It only just unlocked but it does not look good at the moment. According to these benchmarks, only the new Titan can achieve 60fps. Even my brand new GTX 1070, 16GB of RAM and 4.2Ghz i7 runs the game at barely above 30fps on ultra. The game looks good, but modest compared to the biggest games out there. I'm not sure what the reason for this poor performance is. How is the game running for you?

Check out the full range of benchmarks here:

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2016/08/23/deus-ex-mankind-divided-benchmarked/

@brandondryrock posted a link to a PC Gamer article that has some good tips for performance increases. Common sense stuff but worth trying out.

http://www.pcgamer.com/how-to-get-the-best-performance-out-of-deus-ex-mankind-divided/

Edit: To clarify, this is not a bad port or by any means broken. It just doesn't run that well even on the latest hardware.

The game is running like hot garbage on my PC. I can barely hit 20FPS(with some peaks to 30) with my GTX1070.

Whoof, and here I was all excited on my day off about to buy this until I went to check for this very kind of thread. I'm on a 970 and according to that benchmark it can barely pull out 30 frames on "very high" and "ultra" settings. I'm not super bummed, but I can imagine being even more bummed out with a fancy new 10xx card and still not able to hit 60 fps.

@aktivity: On medium I can get up to 40fps with a 1070. I didn't get as low as 20fps even on ultra. I haven't even left the main menu though.

When was the last time a AAA game had a good PC port that nobody complained about?

I'm still waiting on this game to see if it really fixes my issues with HR because I think that game is crazy overrated and a lot of reviews say it's similar and don't touch on my issues with level design and freedom/exploration at all really. Since I have a 760 as well it's nice to wait hopefully for them to do a little work on this.

Dark Souls 3, Hitman, Dragons Dogma, and more have been all great for me just this year. Doom and Tomb Raider I haven't played yet unfortunately but are supposed to be really good ones too.

@ydross: Rise of the Tomb Raider ran pretty well and had a lot of options. Doom runs incredibly well.

@artisanbreads: Doom was excellent on PC even on day one.

Let's hope a driver update and/or a patch addresses this quickly, 40-50 FPS is not acceptable on high end GPUs.

@mike: There were already drivers for this game from Nvidia last week. No idea how much more they can do. Patches are definitely coming to add DX12 support. No Man's Sky had 2 patches within 3 days of launch but I wouldn't expect that here.

Yeah, I just got a 1080 a week or so ago; I can't get a constant 60 with the highest settings. I might turn the depth of field down.

@beachthunder: I only noticed a change in FPS by turning depth of field off completely. It gave me 4fps more. The other levels of blur didn't change the framerate for me.

@alistercat: At 1080p I'm getting 30-35 FPS on the medium preset, but on ultra it's sitting between 20-25 FPS. User reviews on Steam is not looking good so far.

@ydross: Fallout 4? I mean, people complained about the game itself, but performance wise it was good. Metal Gear?

Bummer we're seeing some crappy ports, but outside of the Warner Brothers stuff, performance issues seem to get ironed out pretty quick.

@zelyre: I can't get a solid 60fps in Fallout 4 even on my 1070, almost a year after release. It wasn't a mess at launch, at least. Except the bugs.

You gotta be fucking kidding me. Should have bought it off steam to get a refund. Fuck this.

Good thing I held off on buying it day one. This trend of shipping broke-ass games needs to stop less we repeat 2014, with AC Unity and Master Chief Collection.

Guys just lower the graphics option and you will be fine.

@alistercat: Rise of the tomb raider, DOOM, Witcher 3, inside, mirrors edge catalyst, MGS V

PC Gamer has a guide up to increase performance in Mankind Divided. Sounds like the big offenders are MSAA and volumetric lighting.

@rethla: I get 32fps on medium. That's pretty low.

@bones8677: trend = two or three higher profile games a year. it's not an epidemic, just gets a lot of press so it feels that way.

I seemed to have dodged a bullet yet again by not getting this at launch. does anyone know if SLI works in this game (I'm guessing no). I recall the previous one didn't launch very graciously either on PC.

If you enjoy 32fps thats low enough.

@ripelivejam: No Man's Sky PC also had problems at launch. I don't know how its state is currently though.

Okay, so I took some screenshots of DoF off and on. I'll let you guess which is off and which is on (I actually don't remember which is which...):

If you don't care about graphics/performance that's cool but don't waste time telling other people to just get over it.

I noticed lirik the streamer was having problems with titan x sli. He also had to turn down some settings when using his one titan.

@beachthunder: I can't tell, but I don't think the effect is strong in that scene if it's even active. It applies on the main menu and if you look in the top right as you turn it on and off you will see. Depth of field wouldn't work well in the scene you took screenshots of because they want you to see far.

Any idea what Jeff was running the game on that he apparently had no issues to mention it in his review?

I do care but if i cant max every game on day one im not pissed.

Im still downloading it but im gonna take a guess and say that with MSAA, volymetric lightning and some of the top stuff diabled i will get a good playable FPS and it will look 99% the same.

Max MSAA is hitting me like a truck, at least 40FPS lost. I guess I'll just be using DSR.

@alistercat: Gotcha. And here I was trying to line up a shot that had various depths in it. I guess I'll just leave DoF off then.

@rethla said:

Please, neither of you argue. I have turned settings on and off to gain performance and didn't have MSAA on at all. I'm not pissed, and people might be a little bit angry but the game isn't in line with its peers. It would be one thing if all modern games ran that badly but I'm not saying anything controversial when I say I expected more than sub 40fps on medium on a graphics card that costs more than PS4.

One more thing while I'm here, is there a way to disable the 20 or so seconds of intro logos?

i don't know- i've read a few performance analyses of the game and so far no one is scandalized by the performance. it just seems like a game that, if you tell it to (max settings), it will hit your GPU like a truck.

demanding does not necessarily mean broken.

Well he has a GTX980 at home if he hasnt upgraded. Giantbomb are running mostly 970 computers.

@alistercat: It's really cool, not angry, just don't see the point telling people to not worry about performance. I am someone perfectly happy about playing on medium or so settings lately it's no big deal to me.

@mellotronrules: I didn't say it was broken, I just said it was bad.

@rethla:

I imagine he played it on the PS4. That seems to be the review copies that people are getting. Jim Sterling received a PS4 copy too.

Has anyone ran it on an SLI machine yet? 372.54 added a DX11 SLI Profile for Mankind Divided.

Theres no mention of what platform he used in the review?

Still unlocking the preload. No Man's Sky vsync disease maybe?

MSAA has always been a demanding feature, but not like this. The way it's hitting my GPU is ridiculous.

With MSAA (and everything else at max) - 25fps @ 1080p 980ti/4670k

Without MSAA (and everything else at max) - 75fps

Simple enough choice. There's still Temporal AA, which is better than nothing.

He has 29 hours on PC, but he has also played the other versions. I believe he played on PC with a gamepad to completion.

I wonder if it's one specific option that's causing low FPS. I'm getting a solid 60 with pretty much everything on high except shadows and I disabled all the bloom / motion blur crap. Running with a 960 but the rest of my rig is pretty good.

As an aside the max FOV is waaaay to small for me.

I'm finding that with MSAA off and on Very High setting, I get 45-60 fps. Good enough, but I am hoping for more dial in from the developer.

It's a Gaming Evolved title. HR was a stutter-fest with my (Nvidia) GPU when it was released too. It'll improve, although I'd love to hear how AMD users are working out.

@bybeach: on a 1070 I can get there with MSAA off and all the settings turned to 'On' rather than high or ultra where applicable. The article posted in here had some good performance tips.

Well i think people need to understand that the initial internet rage that follows every single PC release is 99% bullshit. Saying not to worry is the only answear i can think of.

Hitman as an example is horribly optimized performancewise and noone minds that after the first release week. Its even taken as a great example of PC ports in this thread which is hilarious.