bananafactory
Banned
Seems like it may have some significant problems.
In the 30 minutes I spent with it I saw:
-Menu glitch where they are unusable and run at 1 fps - impossible to navigate
https://twitter.com/jeffgerstmann/status/662509159795945472
https://twitter.com/DanRyckert/status/662517582742708224
-Graphical glitches
https://twitter.com/jeffmeier87/status/662511062575509504
-Hard lockups during gameplay
https://twitter.com/jeffmeier87/status/662512878939844608
-The game will randomly hang on a black screen for no reason. I waited over 2 minutes between the opening cutscene ending and the actual gameplay starting. This isn't a loading screen - it's just a black screen. I also saw this upon launch - the opening FMV with the company logos played, then black screen for 30-40 seconds, then the menu finally showed up
-Performance reports from the PC performance thread indicate that it runs like shit even on decent hardware
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1135493
I am sure there's more but this is what I've gathered in the hour since it's been unlocked. Sorry if this thread is premature but I don't want people spending money on something that may be quite broken.
Edit:
It's entirely possible there's a simple fix that a quick update can patch - or maybe these problems aren't too widespread and are isolated to specific hardware. I don't want to jump to conclusions and say with confidence that the game is broken. I'm just advising people to maybe take a wait and see approach with how this turns out
Update:
Apparently there's an ini fix for the menu bug that has worked for some people
https://www.reddit.com/r/blackops3/comments/3roias/fix_for_pc_fps_drops/
In the 30 minutes I spent with it I saw:
-Menu glitch where they are unusable and run at 1 fps - impossible to navigate
https://twitter.com/jeffgerstmann/status/662509159795945472
https://twitter.com/DanRyckert/status/662517582742708224
-Graphical glitches
https://twitter.com/jeffmeier87/status/662511062575509504
-Hard lockups during gameplay
https://twitter.com/jeffmeier87/status/662512878939844608
-The game will randomly hang on a black screen for no reason. I waited over 2 minutes between the opening cutscene ending and the actual gameplay starting. This isn't a loading screen - it's just a black screen. I also saw this upon launch - the opening FMV with the company logos played, then black screen for 30-40 seconds, then the menu finally showed up
-Performance reports from the PC performance thread indicate that it runs like shit even on decent hardware
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1135493
Holy shit, I can barely even get through the menus. I keep getting... I don't know what to call them. Soft freezes, I guess?
It aso keeps switching back to windowed mode from fullscreen.
Yeah I'm running it medium settings and it barely breaks 30fps. I'm hoping this is just a temporary issue and that my PC can in fact handle Call of Duty.
Holy crap.... my CPU is at 100% load on the games menu with COD taking 70-80% of my CPU alone. I can't even get through the menu's, on a 4670k@4.7ghz
Yeah the performance is a bit worse than I would like but it seems fine for the most part.
Shadow maps on Extra + Dynamic shadows is a huge performance killer.
Textures on High will use more than 2GB of RAM and will cause random stuttering on GPUs that only have that much available.
I am sure there's more but this is what I've gathered in the hour since it's been unlocked. Sorry if this thread is premature but I don't want people spending money on something that may be quite broken.
Edit:
It's entirely possible there's a simple fix that a quick update can patch - or maybe these problems aren't too widespread and are isolated to specific hardware. I don't want to jump to conclusions and say with confidence that the game is broken. I'm just advising people to maybe take a wait and see approach with how this turns out
Update:
Apparently there's an ini fix for the menu bug that has worked for some people
https://www.reddit.com/r/blackops3/comments/3roias/fix_for_pc_fps_drops/