{"id":88851,"date":"2016-04-12T11:03:17","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T09:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=88851"},"modified":"2016-04-12T11:04:08","modified_gmt":"2016-04-12T09:04:08","slug":"quantum-break-on-pc-is-broken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/88851-quantum-break-on-pc-is-broken","title":{"rendered":"Quantum Break on PC is broken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the Xbox one version of Quantum Break receiving positive <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/reviews\/88287-quantum-break-review-roundup.html\">review scores, <\/a>PC users have cited a number of technical issues surrounding the release of the game on Windows 10.<\/p>\n<p>In a report compiled by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/digitalfoundry-2016-what-went-wrong-with-quantum-break-pc\">Digital Foundry, <\/a>some of the biggest issues PC users are experiencing include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>60 frames per second isn&#8217;t possible on a 60Hz monitor<\/strong> &#8211; Framerates appear to be locked at 50Hz making the game judder as the game and monitor fail to sync.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>30fps cap doesn&#8217;t work<\/strong> &#8211; Attempting to fix the above sync issues by locking the game to 30 FPS is met with failure as the game will often dip above and below the mark.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Image quality<\/strong> &#8211; Quantum Break doesn&#8217;t output at native 1080p. Rather it outputs at 720p and then upscales the game to fit your chosen resolution. This leaves the game looking blurry and jagged<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Data streaming<\/strong> &#8211; In order to enjoy the live-action episodes available with the game, players would have to continuously stream the videos in forcing players to wait for buffering and destroying data caps.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Crashing<\/strong> &#8211; The game is not a stable experience and will continue to crash to desktop causing progress loss.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition, losing online access at any time will result in the player character receiving a pirate&#8217;s eye-patch, as the game cannot verify the originality of your copy with the servers.<\/p>\n<p>Quantum Break released on 05 April. The game is only available to purchase from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quantumbreak.com\/windows10\/\">Windows 10 store <\/a>on PC, or alternatively through the <a href=\"https:\/\/store.xbox.com\/en-ZA\/Xbox-One\/Games\/Quantum-Break\/23630687-fad2-4cc8-8cfc-6f213b808b4f\">Xbox One games store<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can find a complete analysis of the issues in the video below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zK2BUeYqLVI\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Dark Souls 3 \u2013 PC, PS4, Xbox One pre-order price roundup\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/87840-dark-souls-3-pc-ps4-xbox-one-pre-order-price-roundup.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Dark Souls 3 \u2013 PC, PS4, Xbox One pre-order price roundup<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Upcoming Mass Effect\u2019s gameplay leaked\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/videos\/88069-upcoming-mass-effects-gameplay-leaked.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Upcoming Mass Effect\u2019s gameplay leaked<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Greatest games of the 80s\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/88073-greatest-games-of-the-80s.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Greatest games of the 80s<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PC users have cited a number of technical issues surrounding the release of Quantum Break on PC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":88853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1564,17959,13009,10065],"class_list":["post-88851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-remedy","tag-tecnical","tag-windows-10","tag-xbox-one"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89057,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88851\/revisions\/89057"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}