Capcom has just released Dragon’s Dogma 2 on the PC. Powered by the RE Engine, it’s time to test it on our high-end PC system and share our initial PC performance impressions of it. So, can an AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D with an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 run it with 60fps? Time to find out.
For our initial tests, we used an AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D, 32GB of DDR5 at 6000Mhz, and NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 4090. I also used Windows 10 64-bit, and the GeForce 551.86 driver. Moreover, I’ve disabled the second CCD on our 7950X3D.
Dragon’s Dogma 2 does not feature any built-in benchmark tool. So, for our tests, we’ve benchmarked the Vernworth capital. This city appears to be the most CPU-bound area in the game, so consider it a “Worst Case” scenario.
At Native 4K/Max Settings with Ray Tracing, the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 were able to provide a 60fps experience. Yes, this is a top-of-the-line PC system. And no, I’m not saying that the game is optimized. However, you can brute force your way. At the end of the article, you can find a video of our benchmark scene.
The biggest issue with Dragon’s Dogma 2 right now is the stuttering issues that can occur in the city area. As you will see, the framerate can drop to 56fps on some occasions, mainly due to these stutters. From the looks of it, the game loads a lot of data and the streaming scheduler seems to be a bit of a mess. This is the main thing that Capcom needs to address right now.
From what we can see, the game can use more than 5-6 CPU cores/threads. We’ll be extensively testing different CPU combinations in our upcoming PC Performance Analysis. Still, if you own a modern-day quad-core CPU, I’d recommend enabling Hyper-Threading/SMT.
I’ve also tested the DLSS 3 Frame Generation Mod. With DLSS 3 Quality Mode and Frame Generation, I was able to get a minimum of 107fps and an average of 128fps on the NVIDIA RTX 4090. Great results, right? However, there are MAJOR ghosting issues when using DLSS 3 Super Resolution in this title. These ghosting issues are so severe that they will completely destroy your gaming experience. Seriously, they are THAT bad. Not only that but the game still suffers from the stuttering issues I mentioned. And while the framerate is above 100fps at all times, you will still notice the hicups. So no, DLSS 3 will not improve overall fluidity on high-end CPUs. However, it may allow owners of weaker CPUs to get higher framerates. Still, don’t expect miracles from it. Oh, and there are also some stability issues with it.
Enjoy and stay tuned for more!
John is the founder and Editor in Chief at DSOGaming. He is a PC gaming fan and highly supports the modding and indie communities. Before creating DSOGaming, John worked on numerous gaming websites. While he is a die-hard PC gamer, his gaming roots can be found on consoles. John loved – and still does – the 16-bit consoles, and considers SNES to be one of the best consoles. Still, the PC platform won him over consoles. That was mainly due to 3DFX and its iconic dedicated 3D accelerator graphics card, Voodoo 2. John has also written a higher degree thesis on the “The Evolution of PC graphics cards.”
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Mostly negative on Steam. 2 dollar DLC to change your characters appearance.
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Now that everyone hates this game, I might give it a try, thanks.
Please do, the more people buying this, the larger the budget will be for fixing this mess.
John you are such a massive weeb, it’s disgusting.
Your character seems to be suffering from albinism, make sure you take him to a doctor or something.
For a game like this, it might be worth enabling the second CCD and see if things change in CPU-heavy scenarios, John.
The game runs on CCD1 by default (that’s the CCD which does not have access to the 3D V-cache). As such, the minimum framerates are lower. So, if you have a 7950X3D, make sure to disable CCD1 (the game uses eight CPU cores/threads).
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A well deserved L for CAPCOM who have become masters of predatory practices lately.
-$70 Capcom game
-38% user review score on Steam
-Denuvo DRM + Enigma DRM + Steamworks DRM
-you can’t restart the game with a new character, editing your character costs $1.99, there literally is no “new game” option (no, this is not a joke)
-you only have 1 save slot
-on PC, it can’t maintain 60fps on $2,000 GPU, massive stutters in big cities and during combat, even after the game took 10 minutes precompiling shaders
-on consoles, drops to 20fps during combat
-more of a remake than an actual new game, reuse of assets and monsters from the 1st game, nothing new or interesting
-Microtransactions that directly affect gameplay (Microtransactions were added right the minute the game launched, players were kept in the dark about them before release)
-slow travel and grind to stimulate microtransactions
-simplistic fetch quests of the dumbest order
-combat is a visual mess with horrible targeting
-same mobs everywhere with no variety
-Capcom worked with tons of social media influencers to hype this game, all of which are seemingly still super hyped while everyone else is getting a refund
Reviewers after Capcom paid for their trip and dinner, knowing Capcom doesn’t reinvite media who give a low score: 8/10! 9/10!
All of that and gaming mainstream media is hyping it as a very good, almost great game. Yes, once again, I’m looking at you pcgamer with your 89 rating and an average of 90 for PC on metacritic for review sites.
Why do gamers even trust gaming mainstream media for reviews? It’s beyond pitiful for years now.
Eurogamer gave the game a perfect 5/5 score and then published an article the following day highlighting it’s numerous performance issues.
Absolutely useless.
Yeah and that is putting it mildly, if the game press praises a game i do extra research before committing to a potential purchase.
Its almost to the level you should utilize reverse psychology… IE get when they don’t recommend and vice versa. Game press… lmao. Bet max 5% of those so-called writers are passionate gamers.
For anyone wondering what a game where restarting a character costs $1.99 looks like.
This image is what peak consumer-abuse looks like.
Notice anything missing from that menu? Right….there is no “New Game” option, but instead there is an “Online Store” option to buy a “new character”:
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Wtf?! No possibility to restart the game at all without paying?!
No, there is no “New Game” or “Restart Game” option anywhere in the game. You can’t even delete your only save slot. You can overwrite it as you progress in the game, but not delete it.
This also means you are stuck with the single character you were allowed to create.
There are however 3rd party guides out now, which show you how to manually delete certain Windows game save files to force-reset the game.
Capcom sells the ability to redesign your character through microtransactions. Capcom created the incentive to buy this “character redesign”, since you can’t just remake your character by starting a new game like in any normal game.
The worst part is that you literally see people ask the question “Can I buy the game more than once?”, just so they can start over. And apparently you can buy the game more than once. This is peak consumer-abuse.
Yeah, you can usually tell which ones are sponsored by Capcom and which influencers aren’t.
They’ve been running defence like their lives depended on it for the last 24 hours to try and save the games reputation.
It’s the same thing Soyny do over and over again with all their bs games.
The reused assets is actually is a negative for me. It looked like dragon’s dogma 1 remake if anything.
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We developers limited the availability of port-crystals to make travel slow and meaningful
Then Capcom Management stepped in and introduced microtransactions on launch because MO’ MONEY!!!!!
LMAO! Insane full second stutters on an RTX4090 and 7800X3D (Digital Foundry). This costs $70, LOL!
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Have the crooks at Crapcom remove the Denuvo and you can run this title at 4K 120FPS full boat RT Ultra on a Pentium 4 and a EVGA GTX 1080. Hehe
LMAO! Insane full second stutters on an RTX4090 and 7800X3D (Digital Foundry). This costs $70, LOL!
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lolololol
This guy tried to play on Linux and Steam Deck. After trying different Linux compatibility layers, the game’s Denuvo DRM got triggered thinking the game was being pirated to multiple PC, and blocked him out of his own game on every device, lmao.
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playing on a 3090 and get 50ish+ fps with all graphics settings maxed out and ray tracing off. went down to 40ish with ray tracing on. Game is fun tho so i’ll put up with it this weekend because i want to play it. Game struggles to let steam take a screenshot when you hit the screenshot key tho LOL
lolololol
This guy tried to play on Linux and Steam Deck. After trying different Linux compatibility layers, the game’s Denuvo DRM got triggered thinking the game was being pirated to multiple PC, and blocked him out of his own game on every device, lmao.
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Just a small correction:
Denuvo blocked him out of the game for 24 hours because there is a hard limit of only allowing a maximum of 5 configuration changes to the underlying OS within a day.
It’s the very same issue John regularly runs into when benchmarking different CPU configurations with any Denuvo game.
Proton on Linux always creates an isolated sandbox for each individual game which acts like a completely fresh installation of a new copy of Windows.
Whenever you switch to a different version of Proton, it will update all placeholder Windows system files like those within the Win32 folder accordingly, thus triggering the anti-tamper check within Denuvo, which then counts that change of Proton towards the limit of 5 system-wide changes, eventually locking you out of the game for 24 hours.
Note that I am in no way trying to defend the practices of Denuvo, just trying to explain what happens on the Linux side of things.
Personally, I simply never buy games with Denuvo, but on the other hand I’m still glad that those who do are at least able to run those games on Linux, too.
And let’s face it, we absolutely need to be compatible with as many Windows games as possible in order to succeed in the long term…
I hear the much hyped launch of Dragonpunk 1077 didn’t go so well ……..
Why the fvck are you playing this with japanese VO, you fvcking weeb?
Btw, those who bought this sh*t deserves every c*ck they can get in their mouths.
The “give me all you money” practice should be boycotted every time, but the world has way too many bloody moröns!
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