Indie Archaelund: RPG that combines 1st-person exploration with 3rd-person TB combat - now available on Early Access

[DavidBVal]

That was purely a pun. I haven't played the game, since I'm done with EA. Waiting for the full release.

LOL, I need to relax, too many replies about balance/bugs issues in the Steam forums can be detrimental to sense of humor.

@DavidBVal Did you add an inventory quick-switch for melee vs. ranged?

Nope but it's somewhere in the QoL list, eventually will be added.

the 3D landscapes looking so painterly, a feat even AAA games can rarely achieve

Thanks, it's great to know the effort is appreciated. Lots of concept drawings of landscapes over the years, and ideas coming and going between me and Nacho, so I'm glad it sometimes delivers.

 

[Tyranicon]

Keep going, game is good.

This, along with Monomyth and Tainted Grail, are some of my most anticipated indie RPGs.

 

[covr]

Codex consensus is rarely so positive. Will buy this later today. Good luck with development!

 

[Nortar]

Codex consensus is rarely so positive. Will buy this later today. Good luck with development!

It's not perfect though - there are no dwarves.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Codex consensus is rarely so positive. Will buy this later today. Good luck with development!

It's not perfect though - there are no dwarves.

And humans still can't be barbarians yet.

 

[covr]

The game seems to be great but performance is one of worst I've recently experienced. And it does not look better vs games released 15 years ago like Two Words 2 (which was also not a landmark in terms of visuals/performance).

 

[Litmanen]

The game seems to be great but performance is one of worst I've recently experienced. And it does not look better vs games released 15 years ago like Two Words 2 (which was also not a landmark in terms of visuals/performance).

Who cares about visuals? It's good enough. doesn't need to shine.

 

[covr]

I don't care, and don't get me wrong - I was able to play the ugliest games ever. But performance on rtx 4060 on low/medium details is simply unstable, ranging between 20 to 60 FPS outdoors. It is painful experience. And I'll wait until another round of optimisation pass is done.

 

[Litmanen]

I don't care, and don't get me wrong - I was able to play the ugliest games ever. But performance on rtx 4060 on low/medium details is simply unstable, ranging between 20 to 60 FPS outdoors. It is painful experience. And I'll wait until another round of optimisation pass is done.

Ok, performances are a problem, as you said. But visual quality isn't on the table, for me.

 

[Tyranicon]

I don't care, and don't get me wrong - I was able to play the ugliest games ever. But performance on rtx 4060 on low/medium details is simply unstable, ranging between 20 to 60 FPS outdoors. It is painful experience. And I'll wait until another round of optimisation pass is done.

I would check out the steam forums to see if there's a fix for what you're going through. I played this on a low-mid range pc and it worked well enough on mediumish settings.

 

[DavidBVal]

I don't care, and don't get me wrong - I was able to play the ugliest games ever. But performance on rtx 4060 on low/medium details is simply unstable, ranging between 20 to 60 FPS outdoors. It is painful experience. And I'll wait until another round of optimisation pass is done.

That's weird, with a 4060 you should be well above 60 fps all the time, even in 1440p. One of my testing PCs has a 3060 and runs the initial area at 80-90fps. How much RAM do you have?

 

[covr]

8 GB of memory on a GPU. 32 GB RAM, i7 13700. Of course it's a laptop (heh), but it should not run so crappy. I blame Unity, almost every Unity game runs terrible on my rig, even on medium/low details. And the resolution is not that high, I've lowered it to 1920x1200. Initially I thought it was using CPU Intel HD card instead of dedicated one, but no.

 

[mediocrepoet]

And humans still can't be barbarians yet.

There's a deeper truth here and you're so SO close to grasping it...

 

[DavidBVal]

Initially I thought it was using CPU Intel HD card instead of dedicated one, but no.

Are you 100% sure about this? can you hear the GPU ventilation? Have you tried a system reboot?

Your specs are more than enough to run the first area (Bluffs) close to 100fps, and that's how it has been performing for other players with 4060.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

And humans still can't be barbarians yet.

There's a deeper truth here and you're so SO close to grasping it...

Yes, the patch that allows it is in the works.
Quoth DavidBVal himself.

 

[covr]

Initially I thought it was using CPU Intel HD card instead of dedicated one, but no.

Are you 100% sure about this? can you hear the GPU ventilation? Have you tried a system reboot?

Your specs are more than enough to run the first area (Bluffs) close to 100fps, and that's how it has been performing for other players with 4060.

2024-11-23 23:04:18 - INIT -
2024-11-23 23:04:18 - INIT - Archaelund 0.8.2 - Build 438
2024-11-23 23:04:18 - INIT - Windows 10 (10.0.19045) 64bit *** 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-13700H (20 cores), 32GB RAM
2024-11-23 23:04:18 - INIT - Resolution: 1920x1080 *** NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU-Direct3D 11.0 [level 11.1]-7GB VRAM ***

I have forced it in nvidia panel to use dedicated GPU. Indoors performance is fine. Outdoors is the issue.

 

[DavidBVal]

Initially I thought it was using CPU Intel HD card instead of dedicated one, but no.

Are you 100% sure about this? can you hear the GPU ventilation? Have you tried a system reboot?

Your specs are more than enough to run the first area (Bluffs) close to 100fps, and that's how it has been performing for other players with 4060.

2024-11-23 23:04:18 - INIT -
2024-11-23 23:04:18 - INIT - Archaelund 0.8.2 - Build 438
2024-11-23 23:04:18 - INIT - Windows 10 (10.0.19045) 64bit *** 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-13700H (20 cores), 32GB RAM
2024-11-23 23:04:18 - INIT - Resolution: 1920x1080 *** NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU-Direct3D 11.0 [level 11.1]-7GB VRAM ***

I have forced it in nvidia panel to use dedicated GPU. Indoors performance is fine. Outdoors is the issue.

Looks like you're using the nvidia GPU, yeah. One of my own machines is a 3060 laptop, with 16gb RAM, clearly inferior to yours, and the most graphic intensive area in the game runs at 45-60fps in Ultra. I have no idea what's wrong here but there must be a cause to the game's low performance on your machine.

So your FPS is 20-50, where exactly? just as you start the game? it remains like that, or is it spikes? Have you enabled the FPS counter on settings, or is it another counter?

 

[covr]

Well, it is outdoors mostly. Funny thing - after setting everything to ultra I came back to the beach (first area) and had pretty stable 55-60 FPS. The area was cleared and I have noticed dropdown to 40 for a second when being very close to the models of defeated enemies. I will investigate this after the 9.0 patch when I plan to do a full playthrough.