. So the zen2 R7 3700x, thats made on the same 7nm fabrication process, with its 32MB of cache and 2 more cores is more performant. The i7 7700K in the minimum requirements kinda gives away that the game will work on faster quad core 8 thread cpu, and the R5 1600x says that even older slowish 6 cores will be fine.

[@leonardomatheus1888]

I hate modern gaming.

[@yakumoyukari4405]

keep on hatin'

[@zmielov50]

так кажуть кожен рік останні 20 років )

[@jagildown]

It's been like that since forever on PC, new games that come out always performed poorly on current hardware it's just that we didn't care that much if a game ran at 15-30fps as long as it was playable 🤣

[@yakumoyukari4405]

@@jagildown 15 fps is not playable 30 is borderline playble as long as it doesnt drop

[@jagildown]

@@yakumoyukari4405 By modern standards yes, but 25 years ago we didn't have much choice 🤣 you people take what we have today for granted but the way to get there wasn't smooth at all... now people complain to get 30fps on 8yo GPU just be grateful it runs at all

[@bxntaiii]

Is the UE5 stutter in the room with us?

[@Mmmmb651]

I am so incredibly excited to immerse myself into this game but I am HELLA nervous it’s gonna be glitchy and bad lag and frames etc. But I have faith in the crew that they are doing their absolute best to optimize

[@despairdx]

g'luck try lowering settings or upgrade to a stronger hardware for your pc

[@Mmmmb651]

@ I’ve got 64g ram, i7, 4060ti, 2tb mem. Fairly decent rig. We will see how it goes

[@Mattdeath25]

​@@Mmmmb651 cpu is the most crucial part for this game .

[@dd805100]

​@@Mmmmb651your prob cooked I have an i7 and I notice bottlenecks in anomoly mod packs and I have a 3060 I legit only pre ordered the game so I have it for the future with all the exclusive content I'm fairly certain I can't even run it though

[@terje2005]

I wonder how good the multicore support is, a 4790k should be faster than a 1600x per core performance, but does have 2 fewer cores.

[@MAR-jq7co]

The game is on the series s, should run on a potato

[@ankujo8924]

Thank you for the super informative video. Very excited for this game but I had some concerns on requirements after today.

[@jrminate]

As long as the devs don't lock down .ini file editing, I can more than likely find a way to boost performance for most people Like I did For Ready Or Not when they first updated to UE5. I was the one that helped out many thousands of people on the Ready Or Not Steam Forums when the UE5 update came out and came out with a workaround solution to boost performance until they came out with a patch.💪

[@tobyFOTS]

Cool story..

[@Dozik1403]

Given that GSC encourages and tolerated modding of their games, I think it won’t be locked down

[@xPhantomxify]

Skip this game and save your money. This game looks unpolished, just look at the faces and the animations. The game has been delayed MULTIPLE times, meaning they have shitty producers and management, as well as devs. It's the same chernobyl shit we've seen in Metro games and older stalker games which had way more atmosphere.

[@FeyFox]

@@xPhantomxify could mean shitty producers and management BUT could also mean there is an open weapons conflict in the devs country and they had to move office + save their familys / fight in a war during development

[@aidensgaming5887]

@@tobyFOTS His story checks out though hes a modder and dev

[@bricaaron3978]

At the same max settings, 1920x1080 delivers 85.5 fps and 3840x2160 delivers 52.4 fps? This makes no sense whatever. Typically, quadrupling the number of pixels drops the framerate by 50% to 67% --- in this case 85.5 fps at 1920x1080 should mean between 28.5 and 42.75 fps at 4K.

[@JohnDoeWasntTaken]

Looks like it's a heavily CPU dependent game. And annoyingly Nvidia chose to benchmark it using an Intel CPU from a defective generation, instead of a 9800X3D which will probably run the game flawlessly.

[@bricaaron3978]

@@JohnDoeWasntTaken The problem with that assumption though, is that it would never run anywhere near 60 fps on a console if that were true.

[@labiates]

Why are the 4070, 4070 super, 4070 ti super, 4080, 4090 so close together on the gray bars something ain't right, 4070 super is only like 10% faster then a 4070 at 1440p lol

[@igm1571]

Cpu bottleneck

[@stefannita3439]

Probably testing a longer scene that has a GPU-limited part and a CPU-limited part. The GPU-limited section allows the averages to scale with resolution, but the CPU-limited section squashes them together for the higher end GPUs.

[@dmitrypoletaev7478]

The most insane part for me is that 4080 Super with 14900k is good for 84 fps at 1080p, and a 4090 for 85 fps. So it looks like we'll get 100 fps only with a 9800X3D. The CPU bottleneck is crazy

[@sturmmagnunstein1008]

Likely cpu bottleneck

[@epxiliongaming]

Interesting! I have 32GB of RAM, a ZOTAC RTX 3080 10GB, and a R7 5800X3D... Do you think it would be possible for me to play at 1440p - Epic settings with those specs? Or am I really crazy for thinking I can get away with it? 😅🤔

[@michaelthompson5252]

Brother, just watch the video or read the results and figure it out yourself. I have a 3080 10gb ,i5 12600kf and 32gb of ram. I am not worried at all.

[@epxiliongaming]

@@michaelthompson5252 I mean, I'm really sorry if I offended you in any way, truly, but I literally watched the whole video before commenting, and I made my own opinion by thinking I can make it work,. However, I just wanted to see if maybe I could get a second opinion from someone who knows more than me, since I'm not that much into these tech topics. Personally I don't think there's something wrong with that. It's just that Daniel has sometimes answered my comments, so that's why I asked 😅

[@epxiliongaming]

@@michaelthompson5252 In any case, thanks for replying, it is good to see that someone with similar specs is not worried about the game, it makes me less worried myself haha 😄

[@Noticed888]

I have similar specs, let me know how it runs

[@epxiliongaming]

@@Noticed888 Sure! I'll let you know on the 20th.

[@rangersmith4652]

Nvidia charts avoid using an AMD CPU even though the numbers would most likely look better with a 9800X3D or even a 7800X3D. I guess they don't want to plant any "bad seeds" in anyone's mind.

[@woKenVFX]

yea the numbers would be much higher

[@LI11041989]

Totally agree with you regarding the charts and the system requirements, something is not right there if you look at everything combined, I believe we have to wait for the real benchmarks

[@praisetheoak]

These numbers are concerning, specially the CPU. Also, mid 30FPS with a 4070 Super is brutal, what the hell is this """"optimization""""?!?

[@arch1107]

it seems they went crazy with effects like on the first stalker that had some specatular ligths and shadows, they have never been great at making it run smooth, but will look nice

[@laszlodajka5946]

​@@arch1107i remember they had dynamic lights options which was very demanding

[@TruTrae]

There is nothing wrong with a game being extremely demanding on max settings, that's how PC gaming should be, the problem is when the game is not scalable to lower end hardware and when the quality of the graphics doesn't match the level of performance.

[@bricaaron3978]

@@TruTrae Very well said.

[@Dregomz02]

@@TruTrae it seems like with ue5 even low settings are as demanding as old ue4 ultra settings

[@palindrome06]

The last time I radically upgraded my pc and bought a top tier video card was for Doom III. I remember getting Radeon 9800 Pro. I guess now it’s time for Stalker 2

[@vihonac539]

I'm a little surprised you didn't talk about the 3070ti and 4070 being recommended at the same tier. It's not as egregious as the A750 or the nvidia results, but the 4070 should be a whole tier above the the 3070 ti

[@lucaterranova9321]

rinden igual genio , siempre fue asi , generacion por generaciond de nvidia kzbin.info/www/bejne/aWqZn2Z9oKiMgq8 no se sacan casi nda de ventaja , sin la generecion de cuadros

[@sgxsaint3130]

​@@lucaterranova9321If you're going to inform someone at least get your facts straight... genius. The 4070 performs about 20% faster than a 3070 ti. The video you shared even confirms this lmao. So yes he is right. Its weird how both 3070s and a 6800 xt is on par with a 4070 when they are not. This game is just running on utter garbage.

[@lucaterranova9321]

@@sgxsaint3130 si sobre todo por el bus y la vram asquerosa y los cudas que la 4070 , es una tarjeta gama baja y recortada , prefiero quedarme con la 3070ti qué esa gpu basura, por algo lo ponen a la par en más recomendaciones

[@sgxsaint3130]

​@@lucaterranova9321Brother. I know english aint ypur language but read my comment again, you misunderstood. Also apart from that, the 3070 ti was the worst card of its generation and was only slightly better than the 3070. I also dont think 8 gb vram would be enough especially considering its being tied together with a 4070.

[@MrLilredmachine]

Stalkers AI system is extremely cpu intensive, always has been. The devs transferring it to this game means that it's not 'an NPC heavy area' it's an NPC heavy game. They are fully realised and 'live' even when you are not there. This is why mods like gamma can bring even modern CPUs to their knees, and running it on anything other than cpus with incredibly fast single core speeds is still a nightmare now. Hopefully, they have optimised the system somewhat since then, i believe the issue with the original was the engine hanmering the absolute hell out of a single core for most of it's operations. This being on UE5 should lessen that, so long as they have spread the AI system over numerous cores, which is the heavy duty bit.

[@OptimizingNetwork]

As a person who is born in Soviet Union in the region of Ukraine, I am super proud of the fact the Ukrainians brothers are finally finishing that project. The war in Ukraine really set them back for a long time, and it was an undertaking of a huge emotional roller coaster, I didn't even think they will release it before 2026. Their stance on not selling a game to their biggest market of Russia is also a statement, which really pissed a lot of Russians, yet, same people were fist pumping for Ukrainian genocide and pro-war at the core.

[@gorillagroddgaming]

It’s beyond stupid to not sell the game in Russia.

[@minbari73]

Don't worry, fake war will be over soon.

[@johnconnor5124]

ah, yes, the famous russian clones, where definetly everyone thinks and says the same and there's no other opinions except for "pro-war"

[@JohnDoeWasntTaken]

I think it is silly and ignorant not to sell it in Russia, and the definition of punishing the many because of the actions of a few. Just childish. I think it is incredibly immoral and ignorant with how anti-Russian discrimination is now allowed just because of what their military is doing. When America's military was doing stupid things and fighting wars where you could say they were the "bad guys", the whole world did not suddenly start discriminating against Americans the way it is against Russians.

[@dmitrypoletaev7478]

Do you know that many Russians have changed their Steam and PSN regions? And changing your region not even that difficult to do. Discs for consoles are also being sold in Russia. And those who won't buy it will just pirate it anyway. All of this is nothing more than a "stance", GSC know that their region related restrictions are easily avoidable. And 85 fps at 1080p with a 4090 and a 14900k is not a result to be proud of, especially after GSC claimed that the game will be well optimised.

[@WyFoster]

Will you also do some tests on Microsoft Flight Sim 2024? That releases on the 19th! 2 awesome games in sequential days!

[@unamedjoe830]

Dont touch unreal games anymore..no artistic indiciduality..... shit god awful performance

[@Dregomz02]

Everything is overly shiny and models look like made of hardened milk covered in a mud.

[@1738-l1j]

Every ue4/5 game looks like a muddy mess

[@christophersanders7877]

@@1738-l1j Lies of P and Dead Island 2 just to name some recent examples would like a word lol. Both of those games are UE4, both run excellently and both look visually amazing with excellent contrast/colors (no muddy mess). I would agree with your comment if you stuck with UE5 lol.

[@slavko321]

cant wait for the new witcher 😢

[@unamedjoe830]

@andreamaral9725 imagine picking up a spelling mistake to be a pure knobend. All these games have the same flaws, don't particularly look that great ( wukong being the rare exception ) but all that suffer with the same issues of UT engine and all look like UT engine games ... zero individuality beyond texture art.

[@paderborner5213]

7:30 Around 2018 was 5 years ago. 2019 is a little over 6 years old. I think you might have mixed up the dates in your script :D

[@DarrenReidAu]

Supporting better FSR is also great for Nvidia systems running these games under Linux since DLSS 3 is still waiting for support in Proton.

[@youdiedtm]

my guess is that these "maximum settings" likely include path tracing, so without the path tracing it would probably run much faster

[@BloodyQuinn]

Stalker 2 uses Lumen... so no Path Tracing

[@saltycrusader3107]

@@BloodyQuinnhow much of a difference without lumen, plz tell me it’s still a lot

[@jesusbarrera6916]

Looks like it will optimized like dogwater.... Looks at thatbstorage space

[@arch1107]

yes, like staker shadow of chernobyl, it was like that, had some spectacular effects, but ate gpu and cpu alive

[@woKenVFX]

oh yeah bro an open world w a map of the size of 60km made in unreal 5 is gonna be a low game size , when gta 6 is gonna release shit's gonna a be like 200gb 😂

[@pc-sound-legacy]

Thanks for go thru the charts with us! 32 GB Ram, 10th gen. I7 + GTX1660ti (6GB) will be fine for medium settings

[@resetpassw0rd]

Did you people expect huge open world game on UE5 run like 60FPS with i3 7350K, GTX1650 and 8 GB of RAM or what? xd Its 2024, not 2014.

[@CPSPD]

Yea I expect an RTX 4090 to run a game at 4K 60FPS not upscaled 1080p at 60FPS I’m not gonna lie. Stupid strawman, your comment would be funny if it was bait.

[@alexmcn5939]

Not being able to hit 60 fps on a 4090 at 4K (which mind you rn costs around 2000$) is outrageous and you should be concerned about it.

[@MarktheRude]

Expecting developers to have even basic technical competency in 2024 is quite shocking.

[@BasegFarmer]

On steam im pretty certain a dev said specs are with dlss/tsr/fsr Also, because of A-life stalker is notoriously cpu bound.

[@candidosilva7755]

Its ue 5 stuter fest and bad performance incoming.

[@Dregomz02]

I could ignore it in rpg games but fps? No way in hell. Few stutters and fps drops and I'm uninstalling the game.

[@malachkah]

Um not necessarily, The Finals is built on UE5 and it's very well optimized.

[@SvestPest]

@@malachkah The Finals don't have half the details/physics/particles of Stalker 2, plus isn't open world. There's a huge difference between a zone vs open world game.

[@malachkah]

@@SvestPest talking about game optimization not how demanding the game itself is. Stalker is going to be more demanding sure but that doesn't mean it has to be less optimized than finals.

[@vladislavkaminskiy6460]

What’s the link for that website for relative performance gpu chart? 4:40

[@ChiekoGamers]

I'll wait for a few months for patches and optimization updates to arrive. Don't be a guinea pig.

[@draco2xx]

without guinea pig there's no improvement. they need to collect data to see what the issues are, so they can fix the problem

[@Dregomz02]

Remnant 2 was never fully fixed it still runs like ass in some areas. Ue5 = always unoptimized garbage

[@VioIetteMolotov]

@@Dregomz02 Bruh Remnant 2 is one of the worst optimized games of all time. Look how the reviews are, people don't care. Same with Helldivers 2. Different engine, almost nobody complains about its terrible optimization.

[@marcushillerstrom25]

Testing with some older GPUs would have been nice. Not everyone upgrades every generation. But I guess we will get those when the game is out.