From a testing point of view, it's been a busy couple of weeks with Avowed. I spent numerous hours running benchmark after benchmark with the review code that Obsidian Entertainment provided, and the results showed that Avowed's PC performance is sometimes good, sometimes bad, but frequently odd. Now, after a week of being publicly available to those willing to pay for early access, I've gone back in to see if any of the patches the game has received have improved things.
To cut a long story short, they haven't or certainly not to any degree that I can tell. However, the retesting that I have done has reminded me that Avowed has some peculiarities about it when it comes to getting the best possible performance. So here are a couple of things worth trying, if you're not getting the frame rates you think you should be getting.
