Hogwarts Legacy

ebilcake said:
16GB, I'm just leaving everything on high for now, dropping to medium doesn't really help matters.

I've been monitoring ram usage, sometimes very high with 95%, but then drops off to 55%, much like the framerate, it's all over the place.
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I meant VRAM - video RAM. If you've got a 3080 then you either have 10GB or 12GB. Regardless, until the devs put out an optimization patch, it doesn't sound like there's much you can do.
 
For me a great game and looks superb all maxed out on my 4090. Also not a Potter fan but the game is good.
 
Dont you just reduce texture size? i would think anything under 4k textures should be fine with most video cards. Does the game have tooltips for graphics settings? Its anoying when they dont say which settings are gpu or cpu, and which ones eat vram.
 
theshadowcult said:
Dont you just reduce texture size? i would think anything under 4k textures should be fine with most video cards. Does the game have tooltips for graphics settings? Its anoying when they dont say which settings are gpu or cpu, and which ones eat vram.
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When you go into settings it tells you which resources each one uses as you select them. As an aside the game works quite well in linux mint too.
 
Publisher Warner Bros. Games and developer Avalanche Software announced the open-world action RPG, Hogwarts Legacy, is the biggest global launch ever for Warner Bros. Games.

Hogwarts Legacy has sold over 12 million units worldwide in its first two weeks since it launched on the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC. It has also earned over $850 million in global sales in the same timeframe.
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​https://www.vgchartz.com/article/45...2-million-units-in-2-weeks-earns-850-million/
 
I really want to get into it but was finishing the shorter games first. I still have Hi Fi Rush to finish before I will go deeper into this.
 
Game runs exceptionally in most areas. Hogsmead is the sole exception to that statement. My frames don't drop, but the game still hitches *shrugs*. Could be a memory leak I guess?
 
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A lot of the "hitching" in games in the last generation is a memory issue, based on the consoles because they use memory differently, and actually have a better memory system than pc. AMD has actually been working on fixing that, the chiplet cpus were the start, and they are trying to use that same system in other areas as well. Hopefully it wont take to long before we dont have to deal with the hitching anymore.
 
My brother in law has this game and it runs and looks like ass currently. His PC is equipped with a Ryzen 5 3600, GTX1060 3GB and 16GB of RAM. There seems to be a pretty bad texture load bug in the game, the faces are all like N64 quality and the background textures aren't too hot either. That book that appears when you bring up the menu just looks like a smudge with a logo. Definately not looking right. The environment from afar looks quite good though. He runs it on a 4K TV and it stupidly defaults to the highest possible resolution the TV supports....Im glad it has alot of customizable settings but they're not straightforward to understand.(2 rendering resolutions are listed, one is blanked out and i suppose is just the highest support by the display device, the other read like a scaling resolution....i mean wtf...just give me a plain simple resolution setting. Turning off the upscaling seems to have identified that as the actual rendering resolution. Anyways we'll probably fiddle with the settings to get some optimizations. Seems like FSR2 and med overall graphics at the lowest upscaling resolution might be good enough for this setup (they're not of the PC gamer master race so even the ugly unloaded textures wont bother them too much for the time being as long as the game can be played. The thing was crashing and looked like ass, they thought it needed a new GPU.. But obviously as a member of the PC master race, I know its capabilities better than them) This brings me back to the texture bug......anyone know how to fix it? Seems like setting texture quality to the absolute highest is supposed to fix it....but ive read its not working sometimes.....maybe just gotta wait for the game to be patched?

Maybe in hindsight it might be better off if they went with a console version for a set it and forget it experience (they dont have anything newer than a Xbox360) but i figured since they already had a capable enough PC that would be the cheapest route to play this game.
 
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Sasquach said:
My brother in law has this game and it runs and looks like ass currently. His PC is equipped with a Ryzen 5 3600, GTX1060 3GB and 16GB of RAM. There seems to be a pretty bad texture load bug in the game, the faces are all like N64 quality and the background textures aren't too hot either. That book that appears when you bring up the menu just looks like a smudge with a logo. Definately not looking right. The environment from afar looks quite good though. He runs it on a 4K TV and it stupidly defaults to the highest possible resolution the TV supports....Im glad it has alot of customizable settings but they're not straightforward to understand.(2 rendering resolutions are listed, one is blanked out and i suppose is just the highest support by the display device, the other read like a scaling resolution....i mean wtf...just give me a plain simple resolution setting. Turning off the upscaling seems to have identified that as the actual rendering resolution. Anyways we'll probably fiddle with the settings to get some optimizations. Seems like FSR2 and med overall graphics at the lowest upscaling resolution might be good enough for this setup (they're not of the PC gamer master race so even the ugly unloaded textures wont bother them too much for the time being as long as the game can be played. The thing was crashing and looked like ass, they thought it needed a new GPU.. But obviously as a member of the PC master race, I know its capabilities better than them) This brings me back to the texture bug......anyone know how to fix it? Seems like setting texture quality to the absolute highest is supposed to fix it....but ive read its not working sometimes.....maybe just gotta wait for the game to be patched?

Maybe in hindsight it might be better off if they went with a console version for a set it and forget it experience (they dont have anything newer than a Xbox360) but i figured since they already had a capable enough PC that would be the cheapest route to play this game.
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i mean... yeah? they are running a mid range card thats four generations old, with a low amount of vram, on a brand new game. The bug sounds pretty bad, but they are also running it on a 4k tv... with a 1060 video card. I am genuinely surprised it runs at more than 10fps.
 
i'm really not sure what he expected, Sasquatch, with hardware as old and as low as that. :lol: :lol: :lol: And yes, he would've been far better off with the console version in that case, clearly.
 
Honestly its the texture bug thats ruining the look.
Cuz this is exactly the thing that is happening:
https://hogwartslegacy.bugs.wbgames.com/bug/HL-3068
The performance can be tweaked to an acceptable level, really they're not looking for a 4k 60fps experience here...im pretty sure they'll be perfectly fine at even 720p at 30fps as long as they can play the game.
Heck they dont even know what any of the graphical stuff means.

again a console was probably a better option for a "just play" experience, but they're a pretty frugal family so having to pay 80 bux (or 70...whatever the game costs) AND an additional 400 dollars for an xbox or PS5 might not have been something they really wanted to do vs just 80 bucks for the game itself.

Anyways i was really wanting to know if anyone else encountered this texture bug....maybe not because the PC gamer master race of the 4090 crew sets everything to ultra lol.
 
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It's probably not a bug, 3GB of vram probably could have worked out better on a crossgen version of the wizard game, but the current version is developed for machines with way more vram.

Wait, doesn't that thread on the hogwards forum have a fix for the texture streaming issue on potato hardware?

I found this possible solution for people in the other bug thread (HL-567), It seems to have fixed the terrible face textures for me so far so sharing it here:




FOUND A FIX
  1. Navigate to \AppData\Local\Hogwarts Legacy\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor
  2. Back up file Engine.ini
  3. Add the following to the bottom of the file and save it



[SystemSettings]




r.bForceCPUAccessToGPUSkinVerts=True

r.GTSyncType=1

r.OneFrameThreadLag=1

r.FinishCurrentFrame=0

r.TextureStreaming=0

r.Streaming.PoolSize=2048

r.Streaming.LimitPoolSizeToVRAM=0




​[ConsoleVariables]




AllowAsyncRenderThreadUpdates=1

AllowAsyncRenderThreadUpdatesDuringGamethreadUpdates=1

AllowAsyncRenderThreadUpdatesEditor=1




If that doesn't work, try r.Streaming.PoolSize=1024 (If you have a GPU with less than 4 GB VRAM)




Below are the recommended values for r.Streaming.PoolSize depending on your GPU memory:

4GB or less - 1024

6GB - 2048

8GB - 3072




Sources:

https://www.reddit.com/r/HarryPotter..._low_fps_dips/

https://steamcommunity.com/app/99008...0215218841921/
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Sasquach said:
Honestly its the texture bug thats ruining the look.
Cuz this is exactly the thing that is happening:
https://hogwartslegacy.bugs.wbgames.com/bug/HL-3068
The performance can be tweaked to an acceptable level, really they're not looking for a 4k 60fps experience here...im pretty sure they'll be perfectly fine at even 720p at 30fps as long as they can play the game.
Heck they dont even know what any of the graphical stuff means.

again a console was probably a better option for a "just play" experience, but they're a pretty frugal family so having to pay 80 bux (or 70...whatever the game costs) AND an additional 400 dollars for an xbox or PS5 might not have been something they really wanted to do vs just 80 bucks for the game itself.

Anyways i was really wanting to know if anyone else encountered this texture bug....maybe not because the PC gamer master race of the 4090 crew sets everything to ultra lol.
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As someone who is poor, i fuuly empathize with that. Im glad there is a fix for the texture issue though. If the game runs well enough for them to enjoy it, then thats awesome.
 
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