Dragon's Dogma 2 Has An Uncapped Framerate, But No Visual Presets Or Modes On Consoles

Gameinformer : We spoke to Dragon's Dogma 2 director Hideaki Itsuno about the decision to run the game with an uncapped frame rate on consoles.

[Kaii]

uncapped 30 frames smh
How about you spend more on optimization -_-

[RaidenBlack]

Its Capcom, though
They've been top of optimization game for quite some time.

[DarkZane]

If they were, we'd have 60fps with those visuals. The game really looks bad in term of visuals, so the fact that this doesn't run at 60fps is inexcusable. It looks like a PS4 game visually.

[Tacoboto]

"If they were, we'd have 60fps with those visuals"

Ok, you're totally a game developer.

[RaidenBlack]

@DarkZane
You know games can be CPU-limited and GPU-limited right?
Just Visuals is not everything in a game and that's done primarliy by the GPU which are comparably simpler calculations and done parallelly to achieve higher results or "visual fidelity".
CPU is for more complex calculations. It can't do as many of them at a time & those are naturally slower to do because those are complex.
AI, Physics, Collision detection, Cloth simulation... basically the stuffs that you don't "see" upfront but you see the effects of are calculated by CPU
And a game with more of these stuffs stresses the CPU more ... bringing down performance targets.

[andy85]

You're right games can be CPU limited. But whys that the case exactly? It looks like a 10 year old game. What is taxing this CPU? I've seen a lot of the preview and there's nothing new that would warrant that. Forbidden West had cloth simulation, haif simulation, grass simulation, water simulation, even underwater battles ffs 😂 is a far prettier game and i was getting up to 100 fps on PS. Its just making excuses.

[NotoriousWhiz]

^ You're discounting the A.I. perhaps the partner AI is taxing or the enemy AI or the way its reactions change based on the environment. Also, don't discount all the particle effects from the magical attacks.

[solideagle]

dragon dogma 1 was also not good in terms of performance. It dropped frames especially with that knight light ability...I was not expecting them to make same mistake. They also don't have fast travel in this game ugh!

[Snookies12]

Oof, never been a fan of uncapped frame rates... It's always a much smoother experience having a cap on there at slightly lower FPS. Rather than going uncapped and having uneven frame pacing thanks to hitting an extra 10-15 FPS at random times.

[isarai]

Thank goodness for VRR

[ModsDoBetter]

I was never big on the whole "60 or nothing" and didn't mind 30fps, but recently I've played more and more 60 and 120fps games, so much so that I find it difficult to play anything at 30fps now, it just feels so jarring.

[lellkay]

laaammmeeeeee

[anast]

This is not good news. We need a performance mode and a quality mode. They make decisions like this then turn around and say they need to lay off people because their game didn't sell as much as they anticipated.

[archibold]

Can't wait to play this on PC with max graphics at 160+ fps :))

[andy85]

Likely you won't be tbh.

[Gravesinger_]

Guess you'll never know ***laughs in PCMR***

[Chocoburger]

Uncapped framerate as an option is great for the future, such as when playing the game on PS5 Pro or PS6 backwards compatibility.

But its still a good thing to offer a capped framerate anyway for the present.

[GoodGuy09]

Seeing that all the footage on console has been 30fps, not surprised. Hope PC optimization will be good, capcom has been great with PC this and last gen.

[lellkay]

"uncapped 30" is just a way of trying to justify 30fps.

I'll wait for a performance mode, or I just won't bother if they don't bother to provide one.

[Aussiesummer]

A game that looks that average should easily be able to reach 60fps.

[Gravesinger_]

Consoles starting to show their age, hope y'all get a ps6 or something soon lol