November 24th, 2023 Video

Stability & Performance

https://youtube.com/embed/UW1uFElp7ZE?autoplay=1&start=617&end=716

Topics

• Technology > Graphics
• Satisfactory Updates > Released > Satisfactory Update 8

Transcript

yeah for the most part when it comes to stability for the game this is actually one of the most stable releases we've had I do want to tou touch a little bit of on performance as well and talk a little bit about that, so from the data that we can see for the vast majority of players the performance is actually like on par if not better, than it was before and it's it's nice to see that like a lot of people are having a pretty smooth experience with the game but that's not the case for everyone and I kind of want to acknowledge like for for some of those people that are seeing like worse performance on update 8 than in seven whenever I talk to people that have run into performance issues it has for the most cases been due to, Hardware not meeting minimum requirements and, running out of vrm and that kind of stuff it's it's important to note that like with this update we needed to to raise the minimum requirements for the game and we might need to sort of revisit this, maybe more in the future, to better fit like which cards we list in the minimum requirements cuz there might be some cases where you know some Hardware are like fit to fight in terms of like performance but doesn't have like drivers that are maintained anymore and we realized that this is really frustrating for people that maybe don't meet the minimum requirements and were able to play the game before we can't now and you know this is sort of the backside of working on a game that is in Early Access, and still being in active development having to sort of leave people behind in this regard but the thing was that when we were in Update 7 we were sort of like pushing the engine as as far as we could if like in the terms of what we were using it for and what we could do and we saw a lot of potential in in doing even more now we're sort of more primed to be able to better optimize the game and go even further you know on current gen Hardware so we feel a lot more optimistic with the new engine being able to do more with the game that we were able to do before so those are some of the known