While that may be a decent (if controversial) way of handling 1080p and higher on Xbox One, being close to the monitor on PC just leads to the game looking incredibly, uncomfortably blurry. It appears as if the same happens here on PC. According to Inquisitr, the Xbox One version Quantum Break doesn’t actually natively render the game at anything above 720p, and instead opts for temporal reconstruction. Visually, the PC version suffers majorly due to massive amounts of unnecessary blur. In other words: Quantum Break does the fancy things a good PC port does but at the cost of some of the most basic, bare-minimum settings. Quantum Break only includes the ability to turn it on or off, with no in-game functions letting you pick the type of AA best for your system. Outside of UWP, I would’ve liked more anti-aliasing options. I’d consider the ability to change these two things basic functionality in a AAA PC port, so being forced into them in Quantum Break is disappointing. Instead, you’re either forced into windowed or a borderless windowed fullscreen mode. There are no options to disable vsync, and there is no dedicated fullscreen mode.

There’s even support for up to 4K resolutions (sort of, but we’ll get to that)!Įxcept, because this game runs on Microsoft’s controversial Universal Windows Platform, there are a few significant caveats. It has full key rebinding, and there are some pretty advanced graphics options available: volumetric lighting, shadow resolutions, ambient occlusion, reflections, all that good stuff. Looking through the options menu, you’d be forgiven for thinking Quantum Break’s PC port was competent. Quantum Break is a poorly performing shambles that not only feels like a rushed port, but also shows everything that is wrong and worrying with Microsoft’s current push into PC gaming. Unfortunately, Quantum Break isn’t a good first impression for UWP. It’s one of the first major releases to be a Windows 10 exclusive, and so is probably the first time a lot of people get to see exactly what Microsoft and their Universal Windows Platform can do. Originally announced as an exclusive alongside the Xbox One in 2013, Quantum Break’s PC port came as a surprise when it was announced only a couple of months ago.

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