Loving this game but lots of issues.
This is the game I've been looking for for quite some time now. I finally feel immersed in something I want to keep coming back to. I go in for a quick session and suddenly 5 hours went by!
But I'm having so many technical issues it feels unfair.
My card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti, 6 GB GDDR6
My card Release Year: 2019
Icarus Release Date: Dec 3, 2021
According to some research, my card is ABOVE minimum requirements, although not much admittedly, but notice that my card is not much older than the game's release. So why are the expectations so high?
I could see my GPU core and memory being maxed out at times. Fan is raging.
I tried everything at lowest settings, it looks horrible. After playing around I got good performance balance by simply setting everything default "High" settings, then reducing obvious things like Textures, Resolution, Vsync, etc. And got it where I liked it.
Now a new "update" comes today, and my GPU is raging again. Mouse keeps getting hung up, can't turn left or right, can't aim reliably at anything, basically can't endure any substantial danger.
It's a survival game with weapons!
Still I absolutely love everything about the game and keep trying to fix it. But I have to say it really sucks to have everything working then have the rug pulled out from under me after an update.
At the time of purchase, Steam reviews for this game were very low. An AI bot recommended I avoid it. I ignored everything and bought into it, absolutely loved everything about it, and I even wanted to buy expansions, but so far this is pretty frustrating. Moments of bliss where everything works, but when it gets bogged down it's really bad.
Sometimes the game loads fast and runs fine, then next time it takes 2 minutes to get to the title screen and lags everywhere. I'm on PC. Turned off everything but the game. It's just inconsistent.
I can play. But that input lag!
And honestly no other game requires me to reduce my graphics. Say what you will about my card. It works fine on other games.
Any advice?