The third-person co-op shooter Helldivers 2 is currently achieving outstanding player numbers, but the game from the Swedish Arrowhead Game Studios is also struggling with technical problems. In addition to the server problems expected with such a rush, there are also difficulties with Radeon graphics cards such as the Radeon RX 7000. Sagar Beroshi, the game's deputy game director, has now officially confirmed this.
Technical problems, old engine
Accordingly, the developers tested Helldivers 2 with the current Radeon models and did not notice any abnormalities at the time. In fact, many users still experience “critical problems” that the developers are currently looking for – in collaboration with AMD. However, the studio does not yet have a guess as to the cause or a temporary solution. However, some players may find it helpful to set the graphics settings to low. For example, on Reddit there is also various advice from the community. Among other things, individual players recommend using the starting argument to force DirectX 11, deactivate global lighting or keep the graphics driver up to date.
Hopefully the developers will soon reveal what the specific cause of the technical problems is. The engine used probably plays a role, because Helldivers 2 runs with the Autodesk Stingray engine, which was discontinued in 2018 and was marketed as Bitsquid until 2014. According to Johan Pilestedt, CEO of Arrowhead Studios, some effort was necessary to make the old engine suitable for such a game without official support. At the same time, development of the game was said to have already been underway when work on Stingray stopped.
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With such a long lead time, a change might still have been possible, but the developers were of course used to using the software. An engine swap would not only have meant a new start to the project, but also time-consuming and costly retraining. Instead, the decision was made to continue using it, which may now cause at least some of the technical problems.
Quellen: Arrowhead, PC Gamer