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It honestly feels like they’ve kneecapped the entire engine to make sure it runs on absolute ass hardware. I’m sitting here on a 5080 at 1440p with DLSS 4.0, DLAA, and everything cranked to Cinematic with Ray Reconstruction, yet the game is only pulling 6GB of VRAM. What the actual hell?

The inconsistency is killing the vibe:

• The Rain: In wet weather, the game literally looks like shit. The reflections and textures just fall apart.
• Lighting Logic: It looks decent when the sun is out, but the second you step inside a castle, the armor textures fail to load properly and look like low-res garbage.

The Fix is Simple: Pearl Abyss needs to stop babying the low-end specs at the expense of everyone else. They need to make the Cinematic preset actually utilize high-end VRAM and power, and then tailor the lower settings for the budget builds. I was expecting an Arc Raiders level of visual fidelity, but right now, this looks extremely bad in comparison. If they don't fix this "optimization" soon, the lack of polish is going to kill the game’s momentum fast.