lord of the fallen

"Crash test dummy

But the most challenging thing about Lords is trying to beat it while regularly losing 20 minutes of progress to a crash. I reproduced these repeated crashes on two PCs, both with high-end Nvidia GPUs (a Titan and a Titan Black). A colleague I talked to who is running a GTX 780 experienced no crashes, but they were very common for me.

The recommended system specs on Steam are a Core i7-3770, 8GB RAM, and a GeForce GTX 560 ti or better. On my older work machine with a Radeon HD 5900, Lords of the Fallen crashed at launch. On my second try, it took several minutes to load the first area, chugged a bit, and crashed again. Admittedly, this is the system I do all my work on, and it's seen better days since I started slowly choking it to death with games and software three years ago. Even so, come prepared with a high-end system. Along with my review code came some some different recommended specs: 3GB DDR5 VRAM (GeForce 760 or better), 3 GHz quad-core Intel CPU, and 8GB RAM, with a note that 4GB VRAM and 12GB of RAM will “make the game really shine.”

At home with a Core i5, 8GB RAM, and a GTX Titan, it ran at a steady 50-60 FPS at 1080p. There’s no vsync option in the menu, so I had to manually disable it in the Nvidia control panel to keep it from dumping me down to 30 FPS. I also lowered the graphics settings from ‘very high’ to ‘high,’ and that seemed to reduce (but not eliminate) my crashing problem.

Obviously, not many people have a GTX Titan, so I also tested it on the same machine with a GTX 560ti. I dipped below 20 FPS during fights even with the graphics set to ‘low.’ So, the minimum GeForce GTX 460 or better listed on Steam is probably nonsense. I recommend a 700 series or comparable AMD card."