The Outer Worlds with ray tracing can’t hit 60FPS at paltry 540p resolution with an RTX 5090 and 9800X3D – ray tracing ‘performance’ mirrors Borderlands 4 fiasco

It’s a new day, and another badly-optimized AAA Unreal Engine 5 game has hit store shelves. A couple of YouTubers, including Daniel Owen, have discovered serious performance problems in The Outer Worlds 2 that almost mirror Borderlands 4’s atrocious launch day performance. One of the most problematic graphics settings is the game’s ray tracing mode, which prevents even AMD’s Ryzen 7 9800X3D gaming champ from achieving 60 FPS at resolutions well under 1080p.

The aforementioned YouTuber ran the game…