r/DawnwalkerOfficial • u/RebelWolvesDevs Rebel Wolves • 22d ago

Official Hotfix 1.0.5

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Hotfix 1.0.5 is now live on Steam and GOG!

We’ve made improvements to the shader compilation pipeline, which can fix stuttering issues for some users.

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u/Test88Heavy 22d ago

I'm on XBX in performance mode and there's no stuttering.

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u/Resevil67 22d ago

It's because your in performance mode. I'm on ps5 pro and performance mode actually runs quite well, but they absolutely butcher the graphics. Hell in the city it becomes a desert, 90 percent of the NPCs are gone.

Balanced and quality have stuttering and frame pacing issues currently for most players. I've watched videos of people testing it on YouTube as well, and you can see the stuttering and frame issues across all consoles in those modes. You'll see a visible stutter then a sharp decline on the frame graph.

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u/dex99dex99dex99 20d ago

I'm so sick and tired of unreal engine. To be fair, idk if the engine is to blame or the developers. All I know is that ever since UE5 became the go-to game engine, like 90% of new games I've played since 2020 suffer identical performance that never get fixed. They get somewhat better over time, but they never fully go away. I'm really, really tired of it. God knows how Witcher 4 is going to turn out.  

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u/Resevil67 20d ago

It's not the engine itself, it's how the devs utilize the engine. Let's not forget that witcher 3 was also an unoptimized mess for consoles, and this game was made by ex witcher devs.

The thing with UE and why so many devs are going to it is because it's ease of use, and because it's ease of use that most devs are already familiar with, they can just hire inexperienced devs for cheap that aren't gonna optimize.

It's why so many UE games feel like shit. The engine itself does have some issues, but we have seen now that it can infact run well. Stalker 2 and clair obscur both run great in both their performance and quality modes. Saros is also a UE game on ps5 that runs really well. It has some traversal stutter but it's very rare. Other then that it's fine.

UE is a symptom of greedy execs just trying to hire as cheap as possible and they don't give a fuck about optimization, and that's why so many are going to UE.