FWIW I played it at 1600x1080 on high settings except for post anti-aliasing and occlusion turned off and shadows turned down to low. It performed flawlessly and I am playing on a laptop with a 20 G Quadro K4100M and Intel i7-4910MQ @2.9 GHz. This game is very well optimized compared to others.
Testing the game right at the start area. My Video and Graphics options are:
VIDEO OPTIONS:
GRAPHICS OPTIONS:
As I was saying, right at the game's start I'm getting 40-42 fps avg., with the options above. When I turn Ambient Occlusion to High, I get 30-34 fps avg. Guess I'll have to say bye to AO.
While I can't get anything near 60 fps (and I tell you I already knew this, because of my current PC specs given in the previous page), I think it's acceptable playing the game around 40 fps. I only hope my PC can sustain this rate in the entire playthrough
EDIT
Are your in-game waterfall ugly like that below:
And I was here thinking the water in Horizon: Zero Dawn wasn't rendered that great…
Another great thing about ELEX is how well optimized it is. You won't hit those "slowdown" areas that a lot of open-world RPGs have, where the FPS drops by 20, etc.. For the most part the FPS is stable and doesn't fluctuate much.
If I remember right, the only times I had even a bit of stuttering was whenever a troll was around (which wasn't often), or sometimes when I was going through or around lava/fire areas. And even those times were minimal.
I bought it and am currently playing it, maybe about 5-6 hours in our so (level 7). I think I died more times in the first 2 hours of playing than I did in 80 hours if Skyrim. This world is lethal and I'm loving it, no idea why I didn't buy it sooner.
Yeah. The writing is more comical than good, the controls are a bit wonky, the animations are...funny, the UI is made for controllers and not M&K, the quests are silly and the skills are foggy. But I'm having a blast!
And it has more RPG mechanics, depth and challenge than most. The choices and consequences alone may be the deepest ever in an open-world RPG, up there with Fallout: New Vegas.
Sure, I could nitpick a few things about the game, but overall it was excellent. Well worth every cent I paid for it, and I'm certain that, in the future, I will replay this one many times.
Lol, I'm IT for a huge corporation and so I get a lot of pc parts from coworkers when their machines break. It's like nut, can you fix this for me? If not, could you ecycle it, etc.