For better or for worse capcom is doing this shit in nearly every one of their games so i kinda expected this shit
And if we stop shitting on them for doing it, we let it become normalized.
Denuvo is a cancer
This pretty much sums up the topic.
Optimisation. It is poor apparently. Nothing new really as far as pc games go.
It's actually a lot worse than that. It's been a while since I played something that had this level of problems. The fact that it's CPU-based performance is actually the bigger issue because it doesn't matter how beefy your graphics card is, you're still dropping a ton of frames in that city specifically. I can run the game at 144 FPS until I go to that city, then it drops to 40, which is just outrageous. Gaming PC build logic has for a long time been to prioritize a great graphics card over a great processor (assuming you're building with a budget and not a 'money is no object' type build), because that's what matters for games, but suddenly with this one specific game, the processor is the bottleneck.