Upon release, The Callisto Protocol’s performance was one of the main reasons for mixed reviews from players and critics, with most reviews on Steam highlighting the performance issues they had been facing since day one.
Although we were impressed with what we saw on the way to the game’s release, according to some sources such as Eurogamer (opens in a new tab), these issues have led some gamers to believe that The Callisto Protocol seems almost unplayable on PC due to stuttering regardless of system. For Xbox Series X players, the issues are to a lesser extent but still noticeable and affect the overall Callisto protocol experience.
One of the key issues is that the shaders are not precompiled, which ensures that whenever something new comes out, there can be serious frame drops and stuttering regardless of the CPU, but the problem can be even worse on older and less efficient models.
For the Xbox Series X, performance issues are an issue, however, but the bigger catch is the lack of one feature: ray-traced reflections, which take a detour from pushing the game’s realism. While all systems offer a choice of performance modes, Callisto protocol performance on Xbox Series X and PC requires a patch update.
Performance on PS5 seems to be much better, which may be because, judging by the credits of The Callisto Protocol, more than 150 developers from PlayStation Visual Arts studio helped in the development of the game. This Sony studio focuses on motion capture and movies and supports other studios. This may mean that The Callisto Protocol is better optimized on PS5 than on PC and Xbox.
We are aware that some users are having issues with computer stuttering. We have a patch coming in a few hours to improve performance and many more updates are on the way.December 2, 2022
The day after launch, developer Striking Distance Studios released a patch update to address several PC performance issues reported by players and promised some additional updates. The hotfix was intended to eliminate and fix problems caused by stuttering.
Originally reported by Forbes (opens in a new tab)The latest patch has helped address some of the more serious stuttering issues, but micro stutters are still common, which are not as significant but take away from gameplay. In upcoming updates, Stringking Distance says there will be performance improvements on PC and Xbox Series X, but the timeframe for when further updates can be expected has yet to be released.