Hi everyone,apologies about the dead air there.
We're having a lot of problems getting Wolfenstein to actually stream properly
so we're just restarting a checkpoint at the moment.
Long load times on this game I'm afraid. Really is a
buggy, buggy mess as it stands today so many apologies.
We are trying to overcome some of these technical problems that we've got with this
stream.
Well, should I say with Wolfenstein being generally rather useless
and we will, you know, hopefully
get somewhere shortly. Oh look!
The frame rate's gone to ass again.
This is just
remarkable actually, absolutely remarkable.
I have never seen a PC game
with quite frankly so many problems at launch.
We're apparently waiting on a day one patch which is worth about 10 gig
which will, you know, presumably solve a lot of these problems.
But essentially the main issues we have at the moment is you can't live
stream the game
without outputting it to a separate PC and
unfortunately it's just not working very well
at all. It's quite remarkable they would release a game
without the day one patch actually being available on Steam
to fix these issues. It really is well, a typical Bethesda really
and one of the worst companies around if you ask me for
just generally shoving stuff out the door before it's actually ready.
Let's see if we get any kind of frame rate we can work with here.
No, I mean this is absolutely typical of what we're seeing on this
game at the moment.
Essentially it's unplayable if you want to live stream it so
if you're using wirecast, if you're using xsplit either game centre or broadcast, if you're using
open source broadcasting software OBS
you can't play this game. You can't play and live stream at the
same time. Absolutely hopeless
it really is. We spent the last three hours trying to get this to work
with various different combinations and I was like yay, I think we've managed to get
it working.
And of course no. You can see here we're getting what 10 frames a second if we're
lucky out of it.
This isn't the PC, this is the game.
This is the game that's causing all of these issues. It simply
will not work properly or reliably. Absolutely remarkable
balls-up on Bethesda's part if you ask me so we're just going to let this carry on playing
out for a bit I think so you can see
you know quite some of the technical issues they kind of have going here if you
want to live stream it.
It's just unworkable as it stands right now.
Truly truly remarkable balls-up. Let's actually
just for argument's sake let's quit to the main menu
start a brand new game and see what it does. Now you can see the interface,
the actual menu system is working nice and fluidly for once.
Previously couldn't get it to work at all properly.
It was lagging out just as badly as the game was there you could see.
So let's try a brand-new oops, let's try a brand new game
and see what we get.
Some things I have noticed when we were just quickly testing the game before
we attempted to do a live stream that didn't work,
audio drop out issues, at random the audio just disappears
and it never comes back. Frame rate dipping in places but
actually not too badly, I mean the game is beautifully looking seems to be very
well executed and quite detailed
but the audio dropout issue, that's unexcusable.
The problem is this game is using the Rage engine and if you may
remember Rage was another game that was badly optimised when it was first released
especially for AMD graphics cards. Essentially
the game was just a buggy mess and again suffered from audio drop out
issues. Funny that. Let's see have we got a frame rate that's anywhere near stable here.
No, have we heck. That's just remarkable really.
But one of the really comical things that I've noticed is
when you actually start the game you know you always have the
kind of little blip bits for
the game developers brands etcetera. Even those run at about 15 frames a second.
They're just crawling along so unfortunately guys we're going to have to do
this I think because basically the game is unplayable if you want to stream it at the
same time right now.
We're waiting on this patch for the PC
whether that will fix any of these issues I'm really not sure
but essentially at the moment the game is just
an absolute mess. I don't think I've ever seen anything like it before. It's
just remarkable that as soon as you have any streaming software turn on even if
it's not
actually tapping the
DirectX API, this footage you're seeing here is actually looping
out into a capture card which has its own ability to process the video frames
itself
doesn't have a major impact on CPU or RAM or anything like that or the
drives
and, you know, it just doesn't seem to be able to maintain anything more
than 15 frames a second at a struggle.
Beautiful looking game but unplayable if you want to stream it right now.
It's truly strange.
I'm going to try one thing quickly. I'm just going to swap an input over
but I don't think it's going to make a blind bit of difference. Hang on one second.
This shouldn't make any difference whatsoever but for argument's sake
just swap these over and see what we get.
The image will have gone blank there for a moment, just waiting for my system to catch up this end.
Let's see whether we get anything we can make use of.
Right, what we got here then?
A fraction better but you can see the frame rate is still
20 frames a second at best. The only thing I've done there is on my
hub I've just switched the inputs over for the HDMIs
sometimes it can just reduce a little bit of the
frame lag but this isn't frame lag particularly this is just broken.
So what we're going to have to do is we're going to have to just go and capture
footage offline. We won't be able to stream today by the looks of it, at least until
they iron out whatever is causing this absurd problem.
We'll be back probably later today with
an initial first look review, obviously mentioning
many of these issues. Absolutely absurd. Bethesda you should be ashamed of
yourselves releasing a game
which doesn't actually work properly on PC.
Just one other quick note. If you're an ATI Radeon owner
AMD graphics cards, you might want to avoid this game for now
because it's just buggy on AMD cards, really, really not working properly
at all. So unfortunately guys that is a look at Wolfenstein
The New Order. It's broken, it's buggy,
what can you do eh? Hope for a patch I suppose.