Digital Foundry: Silent Hill f - PC Review + Optimised Settings - OK, But Needs Improvement

No wonder it's lightweight compared to some other UE5 games. Game has simple objects and poor textures.

It looks good enough and lumen elevates everything but it's not on par with other recently released UE5 games.
it was clearly targeting solid performance on consoles and largely achieved this. I don't know what console players expect at this point.
 
it was clearly targeting solid performance on consoles and largely achieved this. I don't know what console players expect at this point.

I think that was a good decision - solid 60fps and 1080p on PS5 is quite great for a UE5 game.

There are still tons of issues to solve: PSSR on PS5 Pro, no off option for film grain/CA etc., poor shader precompile on pc, uneven framepacing above 60fps and some more...
 
I think that was a good decision - solid 60fps and 1080p on PS5 is quite great for a UE5 game.

There are still tons of issues to solve: PSSR on PS5 Pro, no off option for film grain/CA etc., poor shader precompile on pc, uneven framepacing above 60fps and some more...
even on PC I just frame-locked it at 60 and turned on V-Sync. it's not bad on PC but clearly a straightforward console port. The stuttering is annoying though, I actually get less stutter with TSR over DLSS.
 
Guys, I think I found solution to get rid of camera stutter above 60fps. Just lock the game to 100/120fps and same refresh rate.

100fps lock (driver) + vsync (driver) + 100Hz RR and game is very smooth and responsive:

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Expanded AgilitySDK Support
AMD Radeon™ RX 7000 and 9000 series graphics products will support:
  • Advanced Shader Delivery
  • Target AMD's plugin DLL directly using --plugin <Your_Path>\amdxc64.dll


Same thing Valve is doing for Steam Deck.

And it also works on other Linux distros.

Since on CachyOS + Steam it auto downloads pre-cached shaders.

ROCm Windows Native Advanced Shader Delivery.

It may launch with FSR4 Red Stone since it points to FSR4 dll.
 
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I tested these hidden true epic settings and lighting looks much better, but performance cost is huge, my framerate went down from 65-90fps to 35-45fp at 4K DLSS Ultra Quality. With true epic settings this game is exactly as demanding as borderlands 4. I'm guessing the developers didn't want gamers to complain about the requirements, which is why they hid the maximum settings.

 
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No wonder it's lightweight compared to some other UE5 games. Game has simple objects and poor textures.

It looks good enough and lumen elevates everything but it's not on par with other recently released UE5 games.
I mean I see the textures and I think they are good enough, I don't mind games looking like this.
In fact I wished more games looked like this.
But like you said lumen does the heavy work and I think that's a good balance
 
Tried to mod the engine.ini for hw RT and better visuals. Lost around 20fps, but it is looking pretty good. I also decided to use RTSS Reflex and force smooth motion and the game is running pretty solid.
It really seems like that stutters are much more under control, if you don't have your GPU peaked at max utilization. When I tried to play without smooth motion, I had like 100-120fps and my GPU was at 99% util. most of the time. There were some big visible stutters. When I enabled smooth motion, the fps are now pretty much locked to 158ffps (reflex lock for 165Hz monitor), and GPU is now around 70% util. (because there is only like 79 real frames) and the stutters are much less noticeable.
 
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I haven't tried the game on pc yet, but I want to remind everyone that this person supports the murdering of Charlie Kirk. Sorry to derail this thread with this subject but I personally don't want to give him any clicks after this shit show.

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You have a direct link for that post as it doesn't exist when searching on that bag 'o shite forum and no trace in Google or archive.org
 
You have a direct link for that post as it doesn't exist when searching on that bag 'o shite forum and no trace in Google or archive.org

I have no idea, maybe they moved it to their off topic forum? These posts were there for many days and even if they are deleted, we still have the receipts
 
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I have no idea, maybe they moved it to their off topic forum? These posts were there for many days and even if they are deleted, we still have the receipts
Yeah that place is full looney tunes.

I found some of the archived stuff that had been deleted and they're not right in the head.
 
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