This was true even back in 2000, when they launched the original RealMyst, which brought Myst into a 3D game engine, but ran poorly on most computers at the time, and it's kind of been a trend they've had since.Īnd at least in Obduction's case, they're back down to a relatively small development team, while making a game that has visuals comparable or better than what you might find from much larger teams. When they decided to transition to realtime graphics, they wanted to maintain as much of that visual fidelity as possible, and as a result, their games tend to be rather demanding on hardware. The original Myst games made use of pre-rendered viewpoints and bits of full-motion video to enable graphics far beyond anything realtime game engines were capable of at the time. I think it comes down to Cyan trying to push really nice visuals, while originally coming from a background in pre-rendered graphics. It’s easy to tell that reprojection is in use when you use the teleport feature because the animation doesn’t appear as smooth as it should. We haven’t run the game through FCAT VR yet, so we can’t say how often reprojection kicked in, but it happened regularly.

Even with the graphics settings turned all the way down to low, the frame rate did not feel smooth. We gave the game a run on our Vive test bench, which is equipped with an Intel Core i5-4570K and a Gigabyte GTX 1080 G1 Gaming, and we can confirm that we found performance problems ourselves. Several comments surfaced online about similar issues. Reddit user kommutator said that the game is “almost unplayable” on his PC, which includes an Intel Core i7-7700K operating at 4.66GHz and a GTX 1080 graphics card. Gamers with high-end PCs claimed that reprojection would kick in regularly, even with lowered graphics settings. Shortly after the Obduction update went live, people started reporting performance issues in the game when playing with a Vive headset. The news of motion control support was exciting, but that was short-lived.

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