Lies of P is a new Souls-like game with visuals that are heavily inspired by Bloodborne. Powered by Unreal Engine 4, it’s time now to benchmark Lies of P and examine its performance on the PC platform.
For our Lies of P PC Performance Analysis, we used an AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D, 32GB of DDR5 at 6000Mhz, AMD’s Radeon RX580, RX Vega 64, RX 6900XT, RX 7900XTX, NVIDIA’s GTX980Ti, RTX 2080Ti, RTX 3080 and RTX 4090. We also used Windows 10 64-bit, the GeForce 537.13 and the Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 23.9.1 drivers. Moreover, we’ve disabled the second CCD on our 7950X3D.
Round8 Studio has added a few graphics settings to tweak. PC gamers can adjust the quality of Visibility, Anti-Aliasing, Textures, Shadows and more. The game also supports both AMD FSR 2.0 and NVIDIA DLSS 2. Unfortunately, though, the game does not support an Exclusive Fullscreen Mode (meaning that you can’t use a resolution higher than the one of your desktop. For downsampling, you’ll have to set your desktop at your desired resolution).
Lies of P does not feature any built-in benchmark tool. As such, for our GPU benchmarks, we used the Krat Central Station Plaza. This area appeared to be one of the most demanding ones, meaning that it can give us a pretty good idea of how the rest of the game runs.
Lies of P does not require a high-end CPU. At 1080p/Max Settings, our AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D was able to push over 300fps. When we simulated a dual-core CPU (with SMT/Hyper-Threading enabled), we were able to get a minimum of 211fps and an average of 227fps in our benchmark scene.
At 1080p/Max Settings, most of our GPUs were able to push framerates over 60fps. Hell, even our GTX980Ti was able to offer a smooth gaming experience. This is amazing news for those owning older graphics cards as they will be able to enjoy this new Souls-like game.
At 1440p/Max Settings, our top five GPUs had no trouble running the game with over 60fps. As for Native 4K/Max Settings, our top four GPUs were able to provide a constant 60fps experience.
Graphics-wise, Lies of P looks amazing. As said, this new action RPG features visuals that are heavily inspired by Bloodborne. And, contrary to other Souls-like games, Round8 Studio has nailed it. Lies of P features some truly atmospheric environments. Aside from its great art style, the game also has detailed characters. Now I did notice some low-res textures here and there but for the most part, the game’s textures are pretty good. And, like other Souls-like games, it has numerous destructible objects. Additionally, and again like other Souls-like games, it has numerous invinsible walls. For the most part, I enjoyed the game’s graphics and I don’t expect anyone to complain about them.
All in all, Lies of P is one of the best optimized PC games of 2023. The game can run smoothly on a wide range of PC configurations, and it looks great. Moreover, while it uses the Denuvo anti-tamper tech, we did not experience any performance or stuttering issues. Furthermore, the game will pre-compile its shaders the first time you launch it (meaning that you won’t get any shader compilation stutters). It’s really ironic. A lot of people have criticized Unreal Engine 4 but here we are with an UE4-powered game that performs extremely well on PC. So, kudos to Round8 Studio for delivering such a polished PC game!
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This game is a Gem. The performance it has in relation to how it looks is outstanding. I wish most games were half as optimized
The graphics are fine, but nothing to write home about.
So even though the Combat & gameplay is trash, as long as it’s optimized that’s all you care about.
Level design, enemy types, atmosphere and music are all awesome. The combat gets a lot better once you unlock the skill tree. If you don’t like it fair enough but it’s far from trash.
They also listened to feedback from the demo, locked on dodges are a lot better than they were.
It just felt like something phoned in. I find games like these to have very basic combat, no style. Just hit, block & roll. They pride themselves in having bad gaming mechanics in order to be “challenging”. Ninja Giaden from 20 years ago had better moves sets/fighting features than anyone of these games combined. When did slow clunk become the norm is all I’m saying.
Just two different genres. Everyone’s combat sucks compared to Team Ninja. Nioh 2 has the best combat ever imo. Really looking forward to Rise of the Ronin next year.
I think the jank in Lies of P kinda works with everything being demented puppets. It’s very deflection based, though. If you don’t like that, you’re gonna hate it.
This exactly. The enemies behavior and movements are not supposed to be super fluid like human but robot like since they’re literally puppets and movements depend on their joint hinges. It’s a design choice and very immersive faithful to the lore.
Being a longtime NG player, I can understand the frustration coming to soulsborne games but trust me it’s not about the fast or flashy combat, never was. It’s about the simplicity and patience/reward system that only these games can provide & it is very satisfying. I’m not a big fan as well but these games grow on you overtime and then they feel pretty easy.
The only one of the genre I respect is The Surge. I think it outclass anything from software has done. Because if one simple fact, KB+Mn optimization. That game is just unbeaten in that area and that makes it just awesome to play.
For me it’s never been about “oh the game is hard”, because I haven’t seen a game more difficult than Ninja Giaden black, till this day. I need to feel the fantasy, I don’t need to take 3 years to wind to a axe swing with added JANK. Or get killed because of a “feature”. I had high hopes for Lies of P, I just hope they tighten up the combat since the DLC because it felt really bad to be. But then again, Denuvo and any sorts of DRM automatically put it away in the no play zone for me.
It’s a universal fact that soulsborne games are against KB & M. You can’t play with it. Once you start playing with Controller, everything starts clicking and becomes responsive. Regarding progression and bosses, just jack up Strength & dexterity and weapon damage and almost every boss is a breeze. Rest Strategy, you know, they’re all circle around and bam! type of games. (Except Sekiro that game is HARD!)
There isn’t a whole lot going on visually (not that it looks bad or anything, it’s just not exactly a showcase for current-gen hardware) or physics-wise, but it’s still pretty nice to see a well optimized port after a slew of failures we’ve gotten recently.
Good to know. Now all I have to do is wait for that 100% discount coupon, cause I’m not paying for a no-soul game.
Witchfire is coming on the 20th if you’re looking for soul
Awesome, thanks for the heads up. Had forgotten about that one completely.
Keep in mind it’s an early access release only on the epic games store. The full release will happen in late 2024/early 2025 and will be on other PC platforms (and possibly consoles).
not so fast. I didn’t know that it would a f*cking early access game. but a dumb youtuber claims he played almost 30 hours so game’s got content that’s for sure
Early Access tho.
yeah I found out today. I’m devastated
The combat is pure trash. I played the demo and couldn’t believe what I was playing. The graphics is the only thing that’s going for it.
Graphics are mid too, i don’t get what everyone is smoking. People can finally play something at 60 fps that looks decent on their 5 year old rigs and they treat it like it’s the second coming of Christ. It would have looked good… in 2018. It has no ambient occlusion on a lot of assets, missing shadows, missing global illumination, missing good screen space reflections, ect.
Looks quite mid, flat and lifeless when compared to a lot of other games.
Here is a man that DOESN’T smoke or DRINK! Thank you sir, thank you for calling it even better than I could. I was looking forward to this game when it was first announced. Then slowly I noticed the AI was pure garbage, then I played demo and nope.
What’s happening these days is that we are stuck in a chamber of mediocrity/lower vibrational crap. Therefore everything people see/play they think is great. Until, you boot something up from the past that is pure perfection. Then the awakening happens. The same thing has happened with music.
I suggest playing the game on High settings at least, before spreading nonsense.
Also the combat is awesome, the options we have put Dark Souls and Elden Ring to shame.
The combat couldn’t honestly be any better, so I don’t know what you even talking about.
Play full game – the combat is very good and really the game is entertaining and doing so good – yet hard to be able n the AAA category – can be considered as an indie game
Nice to see a well made PC port.
” All in all, Lies of P is one of the best optimized PC games of 2023 …”
me :
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I hope empress doesn’t waste time on this one or any of the upcoming stuff, we got Judgement w the muppet trannyman recently, ugh, the formula after 7-8 yakuzas is just worn out. COH3 would have been a much better use of time but if you have a clue as to what/who empress is then Judgement made sense for it personally. These people work for biggest donation possibilities but Judgement wasn’t for that primarily obviously.
Man the warez scene has really fallen. The only one cracking today’s equivalent of SecuROM is literally a mentally unstable tr00n who runs a cult and charges hundreds of dollars for cracks.
the moment cracking became an actual effort all of those pathetic losers disappeared. the few talented sold out and got a day job to slave for Mr. Megacorp Sheckelstein. Empress is the only exception because nobody would hire him with a face like this: https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/ba7b9672766851e9e087baaf3a70c576783d322591f2e0d5df41546fca06a653.png
You remind me of demanding Indian scammers who think other people’s money is their right and get really mad when they can’t steal it.
At least, that mentally ill tr4nny isn’t a brain-dead virgin like most of you here.
not today, albanian refugee in Switzerland. I’m not in the mood for your BS
So why haven’t you personally quit your job and taken a stab at cracking games?
are you a bot? I can’t imagine a more robotic attempt at saying something unique
That makes no sense whasoever, there was never anyone at scene that quit their day job over an unpaid hobby.
Empress, the bulgarian troon is playing Starflop. And he’s also doing NFT AI art while his cult followers salivate. don’t count on the mentally ill troon
no one counts on it, I mean just look at igg, dozens every day and I still enjoy coh1 offline skirmish mode more than anything with all the maps out there. Only nuvo game I looked forward to was RE4 remake and that was a let down really, can’t get the magic back after so long.
On my PC with a Ryzen 3900X, 32GB RAM, installed on a regular SSD, with a RTX3080Ti, it runs between 80/90FPS all the time in native 4K resolution. Performance is really good. Same as it was in the demo. Yesterday I was streaming for a friend and not even a single hiccup or noticeable loss in performance.
And the game is awesome, put 15 hours already, it has its little flaws as every other game, but overall it is one of the bests “Soulslike”, and to me it is “the Bloodborn” for PC. Not in the same league maybe, but once you learn how to play and change/combine weapons and arms for each situation, the game is awesome.
4K is stupid. why not run it in 2k with sweet 140+ fps. the 4K cult is beyond salvage
In a single player game? tell us more!
forget this guy.
With so much copium in his blood he cannot be saved.
Because I play on a 55″ LG OLED TV with 120hz. Playing in lower resolutions is not an option, visually speaking.
But the combat is trash. Therefore gameplay is trash.
Combat is really good if you know how to match your stats with the weapons (combining them) and arms combo for each situation (or level).
What sure need some work are some NPC’s animations and some hitboxes. But gameplay overall is solid in my opinion.
They’ve only played the demo. Game gets so much deeper. Transforming weapons, unique weapon crafting, huge perk tree and awesome bosses. I love this game but this is dsog comment section, hurr durr muh soulslikes so bad…
It has nothing remotely connected to Bloodborne other than the Victorian setting.
They can’t help themselves, as long as there is melee wep, a dude, a dodge, a block feature, it’s considered souls-like/bloodborne to everyone. It’s the most annoying fuqin term to hear. I even heard people calling ‘Severance: Blade of Darkness’ souls-like when that game was out a whole 10 years before any of from softwares garbage had gotten released.
Hmmm a AMD sponsored title that destoyed the sponsored performance curse.
Also destroyed the lies spread by media, cause it supports DLSS out of the box, despite being AMD sponsored.
Plus in terms of performance, is not AMD job to optimise the game, they only supply help with AMD architecture and libraries.
Made by Korean developer, gorgeous artstyle, beautiful characters & enemy designs, responsive and fun combat and pretty well optimized for PC. Shame that it has denuvo but I’m pretty sure it will be removed sometime later. I support the cultural asian developers. This is pure fun game no bs and its fantastic.
Does it harbour a story or is it like those stüpid games where all you do is run around killing things on the map?
There’s is story yes! and it’s not as lore oriented as souls games but it will keep you engaged. I’m still playing it though.
Thanks!
Finally,i see light in these dark days of bad optimization…
AMD driver update added about 7% performance increase on my 7900XTX, I have the bios modded w/ 550w limit and get around 140-180fps in the main central station area with up to 200fps briefly, don’t drop below 140fps with the overclock @ 4K native Ultra settings.
Gameplay aside, good too see a well-made game technically speaking. Give credit where it’s due, especially these days where sh*tty, unoptimized, looking like a decade old games being a commonplace.
Only people with no development knowledge criticize Unreal Engine 4, it runs like butter in the right hands.
Same applies to Unreal Engine 5.
What we have is indie and lazy developers that can’t take advantage of it.
If you wanna benchmark Unreal Engine, just look at Epic projects, they all run like butter in a variety of hardware with all the bells and whistles.