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This was definitely not possible at launch. This is somewhat improved now, with a 12 to 14 percent uplift in CPU performance on a mainstream Ryzen 5 3600, meaning that 60fps is now possible without RT active. CPU utilisation was abysmal at launch, with only the strongest processors able to run the game at maximum settings. Major stuttering problems traversing between different areas also remains problematic, the effect amplified with ray tracing features active.

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There's still no DLSS or XeSS support - only FSR2 - which is unacceptable when the quality of the implementation isn't good enough and the underlying Unreal Engine 4 technology has full support for all of those upscalers. Watch on YouTube Four games re-tested - but only one does a good job of addressing key criticisms from our launch coverage. This essentially makes settings optimisation impossible unless you have a photographic memory, or a capture card.

The options menu remains confusingly hyper-nested, with menus within menus and options that cannot be changed in real-time, meaning you need to restart the game to see the difference.

However, other problems remain as they were. This launched with astonishingly bad shader compilation stutter, which was quickly addressed. The results of our investigation are found in the video embedded below, but Dead Space, Returnal and Forspoken came under the microscope - and I began by taking a look at The Callisto Protocol. Some games have only had minor tweaks, and of the four we tested, only one has addressed the foundational problems we highlighted in our initial review.

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How long does it take to fix a PC game? Do they actually get fixed at all? Of course, the truth is that the situation is different on a game by game basis. We recently reported on big improvements to The Last of Us Part 1 on PC, so we decided to go back, revisiting four of the most contentious releases we've reviewed recently. 2022 and now 2023 have been rough years for AAA game release quality, with many games releasing in an unfinished, broken state - particularly on PC.

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