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GoodGuyMike's avatar
6 years ago

Awful performance & optimization on PC

Hi, loving the HEAT so far but unfortunately can't play it due to it's poor optimization. I hope Ghost is aware of this. I've played Heat for a few hours, it's playable but I noticed few issues that concern me a lot.

I've Reinstalled the game 3 times and reinstalled Nvidia drivers as well. Problems remain.

I've reported these issues in official forums and also posted on official Twitter with no response. Noticed plenty of people complaining about the same issues as well, not only on PC but on consoles too. Now, since everyone else is busy praising the game there is no room to clarify other issues, so I must bring them to attention.

Issues mainly being: Poor performance, crashes, graphical glitches and fps loss throughout. Low, Normal, High or Ultra settings. CPU usage is insane now.

Here is examples of visual bugs:

bad distance scaling https://i.imgur.com/hAGyrc4.png or

texture not loading https://i.imgur.com/dGiSltt.png, https://i.imgur.com/0qBC6GA.png

textures popping in editor https://i.imgur.com/4BXtTrp.png 

This by it's self makes the game crash for me on multiple occasions hence my discontent. Plus, the game seems to run poorly with low fps frames and stutter at the race start, with npc's around or during night events in the city.

Note I am not playing at full resolution here so, it's very concerting to me that the game is out at this state. I've tried the game on Low, Normal, High and Ultra with Vsync off with other options lowered. (which makes it worse btw) Usually getting between 45 up to 78 fps at a time. With Vsync on get around 40 to 55 fps and the game still doesn't cooperate. I hope these issues ARE being worked on and will be addressed soon as possible. Have a good day.

My rig: I7 4770

Cooler Master Seidon 120V Liquid CPU Cooler

Corsair PCU 650 watts

GTX 1070ti

16 GB DDR3 ram

2TB Samsung SSD

MB Asus sabertooth z87

1360x768, 60hz

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  • I have one fix for the textures in the distance. Go to nvidia controlpanel and enable 16x AF on Highest quality. I have had bushes looking like minecraft quality when I started the game first time (luckely doesn't happen anymore). I still have issues with the anti aliasing, sharpening and ingame filmgrain. I would like to see an option for the sharpening and filmgrain so I can turn them off. I have tried the settings files and didn't find anything. The anti aliasing quality from TAA should also be improved in my opinion since they leave bad trailing behind.

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