Wuchang: Fallen Feathers is the latest game to join the long list of popular soulslike games. However, it hasn’t gotten off to a great start with PC gamers. Just like Monster Hunter Wilds, performance issues have quickly become the number one reason for criticism, and Steam users have made it clear how they feel about the launch. Lackluster support for upscaling tech outside of Nvidia GPUs is also an interesting omission.

Reviewers were able to test the performance of Wuchang just ahead of launch, so we have a pretty good spread of benchmarks on different graphics cards to delve into. And while the game has a relatively solid amount of settings to tinker with, the lack of support for FSR 3.0 or Intel XeSS seems like an obvious issue.

Wuchang: Fallen Feathers met with ‘Mostly Negative’ reviews on Steam

PC gamers have taken to Steam to make it clear that the game doesn’t run well. Users on lower-end hardware aren’t happy with the performance; one user on X using the RTX 3060 with a Ryzen 7 CPU says it runs at 30 FPS even at low settings, 1080p, claiming that upscaling options “aren’t working properly”.

DSOG put out a performance analysis for the game across several Nvidia and AMD graphics cards. The first thing the publication notes is the lack of FSR 3 and XeSS, so if you aren’t using an Nvidia GPU, you lack a really solid upscaling option and have to settle for UE5’s TSR (Temporal Super Resolution), which is far from ideal. They’ve used the game’s built-in benchmark tool to provide a reliable comparison.

Simply put, the game fails to perform well in native benchmarks. At 1440p max settings, AMD’s former flagship RX 7900 XTX averages 52 FPS, and even falls just short of 30 FPS at 4K. Additionally, the RTX 5090 is the only GPU tested that could manage over 100 FPS at 1080p. Even the RTX 3080, a card that should really have no problems with 1080p, fails to hit 60 FPS at this resolution, maxed out. As such, players will certainly have to rely on upscaling and frame generation to boost performance, but that leaves AMD and Intel users behind. Those using one of Nvidia’s latest RTX 50 series cards do at least have access to DLSS 4.

4K benchmarks show even the RTX 5090 fails to hit 60 FPS at native resolution, source: DSOG

4K benchmarks show even the RTX 5090 fails to hit 60 FPS at native resolution, source: DSOG

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Overall, it looks like PC players without an Nvidia graphics card will have to crank the settings down to get close to smooth performance in Wuchang: Fallen Feathers. Those with Nvidia’s latest cards benefit the most thanks to DLSS 4 support, and even if you have one of AMD’s new RX 9000 series cards, you don’t even get support for FSR 3, never mind FSR 4. Native 1440p max settings benchmarks see the RX 9070 XT averaging just 50 FPS. And for Intel GPU owners, this game might be worth skipping for now.

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