The Continued Ignorance of Performance Issues Continues to Hamper Player Fun

It's because people learnt their lesson and keep commenting constructive relevant comments instead of "bump" every three seconds to keep it attached to the front page.

I would be happy if there was an option to drop the quality for better fps on the base consoles, and have ultra for a ‘pro mode’ or even next gen only.

Not only would this help the performance of older hardware; but it would also give them more room when designing the game knowing that they aren’t restricted by the need for ultra settings to work across all sorts of varied hardware quality.

How can they not optimize the simplest things like simply using your power.

The longest thread in this forums history that has hundreds of different people all stating their issues, while listing the triggers that cause them.

Addressing an empty promise made over two years ago, that hasn’t even come remotely close to happening.

The lack of transparency and radio silence on this issue, not to mention that a dev or community manager hasn’t responded to this when it’s been on the front page for 2 months.

The recent update that has literally tanked performance even worse than what it was on all consoles and even mid to high range PCs. Causing people’s games to crash and even some people’s consoles and PCs to crash.

This all sounds rather newsworthy to me, especially with how big this game has become. It’s time they’re held accountable.

Absolutely, the performance difference between Low and Ultra is immense. I for one would definitely not be able to play the game on Ultra with my PC, but I can run it (reasonably) well on Low, with a stable capped 60fps (although I still get the occasional microfreeze, a few select maps - mostly reworked ones, like Campbell's Chapel weirdly enough - have my framerate fluctuate between 40-60, and then there are performance glitches such as Twins causing massive freezes the longer the round goes on if I'm facing them). I also believe the game has memory management issues, akin to memory leaks: it starts at around 1.5GB RAM usage but grows to around 2.5GB after an hour or two, and the longer you play, the more sluggish the game response especially in the menus gets (and I have 16GB RAM, so it's not like it's putting my system anywhere near capacity; I think that DbD with time is just using more RAM than it is meant to and using it very inefficiently as a result).

I don't know why graphics quality options are not a thing on consoles. I know that it has traditionally not often been a thing because games are supposed to already be "optimized" at a default quality setting and set framerate for console platforms, but that is obviously not the case anymore. With various older and newer-generation consoles on the market as well as a wide variety of differently-spec'd devices, having one quality setting (be that actually "Ultra" or some other standard, in DbD's case) is not really feasible anymore. I know that other console games do have quality options these days (for example, Assassin's Creed Valhalla has a "performance mode"), so I don't think console manufacturers are actually forcing game developers to stick to one quality. And if there's a game that needs it, it's DbD.

I experienced two crashes last night on the Steam version, luckily both happened in the lobby. I've never experienced any crashes before the Resident Evil DLC. I think BHVR do not QA/UAT patches outside of a dev environment.

Yikes! As if console Blight isn't already more difficult to steer, let's add all of this onto his hump. ..

These are too painful to watch. Just thought about turning on my ps4, but I dont wanna ruin my whole day raging at such nonsense. Guess Ill just see whats on netflix tonight.

Yep,sums up my experience quite nicely.

Not gonna play until we see a fix for this (hopefully tomorrow)

Don't jinx it please 😓

Yeah no,we should be happy if we even get a patch tomorrow that will fix the recent FPS issue lol

I respect the optimism though

I assure you there are many of us who feel the same.

Just saw Mandy comment this on other post about the current performance issues, guessing they won't be part of tomorrow's patch.

OOOOOOOOOOO BESTIES I BRING MORE NEWS

Sorry for the mistranlation, I inferred that there'd be a chance of it because you'd mention it to the team, who would then have a contemplation about it.

It's funny how a Dev responded to a post about playing with someone famous but not this thread....Priorities, unless i'm wrong and they responded to optimization somewhere else?