The gaming industry is putting in a disgraceful performance this year regarding PC ports. It’s not the first time a PC version of a multiplatform game has fallen short of the standard we’ve come to expect…

Consider, for example, The Last of Us Part I (which only made the jump to PC months later than the PlayStation 5 version!), Star Wars Jedi: Survivor (which can struggle on even the current most potent configurations!?), or the below-average performance of the Dead Space remake earlier this year. Add to that Arkane Austin’s Redfall, a significant flop for Microsoft…

Redfall was released for Xbox Series and PC. The PlayStation 5 version was canceled after Microsoft acquired ZeniMax Media, Bethesda’s parent company. So it’s an Xbox Game Studios game, so it’s fair to claim that it should run solidly on console and PC, but that’s not the case according to Digital Foundry’s analysis below. And it’s supposed to be one of Xbox’s big draws this year, albeit not as big as Starfield could be (and if it turns out to be a Todd Howard-style bug pile despite Microsoft, we’ll laugh at it…).

All three GPU vendors’ upscaling is supported in Redfall (Nvidia: DLSS, AMD: FSR, Intel: XeSS), and apart from that, the options are poor, and often you’ll change several things at once with a single switch, and no characterization of what changes what is present (the same issue applies to Star Wars Jedi: Survivor…). DLSS and XeSS cause visual glitches, and the game isn’t pretty, as the shadow quality is low even with the settings pulled to the ceiling. It can’t fully utilize the CPU and GPU, so it runs poorly everywhere and lags (the use of Denuvo is most likely responsible for that…).

The gaming industry seems to hate PC gaming.

Source: WCCFTech