For me, I get quite a few crashes with the game. However almost all of them are predictable.
If I visit "The Districts" often in a single game session, its a sure bet the 3rd visit is going to simply cause the game to quit to desktop when I 'turn around' in the middle of one (if not the 3rd, then definitely the 4th). Most times it quits without bringing up the 'send in a bug report' dialog. Never crashes my computer outright (never a BSOD for example).
When it happens, I always suddenly see my ram usage spike right before. I only have 16GB ram, so when it 'hits the roof', the game quits very ungracefully. The game doesn't just throttle itself down, or handle the ram roof. Outside of districts my ram use is barely 40%, thus the lack of crashes outside.
Maxing out the graphic options, or even bottoming them out, makes zero difference in the performance of the game for me. It always is roughly 10-15fps in districts, and 50-80 anywhere else. I am limited by my CPU for this game (only have a i7 6700K, non OC'd).
As for the power consumption... yes. What the game is doing with the CPU, is causing it to inhale a lot of power most of the time (more so in districts). In all honesty, my CPU runs "cooler" with an overnight prime95 going, then a few hours of this game running but "oh wells" is what I think right now, because its clear to me they have not done much optimizing at all. And judging by their stance that '30fps mediocrity is acceptable'... I don't foresee much optimizations in the future either. I'd love for them to clean up the code, I just don't expect them too.
Well by 'cooler', I meant, well, cooler... lol. Beans to beans, this game seems to make the cpu run warmer. However, this game doesn't put my CPU in jeopardy, the temps are still within my tolerance. Now if I did OC, I may find it more concerning given the vcore would be boosted a bit more, which would eat more energy, cause more heat, might go over 70c... which I won't like.
My next build is aimed at the 10k series. I just put it all on hold, because of the shortage of the 3090s... and other factors. Prolly do that sometime next year.
