It appears Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty is the latest game to get an iffy PC port.
Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty from Ninja Gaiden and Nioh developer Team Ninja takes the intense action the studio is famous for and puts it in an intriguing new setting, the Three Kingdoms era of Chinese history. In our Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty review, we found it to be a compelling adventure that "builds on the core quality of the Nioh games". However, performance issues seem to be spoiling the fun for many PC players.
Over on the Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty subreddit, one player notes the game's "very poor performance" while playing on Game Pass for PC. They write, "The game for some reason is locked on a 1280x720p resolution, it's running between 10 and 15 fps and crashes every time I pass the character creator screen". They're using a GeForce RTX 3060, though users with different hardware have been having similar issues.
User Crowki writes, "I'm having them with AMD, it's just poor (horrible) optimization for the PC version. The game almost becomes a slide show on high settings and the lowest settings makes me feel like I'm crawling through mud. Another fan, who says they can run Returnal smoothly at 60 FPS, writes that during battles in Wo Long, "the FPS drops are unbearable". They add, "The game looks pretty bad, like a mid-last-gen one graphics-wise."
The PC port's poor showing has led to Wo Long receiving a "mostly negative" rating on Steam (opens in new tab). One reviewer writes that it's "a good game buried deep beneath the biggest catastrophe of a PC port that I have ever seen." They add that although "the game runs poorly for how it looks", the controls are the biggest issue. "The game is completely unplayable on mouse and keyboard. The key
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