Microsoft has just released the latest game by Compulsion Games, South of Midnight. Powered by Unreal Engine 4, it’s time now to benchmark it and examine its performance on PC.
For our benchmarks, we used an AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D, 32GB of DDR5 at 6000Mhz, AMD’s Radeon RX 6900XT, RX 7900XTX, RX 9070XT, as well as NVIDIA’s RTX 2080Ti, RTX 3080, RTX 4090, RTX 5080, and RTX 5090. We also used Windows 10 64-bit, the GeForce 572.83, and the Radeon Adrenalin Edition 25.3.2 drivers.
Compulsion Games has added a few graphics settings to tweak. PC gamers can adjust the quality of Shadows, Shading, Textures and more. The game also supports DLSS 3, however, there is no support for Intel XeSS or AMD FSR. Not only that, but the Microsoft Store/Game Pass version does not have any option for Frame Gen. So, if you’re planning to get it, I recommend the Steam version (which does support Frame Gen).
South of Midnight does not come with a built-in benchmark tool. So, for our benchmarks, we used the following scene. This area seemed to be more demanding than the others one early in the game. So, it should give us a pretty good idea of how the rest of the game runs.
South of Midnight is mainly a GPU-bound title, and it can run smoothly on a wide range of GPUs. Even the NVIDIA RTX 2080Ti was able to offer a smooth gaming experience at 1080p/Ultra Settings (provided you use a G-Sync monitor).
At 1440p/Ultra, the NVIDIA RTX 3080 and AMD Radeon RX 6900XT were able to offer a smooth gaming experience. There were some drops to mid-50s. However, if you’re using a G-Sync/FreeSync monitor, you won’t notice them.
As for Native 4K/Ultra, only NVIDIA’s GPUs were able to run it with over 60FPS at all times. To be more precise, the NVIDIA RTX 4090, RTX 5080 and RTX 5090 were able to offer a smooth gaming experience.
Graphics-wise, I wasn’t particularly impressed by South of Midnight. The game uses a Stop Motion style that feels weird in motion. I’m also not a fan of the art style. There are some cool weather effects but this isn’t a graphical showcase, even on a high-end PC. It doesn’t look bad. It just doesn’t look impressive in any way.
Before closing, I should note that the game does not suffer from shader compilation stutters. When you first launch it, it will pre-compile its shaders. However, I did notice some traversal stutters here and there.
All in all, South of Midnight can run smoothly on a wide range of GPUs. As such, a lot of players will be able to run it on their PCs. The game does not have any shader compilation stutters, but it does have some traversal stutters. Mouse sensitivity is a bit low on default settings, though the camera movement felt fine with a high DPI mouse.
Enjoy!
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Have you played it? If you have you'd see it's not woke at all (Unless you think anything that stars a minority is woke and if this is the case that's a You problem).
Oi mate, you're playing it?
How's the mc's attitude? Does it appeal to the "modern audiences" in any way?
I'm willing to give it a go, but it's hard to trust games these days when there's blacks involved. It tends to be just about politics.
Cheers!
She got a white grandma that didn't approve her parent's interracial marriage so maybe you'll enjoy it. I'm just pissed to hear there's no framegen on gamepass version..
No no… I don't give a fvck about the colour of the characters, I only care about a good story and no political shït, being the latest geh/cow/chrome oriented one, quite disgusting!
Appreciate the reply, though. It seems it does have the "mUh, RaCisM" involved, so I'm out. ^^
Cheers!
No no… I don't give a fvck about the colour of the characters, I only care about a good story and no political shït, being the latest geh/cow/chrome oriented one, quite disgusting!
Appreciate the reply, though. It seems it does have the "mUh, RaCisM" involved, so I'm out. ^^
Cheers!
games should be about white people and for White people, the Biggest consumer aka the TARGET audience is Normal [Straight] White Males.
Normal people are the biggest buyers anyway, since the rainbow puke of all types is under 2.7%, so making games about them and for them, its missing and ANTAGONIZING your target Audience aka MONEY BAGS and you NEVER antagonize Money Bags!
Same with just minorities there is no reason for them to be in a video games, since there is much less of them buying the games, games should be by white people, for white people and about white people, thats just basic Business
F*k off.
If that was the case, how can you explain AC Shadows breaking record sales?
ROFL, the f are you on? Give me some of that.
It doesn’t break any records, ubisoft just sold itself to china.
Steam player-base is minuscule, dont forget that there is big difference between creating a new woke puke franchise that outright fails because it has no back and Screwing up existing one which CARIES by the weight of its BRAND.
AC:S is failure, even with such a big brand attached to it
Do you really think steam numbers are representative for this game? Do a little research before you “ROFL”.
AC: shadows sold similarly to Valhalla. Sorry if this breaks your narrative, but it is a fact
Steam is #1 platform, of course it does. Look at other games, failed games had low steam numbers, Cantcord [even being sony games so PS5 “should” be the #1 platform], Vileguard and all the rest
“good games” [not for me] like that capcom dragon hunting slop for teenagers, has insane playerbase [and people play it on consoles too]
Ubicrap lost 30% of its value during last 30 days, what happened during last 30 days? AC came out
Both ignorant, and mixed up – lethal combo!!!
it looks really good in some scenes .but it also has lots of boring and empty enviornments.the game did a great job with its stylish graphics and it was different than other ue 5 games
This game uses UE4 though.
yeah it was just typing mistake .its a unique looking ue4 game
"Graphics-wise, I wasn’t particularly impressed by South of Midnight. The game uses a Stop Motion style that feels weird in motion"
yeah, feels weird to have animations at 20 fps while the game runs above 60.
Played the first 3 chapters last night and was really wowed by the stories, art and music. I think I may end up turning the game difficulty down because while it's not terrible it does feel like a chore the way you have to walk into the zones to progress. Even the platforming and note collecting is more engaging than the combat. I was excited for the stop motion but playing it myself on a high refresh rate monitor I just had to turn it and a bunch of other settings off in the accessibility options. Thank you again for the write up john and I also had to adjust the stick/mouse sensitivity as well. I really feel with the Stop Motion effect, the game was actually designed as a 30fps cinematic kind of game that people usually joke about.
So basically it's terribly optimized on amd hardware.
It's too bad this is a SBI slop game, the actual idea of bayou and deep south legends in a game is actually quite unique and could make a great game, but the game just had to be made by essentially SBI to ruin it.
Welp thats another one to avoid then..
This game is really not bad and deserves a bit more success.
yeah I know of the thing that the main character was supposed to be white and sweet baby changed that allegedly but i don't care.
The characters really fit in this setting and it looks fantastic. Gameplay is a little bit on the simple side but it's fun.
After playing the first few chapters, unless the story was changed too, I'm not sure if she should have been white but maybe lighter in skin tone due to her parents.
Does it appeal to the "modern audience" in any way?
If not, then I'm totally playing this!
The community manager is a racist DEI hire that wishes all whites were purged from gaming. Make of that what you will.
Say no more!
i cant play i with that framerate and i hate swamps, i have given up on many games taking place in swamps.
inFamous 2 too?
I WOULD consider playing it since the setting is unique, but the community manager said "White male gamers were a mistake".
I'm clearly not the intended audience.
You'll benchmark this but not the GoTY contender Yasuke Simulator? For shame John, for shame.
Asset flips are waste of time for him
Given how many articles he publishes on unreal engine 5 slop, that couldn't be any further from the truth lol
ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1934570/discussions/0/601901034049202693/
The devs disabled frame generation due to some issues, so even the steam version doesn't have frame gen anymore
Skip another one to the pile not even pirated as demo worth playing
jewish bioweapon
thank you for noticing.
WTF Jews have to do with this trash?
Compulsion Games run by 3 clearly non Jewish people:
Guillaume Provost (studio head)
David Sears (creative director)[1]
Whitney Clayton (art director)[2]
They are more people in the comment section here than people playing this thing.
How does this game warrant its own article? Barely anyone's playing it or talking about it
How does this game warrant its own article? Barely anyone's playing it or talking about it
we are at a point that more people are talking about it than playing it, pretty soon more people would have worked on woke games than playing them.
You'll be surprised, I went to check hows the steam forums doing and found zero "is it woke" topics, i found bunch of locked topics but with different unrelated subjects, also it has Very Positive rating.
Dont assume i support this game, sadly some people do play it, not a lot, but its not one of them games like Cantcord or Vileguard that have a huge backlash.
I'm not surprised since Steam generally lets devs/pubs moderate the forums and they are able to purge anything that goes against the narrative. I wouldn't even be surprised if they also have the capability to delete unfavorable reviews. Steam has certainly in the past quashed reviews under the justification of "review bombing" because gamers aren't allowed to voice their displeasure at being force-fed a sh*t sandwich.
John got his graphic card and this game for free. This article serves no other purpose than to make him money out of thin air. The way this works is people like you click on this article to complain and he'll make money from ads thanks to your view.
Let me know if you require further clarification
they should put you in a cage and shock you with cattle prods until you bleed out your an*s you filth animal
I already bleed from my anoos because of bad hemorrhoid but thanks for checking on me doctor pidoras.
wtf are you russian?
Hell no
Pidoras is russian word for f@g
no sh*t sherlock, that’s why I called him dr.pidoras
haha you're probably right 🤣
The marketing for this game wasn't great and it released around the same time as The Last of Us Part 2 on PC.
92% on Steam.
These last months have been devastating for the AWW clowns.
Why should it have a different rating?
Only few people that care about such slop are buying it, so why should it have non favorable score?
Look at steam stats, its played by few people, aka loons like you that know in advanced what they going for.
Normal people are not buying it.
What matters are SALES not steam reviews, most woke games have good reviews, since nobody buy woketards buying them, its not complicated.
Yep. It's like using the critic review section of Metacritic as proof of something as if all gaming journalism hasn't been captured. The person you're responding to is the exact type of low IQ moron that these revisionists count on to help steer public perception as they carpet bomb the industry with so much garbage you forget that good games used to exist.
Game urnalists are not trustworthy anymore, I dont believe they get paid for, thats just BS conspiracy [I mean its not what you said, but generally from the internet], the reality is MUCH WORSE: they Just do it for FREE to "Hold the line"
If they see a game that has progressive, liberal, woke narrative or game that gets attacked by the so called "gamer mob" ie the real gamers, they just push the score to the maximum they can, FOR FREE, which imho is VERY SAD, if it was for money that would be understandable, people love money, but they just Useful Idiots, which is MUCH worse.
Yep, these cretins are just glorified internet janitors at this point. They’re doing something that they would do for free anyway which is spew propaganda and get their kicks feeling like they have power and influence over people. They do this for a modicum of money so they can pay their rent and not have to work a real job like the rest of us who don’t have the time necessary to fight back at the level they’re playing at. They look down at us “plebs” until the rug is pulled out from under them and then they cry as if their job was somehow important.
Society used to mock these people and let them go be mentally ill under a bridge somewhere. I hope to see this country return to that glory once again in my lifetime.
some body opened a can of ugly monkey on that bytch.maybe a can of stupid looking to. i will pass on playing this goat vomitt
The nice thing about constantly playing very old games is that personally, I'm always impressed by modern games graphics. 😅 It's looking great to me!
But yeah, the stop motion style in the cutscenes just looks wrong, and it breaks the immersion. (is it only during cutscenes? I'm watching a video and it's weird, only 50% of scenes look like they're stop motion…?)
Too bad it's once again a horror game. Not for me.
yeah, modern graphics despite being worse than they were in 7 years ago, look pretty good, there are some genres that benefit from better graphics like racing games but most games dont need impressive graphics and most modern games focus on that exclusively.
If you bought an RTX 5080, you are a part of the problem.
I got 5090, jealous much?
Garbage for the "modern audience"
She is black and thats the reason why this game failed so miserably. Even blacks on youtube will tell you that.
SBI's game what can we expect.. Black ugly muscular female with no breast… all for the sake "Modern Audience" in short the gays, lesbians, bi-sexual, heterosexuals', animal sexual, horse d*ck suckers.
Another woke game biting the dust. Hopefully no more SBI games after these flops
Doubtful. They couldn't care less that the "modern audience" doesn't exist yet, the goal is to create the modern audience through forced cultural revolution. The drivers of this shift will burn down however many companies it takes to get the change they want.
No offence I love DSO and I've been a visitor here for many years however the "Benchmarks & PC Performance Analysis" of every single game article is a complete copy/paste of the previous report, the only section one can read and done with it is the last paragraph "All in all, XYZ game can run smoothly on a wide range of GPUs". You guys really need improve the writing and reporting. I use DSO as first hand source but things are getting very monotonous. I hope you guys will take it as a constructive criticism rather than taking it as an attack which is not the case at all. I appreciate the effort and keeping the site up to date for years.
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Another sbi woke slop.
This site has always had the worst comments section.
Group picture of the developers:
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