It’s been less than a month since Ubisoft promised to improve how it handled PC games, and already we’ve got our next big furore.
Players currently exploring the closed beta for open world driving game The Crew have discovered that the game is locked to 30 frames per second on PC. To go above that you’ll have to edit the game’s files manually.
You can push the frame rate up to 60 FPS by doing so, but try to get it any higher than that and the game will automatically reset itself back to 60. If you’re currently playing the beta you can do this by editing the ’˜PCScalability.xml’ file located inside ’˜C:\Users\Documents\The Crew’. There’s a fairly obvious frame rate option in that file.
A Ubisoft community representative confirmed the locked frame rate in a subsequent forum post: ”The final game will run in 1080p with 30 frames per second on Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC, and will support up to 5760*1080p on PC for triple screen set-ups. Right now the team is focusing on providing an optimal experience for all players. You can unlock it in the file you’ve found, but it may affect the game’s performances. Your call.”
Yeah, you see this is not the way to get PC gamers on your side, Ubisoft. 30 FPS is a very low rate to be locked at, and telling people the game may break if they try to go above that number won’t fill them with confidence regarding the quality of your product. Or indeed the seriousness with which you take the platform.
What do you guys think?
