Review Risen runs without misfires

[A user named cat]

After some quick testing, it seems the shadows are the main culprit in performance. Actually, they seem to be the only thing that makes the game run poorly. Unfortunately it looks like undetailed shit with them disabled but you get a huge frame rate boost. They really need to optimize how shadows work or something with a patch.

 

[Licaon_Kter]

Also another problem I'm hating: the damn audio looping. During wind or rain, there's almost a half second delay every time the ambience loops again and it gets rather annoying.

oh, so it's not just me

 

[A user named cat]

Seems you have the exact same problems I have then. Yeah that audio looping is irritating, how could they screw up something so simple? I don't know if it's the game engine or the sound samples, maybe I'll look into the .pak files and see if I can find the ambient tracks.

As for shadows, I took some comparison shots. At low, the game runs so much better but like mentioned, it brightens things up. People can judge for themselves if the big performance hit is worth it. For those with higher end video cards, this might not apply:

Low 1 --

High 1 --

Low 2 --

High 2 --

 

[Gnidrologist]

There are only 2 female models. There are much less females in the game than males.

Pyranha Bytes are very

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[Genma:TheDestroyer]

After some quick testing, it seems the shadows are the main culprit in performance. Actually, they seem to be the only thing that makes the game run poorly.

That always seems to be the case for me in any game. I keep shadows off by default.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

As for shadows, I took some comparison shots. At low, the game runs so much better but like mentioned, it brightens things up. People can judge for themselves if the big performance hit is worth it. For those with higher end video cards, this might not apply:

they all look the same