Days Gone is the next Playstation-exclusive game that has been released on the PC. Powered by Unreal Engine 4, it’s time to benchmark it and see how it performs on the PC platform.
For this PC Performance Analysis, we used an Intel i9 9900K with 16GB of DDR4 at 3600Mhz, AMD’s Radeon RX580 and RX Vega 64, NVIDIA’s GTX690, GTX980Ti, RTX 2080Ti and RTX 3080. We also used Windows 10 64-bit, the GeForce driver 466.47 and the Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition 21.5.2 drivers. Since the game does not have any SLI profile, our GTX690 behaved similarly to a single GTX680.
Bend Studio has implemented a nice amount of graphics settings to tweak. PC gamers can adjust the quality of Lighting, Geometry, Textures, Foliage Draw Distance, Shadows and Cloud/Fog. There are also options for Chromatic Aberration, Motion Blur, HDR, Field of View and Render Scale.
Days Gone does not come with a built-in benchmark tool. As such, we’ve decided to benchmark to separate scenes. For our GPU benchmarks, we used the scene in which you ride first Boozer’s bike. For our CPU benchmarks, we used the scene in which Deacon uses Boozer as a decoy and first encounters a large number of enemies.
In order to find out how the game scales on multiple CPU threads, we simulated a dual-core, a quad-core and a hexa-core CPU. And, we are happy to report, that the game does not require a high-end CPU. With Hyper-Threading, our simulated dual-core system had no trouble running the game with more than 90fps at all times at 1080p/Max Settings. From the looks of it, the game mainly uses 4-6 CPU threads. Thus, and as we had expected, there aren’t any performance differences between our octa-core and our simulated hexa-core CPUs.
On the other hand, Days Gone requires a high-end GPU for gaming on Max Settings. At 1080p/Max Settings, our NVIDIA GTX980Ti was unable to offer a constant 60fps experience. As such, owners of weaker CPUs will have to lower some settings in order to improve performance. The two settings that you should focus on lowering are Lighting Quality and “Cloud and Fog” Quality.
At 2560×1440, the only GPUs that were able to run the game smoothly were the RTX2080Ti and the RTX3080. As for 4K/Max Settings, the only GPU that was able to run it with constant 60fps was the RTX3080.
Graphics-wise, Days Gone looks great. Its environments in particular are among the best we’ve seen. The game also comes with some amazing weather effects. Not only that, but Bend Studio has improved the quality of all textures, and used higher quality effects on PC (like SSGI). Unfortunately, though, the character models are not as impressive as the environments. While they look good, they are nowhere close to what Kojima Productions and Capcom achieved with Death Stranding and Resident Evil Village, respectively. Don’t get me wrong, they don’t look horrible. However, they are not as impressive as what we’ve seen lately on PC. This is to be expected of course as Days Gone originally came out on PS4.
Before closing, I should also mention some PC issues that we’ve encountered. The game suffers from some deadzone issues when using the mouse and keyboard. Thankfully, you can somehow improve things by raising the in-game mouse sensitivity. The game does not offer 1-to-1 raw mouse input. Still, it’s not as awful as what we’ve seen in other console ports. So yeah, while we don’t have raw mouse input, the mouse is at least pretty responsive.
Additionally, the game suffers from some “speed” issues when riding your bike. You can easily notice these issues when the framerate drops below 60fps. At high framerates, this “speed” issue is not that noticeable. Thus, we strongly suggest playing the game with more than 70fps (at least until Bend Studio fixes this issue).
Apart from the aforementioned issues, Days Gone appears to be in a very good state. It’s also way better than Horizon Zero Dawn’s launch version. For instance, we did not experience any graphical glitches/bugs or missing effects. The game also appears to be stable as we did not experience any crashes. Bend Studio will have to address the issues we mentioned above. Other than those, though, the PC version appears to be in a pretty solid state.
Enjoy!
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“speed issues ”
“broken mouse”
No one manage to catch those prroblems during Q&A? I bet there was no Q&A at all which is not a suprise…
Unreal engine 4 made this easier to port to pc compared to hzd
not a bad game but brings nothing new when it comes to open world…..but optimizations is good….none the less
Worth a play, but yeah, it’s good but a bit long. Unless you just power through it.
I like it better than Horizon. But the MC is really really unlikable.
Its not a bad game by any metric but not stellar either, quite overvalued if you ask me.
To me character models look superb in this game
Bought it from EGS, game is excellent.
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Down voted because you bought it from gag me Epic sh*t.
You have been downvoted!
“nowhere close to what Kojima Productions and Capcom achieved with Death Stranding and Resident Evil Village, respectively. Don’t get me wrong, they don’t look horrible. However, they are not as impressive as what we’ve seen lately on PC. This is to be expected of course as Days Gone originally came out on PS4.”
This line doesn’t make much sense to me, given both Death Stranding and Village came out on PS4 as well, lol.
RE8 was made in mind with PS5/XBSX and PC.
PS4 and XB1 were done thx to Capcom “mercy”
Can’t really be made with “next-gen in mind” if it runs on current-gen.
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Well that’s because you’re clearly an idiot.
It’s a simple reference that it’s an old-gen game (so we shouldn’t expect miracles). Of course this does not mean that old-gen games cannot have great character models. The Last of Us Part 2, Devil May Cry 5, Uncharted 4, Final Fantasy 7 Remake, The Order 1886, and Gears 5 have amazing character models. These are exceptions rather than the rule though (and also come from some of the best gaming studios).
lmao trish from dmc 5 looks a tr*nny.
Who’s alt are you. Balless f4ggot come with your original handle else neck yourself.
Why are you against tr*nnies ? I love these transsexuals women and i love to get topped by them , my current gf is even a tr*nny and she loves to penetrate me in bedroom
When talking to kids, you need to draw!
Wohoo amazing and for one thing I salute otherwise POS Anticonsumer Sony f*ks. And that is that Atleast they do not use that Denuvo abomination!
And this is one of the the Sony exclusives I have dreamed about as I sold my Pro before it came out.
Now im thru with the console garbage tho. Had em all pretty much since the NES days but it’s enough. Pc and Emu is all I need 😀
While they look good, they are nowhere close to what Kojima Productions
and Capcom achieved with Death Stranding and Resident Evil Village,
respectively. Don’t get me wrong, they don’t look horrible. However,
they are not as impressive as what we’ve seen lately on PC. This is to
be expected of course as Days Gone originally came out on PS4.
How is this proof that SONY doesnt pay for reviews? its a actual game unlike death stranding and not 10 hours of cutscenes where you walk in-between checkpoints with a cutscene depending on how much time you wasted…. how is that LEGAL? Hire lawyers! Sony is JEWS ion current day. NDA/WHAT YOU agree to to play any modern game is sick! why did they make me sign a NDA and they sent people to talk to me! leave me alone! idk why he or she keeps beating at my moms window. leave me alone. im sure this is some harassment, just stop bothering us. Yeah you took my amazon prime sh*t and my moms purse dont harass me its may 19th you said or stuff would be there on th
Easy on that acid, mate!
I don’t see any Antialiasing options, but i bet this game use TAA? or FXAA ??
Its not a bad game by any metric but not stellar either, quite overvalued title if you ask me.