Dead Rising 3 confirmed to lock 30fps

One of the knocks on the game was the bad frame rate. Confirmed at TGS that the game is now locked at 30 FPS.

"If you saw it at Gamescom, we got a new drop from Microsoft literally that week, so you're seeing optimizations happening right now," Jones said. "We're in the midst of beta and final optimizations and polish — absolutely, we've got the game frame-locked at 30."

http://www.polygon.com/2013/9/20/4750936/dead-rising-3s-tgs-demo-shows-fixed-framerate-and-co-op-freedom

Excellent and never doubted it. The builds we have been seeing were from E3, so optimization, spec bumps, improved software tools. More than enough to get the game running smooth.

What? 30 frames? Why not 60? We're talking next-gen, for fuck's sake.

there are a lot of zombies in that game yo. They all have AI, reasonably high def graphics... and it's a launch game.

To be expected with the amount of stuff going on "behind the scenes" in that game.
As long as it doesn't drop any it should be fine really, especially for a game like this.

Its an open-world game. Not a bro shooter.

Thisssssssssss. Plus there's no loading times within the world at that, so... give it a break.

I know, if it's not 60 i dont even touch it.

You missed out on a bunch of awesome PS1 and PS2 games that's for sure.

Ew, 30 fps! A game like this should be at 60 precisely because of all the action.

I saw a stage demo of this at PAX and it looked really sharp (and amazing!). I would want 60 fps ideally, but it being a launch game combined with what they showed during that demo makes it almost impossible for them to pull off 60fps this early into next gen.

Honestly after that demo I went from never caring about any dead rising games, to being kind of excited for dead rising 3 and it being a potential game that might switch me over to xbox one (if its reviewed well).

I really fucking hate frame rate snobs. I can never take any of them seriously. I have never looked at a game running at 30 fps and lost my shit over it.

Disappointing, expected more frames. 2/5

don't be a moron, some people actually can't stand 30 FPS much, and it really gets in the way of their gameplay. While plenty can, and some people can't even tell when it dips below that, your comment is completely ignorant of anything. Also, get over yourself.

Don't care.

Wow, they totally Xboned this one up.

Did you hear that, Micro$oft? Xboned. Because Xbone!

*guffaw*

As someone who can't help but post the most passive aggressive stuff, you sure missed out on the sarcasm there.

We're talking current gen PC hardware actually, and 1.3/1.8 Tflops. That's half the TFLOPs of a GTX780 or 7970. They're console, not miracle machines. Just what do you expect out of these next generation consoles? I accepted it a long time ago. They're not that hot.

Don't get me wrong, devs will still get great looking games out of it, console development environment will help, and DR3 has a ton of enemies on screen and is basically an open world game but they're modest machines at best.

In addition, I just highly doubt you're going to see too many open world games running at 60fps. Even, next next-generation. 10 years from now, you'll still have 30fps games just because some games benefit more from graphics, physics, or more enemies on screen than frame rate. So unless we ever get to the point where developers have so much power they barely use up 50% of it, this trade-off will always be made(i.e. Probably never).

If you want 60fps as a baseline your best bet is cloud gaming. Turns out 60fps is beneficial to latency, so there devs might have a reason to shoot for 60 more consistently.

Yo guys, whether it's 30 or 60 fps is not the reason to worry about this game, I'm just saying.

You sure did

What is there to worry about? Look like the past dead rising without the dumb timer. GOTY

@klei said:

Developers will almost always choose pretty graphics over fps. I wouldn't expect 60 to be standard this generation.

30FPS looks and plays fine with the motion blur and slow-ish gameplay the Dead Rising games have, in my opinion. Somewhat doubtful that they can maintain even that, though.

Well that's unfortunate but given Dead Rising's gameplay it doesn't really matter.

lel

Looks like it is not locked at all and pretty rushed.

It's also unfortunate that the game runs at far from the promised locked 30fps - rather a chugging 20fps during the zombie action while out in the big city. Compared to the shaky E3 build seen just months ago this is still a respectable step forward, and of course many of the game's technical shortcomings come with the unique circumstances of meeting a hardware launch. All this amounts to an intriguing first attempt, then, but needless to say we're eager to see how Capcom Vancouver follows up on its sandbox survival-horror formula when it's given more breathing room with the deadline, more experience with the hardware, and factoring in the next-gen platform's strengths from the very start.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-vs-dead-rising-3

If someone wants to open a Digital foundry thread you are welcome to do so.

@darji: Oh my god...This looks terrible. The frames drop to 16 at a point.

@nekroskop: Yeah maybe it would have been better to delay this game a few months. This is really not a good showcase for MS or Capcom.

DriveClub ate the delay and that was a first party Sony deal, in order to give players a better, more complete game.

Capcom, here's looking at you.

I dont think this games problem is going to be the 30fps cap, what ive saw so far look uninspired, very grey and just plain ugly and this is coming from a fan of the genre and the series. Maybe it will suprise me but if that was number one reason for getting the Xbox One id be bummed right now.

@darji:

Thank you based Capcom? Sigh...

I sure hope two of my all time favourite dev companies, Konami and Capcom, get their shit together this gen. Gen 7 has largely been a embarrassment for both, with some exceptions. This isn't a good start for Capcom though...

If it runs this bad, they should've delayed it. It ran like absolute shit at E3, and it doesn't seem like they've been able to fix that completely. I'm gonna give the Xbone the benefit of the doubt here, and blame it on the game coming in way too hot.

Oh I am pretty sure this has not much to do with the power of the One but rather with a launch title being rushed out. I mean this frame rate is really terrible and there is no real reason for it to drop normally.

@agnosticjesus: Chill, why shouldn't he post that Digital Foundry link?

I'm sure a lot of sacrifices were made to get this out at launch, so I'm disappointed, but not surprised.

I don't think this is a retail build but I'm not surprised by what I'm seeing in those screenshots.

That looks a bit rough. Hopefully they got things running a little better for the retail version. It's kind of a shame about some of the technical problems because the game looks like a ton of fun.

Frame rate locked at 30 is okay, but if it's just capped at 30 and it drops down to 15 sometimes then that's pretty bad. They might be able to fix it with a patch couple of weeks after the release, or hopefully sooner.

I can't wait for PS5, its going to be the best thing ever. 720p, 60fps at least!

Yeah, the article isn't clear about what build this is that they tested. Although, I wouldn't be all that surprised by this game being a bit shaky. Ideally, it probably would've been pushed back six months, but this has too much "launch day" pressure behind it.

Man, I really hope this game is given the polish it deserves, if not by launch then at least sometime after. I plan to buy a PS4 first, but even then I'm going to wait a few months, so the idea of getting an XB1 is still pretty far off. Nonetheless, I certainly hope that by the time I (most likely) get around to it, there'll be a great Dead Rising game awaiting me.

Dead Rising 2 (and Off The Record) was certainly rather framey on PS3, though, and I generally had no problem with it. So, hopefully the same might carry true for Dead Rising 3... It's such a slow-paced series after all, with a heavy emphasis on animation-priority and the like, so a sub-par framerate doesn't quite hamper it as much as it would other games.

Pretty sure every PS4 game barring BF4 (900p) is confirmed to be 1080p native. And quite a few of them are 60fps.

The game still looks fantastic to me.

Yeah. Aside from some of those screens that DF posted, most of the stuff I've seen has looked pretty good. I'm not doubting there are problems, but I haven't seen anything that's looked bad enough that it dissuaded me from being really excited to play the game.

The previous Dead Rising games had performance issues, and that didn't stop me from enjoying the hell out of them.

@hunkulese said:

Me too. I went over to Digital Foundry to see the bad frame rates and left thinking about how badly I want to play this game!

Game looks awesome. Basically they have fixed all the issues I had with the series before and made it even whackier with weapons and vehicles and stuff.

@chaser324: Are you referring to the PC or Xbox 360 version? I played the PC version and that seemed alright.

@i_stay_puft: The 360 versions of Dead Rising and Dead Rising 2 both could get a little shaky when you were really pushing it, primarily just when using vehicles or in some of the larger areas with a ton of enemies.

Eh, I'm still getting it.