Rather than playing on a high-end PC, I spent most of my time with KCD2 using medium settings on a mainstream build, complete with a Ryzen 5 3600 CPU and RTX 4060 or RTX 4070 Super graphics card. Even with the older and/or mid-range components, frame-times remained solid when targeting 60fps.
I have no idea what they’re doing if a 4070 super only got 60fps on medium… I was getting 50-70s on 4k ultra with quality upscaling and no frame gen
Or why it’s “older and/or mid-range”.
Like, you can’t buy a 5000 series if you wanted to, a 4070 super is better than what most gamers are using today
The author is aware that there’s a big bias where reviewers have the best rigs, but they’re drastically out of touch with what most people are really using
4060 is a good barometer for a lot of cards out there. Cards several generations back can hit its rasterization performance. The 3600 is also below what I’d consider the average cpu for people playing this game. I’d have to look at Steam stats to confirm but a 4070S gimped by a 3600 is likely a great example of midrange.
The Steam survey doesn’t seem to display CPU model, only GHz and core count, which is kind of useless. But it does list GPU model, so…
I personally think my rig is pretty “average” and I have a Ryzen 5600, which closes the gap a bit with the mid-range GPUs. The 3600 is 6 years old now, so I imagine the type of people playing a new release have also probably upgraded their hardware.
Great article, dives deep into technical aspects cryengine.
