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Prey (2017) PC performance thread

Cels

Member
no FOV slider on a first person title on PC

no hud customization

but at least the game seems to perform ok?
 

Atolm

Member
It's very nice to hear that for once we have a good port that seems to run without problems on a variety of setups.
 

Tovarisc

Member
How to make game start faster

There is video files in this folder that could be considered ending spoilers because of their name!!!
  1. Navigate to: C:\Games\Steam\steamapps\common\Prey\GameSDK\Videos
  2. Locate video files shown in picture below
  3. Move said files into another folder, I made folder "old" below "Videos"
3dJ59os.png


Edit: JaseC tag
 
Port is looking good so far, then? I still have to beat Automata, but I can't wait to grab this one a month or two down the road. Confirmed Steam Controller support is a nice little bonus. 1060 impressions so far are great, though I hope my i7 2600 doesn't hurt performance much.
 
looks like an excellent port (don't care for audio; i'm deaf). great. now let's see how good the game is.

Port is looking good so far, then? I still have to beat Automata, but I can't wait to grab this one a month or two down the road. Confirmed Steam Controller support is a nice little bonus. 1060 impressions so far are great, though I hope my i7 2600 doesn't hurt performance much.


Obligatory "it's not a port" reminder.
 

JaseC

gave away the keys to the kingdom.
How to make game start faster

There is video files in this folder that could be considered ending spoilers because of their name!!!
  1. Navigate to: C:\Games\Steam\steamapps\common\Prey\GameSDK\Videos
  2. Locate video files shown in picture below
  3. Move said files into another folder, I made folder "old" below "Videos"
3dJ59os.png


Edit: JaseC tag

Cheers, added. I tweaked the instructions so people don't risk inadvertently eyeing potential spoilers.
 

haikira

Member
Anyone found a way to change FOV yet?

I'm really glad to hear it's a solid enough release, and i'll be diving in real soon. It's just games with low FOV tend to make me feel a bit sick, more often than not; so it's a bit of a deal breaker for me until there's a way to increase it.
 

GavinUK86

Member
Port is looking good so far, then? I still have to beat Automata, but I can't wait to grab this one a month or two down the road. Confirmed Steam Controller support is a nice little bonus. 1060 impressions so far are great, though I hope my i7 2600 doesn't hurt performance much.
It doesn't. I have a 2600k @ 4ghz. Barely hits 50% usage.
 

Copper

Member
Fov can be edited under C:\Users\<username>\Saved Games\Arkane Studios\Prey game.cfg

My was set to 101 by default I'm playing at 21:9 and it runs flawlessly on max settings with a 1070 and 6600k
 

brau

Member
So hows the port doing? Good stuff so far? I'll be checking it later tonight. Using an i7 +1080GTX. I would think i could handle it with no issues, but then i remember Dishonored 2.
 

Tovarisc

Member
So hows the port doing? Good stuff so far? I'll be checking it later tonight. Using an i7 +1080GTX. I would think i could handle it with no issues, but then i remember Dishonored 2.

Now that audio thing got fixed by devs it's solid. Running it maxed out on 1080p and 60FPS locked. No input delay.

Sadly you need adjust FoV via config file for now and no HUD options.
 

brau

Member
Now that audio thing got fixed by devs it's solid. Running it maxed out on 1080p and 60FPS locked. No input delay.

Sadly you need adjust FoV via config file for now and no HUD options.

Whats the default FoV set to? i generally take it all the way to 90.
 

Paragon

Member
I threw together a quick video to demonstrate the stuttering that I'm seeing with the texture quality turned up: https://gfycat.com/CharmingCharmingBordercollie
No-one else is seeing this?

Other than that, the game performance is great.
When using the low texture quality setting it's perfectly smooth.
Nothing like the mess that Dishonored 2 was - and still is.

3440x1440 users complaining about stuttering - is that with Gsync or nah?
With G-Sync.
G-Sync doesn't prevent stutters caused by the engine hitching/loading assets.
It eliminates stutters caused by the framerate being out of sync with the refresh rate; e.g. any framerate that is not 60/30/20/15 FPS stuttering on a 60Hz display.
The lobby area is hovering around 75-100 FPS and that looks perfectly smooth with G-Sync. Without G-Sync, I would have to cap that to 60 FPS at 60Hz or else it would stutter.
But any time the engine hitches as you're running around, you will notice that.

I'm using FlyVPN and holy shit, I'm downloading the 1.5 GB needed to unlock at 13.2 k/s. -_-
Only enable the VPN to unlock and run the game. Don't use it to download updates!

Whats the default FoV set to? i generally take it all the way to 90.
It was ~102 for me at 3440x1440. I prefer 122 HFOV for this display though. (74 VFOV)
I'll have to test and see whether the setting is actually 102 though. Many games use 16:9 or even 4:3 HFOV numbers and automatically adjust for wider displays despite what the number says.
 
Getting a constant 110-143fps on the "very high" setting at 1440p on a 1080, using the Prey drivers which just dropped earlier today.

GTX 1060 6GB and the game runs at maxed out at 1080p and it doesn't even hit 100% usage at any scenario. Mostly stays between 60% to 80%. I think I could easily play at 1440p if I drop to high settings with a locked 60 FPS. Arkane studio have gained some credibility back after that disastrous launch of Dishonored 2.

Considering than a 1080 is roughly twice fps of a 970, and that a 1060 is even better, you should definitely have 60fps at similar settings...
 

brau

Member
Nice! so so far, it sounds promising. Since this is not ID Poop 5, its safe to assume 'frame pacing' is not an issue?

It was ~102 for me at 3440x1440. I prefer 122 HFOV for this display though. (74 VFOV)
I'll have to test and see whether the setting is actually 102 though. Many games use 16:9 - or even 4:3 HFOV numbers and automatically adjust for wider displays despite what the number says.

Whats your rig and your display like that you're using that FoV and running it on 4k. I would love to run this in 4k.
 

JaseC

gave away the keys to the kingdom.
Only enable the VPN to unlock and run the game. Don't use it to download updates!

Yeah, you can actually kill the VPN and Steam will still download the update in the background. You'll know it's done when there's no folder named "480490" in SteamApps\downloading.
 
I threw together a quick video to demonstrate the stuttering that I'm seeing with the texture quality turned up: https://gfycat.com/CharmingCharmingBordercollie
No-one else is seeing this?

Other than that, the game performance is great.
When using the low texture quality setting it's perfectly smooth.
Nothing like the mess that Dishonored 2 was - and still is.

With G-Sync.
G-Sync doesn't prevent stutters caused by the engine hitching/loading assets.
It eliminates stutters caused by the framerate being out of sync with the refresh rate; e.g. any framerate that is not 60/30/20/15 FPS stuttering on a 60Hz display.
The lobby area is hovering around 75-100 FPS and that looks perfectly smooth with G-Sync. Without G-Sync, I would have to cap that to 60 FPS at 60Hz or else it would stutter.
But any time the engine hitches as you're running around, you will notice that.

Only enable the VPN to unlock and run the game. Don't use it to download updates!

It was ~102 for me at 3440x1440. I prefer 122 HFOV for this display though. (74 VFOV)
I'll have to test and see whether the setting is actually 102 though. Many games use 16:9 or even 4:3 HFOV numbers and automatically adjust for wider displays despite what the number says.
Are you experiencing those noticeable stutters on an SSD or HDD?
 

ISee

Member
Short video of the game running at 4k/max settings on an overclocked 1080. The stutter is from me recording the video with Geforce Experience, it feels much better when not recording. I've seen some drops down to 44 during the tutorials 4 test chambers (no idea why tbh). Outside of that performance seems to be between 50-60 fps. At 1440p the game runs with 115-144 fps. YT is still processing the video, 4k should be available soon.

https://youtu.be/suaTJ1rk4rA
 

TheRed

Member
Game runs tons better than Dishonored 2. Also the game itself is amazing, the world is so interesting already I'm loving it.
 

Paragon

Member
Nice! so so far, it sounds promising. Since this is not ID Poop 5, its safe to assume 'frame pacing' is not an issue?
id Tech 5 doesn't have the 'frame pacing' issues that the Void Engine does.
In fact, all the other id Tech 5 games run very smoothly on this PC.
That problem is exclusive to Dishonored 2.

Whats your rig and your display like that you're using that FoV and running it on 4k. I would love to run this in 4k.
AMD R7-1700X @ 3.9GHz
16GB DDR4 @ 2666-16-16-16-39-1T (also tried 3600, but 2666 is all I've done full stability testing with so far)
8GB GTX 1070 Strix OC.
1TB Samsung 960 Evo NVME SSD.
ASUS PG348Q (3440x1440 @ 100Hz G-Sync)

The game doesn't seem to have great multi-threading with most of the workload being placed on two CPU cores, but it's an AMD Ryzen-sponsored game, and AMD apparently sent engineers over to help optimize it, so I would hope that it's not the CPU causing this stuttering.

Are you experiencing those noticeable stutters on an SSD or HDD?
Samsung 960 Evo NVME SSD.

What GPU? Maybe the higher textures are using up a lot of VRAM.
GTX 1070 (8GB).
The game never seems to use much more than about 4.5GB VRAM - which may be the problem.
 
Short video of the game running at 4k/max settings on an overclocked 1080. The stutter is from me recording the video with Geforce Experience, it feels much better when not recording. I've seen some drops down to 44 during the tutorials 4 test chambers (no idea why tbh). Outside of that performance seems to be between 50-60 fps. At 1440p the game runs with 115-144 fps. YT is still processing the video, 4k should be available soon.

https://youtu.be/suaTJ1rk4rA

You've answered my 1080ti question then, awesome.
 

GavinUK86

Member
The default fov is already set to 85 but adjusting it to 90 makes a big difference to me. The wrench doesn't seem so in your face now.
 

Paragon

Member
Like as in the game caps itself at ~4.5GB even though it technically needs more?

Well I don't know if it's capped or if it needs more, but since the texture quality is what seems to cause this stuttering, I'd think it would be best to be using all available VRAM to cache textures.

Look at the top left corner of the gif. It's using about the same amount of vram on Low as it is on Very High.
I did just test this again, and if I start the game on low, rather than starting on v.high and dropping it to low, VRAM is around 3GB. So there is less VRAM in use.
It's just strange that it's only using about 4.5GB on v.high when there's 8GB available.
 

LordAmused

Member
1440p on a single 970 + i5 4690, works super fine with G-sync. Ranging from 51 to 72-73 fps so far. CryEngine delivered!
Mixture of high and very high, with shadows at medium.
 

Stevey

Member
Does it support 144hz?

Also, anyone play it at 1080p with a 3770k @4.2ghz and a GTX1080 or similar?
 
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