The latest fiasco in PC gaming - Just Cause 3 port is terrible

[Master Disaster]

Despite some of best looking pre release streams of any game I've ever seen now its out the performance of JC3 on PC is really really bad.

 

It suffers from all the widely reported issues the PS4 version suffers from including FPS tanking when theres a lot going on and long load times however it also suffers from a fairly decent chunk of PC specific issues to.

 

For example if you want to change the resolution then you must use a text editor and manually edit the config file as adjusting it ingame cause an instant crash (for a lot of users, not everyone).

 

Playing the game above 1080p causes sub menu items to act wierd and display in the top right corner of the screen instead of next to the menu item they relate to.

 

ALT & TAB is a no no to, it either 1) Instantly crashes your game or 2) Switches to borderless windowed mode and will not go back to fullscreen without quitting the game and relaunching it.

 

So far I've got over an hour playtime and I am yet to actually launch the game. I am just about to press Start after I finished posting this article.

 

It has been suggested that Avalanche Studios actually send entire PCs out to reviwers with ultra specific hardware inside them in order for reviweres to show gameplay that was running as decently as possible, now obviously I cannot say if this is true or not but if it does turn out to be true then thats a really bad dick move from them and shows catagorically that they knew full well how bad this game was and actively lied to consumers in order to boost sales.

 

I can't provide any sources as this is compiled entirely from my own experiences and digging through pages upon pages of negative reviews and posts over on SPUD.

 

TO MODS - In order to try and back this up with some actual evidence I will update this post with any reviews I can as soon as they become available, both positive (yeah right) and negative to give some balance.

[Qalelith]

You cannot provice any sources, even though you have read through "pages upon pages" of negative reviews? Link those.

[Regis_DeVallis]

Sounds like a bethesda game. 

[Samfisher]

No source, no tq.

[Sidiox]

Ehhh, the first reviews seem to indicate the the pc performace is good. Totalbiscuit says hes getting constant 60fps on ultra with his 980tis.

[UnknownEngineer]

Ehhh, the first reviews seem to indicate the the pc performace is good. Totalbiscuit says hes getting constant 60fps on ultra with his 980tis.

That is Nvidia hardware, AMD on the other hand...

[alphaproject]

Oh wow.... constant 60fps with 980 Ti cards in SLI.... That actually sucks. A game using 2 980 Ti cards should be getting 120fps.

 

Why even have 120-144hrtz monitors or 4k then? Games do not seem to be optimized these days.

 

So you need $1200+ in just GPU's to run a $60 game? Nice....

[ShadowCaptain]

Strange was watching TBs video this morning and it was running great

 

Hope it runs ok for me

 

 

SNIP

TB normally tests out the port of games, so its weird that he didnt this time, perhaps he just didnt feel the need to, or was not feeling up to it health wise

 

Maybe he will further do a port report now these reports are out

[Liam-McShane]

I've heard nothing but good reports apart from some issues on the AMD side for some people.

[Stefken89]

Ehhh, the first reviews seem to indicate the the pc performace is good. Totalbiscuit says hes getting constant 60fps on ultra with his 980tis.

 

 

Oh wow.... constant 60fps with 980 Ti cards in SLI.... That actually sucks. A game using 2 980 Ti cards should be getting 120fps.

 

Why even have 120-144hrtz monitors or 4k then? Games do not seem to be optimized these days.

 

So you need $1200+ in just GPU's to run a $60 game? Nice....

 

TB's version ran fine on 1 of his cards, since he mentioned that there was no SLI support at the time of recording. Don't think he mentioned what fps he got though.

[multifrag]

TotalBicuit gave it a good port and people saying that 2 980ti only getting 60fps. I don't think there is sli or crossfire capability at this point and the fps might be locked to screen speed. From the video I couldn't see any jumps in fps, but it did have some popping and glitches with transparency:

[Praesi]

I watched some PC Videos and i have to say, the Graphics are realy bad. Fallout4 looks 10times better, dont understand why people cry about it.

[Master Disaster]

OK, so its a wierd beast this one.

 

Its actually a decently running game, its just surrounded by an infrastructure of bugs. That is to say gameplay is great and for the most part smooth but as soon as you open the menu things begin to fall apart.

[ApolloX75]

2015 has been a bizarre year for game releases.

[Techicolors]

weird that TB claimed it was a good pc port.. maybe on the NVIDIA side, but the AMD side is struggling a bit.. i don't have the best rig in the world, but i can't hold a constant 60fps.. plus the audio is messed up for me.. 

 

I watched some PC Videos and i have to say, the Graphics are realy bad. Fallout4 looks 10times better, dont understand why people cry about it.

 

i concur. the graphics look gorgeous to me. to each their own i guess

[Kinda Bottlenecked]

Yea, pretty disappointing from a Just Cause title. But found out later that a different branch was working on the game. This mainly affects mid range non maxwell cards. Though AMD did have an issue of their own before the fix came out. Peeps mostly have a more comfortable fps with very high end GPUs. Specifically, the 980 Ti. 
 
It is also noted that setting shadows from High to Highest has a really drastic effect on the fps. 
 
Here's a performance thread on NeoGaf http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1148535
 
And some performance figures. 
 

 

 

I watched some PC Videos and i have to say, the Graphics are realy bad. Fallout4 looks 10times better, dont understand why people cry about it.

 

What? 

[Syntaxvgm]

I watched some PC Videos and i have to say, the Graphics are realy bad. Fallout4 looks 10times better, dont understand why people cry about it.

Watch a friend play FO4 maxed with his new GPU yesterday, it is truly one of the worst looking AAA games in recent time I can think of. Not to mention it broke 3 times in less than an hour. 

I cannot imagine JC3 would look anywhere near that bad. 

[Jared133]

I get 80+ fps maxed with a 980ti and have had zero problems, no clue what you're talking about.

[Praesi]

Watch a friend play FO4 maxed with his new GPU yesterday, it is truly one of the worst looking AAA games in recent time I can think of. Not to mention it broke 3 times in less than an hour. 

I cannot imagine JC3 would look anywhere near that bad. 

I dont know in what World you live. In my World this looks awesome. JC3 is no match.

[Syntaxvgm]

I dont know in what World you live. In my World this looks awesome. JC3 is no match.

it looked no where near that good 90% of the time. That doesn't even look good, just has a lot of blur/depth of field. 

[typographie]

TB normally tests out the port of games, so its weird that he didnt this time, perhaps he just didnt feel the need to, or was not feeling up to it health wise

 

I'm going off of memory here, but I thought he spoke at length about the PC port. If he glossed over performance a bit it was likely because it ran fine for him on a single 980 Ti, which was evident from the video. He doesn't generally do a Port Report video unless it's for a game where serious problems are known or suspected, and this is the first I've heard about this with regards to JC3.

[ShadowCaptain]

I'm going off of memory here, but I thought he spoke at length about the PC port. If he glossed over performance a bit it was likely because it ran fine for him on a single 980 Ti, which was evident from the video. He doesn't generally do a Port Report video unless it's for a game where serious problems are known or suspected, and this is the first I've heard about this with regards to JC3.

 

yeah he seemed to think it ran great, he did mention that you need a monster PC to play at like full details, but he said he thinks a 970 up should max at 1080p and will run 1440p

 

so he kinda mentioned it, but yeah this is the first I have heard about major issues, perhaps an AMD driver thing?

 

Maybe it just needs some driver updates

[Praesi]

it looked no where near that good 90% of the time. That doesn't even look good, just has a lot of blur/depth of field. 

That´s not true. There is zero blur or dof. Sure you saw Fallout?

[Ottawa_Brewer]

I dont know in what World you live. In my World this looks awesome. JC3 is no match.

 

"You have a different opinion than me, therefore you're wrong and should feel bad."

 

Fallout 4 is a good looking game - not an amazing looking game. I'm running it on Ultra with solid frames. But it's nothing exemplary. IMO, of course.

[Praesi]

"You have a different opinion than me, therefore you're wrong and should feel bad."

 

Fallout 4 is a good looking game - not an amazing looking game. I'm running it on Ultra with solid frames. But it's nothing exemplary. IMO, of course.

False statements have nothing to do with opinions.