Dragon's Dogma 2 | A DISASTEROUS Release and Another Technical MESS 

Horizon Forbidden West is next.

thank you King, thats a good choice to make a benchmark video after tha game "really" finished.

Finally somebody who not get paid by publishers gonna say this.

Another bad PC port. Damn the curse continues....

Ya hate to see it

People need to stop buying on Pre-order.

"I reccomend avoiding dragons dogma 2" lol well played

gave devs need to stop making cpu bound games

I really hope that it's even possible for this game's performance to be fixed. Even if the performance was good this game has Denuvo which likely hurts the performance even worse, and somehow the situation got even worse with this game having microtransactions. It really sucks because under all of those problems there probably is a good game, but all of this is unacceptable.

Games are becoming more and more cpu demanding and the npc quantity and IA is the same or even worse in some cases than previous gen games (10 years easily). Cáncer optimization on pc is getting out of control...

I was literally refreshing my page today waiting for this!

With RT disabled, did you notice if SDFAO looked blurry and pixelated in in-door settings, like on walls and corners and such? SSAO looks a million times cleaner for me for some reason. Anyone else having this issue?

Also remember that denuvo is linked with very poor CPU performance and games really benefit when it is disabled, but Capcom won't do that for a couple of years.

Amongst other benchmark channels you have been the most reliable and descriptive yet. I haven't bought the game yet but will come back once I do

I just wish I had Textures loaded in

2:17, well, that was quick, lol can't really blame you for the honest take. The Re Engine looked too good to be true, here we are

Ya'll need to start wisening up when devs say there is no performance mode on the console version, that means optimization is going to be horrendously bad across the board ESPECIALLY on pc. Starfield was the last example of this but damn how quick people forget.

I think you're probably right about the performance never being fixed. They would likely have to redesign their engine or the techniques they used for core design elements with which the game was built. I feel bad for the devs who worked so hard on other aspects of it and made such a great game that is now bogged down by greedy CEOs and bad design/programming....

Most reasonable recommendation and opinion for the game ^ Thanks, BenchmarKing.

I wish Digital Foundry was as good as you are. You have a deep understanding of how games work and always focus on the details. Keep up the exceptional work!

What annoys me is that you can drop shadow quality but they didnt even took the time to make it look okay. It looks fking awful on anything lower than max because it jitters around all the time

this game has another year of optimization to go before I touch it, forbidden west sets the benchmark for how optimization should be done. Patiently waiting for your video for that game. By the way, its great that you mentioned nexus mods recommendations into your reviews. I used the nexus mods DLSS 3.6.0 update for forbidden west and it reduced VRAM usage, lowered latency and reduced screen tearing for me.

Going to have to wait for some future unreleased CPU, probably. Just to have more power to brute force a higher framerate.

I am fine outside the big city gonna try that mod but, hopefully, they just add it with the next update.

Just stop buy (pre-order) those games, and in 1 year or even faster we will have clean and refreshed game industry.

yea i have a rx 6800 and from low to max settings and with upscaling turned on or off makes nearly 0 difference in my framerate from low to max i maybe lose 5 fps maximum, even in the wild, but if i open task manager i can see every single thread on my 11700k being bashed into a wall head first

God bless you for your videos ❤

Can't wait for Ghost of Sushi-man.

🧐ah its a good day when benchmarking drops a video but im holding back on this game until they optimize it more thats why i voted for hfw so now you going to have to make another video soon when they drop a couple of updates

it's a shame because the game is very fun luckily it's not THAT bad outside the main city for me

Well, the most important (and amazing) part is outside the city so the solution is dont spend most of your time inside the city,,

Thank You! ❤

Can't say I didn't expect this to happen to the game when even in the trailer they showed fps drops

you should have made a 30 fps guide for this game for the time being

Bro I have dell precision 7720 Core i7-7HQ Quardo p3000 6 vram 32ram Is it good? Please respond man🥲

Whats the better DLSS3 mod the one from nexusmods or the enabler for DD2?

A shame Dragon's Dogma was lost in the crossfire, such a shit show on PC. The abusive DLCs got exposed (thanks Steam), the port sucks (the Re Engine finally showing some flaws). And the game itself is "weird" for current players (the technical and microtransaction issues didn't helped with that), but the DD fans seems to be satisfied. In the end, I don't really care because I am not a action fan in general, but it sucks to see Capcom mistreating Itsuno and DD fans who are waiting for 10+ years. I only hope Capcom don't bastardize DMC6 or a possible remake of Okami, I am a fan of these franchises, especially Okami, imagine Capcom having the gall of selling gold and ink bottles as micro-transactions, lol it's so offensive, it can be amusing in a dark way

What about r7 5700x with rtx 3060ti

love your videos man

Its so disappointing specially from Capcom 😢 But I think we kinda saw it coming. So tired of games being CPU bound...whats the point of having a 4090 if no CPU can keep up or engines don't ise threads properly FFS

I wonder if the RE engine just sucks for open world stuff

Plz make a video for alone in the dark remake

Hey Could you do a video on COD MW3 2024?

You know it’s bad when even the benchmarkking can’t optimise it

I have a Ryzen 7 7800x3d and a 4070ti super and the game maxxed out without RTX is 120 fps constant 1440p in the open world, but man when I get into cities I've seen dips as low as 50 fps haha it's definitely better than Jedi Survivor though!

It's impressive that they managed to make a game that looks that meh run that poorly.

I speak for the rest of the viewer-base when I say: thank you for your dedication and for doing all of this suffering on our behalf.

but why does the player hair look so bad?

Damn you know the game's fucked when even you can't fix it. Honestly though, the game runs pretty decently outside of cities and combat is too busy for me to check during those times. Hovering around 40 in the bigger cities feels disgusting, but I've capped at 60 to lower temps

The reputation of this game will forever be tainted, just like shadow of mordor

This game is basically a remake of the original Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen which came out on PC in 2017 and had the same Pawn system and large towns filled with NPCs that popped into view, only they fade in much closer in the new game, often right next to the main character! This is clearly to reduce the CPU load but it begs the question of what is this game doing exactly with those CPU resources? Is it just badly coded? Obviously, the new game has significantly improved graphics and, especially, lighting when you use the RTGI option but I still think there is something seriously wrong with the CPU utilisation to justify the massive performance variance I am seeing on my PC at 1440p on an i5-13600KF and RTX 4080 with 32 GB RAM running Windows 11 Pro 23H2. I never see GPU or CPU utilisation get close to 100% and in comparison to this week’s other big open world release, Horizon: Forbidden West, the optimisation is very poor in this game, I would say, to an almost embarrassing degree. It is a great game though which just makes the performance issues all the more disappointing. I expected better from Capcom.

People looking for HFW Just put Shadows and level of details to medium. No need to thank me.

The FPS fix will be offered by Capcom as microtransaction.🤣

"I'll never forgive the Japanese!" -Joseph Joestar

One of the BIGGEST devs and....FAILS!

Another tip for those brave enough to venture into Dragons Dogma 2 world is to use Lossless Scaling Frame Generation if u don't have a RTX40 series. Its a paid software on Steam and works on any GPU. It's shit that I need that to play at 60 fps but at least works and its not that weird.

and i thought 2023 was bad for pc gaming

Man, i love your videos! As for the topic at hand, great game with exceptionally bad performance issues. I pre-orderd the $100 edition and won't touch the game due to the atrocious fps.

Yah...I bought Horizon FB instead of this game. I have no regrets.

Hey, could you try Forza Horizon 5, please?

horizon forbidden west please

another unoptimized game... let the people work & lose time for optimizing the game...

Can recommend pure darks mod. Went from 90-100 maxed out 4k to 120-138 and it's soo smooth (rtx 4090, 5800x3d). Haven't reached the big city yet. Also it can crash if you toggle frame gen on and off in game

"So right now, I recommend, DON'T BUY DRAGON"S DOGMA 2!" Haha, that surprised me actually. XD

Poor little Capcom put the game out in "Early Access" with MTX enabled in this single player game but MTX is needed to polish the game!!!! 😀 ps. Sarcasm may have been used in this comment.

The big streamers who play this on twitch have a 4090 and i9 13900k. those are the ones who dont have issues lol

The game runs ok for me, but is basically unplayable since it crashes instantly (or almost instantly if the game is just launched) when opening the Vocations Skills menu. I've seen other commenting on this as well and pointing out a huge spike in cpu usage when in that menu. I suppose I'm "luckier" than the people who can't play at all. Penguinz0's clip with the constant crashes as soon as the game starts was hard to watch. The first time ever I preorder a game from Fanatical and it's one that's so broken I just wasted my money and I can't ask for a refund... Oh well.

If you have a AMD 3D cpu then the game is playable & most importantly enjoyable.

@benchmarking4386 - Love your recommendation to not buy the game

You should redo this when they fix it. Please! 🥲