I stuck with a locked frame rate of around 90 frames per second, given the age of my GPU, plus I prefer consistency and being able to tweak graphical settings allowed me to do that. That said, GPU utilisation was sitting at 100% during really busy scenes. I tested with both locked and unlocked frame rates with a mix of medium and high settings (cloud & fog quality and texture streaming quality defaulted to medium quality), and unlocked numbers ranged from 66FPS to right up to 80FPS in cutscenes and from mid-60s to 100FPS in game play so it’s pleasing that an RX580 – a GPU that is considered an old but solid performing graphics card – can play Days Gone so well. It’s refreshing to see changes to settings impacts on performance in real-time rather than on a pre-rendered screenshot. Another nice touch is the real time performance stats that run in the top right corner of the screen in the graphics tab of the game menu, showing current and median frames per second, frame times before applying vsync, GPU utilisation and frame times post-vsync.Īnother great feature is when you pause the game and go into the graphics menu, you can see in real-time how each graphical tweak you make in the graphics settings impacts on the paused scene, which appears on the right hand side of the screen. The graphics menu is one area that a lot of other PC developers could learn something from, with a plethora of tweakable options including field of view, chromatic aberration, lighting quality, geometry quality, foliage draw distance, shadow, cloud and fog quality and texture filter quality. The game has four preset graphic options: low, medium, high and very high so you can find a happy mix and I was playing it on a 144Hz 1080p monitor using AMD’s Freesync mode and set to the fastest response time possible.

That shows me care has been taken with this port: It wasn’t just a hasty conversion for a quick buck. Days Gone’s graphic set up menu will also make PC gamers smile as it has an amazing number of tweakable options, letting you fine tune it to run the best on your machine. From PS4 footage I have seen after playing the PC version, I have to say that the PC port is definitely visually superior, with higher detailed characters and world, and an overall crisper and cleaner image. Now, I did not play Days Gone on PS4 so I can’t comment on the graphics.

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