Vampire Hunter D
Published
libstrangle 60 %command%
Sometimes the game would only display a quarter of the screen, and I would have to exit and restart the game.
The higher your framerate is above 60, the laggier your web firing gets. Eventually the player character's animation freezes up altogether and web firing ceases to work, leaving the game unplayable depending on where you're at.
Do not under any circumstances play this without capping your framerate. Better yet, avoid Alien Spidy altogether, as even with a framerate cap its character handling is still terrible.
Most other people on here don't seem to share my performance issues, perhaps it's something specific to my machine.
The game's framerate gradually lowers the longer it's played, necessitating frequent restarts. Entering the pause menu, however, absolutely tanks performance to unplayable levels and it remains that way until you quit the game.
DX12 did not work, produced a grey screen.
Runs horribly at 1440p. It's a bit better at 1080p, but gets a lot worse when you've dirtied the house enough.
Minus some reoccuring crashes in the Nether Azazel fight, the game runs and plays nicely out of the box.
During one fight attempt against Nether Azazel, the game briefly zoomed into his feet and all ingame audio cut out until I restarted the game.
I recall Amaros' skin flashing pink once or twice, and some text on the launcher is artifacted.
The game crashed a couple times during the Nether Azazel fight.
It freezes when I hit the Act 1 switch or (if I resume from a save game) when an enemy attacks after you enter combat. For a while the game stopped doing this and at first I believed it was from setting the "PROTON_FORCE_LARGE_ADDRESS_AWARE=1 %command%" launch option, but it resumed later and adding or removing this command does nothing now.
WINEDLLOVERRIDES="winhttp.dll=n,b" %command%
I set the WINEDLLOVERRIDE environment variable to get the Bigger Lobby Mod working, but the default multiplayer works fine out of the box.
strangle 60 %command%
The game's physics runs too fast unless I limit the framerate.
Does not launch
Launching on default Proton does nothing. Proton Experimental spits out an error which says: "Failed to initialize graphics. Make sure you have DirectX 11 installed, have up to date drivers for your graphics card and have not disabled 3D acceleration in display settings. InitializeEngineGraphics failed"
It's weird, some people seem to run this game in Proton just fine, some can't, and I have no idea why. Wish I could play it too.
Past the Unity logo, the entire thing runs in extreme slow motion at a very low framerate. Effectively unplayable, sadly.
It's a lot of fun and seems to work fine for most people, my performance issues are probably hardware-related.
Spatial audio is messed up. It doesn't sound as good as it does in gameplay footage and I usually hear my character running through my right ear only.
I have to run the game at minimum settings at 720p to get it running okay, and even then it spends a lot of time in the sub-10fps regions
A flawed masterpiece
The game gives a constant stream of error windows as the menu and opening level load, only to crash to desktop midway through loading the level.
The opening cutscene crackles for a couple seconds, and there might be some slight crackling when the game's performance is suffering.
Initially my framerate was in the single digits, I had to disable the Origin overlay by navigating to Program Files (x86)\Origin in the Proton prefix and deleting igo64.dll. Next there was a very noticeable stutter. Turns out Origin is constantly writing to this one folder for no good reason, and changing said folder's write permissions prevents this and removes the stutter:
chmod -R -w ~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/1237970/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/Application\ Data/Origin
Now, for the first couple minutes the game will run fine, but it inevitably slows to a crawl. The only fix is closing the game, deleting any lingering Titanfall 2 or Origin processes in the task manager, and then restarting it.
Crashed once while changing graphics options, and every so often it just doesn't launch. You have to manually kill the processes and start over.
Origin launches as a series of black boxes, and the suggested i3 config tweaks do nothing for me. The fix is setting every window to floating mode until they magically combine into one window.
A lot of this was probably a combination of my hardware, my window manager, my distro, plus Origin being complete garbage, but it was still a pain. Thankfully a lot of people seem to run this game better than I, but it still sucks.
Could test Northstar but, given the performance issues and how I'll probably have to remake the prefix just to set up Northstar, I'd rather just run the game in Windows.
