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No Rest for the Wicked’s PC performance suggests the wicked might be better off waitingGot them early access growing pains
Got them early access growing pains
Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Private Division
Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Private Division
Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Private Division
On the bright side, I wouldn’t share the recommended specs’ view that an RTX 3070 Ti is necessary for smoother 1080p, though right now you shouldn’t go too far below that either. My RTX 3070 averaged 56fps on the top Best Quality preset and 66fps on Quality, still without dynamic resolution scaling, though again, there were plenty of stutters where this formerly high-end GPU dropped into the forties. I’m also concerned about No Rest for the Wicked’s ability to scale with much faster hardware – having upped the native resolution to 1440p, the RTX 3070 produced 62fps on Quality, while the considerable upgrade of an RTX 4070 Ti only improved that to 68fps on the same settings.
Oddly, the hardware that had ran No Rest for the Wicked with the fewest surprises was theSteam Deck. Having sucked it up and accepted the game’s own default Deck settings, which included the Performance preset, 80% render scale and dynamic resolution with a 30fps target, it did indeed manage to stay within the 30-40fps range more often than not. It dipped into the twenties a couple of times during that testy tutorial, and lower during certain cutscenes, but was never submerged below that 30fps target for more than a moment or two.
Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Private Division
It could still do with some help on the Steam Deck, mind. Taking such a huge knife to resolution settings meant that some fights took some squinting to live through, and even with the infinite contrast of theSteam Deck OLED’s screen, some areas were so dark I couldn’t rightly tell what was happening in them. Not ideal, especially for something as unforgiving as a Soulslike.
To conclude! Your PC will almost definitely have a better time with No Rest for the Wicked if you wait for the early access wheels to roll for a while. More detailed graphics settings are supposedly coming with the very next patch, and general performance improvements are in the works as well. The latter could help a lot – just look atCities: Skylines 2! Just, y’know,not too closely.
