Performance is unacceptably low in some areas

[DavidOliver]

On systems exceeding the minimum specs, framerate drops well below 30FPS at 1920 × 1080 (1920 × 1200 in my case as my monitor is 16:10) with 'very low' visual settings in certain areas. Unfortunately, the framerate is low enough in specific areas that the game becomes virtually unplayable.

The first occurence of this when playing through the tutorial and the start of the campaign on my system is the throneroom. Another is looking back at the palace from the direction of the Dreadful Wale.

My system:

Asus P8P67 Deluxe motherboard
Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.30GHz × 4 CPU
16GB RAM
AMD Radeon R9 390 GPU (Crimson Edition 16.11.3, which is currently latest stable)
Windows 10 64-bit

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PC Gamer: Here's why Dishonored 2 is running so poorly

[DavidOliver]

Fixed in beta patch.

I believe some are still unhappy with the performance, but this issue refers to the extremely low framerate that was apparently caused by cloth simulation on AMD cards. It's now playable in the affected areas so I'm closing.