Lengthy-awaited motion role-playing recreation (RPG) sequel Dragon’s Dogma 2 hasn’t gotten off to an incredible begin on PC, the place customers on Steam have been reporting widespread efficiency points and crashes whereas taking part in.
Developer Capcom has responded to the complaints in a brand new Steam submit, through which it “sincerely apologize[s] for any inconvenience” and descriptions a plan to handle among the most urgent points. At the start, the group is actively investigating and fixing “important issues corresponding to crashes and freezing” which might be booting gamers from the sport. These can be remedied “ranging from these with the very best precedence” through patches in some unspecified time in the future within the close to future.
Along with the crashes and freezes, some gamers have additionally been plagued with poor framerates – significantly in busy areas of the sport’s sprawling open-world. Capcom explains that that is because of the “great amount of CPU utilization” that’s afforded to non-player character (NPC) simulation. It acknowledges that: “in sure conditions the place quite a few characters seem concurrently, the CPU utilization will be very excessive and should have an effect on the body charge,” and are “wanting into methods to enhance efficiency sooner or later”.
Dragon’s Dogma 2 gamers presently do not have the choice to restart the sport as soon as they’ve begun taking part in. The builders “are taking a look at including a characteristic” to facilitate this with extra particulars to be introduced. The submit additionally supplies a listing of the paid downloadable content material (DLC) objects that may be bought through the Steam retailer.
We have been massive followers of Dragon’s Dogma 2 in our current evaluate, the place {Hardware} Editor and long-time fan of the unique Dragon’s Dogma Rhys Wooden awarded the sport 4 and a half out of 5 stars and described it as “difficult, thrilling, and consistently unpredictable.” Whereas we did observe some occasional spotty efficiency on the PlayStation 5 model, it undoubtedly looks like PC customers have it considerably worse.
We’re hopeful that these patches will arrive comparatively quickly to assist iron out the efficiency woes and permit gamers on each platform to get pleasure from the most effective RPGs in current reminiscence.
