The first Wizarding World RPG, Hogwarts Legacy, is a good game, but it is in dire need of optimization.
It’s worth noting that, as of this writing, Intel is the only company to have released a game-specific driver for Hogwarts Legacy. Unfortunately, I do not have an Arc graphics card at hand to test. Whether it comes in the form of a graphics driver update or a game patch from Avalanche Software, we sincerely hope the state of Hogwarts Legacy performance improves over time. We’re hopeful, since the game seems to be a stand-out success so far.
That one probably doesn’t look so bad, either, until you look at the scale on the left-hand side. That’s right: this is an average framerate of about 6 FPS, discounting the relatively-speedy section at the end that’s running at around 25 FPS. This capture was taken just a few tens of meters down the road from the test above, at the same time of day, at the same settings, on the same hardware.
Hotly-anticipated, open-world RPG Hogwarts Legacy officially launched yesterday, and I spent most of last night testing the game on a few different video cards. The conclusion? Hogwarts Legacy is a pretty game with a lot to like, but it runs about as well as Hogwarts’ jovial mendicant monk.We’d love to present you a detailed article full of graphs and charts, and that may yet come in the future, but the biggest problem we encountered when trying to benchmark the game is deciding where and how to do so , as there’s no built-in benchmark utility. The issue is that the game’s performance is wildly variable and inconsistent, not only from scene to scene, but even within a scene.
