Low settings of project shadow, optimized PC game that runs at 60fps on a gtx 1070 at 1080p low

[u/DapperCore]

[u/Area51_Spurs]

Draw distance measured in millimeters

[u/drakoman → u/Area51_Spurs]

Only one LOD allowed lol

[u/Dapper-Ad-4300 → u/Area51_Spurs]

And terrible pop-in

[u/topias123 → u/Dapper-Ad-4300]

Honestly I'd rather have this than garbage fps

[u/Muffinian → u/topias123]

Yeah exactly. The goal is probably to be playable even on low end PCs. As a gamer on a budget I’d rather this than not be able to play at all

[u/RepresentativeAd6965 → u/topias123]

Hard disagree on this.. I’d rather have 3/4 of foliage permanently gone than have it constantly appearing 6 ft away. I’ve played at 15fps with 1-2 lows and it’s pretty bad, but pop-ins feel worse to me and this video is the worst I’ve ever seen.

[u/InnysRedditAlt → u/topias123]

And for multiplayer pvp titles?

[u/WolfTheGuenther → u/InnysRedditAlt]

You mean where most people play on ultra low settings so grass/other shit doesnt load in but the player models do and to maximize FPS? I think it'll be fine

[u/Thedudely1 → u/Area51_Spurs]

It'd rather just permanently use the lower LOD than constantly have that pop-in

[u/MildLifeCrisis-Games → u/Thedudely1]

That is the low setting

[u/Thedudely1 → u/MildLifeCrisis-Games]

Yes, the highest detail LOD could and should be dropped completely at the lowest settings

[u/ohitsallpeaches → u/Area51_Spurs]

Astigmatism patch coming next

[u/GatePorters → u/Area51_Spurs]

It just uses RNG to figure out what it should display.

[u/MarlbroShorts → u/GatePorters]

Elite ball

[u/Kekeripo → u/Area51_Spurs]

Reminds me of GTA5. On pc I noticed that ring around me where you clearly could see shit pop in.

[u/Firedup2015]

Those graphics be pop in.

[u/Aganihm → u/Firedup2015]

It looked real impressive until that. I imagine it's still impressive, but the pop in of foliage really destroyed the steam of the point being made for me.

[u/cotton_candy_789 → u/Aganihm]

Performance is solid, but foliage pop-in definitely breaks immersion.

[u/Winjin → u/cotton_candy_789]

They really need that sort of low-poly replacement foliage to replace the higher quality.

DOOM 2016 does that on the fly. I tried to run it on my old 760 and was impressed by the visual quality... Until a first arena fight starts. But then, after a second or two of stutter, it all became better.

In the heat of the firefight I barely noticed the dip in quality, but by the end of the fight, I was holding a grey tube in 720p instead of a 1080p high fidelity weapon.

And then, as soon as the fight subsides and you stop jumping around, the quality dynamically kicks back in, and you can see visuals returning.

It was INSANELY impressive to me. This is what good engine craftsmanship looks like to me, when you set it to Performance Above Quality and it truly delivers.

They have the dynamic scaling, dynamic quality reduction, and these work seamlessly. More games should be running engines like this.

[u/Winjin → u/[deleted]]

Exactly. In the thrill of the fight, you're not looking at the fine details. You're not focusing on your gun and all the intricate details on it, nor you're looking at the detailed faces and animated gibs of the enemies.

Or like... You shouldn't be. Like that old quote by Harrison Ford, "This ain't that type of a movie, kid" - if you have time to focus on these details, then this DOOM arena is doing something wrong.

Plus, of course, the fact that the low-quality textures of DOOM look almost exactly like the higher quality, just less detailed - here you can see the foliage popping in, because there are no replacements.

If you got like these super-low quality greens that gradually get replaced by higher quality, it would've worked way better and less noticeable.

[u/Taenurri → u/Winjin]

It’s called LOD (Level of Detail).

Nanite in Unreal Engine 5 does this automatically. Unfortunately it’s one of the things devs use as a crutch to not actually optimize the game themselves.

[u/grizzlyadamsmf → u/Taenurri]

nanite can be seamless if well implemented

[u/kingwhocares → u/Aganihm]

It's probably because of low settings for view distance. Some games have very little impact going from low to mid or high.

[u/Big-Newspaper646 → u/[deleted]]

literally fog would work better than these awful lods

[u/InsectaProtecta → u/[deleted]]

Oh nice is that sceyda neen

[u/Warlider → u/Firedup2015]

I had to do a double take, Jesus.

I think id prefer if at least the ground foliage was disabled, not seeing green pop in on a brown background would make that more tolerable.

[u/xixipinga → u/Warlider]

Or just replace rhe texture with one that already looks like it has the ground foliage

[u/ICantBelieveItsNotEC → u/Firedup2015]

Like most games, it's optimised for screenshots, because that's what sells the game.

[u/DapperCore → u/Firedup2015]

Yeah... I'm not sure why they advertised the game as able to run on a gtx 1070 at 1080p when this is clearly unplayable. It barely hits 60fps on my 7900xtx at high settings without an upscaler.

Foilage is also just broken, their dither never resolves regardless of TAA/specific upscaler being used.

The GI is extremely low resolution even on high, it's practically just an ambient term. Standard DDGI has this issue and it's one of the main reasons you don't see it used often, but their alternative probe based lighting method seems to accentuate it further.

Tangent about probe based lighting for those who are interested in rendering tech: Lumen and G.I. 1.0 are about as good as probe based lighting gets, the way they get around the resolution issue is by primarily using screenspace probes and having coarser worldspace probes as fallbacks. Unfortunately, there is a fundamental limitation in regards to how many probes can fit inside vram and how many you can update in a frame, they just don't scale. It's one of the reasons modern approaches have started moving away from probes. The current state of the art involves real time raytracing with clever sampling via ReSTIR/megalights/manylights/etc. While computationally expensive, these methods use less memory, converge quickly, respond to changes in the scene with minimal ghosting, and offer far greater lighting resolution than even the most sophisticated probe based method.

At low settings, it looks like a ps3 game. It's hard to see it through reddit's video compression but geometry and textures are extremely low res. I'd expect better performance from a gtx 1070 at that level of fidelity. Even the weaker pascal cards could comfortably run crysis 3 at settings that are significantly better than this.

At high settings, it looks like a standard unity game from 2016 but with well designed scenes. I'm sure the level design will be gorgeous but this isn't the optimized dream game that the developer made it out to be in the other thread. Any UE5 title would look and run better compared to the high settings and the low settings are unusable.

[u/Warlider → u/DapperCore]

They did a QnA on here.

[u/DapperCore → u/Warlider]

Yep, that's the thread I was referring to. I'm surprised nobody downloaded the demo and looked at what "low" actually was.

[u/Warlider → u/DapperCore]

I will admit, i couldnt be bothered to try running the demo, especially since im on linux and i have a big game backlog.

But looking at your video, the truck's textures are crap and the pop in is horrendous. That belongs on a mod for a game for a "potato" quality, not as low settings.

[u/DapperCore → u/Warlider]

The high settings look reasonable, but performance degrades a ton. I tried running this on my linux laptop which has a 4070 mobile and a desktop i9, thought I was having a linux moment when it didn't get past 40fps xD

Switched over to my windows machine with a 7900xtx, was barely able to get past 60fps on high settings.

The above numbers are without upscalers.

[u/schniepel89xx → u/Warlider]

Foliage is biggest problem we've had, but we're now at a point where we can draw a f*ck ton and not sweat.

LMAO

[u/Cantor_bcn → u/DapperCore]

I think the problem is that ‘clearly unplayable’ doesn’t mean the same thing to everyone. People have different expectations.

[u/InvisaBlah → u/Cantor_bcn]

I sometimes forget that people on here are often much younger than I expect, because the older gamers among us will remember that pop in was a pretty common thing back in the day. Granted its pretty noticeable in this demo because of the amount of foliage, but we would have thought it was impressive if this were a game released when the 1070 was new.

[u/Raven1927 → u/InvisaBlah]

The 1070 came out in 2016, it isn't that old. Overwatch, Doom 2016, Dark Souls 3, Titanfall 2, Dishonored 2, Final Fantasy XV etc all released when the 1070 was new and they had better performance without this egregious pop-in as well.

[u/kohour → u/DapperCore]

Any UE5 title would look and run better compared to the high settings and the low settings are unusable.

B-but UE5 is bad and satan!!!

[u/Delphin_1 → u/DapperCore]

I just tried it on my 9070xt, everything maxed out on 1440p. Ran at a stable 90 fps.

[u/xChrisMas → u/Firedup2015]

pokemon graphics

[u/UntitledCritic → u/Firedup2015]

Real Time Rendering in real time

[u/Fun_Noisey_Boiii → u/Firedup2015]

Right? Project Shadow? More like Project Shadow Pop In Welcome to Seizureville

[u/No_Jello9093 → u/Firedup2015]

* Just replying to the top comment for visibility *

Hi there, dev here.

I'm addressing this right now, and I am publishing an update to the build that fixes this. The game actually can run at a higher view distance on the 1070, my philosophy though is to support the people with potato PC's who still want to play. Worse than a 1070. You can still easily get 60FPS on the 1070 at medium or even high vegetation quality.

Hope you guys understand. By the time you're reading this, it's been fixed and the distance is extended with no real performance loss for most cards.

[u/zagiki]

It looks good when you staying still ..

so .. just don't move

[u/Javop → u/zagiki]

Can't they fade in slowly or something. This is too awful.

[u/BumWink → u/[deleted]]

What if they add more low mist at the pop in distance, so it appears that its not popping in, but rather appearing through the mist?

Is that possible to do efficiently or would that add too much load to keep optimised?

[u/TheMongerOfFishes → u/Javop]

TBH I'd almost rather have less of them if it meant no pop in

[u/Spaciax → u/Javop]

dithering fade in is possible and you can see it in a lot of game engines. It's the thing where some objects in the distance pop in a grid shape instead of popping in the whole object right away. if not implemented properly it can still look weird.

[u/Errorr404 → u/zagiki]

Ah the good old DLSS screenshot comparison method.

[u/Inprobamur → u/Errorr404]

Same with TAA, looks great until anything moves.

[u/PoofBam → u/zagiki]

Awesome, I've been waiting for a good standing sim.

[u/Vivid-Software6136 → u/zagiki]

Me: That looks kinda dated but not too bad

Camera moves

Me: Oh

[u/Naive_Personality367]

That LOD switching is wild, even for low settings lol

[u/Sad-Obligation-965 → u/Naive_Personality367]

I've made LODs as a part of my dayjob, and it's crazy to think that
1) that lod distance would really be the bottleneck as it's already in your face. LODs are calculated as a relative size from the screen, and it's weird to imagine a LOD that close wouldn't pop no matter how well it was made.
2) Those are just kind of bad LODs to begin with. The idea is to match them so seamlessly, you could conceivably just snap them on. I'm not sure if there's some lighting shenanigans going on there as well.
3) You can have as many LOD levels as you want! If that wind-effect is too much, then just create one level in-between.

[u/huttyblue → u/Sad-Obligation-965]

Its a common issue with how unreal does foliage. If you want foliage to move and cast shadows it starts invalidating the shadow cache every frame and performance tanks.

You can limit the distance the foliage movement turns on but then you get pop in like this.

Unreal has alot of similar issues if you dare do anything too dynamic in its dynamic lighting system.

[u/DepravedPrecedence → u/huttyblue]

I thought it's unity??

[u/Civilized_E]

It looks great, but that pop-in breaks the ambience.

[u/csji]

yikes. 60fps means nothing if rendering distance is 30 inches.

[u/GrassrootzRoger → u/csji]

It is still impressive for what seems like a solo project. I'm sure with better LOD transition distance it'll look good.

[u/CombatMuffin]

The word optimized has been hijacked out of all nuance in gaming. Optimized does not mean high framerate: it needs to run at an acceptable fidelity and performance, ideally within a range of specs.

This video clip has low resolution textures, especially on vegetation and the truck, but also pretty lacking geometry detail. The addition of "god rays" tends to fool some people, but the implementation shown in the clip is very low fidelity. They lack volumetric interaction with all that foliage and, if it's going to be that present, then there needs to be something in the atmosphere to cause it (fog, smoke, mist or similar). And yes, the pop in is very noticeable.

I haven't tried the demo yet, so the above shouldn't reflect on the full game, but this clip isn't showcasing anything particularly impressive.

[u/InnysRedditAlt → u/[deleted]]

High to Ultra has little to no visual effect on some parts of the game but performance goes way down when you set it.

I love the opposite where you set the game to low and it basically looks the same and doesn't perform any better

[u/omfgkevin → u/[deleted]]

Like Crimson Desert from the DF video, you lose like half for MAX with BARELY any changes too. And even between settings there's sometimes little to no effect. Low to cinematic texture quality only uses .3gb more vram.

[u/its_witty → u/CombatMuffin]

It being used interchangeably with scalability is driving me nuts.

[u/MrJoyless → u/CombatMuffin]

When I was using my 1080ti there were, and still are, so many games that look better than this while getting more than 60fps.

[u/DapperCore → u/CombatMuffin]

Absolutely agree, I think gamers in general just consider any game that their system can run at 60fps max settings native as "optimized" without taking into account that ultra settings in one game aren't comparable to ultra settings in another.

I've seen so many games that were berated for having "poor performance" when their medium settings looked better than the high settings for a title that was praised for being well optimized.

The reality is that it's difficult to expect nuance from a general audience, especially for a subject with as lengthy of a history as graphics programming. Every time I see people blame TAA or DLSS or whatever for ghosting I get a gray hair lol.

[u/Burpmeister → u/DapperCore]

I've seen so many games that were berated for having "poor performance" when their medium settings looked better than the high settings for a title that was praised for being well optimized.

Alan Wake II on medium looks better than most new games on Ultra.

[u/Dapper-Ad-4300 → u/CombatMuffin]

And frametiming!!!! Idc if I get 120+ fps on average if I’m getting stutters or framedrops, completely ruins the immersion

[u/Tenchen-WoW]

Let's turn up LOD distance just a..

https://giphy.com/gifs/oZFDGzlBJg4Hm

[u/Agile_Return_7684 → u/Tenchen-WoW]

You funny

[u/Any_Tree_7120]

That truck looks like it’s from a PS2 game.

[u/Nagemasu → u/Any_Tree_7120]

The entire fucking scene looks like it's from a PS3 game. I don't know what everyone out here saying "Looks good except the pop in" is talking about. Ignoring the pop in, this looks trash.

RDR2 runs on a 1060 and looks better than this.

[u/PubogGalaxy → u/Nagemasu]

Half-life 2 is 2004 game and it looks good. Looks are subjective.

[u/RobotSpaceBear → u/Nagemasu]

We run Space Marine 2 on a 1070 and it's glorious, i don't know how they pulled it off. It's a decade old card!!

[u/DorrajD]

So "optimized" is just a complete nothing burger buzzword now huh?

[u/DiamondDepth_YT]

I knew the marketing for this game was too good to be true. 

[u/DapperCore → u/DiamondDepth_YT]

If you haven't played it already, I highly recommend kcd2. It's an extremely well designed game from a performance standpoint, the graphics programmers knew the game they were trying to make and used all the right tech to make it.

Their decisions wouldn't apply for most other games, but for this specific title everything came together perfectly.

[u/misterff1 → u/DapperCore]

They used a different engine though and specifically the only one that is specialized in foliage. That is the most important choice of tech they made to avoid whatever this is we are looking at here lol

[u/DapperCore → u/misterff1]

They also use sparse voxel octrees for their lighting. Very few games are able to actually use that approach because it leaks light like crazy through thin walls, but kcd2's level design makes this a non-issue. For the visual fidelity offered, I can't think of a better performing game.

[u/misterff1 → u/DapperCore]

Agreed. They did an absolutely stellar job with that game and deserve all the praise they can get for that.

[u/Sensitive-Pool-7563]

Draw distance is minimum to distract people from the fact that this looks like a 2008 game anyway

[u/[deleted]]

this is how arma 2 dayz mod looked to 15 yo me

[u/jrdnmdhl]

LOD of the rings

[u/SoggyCerealExpert]

i gotta say...

Crysis looks better, and it's from 2007 and runs much better than that.. with same hardware.

[u/Limit_Ok]

Id rather have the foliage off at those settings than deal with the pop in. Not ideal, but it would be less immersion breaking.

[u/Soth0]

Pop In - The Game

[u/[deleted]]

Yeah, looks fucking dreadful. 2015 games look better in terms of graphical direction with stability, pleasantness to look, pop-in, etc. And run like 100 fps on 1070 on max settings.... What a dreadful showcase, anyone who thinks this is okay look has no clue and their game should be avoided.

[u/RevampX]

Mfers ever heard of occlusion culling? No reason for this low LOD 😭

[u/HawksRule20 → u/RevampX]

I’m genuinely asking because I literally just searched up what occlusion culling is, but wouldn’t that not apply in this case since the foliage isn’t blocking anything completely since there’s gaps in between the leaves?

[u/negativekarmafarmer9 → u/RevampX]

i dont think you know what occlusion culling means...

[u/GregTheMad → u/negativekarmafarmer9]

Yeah, seams like he is using the word without understanding what it means.

[u/Trider12 → u/negativekarmafarmer9]

Lol, you are being downvoted for no reason.

[u/socokid → u/Trider12]

This is PCMR. You just need to sound like you know what you are talking about. Anyone explaining why they are incorrect gets a downvote.

It's a silly place.

[u/No_Jello9093]

Hi there, dev here.

I'm addressing this right now, and I am publishing an update to the build that fixes this. The game actually can run at a higher view distance on the 1070, my philosophy though is to support the people with potato PC's who still want to play. Worse than a 1070. You can still easily get 60FPS on the 1070 at medium or even high vegetation quality.

Hope you guys understand. By the time you're reading this, it's been fixed and the distance is extended with no real performance loss for most cards.

[u/ravenshaddows → u/No_Jello9093]

the pcmr subreddit was just the wrong place to post this. and the post just doesn't have a good title.

if you had just titled it "We're a small studio and this is footage of our unfinished game" then people wouldn't have been overly hash about it.

But implying this footage is what the game looks like after already being "optimized" for a 1070 is where you kinda messed up. that's why the criticism is so bad.

also i'm sure you consider a 1070 to be old and low end , but it's not the 90s anymore. peoples machines aren't being replaced every 2 years. people still use the 10 series every day. they are WELL aware of what it's capable of. So if you don't bring your A-game to a gpu they use every single day to play games that look pretty good still , they'll notice.

[u/NeedsMoreGPUs → u/ravenshaddows]

The devs didn't make this post, someone unaffiliated that downloaded the demo did. The devs are commenting on the post because it makes their game look like shit.

[u/Seeker-N7 → u/NeedsMoreGPUs]

The dev made a Q&A here where they specifically talked about optimization and how good their foliage handling is. The person is talking about that post.

"Foliage is biggest problem we've had, but we're now at a point where we can draw a f*ck ton and not sweat."

[u/ew435890]

Wow this looks terrible. Is this what’s considered optimized these days?

[u/FirstAtEridu]

I can make Skyrim look like that... with the same shitty LOD.

[u/AuramiteEX]

That looks disgusting

[u/Returnyhatman]

Project shadow, not project undergrowth that doesn't have a seizure.

[u/Wboys]

Dozens of AA and even AAA games can run on a 1070 at 1080p LOW.

The graphics might not look as good but they usually also don't opt for objects popping in right under your feet lol.

[u/D2ultima]

Yeah it'd be way better if there was simply less foliage and it didn't pop in so badly. Or less density in the grasses or bushes themselves

[u/JjyKs]

Idk I would prefer having the lower LOD foliage and trees all around instead of this pop in. Also especially with the pop in, it doesn't really look that much better than for example Sons of the forest. It runs fine at 1080p medium on GTX1070: https://youtu.be/h0P-N14HFss

[u/AppleWithGravy]

thats not acceptable

[u/Strangefate1]

Is this being vibe coded or something ? Cause the draw distance pop in should be otherwise easy to fix with a dithered fade ?

Any game is gonna run fine on a 1070 if you make games like its 1999.

[u/nakhumpoota]

Schrödinger's Foliage

[u/MrJaffaCake]

This is Black Desert levels of pop-in. When optimizing, focus on least visually disruptive methods first even if it means missing out on minute details. So instead of having a tree that takes half of your screen change its model in your face, turn off the smaller and random meshes on the ground or cut down on ground foliage. Looks good otherwise :)

[u/the_imperator_r]

I'm playing BF6 on my i7 4770k paired with a GTX 1070 and averaging 65+ fps

[u/Dr_Downvote_]

that pop in. Maybe do the old Silent Hill trick and make it extremely foggy so you can't see a few steps in front of you.

[u/Richard-Squeezer]

Pop in is brutal

[u/Snoo_75138]

As someone who CANNOT play a game with BAD levels of pop-in, I hope this is just a early Alpha/Beta version of the game!

If the pop in is even HALF this bad on the final product, Steam will have Whiplash from the speed of my refund!

[u/ZaProtatoAssassin]

This is horrendous. Hilarious that the devs were defending and advertising their "optimizing" lol.

[u/dannisokay92]

Pop-in simulator 2026

[u/SashaNG1]

What's the game?

[u/ISCSI_Purveyor]

Oof. That pop in is bad. Pretty realistic looking when the camera isn't moving though.

[u/KennySalty]

Vegetation isn't needed if it pops in so much. This is optimization but not the one we need. You could just remove it or replace it with static assets which would make the scenery more coherent

[u/PersonalLab3841]

That looks like garbage!

[u/WolfOfDeribasovskaya]

2 meters of drawing distance is not an optimization.
Change my mind

[u/KingForKingsRevived]

Is this an early April fools video. Get outta here stalker.

[u/jimboteque1]

“Optimized” 😂😂😂

[u/Skyb3lla]

I mean, jstu get rid of the ground foliage at that point

[u/razpor]

Which game is this?

[u/fake_cheese → u/razpor]

Shadow Project

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3143530/Shadow_Project/

[u/XcOM987]

POP! POP! OFFICIAL VIDEO - That's all.

N/B it's impressive when not moving lol.

[u/Capocchia_Fresca]

That's kinda trippy

[u/05-nery]

Bro two meters of lod 🥀

[u/FortniteIsFuckingMid]

Subnautica be like :

[u/RickThiccems]

lol what a fucking joke

[u/Kitsune_BCN]

I saw a post here from the devs and thought wow! It was a screenshot.

Now i understand 😂

[u/guestpassonly]

Looks awesome til you move

[u/Sudanniana]

I'd rather not have the pop in then more textures.

[u/Babaooiey]

That pop in would literally make me uninstall and refund almost any game out there.

[u/Academic-Proof3700]

its not optimized its dogshit

Optimize means getting the framerate to playable 60-ish levels without turning everything into 5-polygon blob and LoD so low you are tripping over pop-ins.

Unless you can make it a feature of the game or game's style. See Shiny's MDK how they replaced textures with colored polygons to make sure the game run at a constant framerate, and no one cared about textures cause of the overall style.

[u/Hooligans_]

This is awful, what are you trying to show off here?

[u/[deleted]]

Wow... That looks horrible.

That pop in is terrible

[u/Renousim3]

I'm sorry but I wouldn't play this, the pop in is awful

[u/someonesshadow]

This is crap...

[u/Gangleri_Graybeard]

The low render distance is wild. Wow.

[u/gts250gamer101]

Who else is still running their 1070 in 2026?

[u/Vektast]

Looks ass! See SW: Battlefront from 2015, 1070 runs it 1440p high and looking way better than this "optimized" bs.

[u/[deleted]]

Wow, people have wrapped back around to using photoscans again after 20 years. Its like people forget actual photos and real textures make a more realistic illusion once every ten years and circle back to it like its new. That level of detailing is truly horrible btw, a two meter radius of loading foliage right in front of you.

[u/headhunter0610]

Normal pop-in already bugs me. This makes me want to shoot myself

[u/notthatguypal6900]

That LOD circle is so tiny

[u/dGFisher]

Big news for pop-in fans

[u/NickWayXIII]

Shadow project. A game that isn't even out yet that you're playing a demo to. It's not optimized. It's not even finished.

[u/[deleted]]

optimized? Crysis looks the same and runs with much less hardware.

[u/Nerdcuddles]

Looks good at first, then you look at it closely

[u/Ok_Definition_1933]

Redact decided this post had to go, so away it went. Deleted. Removed. Mass deleted even. Privacy and security are the big wins here.

sense ghost follow sugar acorn sulky nutty shaggy tub steer

[u/Duke_5ilver]

Mom, can we get some LOD?

Mom: We have LOD at home.

[u/shadowmage666]

The pop in is horrendous

[u/Orangstopp99]

The game itsels looks really good, i like the style alot, however would be unplayable for me with those settings if I had to use them. Would rather loose a lot of visual quality and details

[u/Motley-]

"Runs"

[u/SpeedwayFishStick]

Bro, why are the god rays and ambient occlusion the top priority to you?

[u/vovovovovovov]

Fucking yuck dude

[u/ScubaSteve3465]

The pop in!!!! It's too much!!!

https://giphy.com/gifs/AxaKe2ImWL2Du

[u/DatMageDoe]

It looked great... until you saw an early PS3-era truck. More pop-in than scalpers at a Pokemon set drop sealed the deal.

[u/Salt-Willingness-513]

Thats like the equivalent of sayinf i get 60fps while looking at a wall, ground or sky

[u/tv_ennui]

I was like "Oh damn, looks pretty good" then they started moving.

[u/Migeee__]

That LOD

[u/PrecipitousPlatypus]

Definitely looks like this is running on low, sure.

[u/KeiserHound]

“Wow that actually looks pretty good for low if I’m being honest with 60fps? That’s not bad.”

starts walking

“Ohhh optimized was sarcasm..”

[u/younakorn13]

https://giphy.com/gifs/fJSaSRqII1lmyRv2AM

this is rage bait post but i can’t prove it

[u/ExtraEmuForYou]

That pop in or draw distance or whatever you want to call it is kind of immersion-killing.

Looks good, otherwise. I'm all for more creative uses of game engine tech that are more efficient. AAA devs have been relying on brute force and poor optimization for far too long.

[u/ceeeej1141]

Devs should take a look at Atomfall. My GTX 1650 GDDR6 TU106 4GB can reach 60+ fps on 1080p medium.

[u/lo_fi_ho]

Ffs just git a gud graphics card

[u/Brigapes]

"optimized"

[u/HyruleanKnight37]

With an LOD that causes objects to pop in within two feet and a shadow render distance of "right in front of you," this isn't what optimization is supposed to look like.

[u/HelloItsMeEden]

Beautfull if you don't have to move

[u/Rickietee10]

This has the temporal stability of Will Smith eating spaghetti v1. This is not “optimisation”. You should not see the optimisations.

[u/owca6666]

This looks far from optimized...

[u/tomokko_]

Well, that looks like shit, what's your point?

[u/MyNuts2YourFistStyle]

OP couldn’t even get the name of the game right.

[u/tankharris]

Honestly, projects like these are really important. Imagine discovering a new optimization technique or creating a new method of optimization that could be shared to all game devs. I think it’s important that optimization is heavily considered and managed in all types of games. It increases the amount of people who can play (and purchase) your game. Win win all around.

[u/IngeniousIdiocy]

holy pop in Batman!

[u/DDDX_cro]

nice, but that minimal render distance....ugh