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With Dragon’s Dogma 2 releasing later this week, it is clear that there is been a ton of curiosity in how the sport may run on quite a lot of PC {hardware}. Whereas we briefly went over efficiency in our evaluate, we figured it was value relaying it in a separate piece simply how demanding the sport is. There’s not a PC on the market that may fully lock the sport to 60 FPS inside cities, however crucially should you have been anticipating to play the sport on a Steam Deck – or an ROG Ally, or Legion Go for that matter – we hate to be the bearers of dangerous information, however you may need to work out a special method of taking part in the sport. Outdoors of streaming the sport from one other PC or a console, you will not be taking part in Dragon’s Dogma 2 on most handheld gaming PCs.

The core of the problem comes all the way down to RAM; on Steam Deck, the sport will use 13GB of RAM for system reminiscence, and can use 5GB for VRAM – even on the absolute lowest settings. For the reason that Steam Deck solely has 16GB of RAM complete, which means that the sport suffers huge efficiency points always. We’re speaking framerates south of 15 FPS, with huge stuttering; whereas we have not examined the sport on an ROG Ally or a Legion Go instantly, contemplating that these handhelds supply the identical quantity of RAM, it is very possible that you’re going to run into the identical situation. If you wish to play the sport on a handheld, your finest guess will possible be to go for an Aya Neo with 32GB of RAM; not less than proper now, the rest is totally unplayable.

As for basic PC efficiency – after I performed the sport, I spent most of my time on my desktop with an RTX 4090, 64GB of RAM, and a Ryzen 7 7700x. At max settings, 4K and DLSS set to high quality I typically had anyplace between 80 to 100FPS exterior of cities, with cities and cities hitting a CPU bottleneck round 60~ FPS, with Vernworth particularly having common dips to 50~ FPS. On my laptop computer with a Ryzen 7 5980HX, 32GB of RAM and an RX 6800M – the sport typically ran at 30~40 FPS at 1440p, excessive settings. My laptop computer intently matches up with the beneficial necessities, which state that the sport must be playable at 30 FPS, excessive settings, at 2160i; so we will verify that Capcom’s efficiency estimates are, if nothing else, fairly correct.

Whereas it is undoubtedly disappointing that the sport will not run on a Steam Deck, Dragon’s Dogma 2 is one of some true next-gen exclusives that makes full use of the {hardware} out there to it. Though gamers must look ahead to newer PC gaming handhelds to launch to satisfy the dream of taking part in the sport on the go, it must be a wonderful showcase for a Steam Deck 2 – at any time when the {hardware} permits for Valve to launch one. For now, gamers must make do by taking part in the sport elsewhere.