Lords of the Fallen’s latest patch promises ‘substantial performance improvements’ for struggling GPUs-
The new soulslike Lords of the Fallen got hammered pretty hard in its first few days on Steam, primarily over complaints about its dodgy performance. For some players it’s been fine, but others encountered issues with low frame rates, stuttering, and crashes. Some people on Steam said they weren’t even able to access the main menu.
In response, publisher CI Games posted some troubleshooting tips, and a handful of small patches have also rolled out. In the latest, which takes the game to version 1.1.203, developer Hexworks said it has “begun to implement more substantial performance improvements … aimed at freeing up VRAM to provide additional headroom for GPUs that are operating at the limit of their capabilities.” The process is taking time to implement, the studio added, “beca…