They switched from UE4 to UE5 during development, so make of that what you will.
Given that the core audience of the series is and always has been hardcore PC gamers and also considering that past entries had both high hardware requirements when they released and pushed technical boundaries, they’d probably be better advised to prioritize visual fidelity over low hardware requirements. Not to mention, this is kind of expected of a remake, since one of the main points of playing any remake over the original - apart from accessibility - is up to date visuals.
If you are a gamer, have a desktop PC and are living in the developed world in any economic situation other than having to worry about every single buck, there’s very little reason not to be playing on a dedicated GPU. Powerful, yet cheap used cards that can run literally every game in existence are very easy to come by. Meanwhile, in the console space, the Xbox Series S is an incredible bargain - and then there’s the Steam Deck, which is one of the cheapest PCs of sorts that can run the majority of games.
None of this excuses a lack of optimization, of course, but we have simply no idea about the technical state this game will have at release yet. This is one area where the developers would be well-advised to break with series tradition.
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HD-Textures and reflections and all are nice, as long as it can run with the more powerful iGPUs minimum.
They switched from UE4 to UE5 during development, so make of that what you will.
Given that the core audience of the series is and always has been hardcore PC gamers and also considering that past entries had both high hardware requirements when they released and pushed technical boundaries, they’d probably be better advised to prioritize visual fidelity over low hardware requirements. Not to mention, this is kind of expected of a remake, since one of the main points of playing any remake over the original - apart from accessibility - is up to date visuals.
If you are a gamer, have a desktop PC and are living in the developed world in any economic situation other than having to worry about every single buck, there’s very little reason not to be playing on a dedicated GPU. Powerful, yet cheap used cards that can run literally every game in existence are very easy to come by. Meanwhile, in the console space, the Xbox Series S is an incredible bargain - and then there’s the Steam Deck, which is one of the cheapest PCs of sorts that can run the majority of games.
None of this excuses a lack of optimization, of course, but we have simply no idea about the technical state this game will have at release yet. This is one area where the developers would be well-advised to break with series tradition.