Silent Hill 2 on PC: Another Unreal Engine 5 game blighted by stutter

Digital Foundry : There's much to commend in Bloober Team efforts - but smooth performance is off the table again.

[just_looken]

Just a fyi fans of the series remade the pc version with 60fps cut scenes no shutter and no bloated AAA budget

https://youtu.be/wX2GpqHxIJ...

https://enhanced.townofsile...

All free amazing work once again fans can do more stuff than what the ip holder can do with paid workers.

Not to say these fans did not get paid but you should know what i mean

[Einhander1972]

Yea.... no thanks.

I will play it on my PS5 Pro and support the developers so they can keep making games and the industry stays alive and healthy.

[b00mFargl3]

Wow, that's a really cool story.

[lucasnooker]

I bet you don’t play any old games anyway… lol

[Einhander1972]

lucasnooker

What does that even mean?!?

I played "retro" games when they were new...

And I still replay some of my favorites from time to time, but the fact is time is always moving forward and I don't even have enough time to play all the new games I want.

[ANIALATOR136]

The 60fps mod breaks an animation at the beginning where James is leaning on the railing as it transitions to gameplay.

[Levii_92]

F off

[BlaqMagiq1]

No thanks. I'll play the amazing remake.

[just_looken]

@Einhander1972'

Man you are so out there must be high all the time there are so many examples of games making alot of money but still get mass layoffs or the entire team laid off.

Not 2 years ago it was shown how activision hired entire q a teams for cod games when the game was done contract over you all are fired then all those layoffs after even though billions were made.

But you think sales=job security wow that is delusional.

@ANIALATOR136

This was done by fans that made the cutscens have better framrate than this official version they had 0 source code 0 support from official sources.

But yeah everyone go support the official version that cost $60 that has worse framerates shuttering and they DEi changed the character models.

Man humanity future is bleak.

[Einhander1972]

Are you seriously trying to imply that somehow not buying games is the solution to well... anything at all...

Plus, this has nothing to do with Activision.

[Goodguy01]

Stuttering idk why has just always been such a problem on so many games on pc especially UE games. Many devs really just don't care enough unfortunately.

[just_looken]

So true its because so many love to support fsr/dlss/xess/pssr tech that allows them to toss out unoptimized trash.

[Einhander1972]

This has nothing to do with upscaling, it's a problem with UE5.

--->Another Unreal Engine 5 game<--- blighted by stutter

And obviously unoptimized games existed before upscaling.

[Eonjay]

If you listen to the commentary, it looks like there is a timing issue in UE5. Although they did heavily hint that there might be a problem in Windows, they also noted thar a similar issue seems to be on PS5 as well. So clearly there is a UE5 issue at large..

[CrimsonIdol]

Seems like delta time is broken. As he mentioned delta time is always a little problematic but it should NOT be reporting time like this when the frame rate is perfectly smooth and evenly paced in reality. Fantastic discovery tbh and hopefully results in some progress fixing this moving forward. I'm going to try this fixed rate 30fps little hack myself. As I don't mind 30fps if it's delivered smoothly.

[Agent75]

I mean, it still looks like it plays drab. I wouldn't bother if you played it on the PlayStation 2, otherwise, wait until it's discounted or pick it up cheap used.

[TheKingKratos]

This engine is a mistake... And should have been worked on before release as it effects both Pc and Consoles as well and developers are yet to master it

[Cockney]

An honest question: are there any Sony 1st party studios using ue5?
I hope not but maybe Sony bend again, we'll see

[lukasmain]

I'm pretty sure Bend will be using it. They used Unreal for Days Gone afterall

[MrBaskerville]

Pretty sure Neonkoi is using UE5, but they might be doing a mobile game. Not really sure what their deal is.

[jznrpg]

PC Master Stutter

[_Decadent_Descent]

Doesn't have shit to do with hardware, it's software and developer negligence.

[jznrpg]

It’s a joke - obviously it is a UE5 issue

[FPS_D3TH]

Game ran fine for me after turning off RTX. Screen space reflections work well enough in majority of games as is.

[HectixTulip]

I'm using this mod: https://www.nexusmods.com/s... for stutter fix, so far no stutters after 6 hours of play.

[PRIMORDUS]

I think it's time to stop using UE on PC and look for another engine. Maybe license the id Tech engine if that can done, their engines don't have as many issues.

[Cockney]

I think its too late, seems like ue5 is the defacto middleware of choice for 3rd party this generation

[PRIMORDUS]

Sadly your right, UE5 will follow what UE4 is doing oh well.

[RedDeadLB]

Abysmal performance on AMD cards as well.

[PassNextquestion]

I believe they said the Playstation 5 version stutters as well

[repsahj]

Very minimal.

[repsahj]

Play it on PS5 instead.

[hard joe]

ue5 is still not good for most devs and gamers

[Oni]

Man UE5 is busted, when are they gonna fix this engines performance and lumen, i reckon it's gonna take cd project red to get this thing really humming.