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05.05.2024 - 02:25 / wccftech.com / Muhammad Zuhair
No Rest for the Wicked, the action RPG developed by Moon Studios, has received a major performance update with the first Early Access patch, lowering the recommended system requirements.
The developers' new patch focused on improving the user experience. Specific changes were made to the baseline performance of both CPUs and GPUs to ensure gamers weren't faced with troubles such as delayed texture loading, stutters, and performance drops. Apart from this, widespread measures are taken to reduce internal crashes, including time-slicing systems to improve the broadcast experience.
The new patch also came with updated PC specification requirements, and this time, Moon Studios has disclosed that in order to run the title at Performance Mode (1080p/30 FPS), gamers would require Intel Core i5 8400 or AMD Ryzen 5 2600, along with 16 GB memory and either NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 970 or an AMD Radeon RX Vega 56. For Quality mode (1080p/60fps), you'll need to opt for superior options, with recommendations being Intel Core i7 11700K or an AMD Ryzen 7 5800X and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 or an AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT.
Here is the performance changelog of the first Early Access patch, which will give you an idea of what performance improvements we are looking at.
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