Hogwarts Legacy PC Performance Analysis 

Here's Part 2 where I had time to test some other CPUs: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hO94Ksz6bNo.html

Hey Daniel, can you try the initial RTX 4090 test again, but this time with DLSS completely disabled?

Thanks so much for still testing the 1060, literally the most useful benchmark for most people including myself.

Thanks for the nice range of performance analyses. Hope your kid feels better soon.

I'm getting over twice your performance (110fps+) on my tuned 12900K at the same settings and same area with the 4090. You're just completely CPU/RAM bottlenecked. I can record a video and post it on my channel if you want proof.

a pleasure as always, thanks for keeping us all in the loop

I have a 4090 and AMD 7900X and besides the PBO 200mhz overclock, I spent a decent amount of time overclocking my RAM and infinity fabric which has really helped a lot. Hardware Unboxed did a segment with how bad AM5 motherboards do with the secondary timings which make a huge difference for zen4. I was able to get my latency and bandwidth numbers almost 25% better for each and in a benchmark like Tomb Raider Shadows at 1080p highest I am able to get average 303 fps, which is an approximate 20% increase vs no PBO and memory overclock, meaning the memory overclock is the main contributor to that. Would be interesting to see how much it helps you here, if at all. Great video as always.

Love the breakdowns with the different cards. Sounds like your kid has what my kids have. Hope they get better soon!

One thing I find in games is crowds tend to tank performance. As the game starts managing the movement of many NPCs it hits the CPU and you can see this kind of thing in Cyberpunk by changing crowed density. You could try dropping shadows back as they seem to hit the CPU hard and even higher resolutions. I think I might get this game just to play around with things :)

Thank you. Always appreciate the time and effort you put into making these videos for us!! Keep up the good work bud!👍

Between Calisto protocol, Dead Space Remake and Now Hogwarts Legacy, it seems PC ports are suffering and its really sad to see. I understand everyone in the comment's seem to be running fine, but you're not every one and there are people with issues. Its sad that most reviews for Dead Space or Hogwarts dont mention these issues. Th easy option is just turn off RT right? Well if your game offers an option, I'm going to judge it as a whole and not pick and choose what I review. There are games that handle RT implementation well. This is not one of them as of right now and it should be a con and not looked over and told to turn it off. Thats not a solution.

Great video!! Did you check the cpu clock speed? That should be an important factor

THANK YOU SO MUCH for makeing a deep dive.

Would love to know how much of an impact Denuvo is making here.

I did a full analysis on this game by myself, just for fun, using Radeon GPU Profilier (RGP). I was looking for a good comparison video to base my findings on, you didn't posted at the time I Tweeted my findings and wrote on Reddit, still very good since it basically validates some of my findings. So I'll share what I found here as well. When there is no VRAM oversubscription (Video Memory spilling to System Memory), you became CPU limited like what happens with the 4090, even on mid-end GPUs, if there's no VRAM oversubscription you become CPU limited -- RGP is very good at telling if you're GPU or CPU limited, but I think it only works with AMD GPUs, I know Nvidia has an equivalent two, but I don't know if it does have this feature. However, the stutters and performance issues are mostly issues with the game itself, the game may need more than 12GB of VRAM for 1440p in some occasions¹, if you have less than that, it will spill over to System Memory and cause massive stutter and framedrops, as well as low GPU usage and even low CPU usage. Because of the way AMD Driver reports GPU usage, you may still see it report 100% GPU usage, but that's because AMD reports based on Busy Time². If you look at GPU temperature and Power Draw, you can notice those values dropping whenever you experience massive FPS drops -- RGP also points that you're GPU limited, but that's not true, the GPU is busy waiting on Atomic Synchronization, the real bottleneck is System Memory, more on that below. The really really complete explanation summarized is that the game uses a lot of Video Memory, that eventually get spilled to System Memory, then the game tries to access the spilled memory, which causes the Driver to issue memory synchronization calls to ensure correct synchronization of System Memory (that's a complex thing, so I'll not make any assumptions to why this is being so damn slow, I would have to investigate), those calls uses GPU time but don't really uses computational power (in simple terms, the GPU is basically sleeping, although that's not the correct explanation of atomic synchronization), it may seem that the CPU is the bottleneck, when the System Memory is the bottleneck, but the VRAM shouldn't spill over to start with. The game is badly managing the memory. The High Video Memory usage is mostly coming from things that I think that didn't needed to be on VRAM to start with (Radeon Memory Visualizer can show what is being placed on VRAM), increasing resolution increases the used VRAM, so decreasing resolution reduces memory usage, but just at some extent since there is a baseline, which is determined by those structures that are being placed on VRAM at the start of the game, this is probably a constant and there is not way to reduce it. And since this is done at the start of the game, it will always be mapped to the VRAM, and the other things will get spilled over to the RAM. ¹: Your video proved that at 1440p it didn't reached the 12GB mark, but based on some reports, it may reach at some point, so 12GB is enough for 1440p, just don't expect to never experience any issues, you may eventually although rarely. ²: AMD measures the time the GPU is busy doing something, which also includes waiting on memory synchronization, the GPU cannot tell if it's waiting on VRAM or System Memory, so it reports both as GPU usage. This is way more complex, because memory synchronization instructions may be waiting on other work-groups that may be running on the GPU, the driver cannot really tell if it's waiting actual work or just on the data being copied over since there's no distinction (there may be a way for the drivers to do this, but AFAIK, after looking at Radeon's ISA and how it should work, it may not be practical).

hello Daniel, what is the name of the app which you are using for the measuring (on the left side of the screen)? I want to check it out and then test it also on my pc

Hi, did you experience stutter with cutscenes, new environment, new ui elements? I'm having 100-120 fps with stabile frametime at 4k dlss balanced with high settings raytracing off. but whenever I saw something new or enter new area I'm having stutters. It's look like unreal engine shader issue to me, it does have pre-cache but I don't think its enough, becausetaking its so short time to compile them. For example in Star Ocean The Divine force has stutters if you didn't cache the shaders in the options, but if you choose to cache them it tooks 20 minutes for game to cache it. Thats why I don't think hogwarts legacy is caching all shaders and it causes me stutters. Rtx 3070 Ryzen 5600x 32gb 3600mhz ram samsung 980 pro ssd Seasonic focus gold 750w psu.

I've personally noticed quite a bit of difference by manually switching the DLSS version to 2.5.1. It definitely didn't fix all of it but I am curious how much difference your setups would show, if you're not already using 2.5.1 in this video ofcourse! Would love to see a comparison video :)

Love that in the game it uses half the GPU but in the menu you finally get close to 100%

Glad I found your chanel Daniel, it helped to decide which GPU to buy :)

It's going to be VERY interesting to see how the game performs once Denuvo is cracked. Watch us have another issue with it like RE8.

Thanks for making a no-nonsense video strictly about the performance of this game. I wonder if this engine isn't fully utilizing GPU because the developers have designed it to be more compatible with the Nintendo Switch and other GPU-limited systems. But I guess the RAM and CPU of the Switch aren't that advanced either, so there's a good chance I have no idea what I'm talking about. Wishing good health and magical gaming memories to your family.

Hey, great video! I have a question for you about my system performance. So I have a RTX 3080 (10GB) - Ryzen 5800x - 64GB DDR4 Ram 3200Mhz. I have played around with the setting a bunch and I am unable to achieve what you achieved in Hogsmeade with the exact same settings you used with your 3060Ti. You were floating around 70-90fps. I can only achieve 50-60fps with dips into the 30-40s and slight jumps to the 70s. I thought of maybe a CPU bottleneck but I saw a RU-vid video of someone benchmarking the Ryzen 5600x - 5800x - 5900x - 5950x with modern GPUs as high as the RTX 3090 and they all achieved the same performance. So I assume I am not bottlenecked with my CPU. I am lost to where my performance loss can be.

Which testing software is that, that is showing CPU/GPU stats and FPS. You don't list it in the description

I have a feeling this game was made with direct storage in mind on consoles, and the PC port is either not using it or using it poorly. It looks like it loads and releases assets from the disk constantly, and it just can't load them fast enough

So basically frame generation was meant for unoptimized games. 😅😅

Something is causing the game to have a persistent fog everywhere. It's not just faded out textures like DLSS would do but actual fog. You can see the game without fog for a split second when you exit an interior like the Three Broomstricks and the fog pops back in. So it's a filter doing this, because filters switch to create better ambient in different rooms.

Im using a modest 10850 k, ddr 4, 3080 and im getting about the same performance at 2k but i do see stutters once in awhile. Surprised a system like yours isnt performing much better.

Hdr is bugged on the newest nvidia drivers. I lost 10 frames having hdr on in doom eternal. Dead space didn't seem to matter and didn't see a hit. Worth mentioning

I got it for pc at first but i had really weird performance problems on rtx 3070 ryzen 5900 medium-high 1440p Then decided to try it on ps5 and ps5 runs this game perfectly The only problem is dynamic resolution in 60 fps is a bit much sometimes

Hope the kid gets better. Great video. I was wondering about this exact thing. Thanks for the info.

hi interesting u had the most powerful setup that exist currently , and barely play at 60 fps with rtx on .... , in outer door situation its not bother me much because the effect of the rtx is almost invisible, but indoor ( in hogwart particulary) that where the rtx show the difference sad we can't even play with it enable without dropping to really low fps ( between 10 to 25 fps for my case ). I have a 5900x cpu and a rtx 3080 , and without Rtx in hogsmead i got the same fps u get between 80 to 90 fps with ultra setting with dlss quality on a 2k native resolution, but with activated i drop around 30 or lower. Other question the frame generating only work with 4xxx series ? or do we need to activate something in nvidia somewhere to be able to use it with a 3080 ?

Wondering what the increased L3 on the 5800x3d does to the game. Very educational again Daniel, thank you for testing! Hope the little one gets better soon :)

if they allowed exclusive fullscreen i am sure that would allow a few more frames vs windowed fullscreen. I don't understand why they didnt add this option as well

Great content like allways Dani! hope your child get better! Greetings from ARG.

Whats the name of the program that shows all that FPS info? cheers.

I wonder if Unreal 5 putting ray tracing on the software side will improve performance in future games, especially for the console versions. In Fortnite it looked like the AMD GPUs were seeing a huge jump in performance with UE5 RT.

It'll be interesting when I try this on a 7950x system with an ARC A770. Not expecting greatness there lol. However, I do have a 7900xtx on the way, which will go into a 7950X3D system next month when that monster comes out.

i have a question don't know if you can answer it or not with dlss on i was like getting 144 frames inside and like 80 outside with 50 GPU usage i turn off DLSS and get like a 30 % jump in FPS at same settings 1440 p ultra with a 3700 x 32 gb of ddr 4 @ 14 clocks and a EVGA 3080 TI ultra gaming so dlss off the gpu usage went up to 80-85 % but so did my frames . i tohught dlss was suppose to get you more frames why do i get less ? with dlss is it because i am CPU bound ?

Have you tried limiting the CPU threads to 12 and or disabling SMT? Could this be PC port problem and mimicing the console CPUs could help?

Hey Daniel; I’m using a 4090 with a 5800X3D; I got about 20-30% better performance by updating the DLSS version from the one included with the game to the latest version (2.5.1 AFAIK) as well as “evening” the frame times. Could you try that next?

Hi, do you think the devs can fix this cpu/ram bottleneck? Because if not, then the system requirements are misleading

What is the tool you use to measure frames in the top left I cannot find the name of it for the love of god. I also want to say I have a 13900k and a gigabyte 4090 and with high refresh rate and high frames on this game stutters are way more visible and I am sure they are still happening on lower frame rates just the less frames the less likely you are to even notice a difference. I tried setting it to the ingame 75fps limit and it seemed less stuttery.

Another great video! Do you think the RT is actually working correctly? I have it turned on with my 4090 and honestly it doesn't feel like it is working as it should be.

Thank you so much for this. Same problems with a 3090 and 9900k. Huge stutters, awful frames, and super low gpu utilization. The intro gets you and then reality hits. It’s pretty awful.

For me, I'm on 4080 (with the same CPU, 7700x). I was able to play the game in full 4K, Ultra but RT off... and able to get easily with 70-90FPS. If i want to use RT On, I need to put DLSS for sure... and the FPS will be low... But I'm totally fine to play it full 4K Ultra and with no RT. And the game is so pretty!

What software do you use to see the frame rate values?

As the RAM requested for the entire video was about 20GB and usage of this was around 14GB. It would be interesstring to see if lowering it to 16GB of total memory would show some of the problems people have mentioned. Eventhough most of windows is lowered priority wise in games having only 2GB to spare for the rest of the system could that be the reason people are having problems?

Hmm. I guess I'd be interested in seeing the performance of different CPUs.

Tell your daughter thanks from us enthusiasts for letting you do this today 😂 and we hope she feels better . Feel lucky to have a 40 series’s for these demanding titles . I feel like a shill but nvidia does give a great experience ONLY IF you aren’t hung up on frame per dollar and just overall the best “experience” . I love AMD and hope that fsr 3.0 is as good as frame gen/dlss 3.0

Thank you for this! Very useful tips. Also your speech has improved significantly and really easy to listen to. Hope your daughter feels better! Thanks. Subscribed.

I'm playing on a 4K TV. Is there a difference between setting my desktop resolution to 1080p and play the game like that. Or leave my TV on 4K and use the 1080p Rendering Resolution setting?. I playing on a Ryzen 2600x and RTX 2060 Super.

with my 14 core I5 13600k it runs absolutely fine without any bottleneck even with 3060 but the ram management is terrible, 20-24gb ram for 1080p ultra lol !!

There is nor reason why this game should be this demanding.

Hi Daniel, I too have a Ryzen 7700X with 32GB ram 6000mhz CL30 with a Tuf oc 4090, same motherboard as you. I'm seeing similar performance. There's an area inside Hogwarts, right outside the office of Professor Fig, in the hallway and that area seems to be quite a bit demanding too. Turning on frame generation cause the camera to sort of stutter or skip even though the frametime graph is flat at 100 fps. Some funky stuff going on.

Thanks for testing the 3060Ti, I’m using a 3070 so I was getting a little worried. But it just seems to prove the theory that it’s limited by something else, CPU maybe

Not finished the video yet. But interesting that “new” titles which heavily rely on frame generation like The Witcher 3 NG and now Hogwarts Legacy are CPU bottlenecked. Coincidence? I don’t think so. (But I love my theories).

Hello Daniel, if what WB Employee said in the discord is true Early Access didn't get the Day 1 patch. They held off until the official release, I know they usually don't fix complete performance problems but I'd love to see a retest once the patch goes live.

I have a 5950x with 64GB of DDR4 RAM and an RTX 3070....the game was hitting 10-20 fps in Hoggsmead and outside. This is a game or driver issue imo

hi i have the same problem that my game is cpu limited, can this be fixed with future updates of the game?

Thanks for this video. Really helped explain where the issues were, confirming some of my own theories. Do you have any ideas, on what will be the issue going forward, in terms of game utilization, different engines etc, or will it truly just be based on coding and game optimization not the hardware?

Still would love to know what systems they even test there games on when hardware like the 7000 series CPUs and 4000 series GPUs were only out for a few months, not enough to even got a hold of them and test on them, and if performance is this bad, really would love to see there internal results

This is, in a way, a reflection of how many games go out into the wild these days -- not fully baked. This is to say that we can see evidence of this with pressures to realize a faster ROI starting with things like open "early access" in lieu of longer, staged betas from the past. Fully launched releases for even triple-A games now need months of post-release fixes for optimizations at best... and disaster recoveries at worst. And as teams have no time before DLCs need to also go out the door, the current state of things has become standard fare across gaming, which in turn has normalized them.

Is the in Game time of day different between the testing on the 4090 vs the 6700xt? The lighting looks way fainter with the AMD card. Edit: it’s FSR. You can see the difference distinctly when he’s testing the 7900xtx

How did you manage making the GPU close to 100% utilization? I have a 3080 and I am stuck at 70% max, no matter what settings I change, both in game and out. My CPU is 5900X.

It sucks that RT is so heavy on CPU and VRAM tbh. It’s strange to me that 8 gig cards are now in hot water when it comes to their VRAM budget. Nvidia skimped too hard during the 3000 series it would seem. Imo 3070 should’ve had at least 10 gigs while 3080 should’ve had at least 12.

My experience: 5700G, 16gb 3200mhz cl16, RX 6600XT, 1080p 165hz display - game is consuming about 15+gb system RAM and reached maximum capacity and had a hard system crash. Second time running it, closed Chrome and other apps and the game was stable with system RAM at 15gb total usage. But wow, I’ve never seen a game this hungry for system RAM.

My issue is: with frame generation I get horrible screen tearing cause in game v sync is not available with it. My tv is 120hz. I tried to activated v sync through NVIDIA panel but it didn’t seem to have worked.

Could dlss performance/1080p be the issue for gpu utilitization? I know often times 1080p is used to test cpu performance by creating an intentional bottleneck.

It wouldve been nice to have the A770 LE included in this test!

Hogsmeade brought my 3080 5900x system to its knees. I hope it gets better with patches/drivers.

This is some epic benchmarking! And hope the kiddo feels better soon! Don't know what kind of potion is needed for that cold. Not a licensed wizard, myself.

Thank you for your Video. Ran very good with my 5800X/6700XT on 1440p with Raytracing until i was in Hogsmeade. Now i know, that i should turn off RT. Thanks

It's potentially good to know that there is potential to unlock something in order to utilize more GPU. Maybe they'll fix it in a driver update. Potentially doubling the performance will be very exciting on the 4090 and future GPUs

AMD GPUs have a hardware scheduler. Nvidia GPUs don't, they off load that function to the CPU. That's why AMD GPUs perform better in CPU limited situations.

How are you getting 60+ FPS with an RTX 3060 TI at Hogsmead on 1440p? I have an RTX 3080 with an i7 10700k / 32 GB Ram and I'm running on 1440 too - I'm getting 30FPS. What's happening with my system? My CPU utilization is hovering around a constant 50% and my GPU usage is around 35% but I am noticing my VRAM usage is pretty much maxed out at 10GB. Could that be the issue? If it is then that would be strange because you're getting better performance with an RTX 3060 TI...

Daniel have u checked if its a ram bottleneck? Ive noticed 32gb ram is maxed out with pagefile disabled. Physical ram gets around 50% but virtual ram maxes out and its weird. I will never understand that virtual ram bs. So i got to enable pagefile and some games write to the ssd. I feel that is part of the issue u guys should try using 64gb ram or disabling pagefile if it doesn't crash.

When CPU bound, fast and tight RAM matters the most. FYI Nvidia users, Nvidia DLAA at Native Res is actually faster than Native TAA High and also looks cleaner on fine hair details in this game. All Users - Config file can also have RT variables tweaked for higher res reflections and better RTAO coverage. News sites are beginning to report this. RT reflections render at 33% Default of Native Res, you can set up to 100%, 66%, 50%,.. whatever you like.

Memory leakage is definitely an issue in this game. I saw 20gb of ram used with the 7900XTX. That is absurd

Currently running HL using an i5-6500k on a B150 chipset with 16GB of DDR 4 3200Mhz memory and a 2060 6GB. My target is 60FPS at High at 1080p with DSLL quality mode on and RTX off. Currently hitting around 25-35FPS for most areas of the game after all optimisations (DSLL to 2.5.1, CPU priority to High, V-sync set externally, Control Flow Guard, Latest Patch and Drivers). I am CPU bottlenecked. GPU rarely hits 50% but CPU flat out at 100% in a lot of areas. The socket 1151 can support up to a 7th gen Intel processor, something like a i7-7700k. Will I still be CPU bottlenecked? Should I just upgrade to an i5-12400F and new chipset + 32GB of memory? Many thanks!

You probably won't see this, but... How does the NVIDIA Reflex setting affect things? I wouldn't expect it to do anything since vsync is off and the framerate is uncapped. I believe it pauses the logic as long as possible before before handling, and if the CPU requirements vary wildly, I can see it causing the unstable framerates. Though as I said earlier, due to the combination of no vsync and uncapped framerates, I don't expect that to be the case.

Hardware Unboxed has looked into the CPU limit I was seeing here, and has confirmed it. Edit: Originally he thought results were better on Intel, but then confirmed there is actually a menu bug that was enabling Frame Generation without it looking like it was enabled! So if you think you are getting double the FPS that I'm showing here on an RTX 4000 series card maybe try enabling DLSS and Frame Gen, and then turning them both back off, to confirm frame gen is actually off. Link to relevant tweets from Hardware Unboxed: twitter.com/HardwareUnboxed/status/1623793684436381698?cxt=HHwWhMDT1Zbw74gtAAAA twitter.com/HardwareUnboxed/status/1623619530143723521?cxt=HHwWgsDTiYjXoIgtAAAA

the stutters have been the biggest issue for me, i use an rx 6600, and it’s definitely capable of a lot in that game, but it stutters particularly bad in hogwarts and hogsmade. interested to see what the devs do

I am having a problem by starting playing the game. Yesterday I couuld play but I stablished my settings to high with a GTX 1060. Today, the game doesn' t start, it just remains black screen. Can I change the settings from outside the game or is there another option to do? My CPU is an Intel i7 8700k and I have 16gb RAM 3200 MHz

How can you tell it's a CPU limit when it's not maxing out its usage? PC channels have always told us that cpu doesn't matter in higher resolutions but will it matter in a setting where you are rendering at 1080p with dlss on a 4k monitor?

Wait a year and the game will run much better

Definitely not the most optimized game but I think that the 3060ti getting nearly 60fps at ultra 1440p (maybe with one or two setting turned down) is more than adequate performance. Just making sure people aren't witch hunting for the sake of it.

Did you change the refresh rate? I have a 1080p monitor with a 6900xt and a 5800x. I changed the refresh rate to 240hz since it have a 240hz monitor. I am still getting between 85 and 189 fps even in hogsmead. My game performance is as smooth as silk with everything on.

Low five to another family man PC gamer - thanks for the analysis. Have you tried RTX Voice btw? Pretty magical for eliminating background noise

I built my wife a 5800X/3060/32gb rig specifically to play this game. She’s barely touched PC gaming and knows nothing about FPS. I’m pretty interested to see what her gameplay experience will be like untainted by the quest for bigger numbers.

The issue is denuvo

It could be RAM (both size and bw) limited, did you try rebar on/off?

Does the 3090 have frame generation or only the 40 series?

Runs so much better on Radeon in comparison, wow. And people still yap about "muh nvidia drivers"

I mean the game isnt even out yet either. Im trusting and hoping they put out some fixes soon but I mean im playing the game at 1440p on a mid range system just fine. I get from 80-120 fps with dlss at high settings and medium crowd density with no rt. I also think it is a ram issue with the whole whatever the hell is going on under the hood. My buddy with the same system only has 16gbs whereas I have 48gbs and he cant run the game without it crashing. So idk dude lol. We will see when it gets some patches and stuff.

Were you using Windows 10 or Windows 11 I have the exact same specs as you 7700x, 4090, 32GB DDR5 6000 and I was getting 80-90 frames in Hogsmead 4K Ultra no upscaling or raytracing on Windows 10 I just updated to Windows 11 and now I'm getting 120-130 frames still 4K Ultra with no upscaling or raytracing, maybe it's a windows scheduling issue

Great guide thank u so much for this.

Glad your daughter gave you permission to post this video.

Here is my experience, and everything I’ve realised about this game regarding performance so far! My system is a 5800x3D CPU and 4080 GPU. 32gb 3600CL16 DDR4 RAM. First, I must say… Frame Generation is KING! I NEVER use DLSS as it looks awful in every game at 1440p, but frame generation truly is a revelation! Identical graphical quality, but double the fps! The game is BUTTERY SMOOTH and I’m constantly going back to record clips because of how cinematic and beautiful things look and feel. I can’t feel or see any negative difference from enabling Frame Generation! Also the latency barely changes! The game is perfectly responsive. I will also say, this game was made for controller for SURE! Feels way smoother. In summary for Frame Generation - if you have this option, you MUST use it. So, as for numbers: I’m able to play 1440p Max Ultra settings on everything and I get 130-150fps consistently! I’ve seen fps drop to lowest 100-120 rarely in hectic moments. With frame generation off, I’d have to use DLSS (which I’d never do due to reduction in quality) so I’d be forced to reduce graphics settings down to high/medium to keep above 100fps. Also, important - regarding Ray Tracing. Turn off ambient occlusion ray tracing! It makes the game stutter! The shadows and reflections run perfectly. The shadows in this game are fantastic! The ray traced reflections are not amazing, but if you turn them off, you really notice how dull the floor appears. Ray traced reflections give this game a lot of depth in the image, even though the actual resolution and clarity of reflections themselves aren’t impressive (not bad by any means). If you’re someone who doesn’t own a 40 series GPU, be prepared to sacrifice your settings to play this game around 100fps or above. I had a 3080 before, and I’d be able to play all ultra on most games no problem. That WON’T be the case here unfortunately. Best of luck! The game is great btw.. finally a game that for it’s retail price, is genuinely a bargain.

Some people have found some ini modifications that seem to reduce stuttering in the game by changing the texture streaming and allocations for VRAM. Still, this game does seem to have a mix of performance limitations. I've seen times it's clearly a CPU problem, many where my GPU was pegged, I've seen ray tracing on ultra looks bugged, and times I think it was just poorly managing memory.