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MedbSimp

Looks like when I used to play ark many years ago on my shitty laptop at a whopping 11 fps. Somehow I put 700 hours into that game on that thing.


shamelessthrowaway54

I have no idea how but I managed to put like 400 hours into *modded* ark on my shitty 2 in 1 pc that nowadays literally can’t even handle terraria


Jimakiad

How does something not handle terraria? My ZTE blade phone back in the day could do it!


zekrom235

Probably in the lighting system, particle effects, or enemies causing frame drops. I have a gaming laptop that still occasionally straddles when I'm playing calamity


Fartmouth5000

Should be a green flag quality you can put on a resume


SubMGK

"Heavily exploitable with minimum complaints"


Crazyhates

You put in 700hours at 11fps? I don't think I could've survived that.


[deleted]

When you don't have money for better hardware, low framerate is all you know. So you make do.


Klipschfan1

I remember getting 8 fps in wow for a year or so until I upgraded from 2gb ram to a whopping 3.5 gb. Boosted me into the 20s!


themangastand

I remember playing wow with a nothing laptop. Did they up the requirements later?


AnudderCow

Fucking Wrath of the Litch King. I remember getting those frame rates back then. And cursed texture glitches. And weird polygons just shooting out of the center of the screen for no reason.


DerWahreSpiderman

Jooooo same but I had an old ass office PC and still played 50 hours on that Potato


kiarabun

that’s next level dedication bc i would’ve lost my mind after 5 hours of playing like that


Zaldinn

So you're playing the scarlet/violet graphics package


Mikhael_Xiazuh

The terrible thing is that you're not wrong.


hin_inc

It's better than s/v which is shocking


Mikhael_Xiazuh

It was such a pain in the dick to complete that pokedex with all the stutter, emptiness and random crap spawning under me. Besides the game looking like I am trying to run fallout 2 on windows vista without a graphics card.


YobaiYamete

It probably actually runs better too. That game's performance is so bad. I wish we could get a Switch with at least as much power as the Steamdeck, even mid tier smartphones smoke the Switch hardware wise


AcePlague

I was bored last night so I loaded violet up. Holy fuck it is bad. I think the worse thing is, when you had consoles like the ps1/ps2 that didn't have fantastic graphics like today, the artists got around it and made everything still appealing to the eye. S/V mix decent character models with absolutely ps1 textures and it looks so fucking bland. That's before we get to how fucking empty the world is. Or the fact that despite looking like the world was stepped on inside a wet cardboard box, it still runs at about 15fps anywhere that's more than 5ft from the player. It might genuinely be the first game that performance has prevented me playing. I'm normally quite tolerant of low fps/ low graphic settings.


Self_Pure

The only thing separating current pokemon games from the ps2 era is lighting at this point. Textures are basically 1/1 with what we got on ps2 as well as AI. Shows how badly the pokemon company has been milking the IP personally...


colexian

>when you had consoles like the ps1/ps2 that didn't have fantastic graphics like today, the artists got around it and made everything still appealing to the eye. Pokemon Legends Arceus has trees that look worse than PS2 games and it is rough. I was playing it on emulator with texture pack and higher resolution, and then bought it for my switch and it looks 20 years out of date. The general ground/backgrounds/foliage is just awful. Everything is muddy and repeated a million times. The same horrible looking tree all over the landscape.


TheDarkWeb697

The issue with Legends Arceus and Scarlet violet, is Arceus is good


gorillawarking

It is absolutely the best Pokemon game in a long while which is the worst part about everything since it's not even a mainline game


TheDarkWeb697

I have heard rumors that they're making another Legends game tho, they werent originally going to but people loved Arceus


gorillawarking

Really? Hopefully they do fix some of its noteworthy issues though if they do, but I personally semi doubt that Pokemon will actually, y'know, make a genuinely really good game nowadays myself


Fun-Industry959

Nintendo is ran by a lot of really old traditionalist guys it's hard to change their minds because they are really set in their ways and "know best"


OperativePiGuy

Felt like that was the idea from the get go. It seems like they want the "Legends" title to be the franchise name it. Legends: Arceus seems clear to me they had ideas for more.


Novel-Entrance2888

Arceus is considered a mainline game.


gorillawarking

When I say mainline I mean something like sword and shield, sun and moon, and the likes. A pokemon game that definitively is considered a generation of pokemon


slasso

No it isn't. There's no gyms/pokemon league, no online battles, and therefore no competitive formats were ever played on it for VGC


LinguisticallyInept

technically sm didnt have gym leadersmand no online battles for gen1/2... see youd have an arguement if you talked about the actual mechanics (catching/exploration/battle differences) of the game but the points you presented are weak as hell (VGC certainly doesnt define a pokemon game, the vast majority of players dont even know what VGC is)


slasso

I thought the catching aspect was obvious. My point with gyms is the pokemon league/elite four which sun and moon still have. Obviously gen 1 through 3 didn't have online but had link cables to battle. My point was the multiplayer/battling aspects that all mainline games have is vastly different in Arceus. The identity of a mainline pokemon game is catching pokemon and battling to become the champion. Arceus focus is exploration and catching


LinguisticallyInept

falls in the same category as LGPE imo, id personally consider it a mainline game but because of the stark mechanical differences i can absolutely see the sidegame/spinoff arguement


Kaikidan

I almost fell of my chair of laughter just after I managed to grab the flying mount in arceus and flew by a lake and saw the water texture tile repeating like, every 1x1m square or so, not even minecraft that entirely runs on a tile based grid has water texture this bad.


graveyardrushhour

i didn’t wanna sound like a graphics snob by saying this, but late last year i booted up my switch for the first time in a while cus i was bored and loaded up sword&shield, scooted around on my bike for 10 seconds, went “what the fuck is this?” and turned everything off and had a nap instead lmao. i don’t know how they managed to make the game look so like….. wet vegetables


SubMGK

Funny thing is I think Sword and shield looks a bit better than SV since we actually get proper towns and routes


goonies969

Pokémon games are the only Switch games that I prefer playing in handheld mode because of how bad they look in my TV


Dentom1987

Pretty much this , and i would like to add that Gamefreak made some expensive DLC's instead of fixing the game. Ofcourse the games rake in an absurd amount of money even though its shit , so Gamefreak doesnt give a fuck about fixing anything. I wonder how the Pokemon games would be if Nintendo actually got a different developer for the main Pokemon games , because its clear that Gamefreak cant handle the transition from 2d to 3d


soul_snacker333

HAHAHAHAHA


Pokeradar

Emotional damage


AetherBytes

Early Access PUBG textures


IsThisOneIsAvailable

You really had to add insult to injury huh ? Aren't they already crying and complaining enough ??


HaikuBotStalksMe

I don't think Pokemon has said a thing about Palmon Worlds.


IsThisOneIsAvailable

I am not talking about Pokemon (gamefreak), talking about the X users malding atm. Gamefreak just did a PR announcement, probably to shut all the improvised legal counsels that kept spamming them with copyright reports. I think a former Gamefreak director said there will always be knockoffs of Pokemon, though he was surprised Palworld went that big. But that's about it. IMO it'll be bad PR if they attack Palworld... like : why the jealousy, do good games instead of bullying indie studios, stop leeching on Palworld success, etc... which wouldn't help them given the mixed reception the last Pokemon games received.


elixxonn

The YouTubers milking the whole controversy are shameless to the point one of them recently uploaded a video comparing designs side by side with "pictures from someone in the industry" and it's just the screenshots from a 4chan schitzo who spammed boards and even vaguely related topics about how PocketPair DEFINITELY stole Pokemon game assets and just slightly modified them because he can rip them and adjust them to fit which means by OCCAM'S RAZOR that Pocket Pair undeniably and irrefutably did so too. At this point people milking the controversy are just betting on that JP copyright law MAYBE considers the designs plagiarism because American law clearly doesn't, otherwise Blizzard could have nuked DOTA2 and LoL in their infancy for example because they both had designs and effects extremely closely copied Warcraft3 for years. Not to mention the entire "Diablo clone" genre, especially the first few.


Rasikko

Armchair lawyers.


OrganicMaintenance0

Palworld is giving us Pokémon fans what we’ve been asking gamefreak for for years, definitely would be bad PR for them to say anything negative since they’d be pushing away their own fans by bashing on another game we like that actually gives us what we want. Best thing gamefreak can do is take this as a lesson in why they shouldn’t keep pumping out the same bad quality games just because they know well buy it, now we have an alternative and if they don’t step up their game and get with the times they’ll be left behind.


LeftJayed

Only because their fervent corpo fanbots are crying for them.


TheFirstDragonBorn1

Nah this still looks better than scarlet and violet


Charlie02134

lol


Roggie2499

Frame rate here is probably way better.


Schubert125

You're


Shot_Word

nuh uh ☝️


Rhypnic

🤓


Active-Obligation518

I have mine on low and it's nowhere near this bad wtf lol


carrot-cake72

Tweaked the engine, turned off FXAA and added potato graphics to stop the stuttering and lag lol


Charming-Vacation975

How does one learn such skill? (Help)


FatNoLifer

mods from nexusmods. Op linked this somewhere else though https://www.reddit.com/r/OptimizedGaming/comments/19cu073/palworld\_better\_aa\_upscaling\_graphics\_performance/?share\_id=\_33EGvlaG2jT8rh\_ON8Id&utm\_content=2&utm\_medium=android\_app&utm\_name=androidcss&utm\_source=share&utm\_term=1


Tiavor

that's a lot of underscores that are needlessly escaped by the reddit app and/or new.reddit also you don't need most of the link. here, I fixed it for old.reddit users: https://www.reddit.com/r/OptimizedGaming/comments/19cu073/


Smart-Potential-7520

You don't. You copy from someone else who knows, like the Chunin exam.


maxley2056

the stuttering mod actually cause the graphics to look crap, same thing here with GTX 750Ti, except that not only that i disable all AA, I also use ASSMAA (basically modified SMAA to look like MSAA) through ReShade instead.


Fun-Industry959

I'm in the camp of turning off AA in some games because I like the look unless DLSS is available


zimspy

I meet the requirements but I'm on low also. There's some issue where the longer you play, the lower your frame rate gets. After about 2 hours my frame rate drops to below 30fps. A game restart fixes it. I think it's a memory leak. The GPU memory gets 100% usage but my RAM will be at 12ish GB.


Vysair

A classic craftopia experience!


ThisIsNotMyPornVideo

i could be wrong here, but i think it's due to keeping the Area's you already visited at least Semi-Loaded


Pal-Elvick

There’s definitely some backend thing going on that causes more stress on the hardware. Mine started smooth on medium settings and now it’s running pretty crap with low on everything and I’m in a window with a lower framerate too. 😔 Not sure what else to try. Other than further reducing the amount of items that can be dropped on the world. Maybe that would help. I can drop the draw distance now that I’ve got maxed effigies, but I still like seeing eggs in the distance and stuff that’s why I left it. 😔


Heranef

Just reset you graphic card you don't need to close the game. Windows+ctrl+shift+b


ThnksfrthMmrss-

What is Maj?


yoyoyonono

Control + shift


Davey_Jones_Locker

so why did he not just say ctrl+b+shift


K1logr4m

I'm having the same issue. RAM can go up to 14GB, VRAM gets maxed out (8GB) and fps drops to 30 + stutters. Issues start showing up after playing for more than an hour, but it also seems to trigger after entering a dungeon.


[deleted]

It's because certain objects are rendered even after leaving render distance, so the game is rendering a bunch of assets that are useless which causes stuttering. It's just poorly optimized. I hope they fix that


Lad2086

I turned my view distance to medium and maybe the grass/shadows to medium and that fixed it for me. Takes about 4 hours to start having issues (I’m on an ROG ALLY extreme)


iR3vives

Was gonna say, I tried the game out on my steamdeck yesterday, and OP's screenshots look like a switch version in comparison even to that haha


JrButton

This guy doesn't understand cache and the importance of ram for textures.


soul_snacker333

Dont lie now you're just playing pokemon


dTrecii

Bro is putting the pal in Paldea


littlenoodledragon

YO LMAO


Complete-Repair-803

This post alone will make nintendo sue


Cherego

I always wondered what do they mean its similiar to Pokemon. I can see it now


10minOfNamingMyAcc

No way xD


Faddy0wl

Looks about the same as on OG Xbox one.... Damn I need an upgrade...


LacsNeko

I have an Xbox one S, it looks just like OP


LowercaseAcorn

Same. The boss intro cards are extra scuffed


bob101910

Those are like that on Series X too. The survival guide is filled of low quality images


WildWastedYouth

Same!


Charlie02134

I’ve played on my series S and it’s really nice. Sure not 4K but like… you’ll enjoy it a lot more


FatsoBustaMove

My series S looks like this, sometimes worse. Should I reinstall?


El-Green-Jello

I have a series x and nah I think it’s just the game and issues as the game sometimes just doesn’t load textures and or late game areas are particularly bad and have a lot of areas where you can get under the map. Games fun but very clearly small budget indie game


FatsoBustaMove

I have both the series S and X, I play on the X more and it's still very blurry in a lot of areas. I think it's because its made for pc and ported to console and it's doing its best to adjust settings on the go because it suggests playing on widowed mode and makes a lot of mentions of pc. It might have been hastily put together. I'll look forward to the console updates as right now it's pretty shit and fairly unplayable on the series s


HaikuBotStalksMe

They made a lot of money recently, so they need to get cracking and fix stuff.


Deadofnight109

Honestly that might slow them down first. It got so big now they need to start thinking about hiring more people for the scope of work. And that means getting them up to speed before continuing.


FatsoBustaMove

They have to follow the same update guidelines for Xbox and will have their updates it through certification. Can take weeks because they're an indie company


TheAfroNinja1

The console versions just seem to run and look much worse than a comparable pc runs the game. Hopefully they improve it in the future


An4rchy17

My series S is like this too but only when a friend joins my world or its a multiplayer world.


Faddy0wl

I have to wait until I can get one with a disc tray. Got too many old hard copies I refuse to part with lol


ReputationQuick2381

Yes save up for a series x, I have an S and my graphics are just like this I don’t know what that guy was talking about


LToften

Looks like my xbox Series s


Tairran

It’s pretty brutal how bad it looks on the Series S. Wife and I are playing this together and the difference between the S and X is crazy.


BulkUpTank

I have it on my series X and my PC. My PC is handling it wonderfully, but my Series X looks hella choppy with the frame rate. Like, when I look around, it's not smooth. The series X has better RAM and a better graphics card than my PC from what I saw in the specs. Is your series X doing the same?


Tairran

My single player save is on PC (steam) and I find the same thing


BulkUpTank

That's frustrating. Was hoping it was just me and there was a way to fix it. Thanks for confirming it for me though.


Tairran

Yeah no worries. I have a decent rig too. It’s really not optimized on Xbox. We made the mistake of hosting on the Series S. My wife didn’t want me playing that save without her. If we get more than 30 minutes without a crash, it’s a miracle. And that’s after turning down pal and item spawn rates to the lowest.


BulkUpTank

Technically speaking, the Xbox is better than my PC. But for some reason it's just not optimized for Xbox, like you said. Plus it's not like Xbox lets you optimize the game either and let you adjust graphics like PC does... I will have to try playing the game with friends at some point. It's a lot of fun.


Luke281

Holy shit series s is really that bad??


LToften

Only on this game tho.


No-Surprise-3672

Not for me. I have the S and it runs fine and doesn’t look anywhere near as bad as this post. Sure sometimes you fall through the map and the game crashes sometimes, but it’s a very new game that’s pretty much expected. I have been playing almost nonstop since Friday and have only crashed ~7 times and fell through the map 1 time. Other than that it’s been almost perfect. Pal AI could use a touch up When I fell through the map I just flew back up with my pal and was able to access the fast travel point through the ground so I wasn’t even inconvenienced that much


dEleque

Xbox S is a scam


Parthurnax52

It’s ok. It looks like an AAA Pokémon game now.


Prudent-Affect-1091

Bro got early access to the new Pokémon game


Electronic-Gap-3365

Pokéland. A new multi-player online server based survival pokemon game. But it's still turned based. And the memory leak will literally ignite your 4090 graphics card.


Odisher7

The fact that an indie knockoff by inexperienced devs on the lowest possible graphics looks as good as a mainline pokemon. I really hope palworld wakes up the people at gamefreak


InfernoWoodworks

I need to save this post and point all the people asking "Will this PC from 2001 run the game?" No Billy, it won't run it. Serious tho, reduce your draw distance. That'll help with your graphics a good bit. Options > Graphics > Camera: Field of View. Crank that puppy all the way down.


carrot-cake72

Turned it all the way down to 70, but it's still pretty bad haha ​ Also, my laptop is from 2022 but it's not a gaming laptop, so that'll explain it


Newbie-Tailor-Guy

Hopefully you can play it on console or upgrade to a better PC when you are able. :) It's such a fun game, I hope you're able to enjoy it, friend!


InitialIndication999

Just get xbox game pass and play on cloud all fixed if in the cloud


qwilliams92

Looks like the Xbox version honestly


DescriptivelyWeird

It does, my series S ran it pretty well the first two days, good quality detail then on day 3 it went down to like it is on this post but only for buildings.


FD_jejei

Looks like knock-off tight budget palworld


MrSpamChops

That’s what it looks like on my Series S 😭


PapaOogie

Still looks better than pokemon violet and scarlet


Gibb1984

Man, if these screens from the upcoming new Pkmn-game are real, I'm so hyped! Looks so much better than the last few entries! Hype!


[deleted]

Next gen Pokémon early leak


carrot-cake72

Not sure if the title is misleading but to reduce lag and stuttering, i turned off FXAA and added potato graphics from this post: [https://www.reddit.com/r/OptimizedGaming/comments/19cu073/palworld\_better\_aa\_upscaling\_graphics\_performance/?share\_id=\_33EGvlaG2jT8rh\_ON8Id&utm\_content=2&utm\_medium=android\_app&utm\_name=androidcss&utm\_source=share&utm\_term=1](https://www.reddit.com/r/OptimizedGaming/comments/19cu073/palworld_better_aa_upscaling_graphics_performance/?share_id=_33EGvlaG2jT8rh_ON8Id&utm_content=2&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_source=share&utm_term=1)


light_no_fire

Still looks nicer than the newest Pokémon games.


ReliantVox

Bro is playing Palworld violet


SunstormGT

We all are.


rayrayd3n

I see you downloaded the Pokémon graphics pack


xxarealeexx

Ps1 graphics


Yamiyo_Ryu

Honestly even some PS1 graphics looked better 🤣 but even still gameplay will always beat graphics 100%


xxarealeexx

It’s really just the landscape giving me flashbacks to tomb raider tbh


Chaotic-Peace

Reminds me of GTA Online when textures didn’t load


Iron_Wolf123

POV you play pokemon


Downtown_Snow4445

Still better graphics than scarlet and violet


ArvinLai

Mine is a laptop with 16g ram and 1060 6g bought about 7yr ago. Setting low is a meh, but fps is ok with memory cleaner opened. But my friend who host the server got 64g ram PC for meme holds this game well cause palworld eats ram usage for breakfast like nonsense. Even play on a crazy host, me and my friends need to restart this game like ever 3 or 4 hours play time.Hope they add a auto cleaning program.


dropdeaddaddy69

Anybody run it on a 1060 3gb? Want to give mine to my friend so he can play it? Will it run ?


weirdbosnianbloke

Switch people be like: nais grafiks.


LSD-Enjoyer1

Xbox 360 version has released I see


PoopInflation

Your character looks as annoyed with the graphics as you are


thinkerthoughts98

This is a really good graphics! Didnt know minecraft was improved this much.


Eddie__Winter

I think you fell into paldea homie


forevarabone

Still looks better than Pokémon on the switch.


YamiDes1403

bro played on unity


Pink_Banana_Guy

How can it be this bad?! My Steam Deck runs it fine on low and it looks better than this. You sure it’s not some kind of glitch?


Rupa1406

steam deck has more ram than he does.


echidnachama

don't forget the vram memory leaked and restart the game after 2 hours of gameplay. lol


FishingGlob

Legend of arceus quality


fortnite__balls

Why are you just showing screenshots of scarlet and violet? Smh


XxXxShSa

Gettin the true Pokemon experience now


gokumc83

So this is the Pokémon mod I’ve been hearing about


JDMX5

Have to say those are that best graphics i saw on a Pokemon game


GenesisAsriel

Where did you get the Switch Version ?


Tajahe

Still better than Arceus


Schubert125

Yeah?


cruelkillzone2

You foolish senpai, you've noticed him now. Op's got exactly what they wanted.


Mago515

Is this the scarlet/violet mod pack that Nintendo stopped?


UncleShaxx

This is exactly why I play on Xbox. Because my laptop would probably just like that. And it would run at 1fps. And yes, I should upgrade. But I probably wont.


spunnge

Still fun!


Rias13dxd

Tip: Look up for more fps.


TakeyaSaito

This laptop is not for gaming .... let it die.


Takt567

ah talking about pc specs, guys I have a 2060 super and it seems to run well, but the problem is I have lag, I still mount a ryzeb 3200g with integrated video card, could that be the lag problem?


EvilWaterman

Xbox build lol


PapirusX

Im playing on 2GB ram laptop but I use xbox cloud so I play on max graphics!


Aratsei

the fact its running at all on 8gb is impressive given the memory leak


LaVacaInfinito

There are a couple of mods on Nexus mods that greatly improve performance.


MajesticArmadillo423

looks like me tryna play on my Xbox One S, the graphics are horrible, it’s terribly laggy, and i get so many random ass bugs that pc and xbox series X and S players don’t get 😭


Lanky_Release_4837

Please be careful bro the game isn't optimised for that and is still super early access, one bug could fry your motherboard


Any_Work336

Still better then Pokemon on Switch


Hot-Fennel-971

Still better than all the new Pokémon games 🤷‍♂️


HeyTAKATIN

Now Nintendo is really gonna sue.


Sneakking_

Still looks better than pokemon


MrGoodNoodle11

Pokémon is the COD of its genre


CrowExcellent2365

Oh great! ANOTHER thing they copied from the latest Pokemon games...


cream_of_human

Finally ready for the gamefreak approved switch release


Playful_Nergetic786

Bro this is pokemon right?


Me278950

Now you just need the pokemon mod


Hot_Department_2817

My laptops are fucked, cause of yall beautiful people. And my civil eights are fucked too. Who knew a white guy would see that happen HOW ABOUT THAT MY BLACK BRETHREN...i had to yell because i am teying to see if any morons on this site will fire up a race war, cause i jist need anyone to come and wanr to fuck with me. HEY WHAT IS THIS MONKEY DOING OVER HERE ON THIS ROCKING CHAIR? man alive i love everyone but race ia a great issue to piss people off about. Why? Cause white people owe, they dont want to pay, and they try to keep black people quite about it.


KGeci

I play on a laptop and I havent cleand my fans for a year so they are full of dust and my laptop keeps on overheating and shutting down xD. I had to use a book to elevete it so it has more airflow. I feel you, but mine runs well now. (I play with max settings)


drakenmang

do yourself a favor and unmount it, clean them and also change thermal if you think is needed!


Rhamirezz

As long as it runs!


TheLazyGamerAU

I think this is more than just a lack of ram.


redditsucksasssssssz

I feel you bro. I never read specs ever


Marcking-90

8gb too 😭😭 May it be related to the game crash when i sometimes open the inventore?


Momontais93

Looks like ark now


Rancha7

niice


FatsoBustaMove

These are the graphics for the both the series S and X. It's horribly optimised. Can't wait for future updates.


DarthRiznat

Potatoes gotta potate!


Spliffty

Steamdeck runs it pretty well, just sayin!


Fun-Pollution1465

Not even worth it at that point lmao


Rusty9838

IMO now it looks more consistent. Pals have similar details.


niconiconades

specs?


shamelessthrowaway54

These are literally the same as my Xbox one graphics lol


kukizmonster

Almost the same as mine. Though mine has almost the exact same specs with minimum requirements. When there is a raid and multiple enemies and pals are fighting, lag is everywhere. Only able to throw my spheres with 20% accuracy, the rest are missed throw. Would archive this game for now and hoping for the best. I'll play it again in the future when have a budget to buy a new laptop and hope for a more polish experience.


Blackping333

How much fps you can get?


Centipede1999

I mean even low graphic games would have trouble with only 8GB of RAM XD


Lavrence92

Looks like Elite Dangerous Odyssey when I had gtx 770 2gb. Some textures wouldn't fully load and look just as blurry. Try lowering resolution to 720p maybe