The game from the Bloober team hasn’t escaped the problems so often seen in Epic Games’ technology, and Tim Sweeney and his team need to work on it!

Digital Foundry has done an in-depth analysis of the PC port of Silent Hill 2 Remake, released a week ago, and while it manages to visually outperform the PlayStation 5 version on a strong enough configuration, the game still chugs along on PC. PC players also got ray tracing (RT), which could help with dynamic visual scaling (something the PlayStation 5 can’t do). You can get hardware-based RT with a click, and with support for Nvidia’s DLSS upscaler, for example, you can get a very different look on PC than on console.

When viewing scenes or cloth objects, the frame rate drops to 30 FPS, which makes the movement and experience feel awkward and buggy. The hardware implementation of Unreal Engine 5’s Lumen technology is not very sophisticated, as the texture of the grass often flickers, and this is also noticeable in some of the reflections. The biggest visual bug is still the stuttering, the frame rate sometimes drops suddenly, and that’s the problem with Unreal Engine 5.

It is not a shader compilation stutter, but a traversal stutter caused by loading and unloading objects in the game. This is an engine related issue, as Epic Games has not been able to fix this bug even in their own game Fortnite, so it has been with us for several years. There are some minor but still noticeable bugs that can be fixed by fan mods, but these cannot fix the bigger, more significant problems.

So the port was relatively good, but it could have been better, and Unreal Engine 5 has room for improvement. Still, we’re afraid of what will come out of Unreal Engine 6, because that’s what Epic Games wants to do with it to create a metaverse, and that’s what Disney’s hoped-for permanent world will be connected to (we talked about this yesterday).

Source: WCCFTech