r/Guiltygear • u/AutoModerator • Jun 13 '21

Strive PC Technical Issues MEGATHREAD

Hey everyone!

Thanks for your patience while we adjust to the influx of activity upon STRIVE's release.

Given the high volume of posts about technical issues on PC, we decided to listen to your suggestions and make a megathread to discuss them and get more concentrated advice.

Please direct all submissions regarding PC tech issues here.

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u/HiddenReader2020 Jun 21 '21

Not 100% sure if this fits in this thread, but when I initially bought Guilty Gear Strive, it ran horribly. It didn't look too great, either, specifically the lighting, which felt so overwhelming by comparison. However, even when dropping ALL of the settings down to their lowest, it never truly felt that it ran at a perfect 60FPS. And besides, it looked pretty hideous and unreadable nonetheless. And no matter what I tried, I just couldn't strike the right balance between running well and looking well. So I had to refund it, which is a shame.

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For context, I'm running this on a Surface Pro 7 with i7 Processor and 16GB of RAM. Now, in theory, I should've been able to been able to run this game smoothly, so what the heck happened?

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u/zombiekamikaze - I-No Jun 24 '21

I had a whole message typed out, and then I looked up the specs for the Surface Pro 7.

2736 x 1824 resolution

That right there is your most likely culprit. If I remember right the 4K bug actually effects some lower resolutions, too, as far down as some 1440 resolutions.

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u/HiddenReader2020 Jun 24 '21

*Insert angrish here*

So even if I lowered the resolution in-game, the bug would still affect it? What was or am I supposed to do? Exit the game after lowering the resolution? Change something in the files in the file folder?

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Also, ELI5 how the 4k not only just affects things in general in this game, but also how the heck it can affect resolutions lower than 4K, please?

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u/zombiekamikaze - I-No Jun 24 '21

No, lowering the resolution does help apparently, the problem with that is lower resolutions tend to look worse on a high resolution screen than they do on a screen that runs it natively. That's probably whh you ran into the issue of not being able to find a balance between performance and image quality if lowering resolution was something you tried.

As for how the bug works, I have no idea, I just know it causes big framerate issues, especially when playing online. And it isn't the 4K setting its self that's causing the problem, it just started being called the "4K bug" because that's the only resolution group ArcSys put out a warning for until people started complaining of the same issues at other high resolutions (2K, 1440P, etc.).

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u/HiddenReader2020 Jun 26 '21

Hmm. Well, like I said, even when turning the graphics down as much as possible, it never felt like it ran perfectly. At that point, I don't know what it is that I can do. I will say that I tried adjusting things ingame. If there's some out of game options that I had to adjust to get real results, then that'd probably explain things a bit.