It looks like Sony is willing to finally admit that they cannot handle all the divisions that they so ambitiously created over the years. Hopefully, this results in more focused endeavors in the forthcoming years.

The Evil Within is your best bet with all things considered. It's not a terrible game like some critics and users make it out to be. And the "forced" sneaking around was from the early levels in the game. The rest is pretty much RE-action.

The Evil Within would have been more likable if the main protagonist had some personality and interesting traits. It's not a good thing when the game leaves you with not liking any of its characters.

This. +1

I ran into this today, but set affinity isn't new to some of you guys. With Dying Light, it worked well for me and I saw a huge performance boost. Perform these steps:

1. Start game.

2. Open up task manager, right-click Dyinglight.exe, click "go to process", and then click "set affinity."

3. You will see that "CPU 0" is the only core that is checked. Uncheck it, and check it again. Click OK.

4. Open up "set affinity" again, but this time, you will be checking all the cores. Now, click OK.

5. Do all of this in one succession, and then return to the game.

6. Enjoy the butter-smooth performance.

This has been the MOST helpful temporary fix, as it alleviates performance issues. I wish I found this out sooner. I have played the game for 55 friggin hours with some performance issues. A steam user posted this in another thread, and I jumped on it right away. The result was a massive performance boost. No more stuttering, no more lag spikes, just butter smooth.

Pretty much this.

I tested the game with the CPU Control tweak method that some gamers have resorted to pre-patch and post-patch. But what KHAndAnime said, sums up my experience thus far. While using CPU Control, I experienced more stuttering (post-patch). Then, I tested it without CPU Control, and it ran a lot smoother and more consistent. I tested it out just for curiosity's sake.

View distance, whether it is at max or 0, does not seem to be affecting my performance either way. While view distance seems to be hitting the performance more than anything, I don't see it as being a dealbreaker as I could not notice much of a difference, if any. Perhaps, it was the way they handled LOD.

So far, it sounds good on paper. I look forward to seeing the results for the gaming market base. I don't believe we could ever forget about what Microsoft did to PC gamers. And while I have little, to no faith in their gaming division, here is their chance to redeem themselves.

Good call. Grab a good 1080p monitor, at least 24", but there are really nice 27" 1080p monitors now that are very affordable even under a budget. A few years ago, they were not as common. Asus has some nice ones. Pour more money into the CPU/GPU/monitor. I feel like you would get the best experience if you budget around those components and then later upgrade the rest of the system if/when needed.

I highly recommend reading this so you can get a good understanding on how Dying Light is utilizing cores. It's not so much what settings you tweak or do not tweak that may be the main issue.

http://www.dsogaming.com/pc-performance-analyses/dying-light-pc-performance-analysis/

For those too lazy to read - in a nutshell:

"From the above, it’s pretty obvious that Dying Light lacks major CPU optimizations. We strongly believe that a better multi-threaded code would benefit the game, as it currently hammers only one CPU core. We don’t know whether something like that is possible via a patch, but it’s pretty much unacceptable witnessing a 2015 game – using a new engine that targets current-gen platforms only – that is unable to offer amazing and balanced multi-threaded CPU usage."

Download CPU Control.

1. When running dying light, ALT+TAB to your desktop open up CPU control and right-click dyinglight.exe.

2. Then ALL CPUs > 4 CPUs (or 6/8 depending on your CPU) then 1+2+3+4.

3. You can set the program to run at Windows start minimized and also add dyinglight.exe to it's profile using ADD TO SELECTED CPU PROFILE so that you don't have to go through this every time you load the game.

Hahaha. Made my day. =o)

Exactly.