According to Bungie senior technical artist Nate Hawbaker, who recently spoke with Eurogamer’s Digital Foundry, Destiny 2 “will run in unlimited frame rate.” Hawbaker added, “By all means throw your hardware at it, we will render at that. There’s no limitations there.” He did, however, note that players will likely see their CPU bottleneck before reaching that unlimited benchmark, but the possibility to attempt it is there. Hawbaker’s comments support ones made earlier this year that indicated the PC version of the game would feature an uncapped frame rate and 4k support.
This news comes after a Destiny 2 PC beta analysis conducted by Digital Foundry pinpointed the game’s frame rate cap at 200 frames per second on a Core i7 7700K processor. While Hawbaker expects that multi-core processors will yield fantastic returns for users gaming on desktop systems, the 200 frames per second ceiling has been removed in the game’s final code. “There were a couple of bugs that did result in going above 200, related to floating-point precision and various rounding errors, but we’ve resolved those now,” explained Hawbaker.
The sequel’s ability to run at an unlimited frame rate on PC is amazing, but is made all the more impressive when noting that the console version of Destiny 2 performs at just 30 frames per second. This fact was mocked in a newly released honest trailer for Destiny 2.
In all seriousness, lifting the frame rate cap from the PC version of Destiny 2 will definitely offer players an all-new gameplay feel. The sequel title has the scalability on both CPU and CPU to run incredibly well, infused what Hawbaker calls Bungie’s “secret sauce,” and gives fans who prefer ultra-wide monitors, a keyboard, and mouse the chance to experience all the fun of Destiny 2 in super-smooth motion.
Destiny 2 is out now on PC, PS4, and Xbox One.
Source: Eurogamer
