It still feels like an April’s Fools joke but God of War will officially release on PC in a few hours. Powered by Santa Monica’s in-house engine and ported by Jetpack Interactive, 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 3800Mhz, AMD’s Radeon RX580, RX Vega 64, RX 6900XT, NVIDIA’s GTX980Ti, RTX 2080Ti and RTX 3080. We also used Windows 10 64-bit, the GeForce 497.29 and the Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition 22.1.1 drivers.
Jetpack Interactive has implemented a respectable amount of graphics settings. PC gamers can adjust the quality of Textures, Models, Anisotropic Filtering, Shadows, Reflections, Atmospherics and Ambient Occlusion. As we’ve already reported, the game also supports NVIDIA DLSS and AMD FSR. Furthermore, there is a Framerate Limit setting. Unfortunately, though, there isn’t any FOV slider (mainly due to the game’s one-shot camera design). What’s also disappointing here is the lack of a fullscreen mode. God of War currently supports only Window and Borderless modes. As such, PC gamers cannot downsample from a higher resolution than their native one. This also eliminates the usage of NVIDIA’s upcoming DLDSR. In order to use higher resolutions, PC gamers will have to first set their desktop resolution to the one they want to use, and then launch the game. Let’s hope that Jetpack will add a fullscreen mode via a post-launch update.
God of War does not feature any built-in benchmark tool. As such, we’ve decided to test the following scene. This is scene features numerous alpha/volumetric effects, and appears to be quite demanding.
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. God of War requires at least four CPU cores, and can fully utilize eight CPU cores. This is a pleasant surprise, especially since the game is using the DirectX 11 API.
Our simulated dual-core system was simply unable to offer an enjoyable gaming experience. Without Hyper-Threading, the game was a mess on that system. With Hyper-Threading, we had major stuttering issues. Hell, even our simulated quad-core system had stuttering issues (that could be only resolved by enabling Hyper-Threading). So, for a smooth gaming experience, we recommend a modern-day quad-core system (that supports Hyper-Threading). It’s also worth noting that the game ran faster on our i9 9900K when we disabled Hyper-Threading. So, if you have eight (or more) CPU cores, we suggest disabling it.
God of War can be easily described as a GPU-bound title. At 1080p/Ultra, the only GPUs that were able to provide a 60fps experience were the RTX2080Ti and the RTX3080. Although the average framerate of the AMD Radeon RX 6900XT was around 90fps, there were some drops to low 50s. This is mainly due to AMD’s awful DX11 drivers. As we’ve reported multiple times, there is an additional driver overhead on AMD’s hardware in all DX11 games. AMD hasn’t done anything to address this issue, and we don’t expect the red team to ever resolve this. You can easily reproduce this DX11 overhead issue on AMD’s GPUs. All you have to do is turn Kratos (in the scene we used for our benchmarks) and look at the road that leads to your house.
Now while this sounds awful for AMD users, we have at least some good news. By dropping the settings to High or Original, we were able to get a constant 60fps experience on the RX6900XT, even in 4K. Our guess is that the LOD, which basically hits more the CPU/memory, is the culprit behind these DX11 performance issues on AMD’s hardware. As such, we suggest using the High settings on AMD’s hardware (which are still higher than the Original/PS4 settings). As for older GPUs, the game is scalable thanks to its graphics settings (and can still look great). For instance, our RX580 pushed an average of 55fps at 1080p/Original. On the other hand, our RX Vega 64 had no trouble running the game with constant 60fps at 1080p/Original.
Coming back to Ultra settings, at 1440p the only GPUs that were, once again, able to run the game smoothly were the RTX2080Ti and the RTX3080. As for 4K/Ultra, there wasn’t any GPU that could run it with constant 60fps. Still, and by simply dropping Models and Atmospherics to High, our RTX3080 was able to hit a constant 60fps experience. As such, we suggest experimenting with some settings as you can use a mix of High/Ultra on high-end GPUs. Lastly, and unsurprisingly enough, at 4K the AMD Radeon RX 6900XT manages to pull ahead of the RTX3080 (as it’s no longer held back by the DX11 API).
Graphics-wise, God of War looks great on PC. While this is a 2018 game, Jetpack and Santa Monica have slightly improved the game’s ambient occlusion and shadows effects. As such, the game looks better than its PS4/PS5 version. Moreover, God of War can compete with most modern-day triple-A PC games. All of the in-game characters are highly detailed, and there are some cool snow deformation effects. Players can also break a respectable amount of trees during combat. This shouldn’t come as a surprise though. After all, both God of War and Uncharted 4 are among the best-looking PS4 games.
All in all, God of War runs incredibly well on the PC platform, though its Ultra settings can be quite demanding. As we’ve said, we suggest using a mix of High and Ultra in order to get the perfect visual/performance ratio. Still, the game suffers from some issues. For instance, there isn’t any FOV slider and the game lacks a fullscreen mode. Additionally, the game suffers on AMD’s hardware due to the DirectX 11 API. Make no mistake, AMD is to be blamed for this. However, things would have been way better if Jetpack used DX12 or Vulkan.
Nevertheless, and despite these nitpicks, God of War runs and looks great on PC. The Keyboard & Mouse implementation is exceptional and despite being an open-world game, there aren’t any stutters at all (on high-end CPUs). We also did not experience any stability issues. Furthermore, PC gamers can further improve performance by using FSR (and let’s hope that NVIDIA will fix the DLSS shimmering issues). It’s funny, but the PC version of this first-party Sony game is way better than multiple PC versions of multiplatform games, from publishers that have been releasing their games on our platform for more than 5-6 years. So kudos to Jetpack and Santa Monica for offering a polished product!
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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Thanks buddy, an amazing analysis again ?
This was the last big game I played on the ps4 pro before selling it. Now im done with consoles for good, and cant wait to play this – one of the best games ever made – again proper on my Pc!
Now wheres the Lovelace or heck even Intels GPU’s. Surely time to upgrade from my 2060S!
Damn so many good games..let it roll!
you think this game is good? Why?
The game is awesome, the combat system is great and if you learn it it’s very rewarding. The whole game is mature and brutal
I can see you commented something but know that i have you blocked. It’s been the best thing i did to make this site’s comment section bearable and i encourage others to do the same
the camera is awful, the movement is slow, you got one weapon and the combat is slow, feels like a downgrade fro mthe old games.
Lol, clearly you haven’t played it, kratos also gets his blades and the combat system and movement speed are very well tuned to the encounters, level and enemy design. After you learn the combat the game becomes your playground and you destroy enemies with brutal style and energy. Stop talking from hear say. I’m playing this again for my son to watch.
yes 75% through, why would i play a game that i find revolting just by watching the gameplay?
I smell bs dude, you had no idea about the blades he gets later on, your are not 75% through, you don’t even have a ps4. And why would you play 75% through this now on pc, a game you don’t like. 75% through would mean playing gow4 was the thing you did most these last few days. Long time to waste on a game you don’t like.
what you mean i had no idea moron i told you that you get the games late in the game.
“And why would you play 75% through this now on pc, a game you don’t like. ”
thats my point, i wouldnt, are you stupid or something?
You said you played through 75% of it. Which is it ? I was the one that yold you about the blades, idiot. Its written above. You just proved me right. You talk without playing, you are full of sh*t.
i didnt say that you are an idiot.
Stop denying reality stupid. Your post is above, let me quote it for you
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yes 75% through, why would i play a game that i find revolting just by watching the gameplay?”
So which is it. Did you play the game or not ? Why do you speak about it like you’ve played it ? Oh you didn’t ? So what, you WATCHED the game being played for 75% percent of it? How lame is that, why did you watch a game you did not like ? For such a long time to get to 75%.
Lol just stop dude, i called you out on your bs and you keep proving me right. You are such a loser
i said you get the blades 75% the way through idiot not that i played it, MORON.
“Why do you speak about it like you’ve played it”
BECAUSE IT LOOKS SO BAD IT PISSES ME OFF YOU CLOWN.
“why did you watch a game you did not like ? For such a long time to get to 75%.”
My god you are the most insufferable clown i have ever seen.
if i didnt play the game
“you didnt play it”
if i did play it
“well you didnt play it enough to form an opinion you didnt even get the blades of athena which is 75%”
if i did play it or watched up to 75%
“why did you play or watch it up until 75% and claim you hate it, i would have stopped playing it”
Its like guardians of the galaxy when i watched 5 hours of it and concluded it was bad and i dont care about it and someone asked me “why you watched it for 5 hours if you didnt like it?”
because you morons say “the story gets good later on” well if it doesnt get after 5 hours then i dont care, i skipped most of the gameplay so it wasnt so long”
“omg you mean you didnt check the gameplay, also the story gets good after 5 hours”
FACEPALM, so damned if you do, damned if you dont.
So in conclusion, i dont like guardians of the galaxy the gameplay sucks enemies are bulletspongy, the level design is mediocre and this comes from the studio who made deus ex. The story is boring and goes nowhere. “oh but it has good writing” no all the writing is each character whining and ranting about each other, gets old and annoying. I dont like the new god of war, it takes itself tooo seriously, its not “epic” its boring, the camera is awful, your character moves too slow, combat is slow, you got like one weapon for most of the game, dont care about its story, its sucks.
also fck you.
I suggest seeing a doctor to get the rest of that coat hanger removed from your forebrain. Too bad your mother didn’t have better aim.
i suggest you stop filling my inbox.
WAAAAAAAH SOMEONE REPLIED TO ME ON THE INTERNET WAAAAAAAHHH
i am blocking you.
iM bLoCkInG yOu!!!!!111!!!
And nobody cares.
even darksiders 2 is better than this game, better camera, better loot, better open world, better combat, more content, story is kinda boring but it starts well. The point i am not making that darksiders 2 is good, its meh, but it was better than this game.
You should just STFU. The game you’re whining about so much had 65,000 concurrent players on Steam on launch day and out of 6000+ reviews 97% reviewed it positive and the game is still leading the top seller chart on second day. If it’s that bad then those stats should support your meritless non sense but instead they are totally opposite of that.
The game is more optimized than most of the bug fest titles we get from big studios these days who are making PC games for several years. It’s scalable to the point that someone managed to run it with Ryzen 5700G (no discreet GPU). It looks great for a 2018 game and runs great without crashes and performance issues, well implemented DLSS, FSR and Reflex are bonuses.
It has better combat than some of the senseless button mashers and boring FPS games you mentioned and while there is nothing wrong in playing those other games, they are not superior in anyway. It’s just the matter of what you prefer and that’s subjective.
All the high school rants you write does not mean anything against all the good things people are saying about this game. It might not be a game for you and in that case you vote with your wallet, don’t buy it and move on.
Those games dont put an arrow behind your character when you are a bout to be attacked because the idiots moved the camera too close to the character, as there was nothing wrong with that camera. Those games dont play at the pace of a snail for old people and casuals to be able to keep up. In those “button mashers’ you dont get better loot equipment to offshoot that you suck and get hid all the time. Finally you say that this game does a lot of things well but all you do is talk about how well it runs, its a 2018 console game dude, what does this game do so well? Story? Pfft who cares modern story in games suck.
The combat is fine. In Witcher 3 people actually complained about camera being too far and there are mods that moved camera close to the character for that “Cinematic Look” and now people are saying that camera is too close in this game, it’s fine you just need to learn how to play the game and adapt to it’s controls, people complain way too much and that’s why it’s impossible to satisfy everyone.
I rather have snail’s pace with better story and character development than senseless button mashing your way to the final boss and then enjoy credits rolling.
The combat is good, game’s graphics and environment are good for a 2018 game and better or on par with some of today’s games, it gives you proper customizable controls with correct button prompts instead of controller prompts, it never crashed on me so far, I never faced any performance issues, HDR, DLSS, FSR, Reflex implementations are good, story is good (I don’t care if it sucks for you dude). Sony actually allocated proper budget to do a good port unlike RDR2 and it’s dumpster fire launch, it might be stable now but I played it on day one and the game wasn’t even starting properly on a high end PC.
“I rather have snail’s pace with better story and character development than senseless button mashing your way to the final boss and then enjoy credits rolling.”
id rather the opposite and a good fov. Also combat sucks too generic and slow.
What a garbage take. The game is really fun.
no it sucks
Like you at family reunions!
I don’t have time to go through another textbook so I’ll answer the important bits, I never said that the games you mentioned are bad, they are good games too but to use them as example and say GOW is bad doesn’t make any sense, it’s just the matter of taste what you prefer. I called them button mashers because that’s literally what some of them are and so was GOW trilogy (I played it) and enjoyed it at that time but I am glad they moved away from wannabe DMC formula.
And I called some boring because a game like Bulletstorm is indeed boring, good graphics but repetitive boring FPS gameplay, original FEAR was good with a well balanced horror/thriller formula but then it went downhill, Prince of Persia SOT was great when Jordan Mechner was more involved then with Warrior Within and Two Thrones it kind of went off track and lost it’s charm, only combat was good in Warrior Within, no wonder they stopped making POP games because it was going downhill, they should get Mechner involved so he can write a decent game, Ubisoft can’t make crap.
Sekiro and Nioh are different games and while I agree they are excellent games I don’t see how they compare to GOW?
As for stats, all I am saying is while you’re complaining here there are several players who are enjoying the game, AC games are just like Call of Duty now, people will play them mindlessly no matter what and it should have died long time ago, GOW still has attraction in it’s new 2018 formula, maybe if they stick to the same formula after 10 GOW games then I will say it needs to die too.
stop responding to the troll dudes it’s wasted time you are not getting back and belive me, time is everything
Agreed, Latex stuff is impossible to read most of the time, and one should only use it to laugh or feel smarter. Because there is always somebody who is so dumb he can’t open a door, and that is latex.
Well I just did like it. Amazing story and pacing and action = cant go wrong with that!
Really an awesome game. Why do you thing it get praice everywhere!
because its a cinematic game and journos like those, i watch gameplay and i feel constrained by the camera and combat speed. Id rather play the odl games, they are fast and the camera isnt stuck so close to the character.
Digital Foundry praised the port:
https://youtu.be/JI5t0pvBB-Y
I can’t stand how that f4g speaks.
so hot.
So gay
Does the coat hanger lodged in your forebrain itch? You do a better job of arguing for legalized abortion than anything some failed left winger could do, either that or teaching mom’s to have better aim.
Do YOU have a “Forebrain” ? Perhaps a lobotomy will cure you – although I’m not sure that will be enough to get you stabilized !
Ahahaha I’m glad you had some place to spew your mental illness at me xD
I exist to make losers like you feel better on an otherwise meaningless comment section.
Gears 5 may do certain things differently than previous games sure, but the PC and the Xbox versions are bloody amazing. Gears 5 is one of the best looking, most optimized, most customizable games of this generation.
Hey Bataglia’s boyfriend, the game may look and run nice, but all that is in service of a borefest of a story with stagnant gameplay, but it looks so pretty!!! O M G
on crying and whining duty 24/7 I see lol
go shower you stink
Why you of all people chooses to be my stalker? get out of here clown.
not really, you play as a chick the rest of the game is as derivative scripted and simplistic as the old games.
@https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0L3OTZ13Os
The video is quite long, so here’s my best TLDW in point:
*Throwing shade, and even snuffing out even the smallest of competitors that were struggling, even if they were their old partners
*ATI releases a GPU that smashes Nvidia out of the park, benchmarks in 3DMark03 made Nvidia release a public relations campaign to undermine their credibility, discouraging the use of the program and even releasing a white paper
*A bit later Nvidia was then caught cheating in 3DMark03
*Futuremark benchmarks released an audit report outlining Nvidias cheating methods
*Days later, Futuremark retracted their statement
*Taking away Phyx capability on AMD GPU’s stating it was AMD’s fault
*Hired online actors to promote their product, creating hardware enthusiast sites that were pro-Nvidia shills, questions are asked and answered with “better to talk on the phone”
*Worked with Microsoft to include their GPU’s for the XBOX, turned out to be too expensive and demand not being met, Nvidia blames Microsoft
*Windows vista cashes and bugs were vastly more prevalent on Nvidia GPU’s
*Assassins Creed comes out as the very first DX10.1 title, AMD cards gain more performance on DX10.01 and shortly after it was scrapped by Ubisoft with “the way it’s meant to be played”
*Both ATI and Nvidia caught price fixing
*Nvidia tried to hide flaw in graphics chips for up to 8 months
*Nvidia chips defective with up to 40% early life failures, CEO of Nvidia Jensen Huang said that you let the consumer work it out with the OEM so that “consumers don’t have to fight the process”
*Nvidia blames laptop makers, denies all liability
*Nvidia’s cards not DX10.1 compatible because their GPU’s were just rebranded older GPU’s
*Nvidia treats customers as idiots
*Nvidia justified as people still bought the GPU’s
*Goes into detail as to why the market is why it is today
*Nvidia vengeful as XFX also partners with AMD so were essentially cut off as being an approved Nvidia partner
*AMD releases worlds first 40nm with TSMC, HD 5870 with amazing performance, everyone waits for what Nvidia responds with their Fermi architecture
*Nvidia blames TSMC again
*Nvidia finally releases their 400 series
*Nvidia still blaming TSMC, even though AMD makes their chips at TSMC
*Nvidia heavily drops prices to compete with AMD’s next gen GPU’s even though Fermi was only out for 3 months, claiming that clock speeds were obsolete, and that they needed to instead compare a heavily overclocked 460’s with reference AMD cards
*Nvidia gets caught for doing exactly what they sh*t talked their smaller rival for what they were doing in the past
*Nvidia and HAWX 2 (part of their “the way it’s meant to be played”) come out with a DX11 title that specialises in tessellation of the terrain, providing a stand-alone benchmarking tool that was inbuilt into the game to the press. AMD card wins in most benchmarks except HAWX 2
*Nvidia sh*t talks TSMC saying their 20nm lithography process was useless at a press conference, and not a technical conference
*FinFET were required to maintain high performance GPU’s, and those only came at 16nm, blames TSMC for Nvidias 20nm
*Former executives at AMD leave to smuggle trade secrets with over 100,000 confidential files copied before joining Nvidia
*GameWorks introduced, sabotaging performance such as the Witcher 3, even though AMD was working closely with CD Project Red from the beginning, when suddenly 2 months from release GameWorks code with Hair Works was introduced, severely sabotaging AMD’s performance
*GameWorks at the time while capable on running on AMD hardware could not be optimised by developers or AMD
*GTX 970 3.5gb VRAM scandal did in fact have 4gb of VRAM, but the last 0.5 was much slower, while also shaving off some ROPS for a total of “64”
*Nvidia then got sued and had to finally update their spec list, saying it was a miscommunication with their marketing team, even though the GPUZ tool said it was 64 ROPS which takes information from Nvidias drivers, their engineers, when it was actually 56. Consumers were entitled to $30
*First DirectX 12 arrives with Ashes of the Singularity showing the FuryX on par and even ahead of the GTX 980Ti, Nvidia doesn’t think much of Ashes of the Singularity and that the game was buggy, even if it was reviewed by Microsoft, AMD, Intel and even Nvidia, while passing a thorough D3D12 validation system “Is ashes a real benchmark”
*Nvidia asks developer to disable certain settings in the Benchmark, they refused and Nvidia took it personally
*Releasing two products both with the same name of M150 where one would have much slower performance, without telling anyone so buying laptops/notebooks became a lottery
*GTX 1060 3gb isn’t actually a 1060
*Lastly, GPP and “transparency”, what is good for the consumers and etc. Hard OCP exposes Nvidia in that Nvidia tried to take well known gaming brands for themselves, using their power of dominance in the market to threaten partners otherwise risk off cutting ties. Nvidia in hopes it it all dies out stays silent to weather the storms, doesn’t work GPP called off
“While getting fcked by Crowbcat later (he mentions a link where a blackguy who literally made them kvetch)”
wut?
How much junk do you suck off in a week?
You gave yourself a thumbs-down again. You just can’t stop self-flagellating can you. What a sicko you are!
If you put that much worth in fake internet points, you should go visit reddit. They love losers like you.
The port is really poor.
Lay off the crack.
When PS3 emulators take advantage of low level API’s and the triple A industry can’t. No wonder it’s failing and no wonder they need shill journalism to praise mediocrity.
That moment when SONY are making beter ports than multi-platform publishers.
Yes i am looking at you Square enix and KOEI.
do they? i was under the impression that they hired a 3rd party studio.
Yes, you are right about that but i think sony is quality controling that port or at least they are giving that 3rd party studio a proper budget to get the port job right.
The bar is quite low to be honest.
AND….Sony does the pricing right. Even though I already own horizon zero dawn and god of war on PS5, I repurchased for PC. FF7 remake…which I also own….I definitely did not and will not rebuy at thee ridiculous price.
Release games late….charge a lower price. Surprising to see a console exclusivity champion doing PC gaming so right.
$50 for a 2018 game…how is that pricing right? is almost like they want me to pirate it.
FF7R is ridiculous at $70+ under any lens for sure, being Epic store exclusive makes it even harder to justify it.
They’re charging less than a normal pc release. They could just as easily have charged full price. Or as square Enix did…raise the price.
If you haven’t played the game already, it’s well worth a purchase at $50. It’s a much better value than paying that much or more for most games made in 2021.
I would pay 60 for the original trilogy. I would pay 30-20 for this on GOG.
This “reboot” is fine, if you like cinematic games with a huge budget, the combat is competent but the level design is a head scratcher for me, too many corridors and the open world sections work as a hub to direct you to more corridors towards secondary quests that only are there to level up, and repetetive bosses and enemies (the game lacks hugely on variety). The port is way above what are we used to lately, so kudos for that (even when the major visual upgrades besides the obvious res and framerate are the shadows).
The thing is, the GOTY on consoles back in 2018 ends up a meh game on PC.
I guess that depends on whether you were a fan of the original god of war games or not. I didn’t hate the original games. But I was never into the whole boring hack and slash stuff which is also why I can’t play games like devil may cry. I truly loved every minute of God of War 2018 and even played it through again in the New Game+ mode. The visuals and story telling were amazing.
Most of the complaints I’ve seen have been from fans of the originals who don’t like that this is so different from what the was previously. And that’s a valid opinion. I’m not saying you’re wrong. I just think they realized there are more people interested in this style of game than there are who are just looking for hack and slash action.
Best way I can describe it is as a cinematic masterpiece with good character development. And that’s mostly what I’m looking for in games at this stage of my life. It could also be my impression of the game from 2018, and I could feel differently about it after playing it through again now. We shall have to see.
I get you, but to me they took what was the series in terms of gameplay, (being a Devil May Cry clone and all that) in favor of the Sony template of games (cinematic, third person-over the shoulder walking towards cutscene with some basic combat in between).
This is a hack and slash too, with a really tone down Souls like combat in terms of complexity and enemy design.
The gameplay moments feel like the annoying thing you have to do to continue the story (instead of the story being the element in the background pushing the gameplay), just make a movie by then.
If the best way to describe a game is “cinematic masterpiece with good character development”, there’s something really wrong with it as a videogame.
Nice review.
“The Keyboard & Mouse implementation is exceptional”
looking at the screenshots that doesnt seem to apply to fov though. Fov slider?
Nope.
It seems that the port doesnt have exclusive fullscreen (FF7 Remake was the same scenario AFAIK) either, let alone a FOV slider.
Clearly wasn’t made with a PC release in mind, i wonder how much time they invested in this one.
well said. Every godamn game needs to have open world and overly serious and reallistic narrative that is depressing and gets nowhere, it has to have stupid rpg mechanics with leveled enemies and randomized loot and has to be of course “cinematic”.
YAWN. Go play the old games and the psp ones, play dmc, play MGR, play the ninja gaiden games, heck play tales or arise and scarlet nexus over this.
No the game isnt good you are wrong, the critics are wrong.
You forgot to mention the slow walk and talk scenes.
The Gears of War slow talk for exposition since the writers can’t think of a better way to tell the story.
at least in gears there is a zoom button that has some use, you press it and it zooms in the thing they want you pay attention to, eg crysis 2 had that too, but other than that i agree completely. Stupid kids cant read morrowind wikipedia articles when they talk to a npc i guess.
i hate though so much i literally phase out when they happen and forget about them.
we can have both.
I hate silly games that have no story, i don’t play just to play im not a child, i dont play games that don’t have a good narrative and story.
Everything you said, I actually like in games,except Open world I HATE IT
I hate Open world and I love all original GoW Games.
I pre-ordered this one and NEVER played it, wasted 60$, then got it for free on PSNplus and still never played even with PS5 upgrade.
Then i heard about PC version and decided it the final nail, i have to see what it is about on PC
what was the last time a AAA game had good narrative and story?
Congratulations on announcing your developmental disorder to the world.
“Everyone is wrong except me!” said the loser.
yes game sucks
Less than you do when your uncle takes you to the back room at least.
Soyny can port over Bloodborne, or go the f*k home. Every other Soyny game made now is interactive home theater friendly sandbox hot rubbish, made only to stimulate the normie basic instincts.
why would you want the only souls like game when we are currently flooded with souls clones?
John, make a joke about spiderman and ghost of weebishuma coming to pc.
The port is not very good but better then Horizon zero Dawn, Ps4 runs it at native 1080p on 30fps most of the time while the gtx1060 keeps dropping to 50 or 49 fps in ps4 settings, gtx1060 6gb is a lot stronger card then the ps4 or ps4 pro gpu, heck Ps4 pro in performance mode performs nearly identical to the gtx1060 performance on PC, the only thing i can think is the lack of optimisation from nvidia or amd on older for older gpu’s
Try to test and update with new 511.23 WHQL.
Should be even faster 😉
And maby do some tests in older games using DLDSR.
Yea the new driver is out btw you just have to open Experience. It doesn’t notify you yet for some reason. This is a massive driver because of the new downsampling/upscaling tech. I can’t f*king wait.
Found a link. Nvidia hasn’t updated the automated link yet for new driver. https://www.nvidia.com/content/DriverDownload-March2009/confirmation.php?url=/Windows/511.23/511.23-desktop-win10-win11-64bit-international-dch-whql.exe&lang=us&type=GeForce
Coming from the same f??a???g??s that wants to force people to take some experimental k???i???k???e?? poison in their body.
Gotta love Commiefornia.
One day, we’ll appreciate it when you finally come out of the closet.
You are still obviously in the closet NerdelBUM FINK.
You got me. I love getting railed from behind in the closet. It’s fun and reduces constipation.
Ever speak to a doctor about reversing your lobotomy? It would help you think of something other than a cute middle school nickname as an insult.
Since when is 60fps a smooth experience on high end systems?
I used to hate but now I’ve come to love and appreciate these sh*t posts.
Wasn’t this originally a ps2 game? I think I remember it on there, not sure how it would hold up after all this time and water under the bridge though. Again ultra settings are such a monumental waste for juvenile bragging circle jerk, high is really where we need the testing to be done at.
Your were a few cells on your mom’s coat hanger when the first God of War released. What are you going on about?
I see you gave yourself a thumbs-down. Very well deserved. Your crazy ramblings are becoming hilarious!
Ever consider seeing a therapist so you don’t measure your self esteem by disqus comments? XD ahahahaha
Poor optimization work by the AMD driver team.
I had no doubt it was going to be bad before watching it but damn!! that soy voice of that insane pos Balrog and a downgrade to the franchise only ubisoft can rival.The shiling powers around this one were strong and normies retardness never cease to baffle me.
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He is a GIANT F4GGOT.
He was carried by Santa Monica during GoW II by Art team and Developer talent. For this new Soy of War, he literally speaks like a f4g on Estrogen hormones in the above video. Compare that to Stig Asmussen who was Art Lead for all games and Director for GoW III.
That manlet hired Alanah Pierce and was also openly shilling for The K1k3s of Us Part 2.
A bunch of Sony bundles of sticks got my post removed. They cannot allow a Sony dev being exposed for the piece of crap that he is.
what did you say?
It was a pic of a tweet Corey Barlog made.
A teenage boy talking about the estrogen level of grown men, that’s the internet for you.
Do yourself a favor and look up the signs of high estrogen levels in men. I did, and I thought it was describing you perfectly.
what did he say, the guy you responded i mean his comment is marked as spam.
Lol we know you love the homos. It’s all you talk about.
Have you escaped from an institution for the criminally insane? A crazy like you is a textbook example of how dangerous social media has become.
Are these the types of insults poor people make because their chronic lack of nutrition has atrophied their frontal lobe?
You can tell us you’re closeted and ashamed. Come on out. We’ve already figured it out.
Some PC gaYmers are crying:
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hahahaahha
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To think God of War used to be a Devil May Cry clone.
Now is just another Last of Us wannabe.
shut the fu*ck
you only cry in the comments always
and crying is ur name
take this block bi*tch
so mad
shut the fu*ck
you only cry in the comments always
and crying is ur name
take this block bi*tch
darksiders 2, yes 2, did everything this game did better, better combat, better loot, better puzzles, better open world, this one has better graphics and serious story so 10/10 everywhere.
I agree. I wish PC reviewers kept old hardware around when judging if a port is optimized or not. This game should run better in AMD GPU. Directx 11 for a game released in 2022? Thats lazy devs and publishers, nothing else.
Then folks don’t realize this game is demanding as f*k for what it is on PC. Its a wide linear game, not open world, with very few enemies on screen. Yet CPU wise it is as demanding as Cyberpunk 2077 or Flight Simulator 2020. This game runs at 30 FPS in old a*s Jaguar cores, there’s no reason it should not easily run at 30 FPS on something like an FX6300. Why, because this has been the case in 99.9% of AAA games released in the past 9 years. Even Sony games like HZD, Death Stranding or Days Gone.
Jesus! Every GoW article you have to post your retarded rants. We get it kid, you don’t like the game. Now f*ck off.
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John, first of all I want to congatulate with you for the excellent article …. but above all I want to thank you for FINALLY implementing a modern system for viewing screens …. if I have to be honest, viewing the photos and open them in another site was really a pain in the butt! Thanks man!
Can you ever be happy ? Your comments always so negative, always.
He admitted to being in high school before. My gut tells me he’s going to end up as a school shooter.
I’m not joking, he and sfnx need to be reported to FBI, they show all the red flags and if they’re living in US, they have access to guns.
Amadeos as well. They are absolutely unstable.
FYI: It seems durka durka unblocked me hahaha
Well, The internet is the only place he can experience social interaction, he can’t block people every time he gets upset or his internet life is going to end up very similar to his actual life.
They’re just a loser whose only attention in life comes from saying angry things on the internet. They’re a walking timebomb of mental illness.
That’s not the most optimized game i’ve ever seen despite all the reviews but no stuttering at all that’s fine.
The amount of clueless idiots on this forum is so fking funny.
Waffling on about fov and it’s not fast enough and it’s not this and it’s not that.
That’s the way the game was designed and it works.
Maybe go play that disgrace of a game that’s been butchered to hell and back called Battlefield 2042. What a mess of a game, buggy as hell. Runs like crap, looks worse then earlier games. yes it does. Atmosphere. There isn’t any. It’s almost dead. Battlefield needs to leave dice asap. Clueless gimps.
As for DMC it’s crap. Tiny rooms and the same old crap A if you kill some in record time, boring as fk. For children that is is aimed at. 15 year olds,lol.
As for GOD OF WAR. It’s a Masterpiece Just like Uncharted, well all of them. Quality. Not that garbage. Assassins creed or some other CRAP from Ubisoft. Story,Combat,graphics, all flow as they should do aka Uncharted.
Yes it could have done with a DX12 OR VUKLAN version and would have run much better, DX11 is garbage, Most things that MS does are. You only have to look at the XBOX. utter sh*te. The braindead really think that can push 12tf’s hahahahahahah. Never in a million years. With a sh*te throughput of 116GPIXELS. PS5 crushes it with 146GPIXELS.
As for PPL saying PS4 runs like this and I should be able to run like that.
PS4 is not a 7850 or 7870. It’s been heavily customized. Go look sh*t up. That’s why it’s able to produce graphics on par with most sh*t today.
Metro exodus looks good, but garbage gameplay, barren and boring.
This game sh*ts all over it and the talking in Metro is enough to make you kill yourself.
“So, if you have eight (or more) CPU cores, we suggest disabling it”!
Are you serious John? Do you think a guy should disable HT in bios just to play this game and get 6 fps more?
And have a slower PC in all other areas?
Just to play GOW?
“All in all, God of War runs incredibly well on the PC platform”
Again….are you serious John ?
This is a game that runs incredibly well on a 1.8 Tflops little box….30 fps rocksolid!
And on an RX580 it runs at 30 fps for average and 24 fps minimum at 1080p / Ultra ?
So literally unplayable…
I mean …. a 580 is a card with 6 TFlops ! more than three times the power of a PS4 !!!!
XBOX One X level !!!
And can barely keep up with a 1.8 TFlops box, with a crap cpu and 4.5Gb of system/ graphics RAM usable for games ?
Every site says that GOW runs incredibly well on the PC platform and I’m triggered every fu***ng timeI hear this bulls**t !!
Sony paid all of you or what ???
In reality and in the dimension I live in, a game runs “incredibly well” when AT LEAST a 6 Tflops card like RX580 can do 60 fps at 1080p / Ultra !
This game is really bad optimized … and has very few improvements compared to Sony consoles … THIS IS THE REALITY !!!
is this the video you want me to watch?
Still sneezing out coat hanger I see. Too bad your mother didn’t have better aim.
“Keyboard & Mouse implementation is exceptional”
How did you overlook the mouse deceleration? It’s atrocious.
“Additionally, the game suffers on AMD’s hardware due to the DirectX 11 API. Make no mistake, AMD is to be blamed for this”
That’s not AMDs fault considering from the start of GCN they assumed Microsoft would have DirectX 12 rolling at least a few months after the original Xbox One released. API (DX11) was made for CUDA so why would AMD waist time and money into trying to support an API that their GPUs are not designed for?
NVIDIA and developers are more to blame for using dated Engines under DirectX 11 just because it was more familiar.