Subj : Capcom acknowledges the poor performance of Dragon's Dogma 2 on P
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From : TechnologyDaily
Date : Fri Mar 22 2024 16:00:06

Capcom acknowledges the poor performance of Dragon's Dogma 2 on PC and 
promises fixes

Date:
Fri, 22 Mar 2024 15:54:37 +0000

Description:
Capcom has released a new Steam post addressing Dragon's Dogma 2's PC 
performance issues.

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Long-awaited action role-playing game (RPG) sequel Dragons Dogma 2 hasnt 
gotten off to a great start on PC, where users on Steam have been reporting 
widespread performance issues and crashes while playing. 

Developer Capcom has responded to the complaints in a new Steam post , in 
which it sincerely apologize[s] for any inconvenience and outlines a plan to 
address some of the most pressing issues. First and foremost, the team is 
actively investigating and fixing critical problems such as crashes and 
freezing that are booting players from the game. These will be remedied 
starting from those with the highest priority via patches at some point in 
the near future. 

In addition to the crashes and freezes, some players have also been plagued 
with poor framerates - particularly in busy areas of the games sprawling 
open-world. Capcom explains that this is due to the large amount of CPU usage 
that is afforded to non-player character (NPC) simulation. It acknowledges 
that: in certain situations where numerous characters appear simultaneously, 
the CPU usage can be very high and may affect the frame rate, and are looking 
into ways to improve performance in the future. 

 Dragons Dogma 2 players currently don't have the option to restart the game 
once they have begun playing. The developers are looking at adding a feature 
to facilitate this with more details to be announced. The post also provides 
a list of the paid downloadable content (DLC) items that can be purchased via 
the Steam store. 

We were big fans of Dragons Dogma 2 in our recent review, where Hardware 
Editor and long-time fan of the original Dragons Dogma Rhys Wood awarded the 
game four and a half out of five stars and described it as challenging, 
thrilling, and constantly unpredictable. While we did note some occasional 
spotty performance on the PlayStation 5 version, it definitely seems like PC 
users have it significantly worse. 

Were hopeful that these patches will arrive relatively soon to help iron out 
the performance woes and allow players on every platform to enjoy one of the 
best RPGs in recent memory. You might also like... Learn how you can design 
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for other great RPGs



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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/gaming/capcom-acknowledges-the-poor-performance-of-d
ragons-dogma-2-on-pc-and-promises-fixes


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