{"id":50,"date":"2021-12-25T14:53:53","date_gmt":"2021-12-25T14:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/engadget.vip\/?p=50"},"modified":"2021-12-25T14:53:53","modified_gmt":"2021-12-25T14:53:53","slug":"succubus-tech-review-created-hell-on-my-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/?p=50","title":{"rendered":"Succubus tech review \u2014 Created hell on my own"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Succubus<\/em> is out and is coming for your hard drive space. The game weighs in at a whopping 60 GB, making it one of the indie games with the largest install sizes around. And, while it is an indie, it also has some fairly demanding specs. Well, not\u00a0that\u00a0<\/em>demanding, but more power than most non-AAA games require. Granted, this game has very good graphics and frequently has a large number of characters onscreen at once, so this shouldn\u2019t be too much of a surprise.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s take a gander at the game\u2019s specs.<\/p>\n

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MINIMUM<\/strong><\/p>\n

CPU<\/strong>: i5-6500, Ryzen 5 1600<\/p>\n

GPU<\/strong>: GTX 1050, RX 460 (or equivalent with at least 4GB of memory)<\/p>\n

RAM<\/strong>: 8 GB<\/p>\n

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RECOMMENDED<\/strong><\/p>\n

CPU<\/strong>:\u00a0i5-8600, Ryzen 5 3400G<\/p>\n

GPU<\/strong>: RTX 2060, RX 5700 (with at least 6GB of memory)<\/p>\n

RAM<\/strong>:16 GB<\/p>\n

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REVIEWER<\/strong><\/p>\n

CPU<\/strong>: Ryzen 3 2600x<\/p>\n

GPU<\/strong>: RX 5700 XT<\/p>\n

RAM<\/strong>: 16 GB<\/p>\n

As you can see, my rig is quite close to the recommended, with a bit more power. Succubus<\/em> runs decently for me, albeit with extremely variable performance on ultra. The framerate does drop into the 30s at times, but it can also soar into the 90s. It often jumps up and down by dozens of frames from moment to moment. It\u2019s very unpredictable like that.<\/p>\n

Importantly, running with a rig better than recommended didn\u2019t necessarily lead to a solid 60 fps at 1440p, so that\u2019s something to be aware of. Turning the shadows down makes the biggest difference if you\u2019re looking to gain some frames. I honestly wasn\u2019t even able to tell the difference between textures at ultra and low, either, as they both looked the same to me. I\u2019m not sure if that\u2019s a bug of some sort, or if it\u2019s just down to game\u2019s art style. The game also takes a bit of time to start up, greeting me with a black screen every time I go to start it. Anyway, here are the available graphics options.<\/p>\n

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You\u2019ve got borderless. Big shock, I\u2019m sure. The FOV slider isn\u2019t numbered, so that may be a bit of an annoyance to some. Settings range from low to ultra, with the shadows being the most noticeable setting. The foliage tab was surprising to me, as I don\u2019t recall seeing much foliage at all. Succubus <\/em>takes place in hell<\/em>. You\u2019re not going to find thriving vegetation. Turning the overall graphics quality down to low doesn\u2019t actually seem to make that much of a difference in fps for me, which was surprising. I\u2019m not sure what\u2019s going on there. Let\u2019s take a look at some comparison shots with settings at ultra and then low.<\/p>\n

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Textures Ultra<\/p>\n

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Textures Low<\/p>\n

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\"Shadows<\/p>\n

Shadows Ultra<\/p>\n

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Shadows Low<\/p>\n

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\"Draw<\/p>\n

Draw Distance Ultra<\/p>\n

\"Draw<\/p>\n

Draw Distance Low<\/p>\n

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\"Aa<\/p>\n

Aa Ultra<\/p>\n

\"Aa<\/p>\n

Aa Low<\/p>\n

Not always much variance. Maybe the pre-launch version was a placeholder. Since\u00a0Succubus<\/em> is first-person, you\u2019re obviously going to want to play it with a mouse. I will hear nothing else. But yeah, there\u2019s also gamepad support. Keys can all be rebinded with ease as well, if you\u2019re unhappy with where certain things are located.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019d like to see some optimization improvements in the coming weeks, as the fluctuating framerate is kind of weird. Then again, I got zero crashes and pretty much no weird issues while playing the game, so it seems stable to me. Not mentally, mind you, because some of it was horribly disturbing. But you get what I mean, we\u2019re talking tech here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Succubus is out and is coming for your hard drive space. The game weighs in at a whopping 60 GB, making it one of the indie games with the largest install sizes around. And, while it is an indie, it also has some fairly demanding specs. Well, not\u00a0that\u00a0demanding, but more power than most non-AAA games […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,44],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}