In light of the rampant PC reports, I was going to put off getting the game in the hopes the issues would be addressed sooner rather than later. But a B/S/T offer had me purchase the Steam version late last night, as I couldn't ignore the discounted price.
I thought I'd share how the game performed for me, keep in mind I didn't get very far: only went so far as the first nearby optional cave (the one with a bunch of wolves) and the Santa-dressed merchant.
To reiterate, this is my PC setup:
I also had the game installed on my primary drive, which is a Samsung 980 1TB PCIe Gen 3 x4 NVMe. I also applied the
Reddit settings before even launching the game, just to be on the safe side. The only difference is there wasn't an option for me to set the Shader Cache Size, nor did I do the step in edit 3. I was playing on Big Picture mode with a Dualsense controller, all settings cranked to max, 3840x2160 with HDR.
Impressions? Way better than the stuff I've been reading here, honestly. I played for two hours and got maybe....two split-second hitches total. The only time the game slowed down even a little bit was when I kept fighting the first dude in the horse (I came so close to beating him a couple times), and only a tiny bit when it started to rain (only when it started, it ran normal once the rain flowed).
Maybe I'm one of the lucky ones, but if that's as bad as it'll get then that's a big relief for me. I knew no matter what I wanted the PC version, both as a flex for my new machine as well as the expectations of mods fixing/improving whatever is reasonably possible.
Curious how it went for anyone else with a similar setup, as well as any additional settings tweaks I should try.
