In recent months and even years, major game releases have rarely pleased users with high-quality PC versions, but according to Digital Foundry expert Alex Battaglia, BioWare’s Dragon Age: The Veilguard may pleasantly surprise.
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According to Battaglia, despite the similar Frostbite engine, Dragon Age: The Veilguard on PC is devoid of technical problems (in particular, stuttering during movement) that plagued the Dead Space remake.
The Veilguard also has stable frame delivery times and no stuttering due to loading new objects and effects – shaders are precompiled before the game starts (about 10 minutes on an AMD Ryzen 5 3600).
Battaglia praised the graphics settings in Dragon Age: The Veilguard: their clarity, information content and breadth of capabilities, including adjustable dynamic resolution scaling to maintain frame rates.
Digital Foundry was also impressed with the graphics of Dragon Age: The Veilguard on PC. Maximum ray tracing settings (not available on consoles) produce much better images than on PS5.
Optimal graphics settings for gaming on video cards with 8 GB of memory (image source: Digital Foundry)
Based on Battaglia’s tests, even an old processor like the Ryzen 5 3600 is capable of delivering consistently more than 60 fps in Dragon Age: The Veilguard on PC (unless the intro is too “heavy”).
At the end of the 21-minute video, the expert expressed his desire to see more games like Dragon Age: The Veilguard polished on release. The fantasy RPG will be released tomorrow, October 31, on PC (Steam, EGS), PS5, Xbox Series X and S.