I know it's WIP. Here's hoping we get smooth 60fps come launch.
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Link's Awakening (Switch) E3 demo frame-rate is "choppy"
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I know it's WIP. Here's hoping we get smooth 60fps come launch.
I highly doubt the framerate won't be consistent. The game has a little ways off, they will fix it
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It's in the OP now. Done before I read your comment but thanks anyway.
Is there an example of a 1st party Nintendo game in recent memory that stuttered terribly but ran fine at launch?
There are multiple. I think the Kirby demo for example had framedrops but was 30fps on release. They also fixed BotW 's framerate with a patch.
Not too worried. Most Nintendo games get really good polish, and this game seems like the type that should be somewhat easier to optimize (since the camera can't look around sides and you can guess what will always show on screen). Looking forward to the game!
I saw it a little choppy on a livestream. I'm sure it will be fixed by launch. They got three more months to polish it up, and this is an E3 demo after all.
Probably an older build that they brought to E3. No doubt in my mind that it'll be solid 60fps at release.
It's a demo. I wouldn't put too much thought into it. Demos are specialized slices that are often further behind, and optimizations are usually made at the tail end of development. Plus Nintendo is usually pretty cognizant of frame rate issues
Even if they optimize it (which I have faith they will) the difference in frame rate from indoors to outdoors seeks jarring. Hope they can solution that too somehow.
I noticed the FPS dips especially when you get to the part where the monkey is throwing stuff at you from the tree. There was a noticeable drop that was worrying. I really hope they can clean that up because I would love for them to use this same engine/style for future remakes or other 2d/topdown zelda games.
They've got enough time to optimize until the game's out (plus patches as well if needed). I've got faith :).
It was pretty obvious from the Treehouse stream that the game is using a double buffered v-sync solution and most parts of the overworld were being pushed down to 30 fps. It looked like a solid 60 fps in dungeons and even some parts of the overworld (right outside of Dampe's hut, for example was a locked 60) so I believe Nintendo is currently optimizing and getting it to run at 60 fps everywhere. No need to be concerned IMO.
Edit: Most of Nintendo's other games use double-buffered v-sync and have no framerate issues. I doubt this one will be any different.
Edit 2: For those not familiar with double-buffered v-sync, it means that any dip below 60 fps (even if it's only a frame or two) the game drops down to 30 fps as long as it needs to catch up. So the game/system could potentially be able to run the game at 55 fps but would still be crunched down to 30 because of the double-buffer. It was obvious from the footage that this was happening for longer amounts of time, but in the finished product it should be ironed out.
Edit: Most of Nintendo's other games use double-buffered v-sync and have no framerate issues. I doubt this one will be any different.
Edit 2: For those not familiar with double-buffered v-sync, it means that any dip below 60 fps (even if it's only a frame or two) the game drops down to 30 fps as long as it needs to catch up. So the game/system could potentially be able to run the game at 55 fps but would still be crunched down to 30 because of the double-buffer. It was obvious from the footage that this was happening for longer amounts of time, but in the finished product it should be ironed out.
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Does the game target 60 or 30fps?
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"Man I really hope nintendo will bother to optimize a holiday season game that won't be out for half a year."
60 indoors and it dips randomly outdoors from what I saw depending on what is on screen (grass, monkey, etc).
albw certainly targeted 60fps, and it was a very smooth game when it hit it, but it had its moments. specifically anything with the wall mechanic (causing the camera to change perspective), moments that pushed a ton of polygons, and moments with many enemies on screen
It has a 60fps cap. From what I can see, the problem with the E3 build is that there's no inbetween. If it drops below 60, it drops all the way down to 30. Hopefully they optimize this. It was pretty obvious in the stream.
From what Brad and Dan said on last nights Giant Bomb check in, it sounds like it hits 60 indoors, and the drops to 30 when you go outside.
I wasn't very interested in this game when it was first revealed, but after the next new Zelda disappointingly (so far for me) being a sequel to BotW, I'm looking forward to Link's Awakening more now and hopefully this will be fixed by release.
This terrible and sad kind of argument, which I've been seeing more often now (and maybe I have been guilty of in the past, not sure), needs to go. We're here to discuss things, the same people claiming A aren't necessarily the same people claiming B so it only detracts from what should be encouraged in a discussion forum.