#Digital time mod#
#Digital time Pc#
#Digital time windows#

It’s a PC version that was ported to console. Fallout: New Vegas Fallout: New Vegasįallout: New Vegas isn’t a port, technically. We don’t have the hindsight with this one as we do with some of the other ports on this list, but hopefully the game becomes at least playable in the future. It seems, at least, that the developer is continuing to work on the game. The most recent patch, released about a week before this article came out, fixed a crash for all Intel Arc graphics cards on boot. The game is in a better spot, but it’s still remarkably broken. At launch, the game struggled to maintain solid performance on even an RTX 4090.Īt the time of writing, the game has received 10 updates since it launched, mostly focused on fixing long shader compilation times and the most severe crashes. To make matters worse, developer Naughty Dog originally promised the game would be verified for the Steam Deck. Mouse acceleration also caused jittery movement if you weren’t using a controller, and a slew of bugs created some bizarre effects where hair would render several times or characters would suddenly become drenched in water during cutscenes. VRAM limitations would often cause the game to crash, and the process for precompiling shaders could takes hours (it should take no more than 10 minutes).

That’s with the version we have today, too. Even at 1080p, the game can chew through 10GB of VRAM at its Ultra preset, forcing recent, powerful GPUs like the RTX 4060 Ti to deal with major stuttering issues or lower quality settings. The biggest problem with the game is VRAM. The most recent game here, The Last of Us Part 1 is an anomaly even among the string of bad PC ports we’ve seen this year. The game was eventually delisted from Steam and replaced by Dark Souls Remastered. It still suffers some issues, mostly due to tying the frame rate to the speed of the game, though it’s not nearly as bad as the original release.

#Digital time windows#

The game suffered from audio bugs, on-screen elements using low-resolution textures, basically no keyboard and mouse support, Games for Windows Live integration, and no graphics options.

#Digital time mod#

Attempts to unlock the frame rate without a dedicated mod would introduce major issues in gameplay. To make matters worse, the game was locked to 30 frames per second (fps). Most concerningly, the game was locked to an internal resolution of 1,024 x 720, regardless of what the resolution of your display was. It didn’t launch with severe performance issues, but it was a marked downgrade over the console version of the game and carried a lot of caveats. Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Editionĭark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition usually isn’t far behind Arkham Knight when talking about bad PC ports, though its problems were a bit different. The game, in this state, is still available for sale today. The developer has formerly ended support for game, leaving it up to the community to fix the performance problems through a slew of mods. Some issues were addressed, but even today, the game struggles with hitching and stuttering. The situation with Arkham Knight is not dissimilar from what we see in PC ports today, where a console version developed for a unified memory architecture struggles to adapt the game with the split nature of memory on PCs.Īfter a four-month hiatus, Batman Arkham Knight showed back up on digital storefronts. The PC hardware of today can overcome these problems, with much larger VRAM allocations to deal with issues. On lower-end systems, this could cause hitches that lasted several seconds during gameplay - and they were constant. There was unavoidable stuttering and hitching, mainly due to how the game managed assets in memory. You can sum up the problems with the port as poor performance, but that doesn’t get at how disastrous this release was at launch. That’s mainly due to the media frenzy the port caused, which forced the publisher to remove the game from digital storefronts for four months while it worked on fixes. Let’s deal with Batman Arkham Knight first because it has become the poster child of bad PC ports since it released in 2015. In some areas, we’ve made a ton of progress, and in others, unfortunately not so much. This isn’t an exhaustive list - there are dozens of games that have released broken on PC - but these are the worst offenders. I figured it was a good time to look back at some of the worst PC ports we’ve seen.