PyroDevil

I really loved this game! The story, characters, world building, the art and game play is really top notch! Personally I prefer story, characters and world exploring in my games. But it is true it was short. I got through all quests I could find with plenty of exploring within a long weekend and was surprised that the end was really the end of the game and not just of an Act. On the one hand I liked that this was a shorter game I could actually finish and not something that takes to long so that RL interrupts it and makes jumping in again at a later point much more difficult. (I still have to finish the last DLC of Witcher 3 at some point...) But on the other hand it still left me with the need for more, which is pretty much the same feeling I have after finishing a good book. I wish this game is just the start of a longer series of games with a continued story like Mass Effect.

Hi, I also have performance issues with a Radeon RX480 8GB. On 3440x1440 with high quality setting it has 41 FPS while the game is paused or in the pause menu and the GPU load is on 100%. When I drop to low quality I get to about 80 FPS with a GPU avg load on 55%. CPU is on high and low setting between 50 and 60% and good spread out over 4 cores with 8 threads on a i7 3770K, so not the bottleneck. There is no difference if the game is paused or not. I would not expect the GPU to be a bottle neck for a game like this. I also run PoE2 with RenderDoc to see what is happening in one frame on the GPU and it seems to render the whole scene every time independent of the pause state of the game. So maybe that could be optimized if rendering results are carried over from one frame to the next. Maybe try rendering to smaller tiles that can be reused and update only those where some change is expected. But I am not a game or graphics programmer, so I am just speculating here. I trust that you know best how to optimize it. Doing that would also lower the HW requirements and then using integrated GPUs would become feasible. As it is now, I don't think I could play this otherwise fantastic game on my non-gaming laptop and that is a bit disappointing. Edit: Oh right this is on Windows. I might test it on Linux as well, because the game seems to have lower HW requirements there.

Good job choosing a name where the acronym stays the same.