More than two years after Russia’s full-scale invasion delayed its release and upended its developers’ lives, Ukraine’s "S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2" — one of the most anticipated video games of the year — was released on Nov. 20. Employees of GSC Game World, the Ukrainian company
  • workerONE@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    12 days ago

    I’m about to okay for the first time. Compiling shaders zzz… Edit: it’s a lot of fun, good combination of environment, action and story (so far) I’m getting about 110 fps with a 3070ti on high settings at 1440p

    • x00z@lemmy.worldEnglish
      19·
      12 days ago

      Just to add a little insight to this; compiling shaders on your own machine is an absolute win in bandwidth and storage space.

          • Romkslrqusz@lemm.eeEnglish
            51·
            12 days ago

            That, and there are still many parts of the US that are underserved in internet access. I have a friend who lives ~15 minutes outside of a major city and, until recently, the whole family shared a flaky ~2Mbps connection. They begrudgingly adopted Starlink because that was the only decent option.

    • HereIAm@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      12 days ago

      Hm. I got a 4070 super and getting 55-60. But I’m also running it straight out the box on Linux, so there will hopefully be a slew of performance gains to be had then. Glad it’s not the game itself running poorly! It does feel a bit more streamlined (kinda like the morrowind -> oblivion transition), but I’m still really enjoying the game so far 4 hours in.

      • drunkosaurus@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        3·
        12 days ago

        Hey fellow Linux gamer, does the game compile your shaders from scratch every time it starts, or it’s just me? Started it 3 times so far, 45 minute compilation each time… Absolute PITA.

        Edit: forgot to mention I have the GOG version, you may play in Steam with its fancy shader cache updates…?

        • HereIAm@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          12 days ago

          I am on steam yes. Good shout about getting it on gog though. I do get a fair chunk of shader pre compilation. But not 45 minutes, maybe like 5? And then there is some once the game has launched in a loading screen as well.