Yesko
Published
If run with my suggested tweaks, I think the game runs at an acceptable performance comparable with the first game.
Proton-6.20-GE-1 GloriousEggroll
Fullscreen can cause screen to turn black on alt-tab sometimes, can be restored by randomly mucking around with focus.
I recommend to just run in borderless window mode and manually fullscreen window via desktop environment, I didn't observe any performance degradation doing this vs running in fullscreen.
Unmodified, the game at worst will run at 15fps on max settings
Post-Tweak Performance
After some tweaks I can get the game to run within the range of 30-50fps, averaging at ~40fps. While I would usually find this kind of FPS to be pretty unacceptable, my impression while actually playing the game was that any FPS above 30 was fine, to the degree I probably wouldn't even notice it without an FPS counter on my HUD. My theories for why this is:
- There is no stuttering, meaning changes in FPS are smooth enough to be unnoticeable
- Comfy game doesn't rly need high FPS
External Tweaks
I believe most of the performance gains are actually from the changing the graphical settings within the game, but the following also help.
- Use Proton-6.20-GE-1
- Run with
DXVK_ASYNC=1 gamemoderun %command%as Steam launch options. - Some people in other reviews mentioned needing
d3d9.deferSurfaceCreation = Truewithin a dxvk.conf file in the game directory, however I personally found this unnecessary.
Internal Tweaks
- CHANGING THE GRAPHICAL SETTINGS IN-GAME WITHOUT RESTARTING RESULTS IN MASSIVE PERFORMANCE DEGRADATION -> This is subtle and only becomes more apparent when loading a different area. It's still nice to compare how different graphical settings effect the game appearance, but if you actually want to see the real performance difference you will need to restart for some evil reason. (took me forever to figure this out)
- Setting Shadow Quality to low gives massive performance increase
- Setting Local Reflections Quality & Effect Quality to low gives decent performance boost with minor change in appearance
- Setting all "-Distance" related settings to anything other than high cause performance drop for some reason
- Finally everything else can be whatever you want, I didn't really notice any significant perf changes from adjusting Texture Quality for example (I found game looks nicer with DOF, Bloom & Light Shafts set to off)
