Is this some kind of joke? Less-than-stellar GFX on a modern low budget indie game are absolutely no problem for me, but less-than-stellar GFXIs this some kind of joke? Less-than-stellar GFX on a modern low budget indie game are absolutely no problem for me, but less-than-stellar GFX at 1-20fps on a GTX770? Seriously? On lower end hardware suitable for most Indie games in my second HTPC (ie, a HD7790), fps drops to literally 1-4fps on highest setting (lower than Crysis 3). Turning settings down to "lowest" boost scores to around 28fps with GFX that now look worse than some 2001 era UE1 games (eg, original Deus Ex) that runs at +250fps on same hardware. The stupid thing is - both CPU & GPU usage are well below 100% in Process Explorer when this happens so the issue is a broken engine not lack of horsepower. In-game anti-aliasing seems totally broken as well and if you try and force AA on in the GFX drivers, the whole screen turns white & rainbow coloured. Mouse sensitivity / acceleration is also all over the place.
I just cannot understand why modern developers who are making a game with "not bleeding edge GFX" (to put it politely) - especially Indie devs who don't need "heavy" game engines - cannot look back and see what previous developers got right on 1995-2010 engines that ran on single / dual core CPU's and primitive (by today's standards) GFX cards, that 2014-2015 devs still struggle with today with 4-8x the CPU & GPU horsepower.
Are all Unity Engine powered games this totally broken & inefficient? Does every single modern game - even Indie games - need weeks of post-launch patching just to become playable? If so, then why don't developers use an older more efficient engine like Source (Half Life 2, Portal 1&2, etc), UE3 (Bioshock Infinite, Borderlands, Mass Effect trilogy, etc) or even older UE2 (Bioshock 1&2, etc) that runs 3-10x faster on half the required number of CPU cores with better or at least no worse than parity GFX? Crazy. Another game with great potential spoiled by a total train-wreck of a game engine.… Expand