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Enlarge / Artist's conception of PC players getting deed with stuttering framework rates connected the motorboat mentation of The Callisto Protocol.
In Ars' reappraisal of The Callisto Protocol past week, our reviewer praised the 60 fps graphics of the game's Performance mode connected the tested PlayStation 5 version. Since the game's release, though, online forums like Reddit and the game's Steam reviews person seen wide complaints of stuttering framework rates and different mediocre show connected the PC version.
The developers astatine Striking Distance Studios acknowledged those stuttering problems for "some" PC users Friday afternoon. Later that night, the squad released a PC patch "to amended gameplay stuttering issues owed to shader compilation." Testing connected the Ars gaming rig (currently sporting an Nvidia Geforce RTX 2080 Ti) suggests that the spot was palmy and that the latest mentation of the crippled tin execute creaseless framework rates supra 60 frames per second, adjacent connected "Ultra" graphics settings.
“Responsible and accountable”
In a station connected his idiosyncratic Twitter account, Striking Distance laminitis and CEO Glen Schofield attributed those wide stuttering problems to the incorrect record being patched for the motorboat mentation of the game, a "freaking mistake by idiosyncratic rushing." In a abstracted tweet, helium referred to the occupation arsenic a "damn clerical error."
"I’ll fig retired however this [stuttering] happened but close present my absorption is fixing [it]," Schofield tweeted Sunday evening. "All our vigor is connected that. In the extremity I’m liable and accountable."
Separate from the wide reported PC issues, connected Sunday day the game's authoritative Twitter relationship announced caller patches "for each consoles that should hole framework complaint and clang issues that immoderate of you person reported." Issues with ray-traced reflection connected the Xbox Series X remain, however, and the developers committedness much accusation connected that contented aboriginal successful the week.
The Callisto Protocol is the archetypal merchandise for Striking Distance Studios, which primitively formed successful 2019 to make games successful the PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds universe. Schofield, who helped make the Dead Space franchise astatine Electronic Arts, says that gathering a big-budget crippled successful conscionable a fewer years was a large situation for the caller team.
"We’ve accent tested everything but antheral this is analyzable code," Schofield tweeted. "We adjacent had to physique the publishing squad truthful we’ve had our hands filled for 3.5 years. Please bare with maine [sic]."
