Nick, gaming, and computers all first met in 1981, with the love affair starting on a Sinclair ZX81 in kit form and a book on ZX Basic. He ended up becoming a physics and IT teacher, but by the late 1990s decided it was time to cut his teeth writing for a long defunct UK tech site.
universe, Avowed eventually transitioned into being semi-open. By that, I mean lots of very large, open levels, all connected together. But that change aside, in many ways,does feel like a cross between Skyrim and PoE, and if you're a fan of both games, you'll almost certainly like this one too., and while that doesn't necessarily mean the team set out for the PC version to be the same, as you'll soon see, Avowed isn't pushing out ultra-high frame rates.
My first criticism of the Low preset is just how jarring the model and shadow pop-in is. This is to be expected to a certain degree at minimum graphics settings in any game, but it's quite stark in Avowed. So much so that I don't recommend using it, no matter how weak your gaming PC is. One such niggle is the fact that certain objects have a clearly defined boundary that triggers their animation. For example, flags hanging in the distance are stiff as a board until you get reasonably near to them. As you cross the trigger boundary, they immediately start to swing about as if blown by the wind. It's a somewhat clumsy way of reducing the CPU load and the zone really should be much smaller at higher quality settings.
While all of the test PCs run Avowed pretty well at 1080p Epic, the 1% lows of the weaker systems arelow, and that feeling of smoothness experienced with the High preset gives way to lag and stutters. This was especially true of the RTX 4050 laptop and I'm certain that its 6 GB of VRAM is the primary cause, even though the recorded 1% lows are better than those of the 8 GB RX 5700 XT.
The good news is that it doesn't take long to activate ray tracing, reload the game, and see if it's worth using. Unlike upscaling, which might not be worth using at all.Upscalers achieve a performance boost by lowering a frame's resolution by a set percentage before most of the rendering takes place. A complex algorithm then scales it back up to the monitor's resolution and then the GPU displays the frame after the final rendering touches have been applied.
If the native performance of the likes of the 5700 XT wasn't decent, I'd be very disappointed and more than a little annoyed with this situation. It's generally accepted that while AMD's FSR isn't quite on par with Nvidia's DLSS, it's more than good enough in the grand scheme of things. Apart from here, of course, where it's borderline useless.Not that DLSS runs any better.
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