[Feedback] - EA/Motive - Fix the stuttering PC mess
To cut to the chase; The PC port is terrible and does not at all honor the legacy of the original.
Installed on a really fast PCIe drive with above recommended specs the game stutters all the time which not only ruins the game and experience, but also all the otherwise hard and excellent work of the developers. Visuals, mechanics, audio. It all goes down the drain because of this.
Latest version of Win 10 or 11 with or w/o control flow guard disabled doesn't matter. Latest drivers, settings used in-game etc. doesn't matter. Framerates are generally great, but that doesn't mean anything when the presentation stalls all over the place due to the poor streaming and shader compilation pipeline. The use of Denuvo also needs to be questioned since that has a proven track record of having huge negative performance impacts. RE Village being only one example of that. Which was eventually and thankfully fixed later on I might add.
Dead Space on PS5 is mostly excellent and mostly runs really, really well (with some margin for issues that also definitely deserve another patch), but on PC it's a slap in the face of all the fans and customers. I double dipped because I wanted to improve the few graphical shortcomings present on PS5 from the use of FSR. Spending the 2h Steam refund policy limit only on tweaking and testing the introduction of the game and I refunded the PC port immediately.
It's unbelievable how this doesn't get the extra care it deserves. The Steam forums alone are riddled with complaints highlighting the stuttering and how it ruins the game. Even most of all the positive reviews are. From users meeting and/or exceeding the recommended specs. I really wanted to email EA directly about this and get an official response, but that's apparently not possible.