Performance and Resolution Issues in Forever Skies

Source: Far From Home S.A.

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There is something magical and mesmerising about survival games that keeps drawing people in. Is it the feeling of exploration that sends the chill down our spines, mystery that’s hidden in the world or ability to create something from nothing? The sheer number of new survival games shows that we still want to play them. Yesterday we have witnessed another one of those – Forever Skies. It allows us to uncover secrets of post-apocalyptic Earth dipped in survival sauce. The game shows colourful and vibrant world yet unfortunately it struggles with performance and resolution issues. Let’s find out how to mitigate this problem.

Forever Skies - Performance and resolution issues

As a huge number of survival titles come from independent game studios, which are often their debut creations, they struggle with performance. Forever Skies is no different. Players have reported low frames per second even on more efficient cards like Nvidia RTX 3080Ti.

1. Some fans have noticed that, especially on laptops, the game utilises integrated GPU instead of the discrete one. It is worth checking first that the game indeed uses graphics processor dedicated for this purpose.
2. Another thing to check is what version of DirectX Forever Skies uses. Some of the people playing the game informed that changing version from DX12 to DX11 improved the game’s performance dramatically.
3. If you would like to play on widescreen display, you are unfortunately in no luck. The developers have confirmed that the game is not yet optimised to run at 3840x1080 resolution, although that is something they are looking at.
4. Also playing in borderless window in FullHD is a challenge as the game defaults to 3840x2160 resolution in this configuration and currently the only option to run it in 1080p is to use exclusive fullscreen setting.

Let’s not forget that this title just entered Early Access program on Steam. It shouldn’t be surprising that the performance can be suboptimal. The initial reviews that can be found on the game’s Steam page, even though small in numbers (around 150 reviews at the time of writing the article), are promising. The title has received very positive feedback which gives lots of hope for the future.

If you want to learn more about Forever Skies, check also:

1. Forever Skies Launches
2. Or take a look into the Forever Skies game guide that we have prepared