Please note that ideal settings within Special K will change depending on your PC's hardware configuration. In this report, a PC game modification tool called 'Special K' was recommended, and instructions on the mod's Discord page were already available to allow PCs to achieve more stable performance when playing NieR Replicant. Strangely, many of these performance issues disappeared at lower resolutions, though frametime issues persisted.Īn early report from Kaldaien, a prominent PC modder, claimed that NieR Replicant contains 'b0rked gamepad code', alongside other issues. Something was clearly wrong, and based on the chatter that we found on Steam's forums, we were not the only PC players to face performance issues. With an RTX 3070, the game frequently sat at framerates of between 40 and 55 FPS at 4K, with reported GPU clock speeds that are lower than 1,000MHz and single CPU cores on our Ryzen 9 3950X that were running at 100% load.

When we started playing NieR Replicant, we were disappointed by how poorly the game ran on our test PC.

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