Oh, and as with pretty much all KOEI Tecmo games, Dynasty Warriors 9 does not display proper on-screen keyboard indicators.Dynasty Warriors 4 crashes? Game not starting? Bugs in Dynasty Warriors 4? Solution to most technical problems. Each and every time you want to adjust something. In order to change your settings, you’ll have to quit the game and go back to the main menu. KOEI Tecmo does not also allow PC gamers to change their graphics settings while playing. It feels more like the mouse emulating the left stick of a controller than offering a proper mouse look, resulting in awkward movement even when the game runs at 60fps.
While Team Ninja has managed to offer amazing mouse raw input support in Nioh, Dynasty Warriors 9 suffers from jerkish mouse movement. Hell, even Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain looks better than Dynasty Warriors 9.Īnd then there is the mouse look. Not only that, but other open-world games like Kingdom Come: Deliverance, The Division and Assassin’s Creed Origins perform similarly or a bit better and look way, way better than Dynasty Warriors 9. Seriously, just look at the following screenshot and tell me why it performs like that. And, to be honest, we wouldn’t be complaining about this, however, we feel that the visuals that are being displayed here are simply not worth the performance hit. In order to reach 60fps, we had to lower our settings to Low. Things are even worse for AMD users as our AMD Radeon RX580 was unable to offer a smooth 60fps experience on both High and Medium settings. For reference, Kingdom Come: Deliverance – another open-world title we’ve been testing these days – performs and looks way better than this latest Dynasty Warriors game. Still, the game does not look THAT good in order to push a GTX980Ti to its limits.
Things got better once we started playing the game as our GTX980Ti was able to offer 60fps (with some minor drops to 57fps). It’s also worth noting that the game uses DX11 instead of DX12.
Since this is happening on both AMD and NVIDIA hardware, we are certain that this isn’t a driver issue.
The AMD Radeon RX580 was running the tutorial with around 30-35fps on Max settings at 1080p whereas the NVIDIA GTX980Ti was running it with 45fps. Both of our graphics cards were not being used to their fullest, resulting in a really mediocre experience.
This stage under-performed on both our AMD and NVIDIA test machine (Intel i7 4930K (overclocked at 4.2Ghz) with 8GB RAM, AMD’s Radeon RX580, NVIDIA’s GTX980Ti, Windows 10 64-bit and the latest version of the GeForce and Catalyst drivers).
Let’s start with the opening tutorial stage. I’m guessing that most of you will say > however we were hoping for something better, especially after witnessing the publisher fixing the PC version of Nioh. Dynasty Warriors 9 has just been released on the PC and, unfortunately, the game suffers from performance issues.