Can I run it on a card with less than 4 gigs of VRAM?
Yes. Please refer to the minimum requirements above. You won’t be experiencing the game at 1080p and you’ll likely need to turn off some features, but you will still be able to have a great experience with the game.
What's the status on the game's framerate and aspect ratio?
Shinji Mikami and the team at Tango designed The Evil Within to be played at 30fps and to utilize an aspect ratio of 2.35:1 for all platforms. The team has worked the last four years perfecting the game experience with these settings in mind. For PC players, we’ll provide debug commands on how you can alter the framerate and aspect ratio, but these commands and changes are not recommended or supported and we suggest everyone play the game as it was designed and intended for the best experience.
Yes. Please refer to the minimum requirements above. You won’t be experiencing the game at 1080p and you’ll likely need to turn off some features, but you will still be able to have a great experience with the game.
What's the status on the game's framerate and aspect ratio?
Shinji Mikami and the team at Tango designed The Evil Within to be played at 30fps and to utilize an aspect ratio of 2.35:1 for all platforms. The team has worked the last four years perfecting the game experience with these settings in mind. For PC players, we’ll provide debug commands on how you can alter the framerate and aspect ratio, but these commands and changes are not recommended or supported and we suggest everyone play the game as it was designed and intended for the best experience.
In addition to there being unsupported ways to unlock the framerate, they also said that there will be unsupported ways to disable the letterbox effect on the PC.
So, what about some good news as far as PC graphical options are concerned? What will The Evil Within give PC gamers to configure besides an in-game console?
What are the graphic options available?
For all versions:
Brightness
Display area adjustment
Screen Grain adjustment
Additional options for PC (if supported by your hardware)
Fullscreen or windowed support
Anti-aliasing – FXAA, MLAA, SMAA
Shadow Quality – High, Medium, Low
Motion Blur
SSAO
Reflections
For all versions:
Brightness
Display area adjustment
Screen Grain adjustment
Additional options for PC (if supported by your hardware)
Fullscreen or windowed support
Anti-aliasing – FXAA, MLAA, SMAA
Shadow Quality – High, Medium, Low
Motion Blur
SSAO
Reflections
AA? Well, that's a plus at least. That seems to be a rarity these days in multi-platform titles. Yeah, I'm looking at you both Shadow of Mordor and Alien: Isolation. You can read more from Bethesda's FAQ at the Bethesda forums.
So it works on a wide varity of machines at 60+fps, 1080 with a normal aspect ratio?
I'm sorry, and i know that japanese developers like to do weird things to their games to make them 'unique', but at some point you need to embrace all the advantages PC gives you and the players.
I'm glad it has buried options to unlock that stuff at least, but if Dead Rising 3 is any indication unlocking the frame rate can be a real hardware killer (purely due to lack of optimization).