Since I skipped PES 2017 entirely and PES 2016 was a fairly long time ago, it’s not going to be easy for me to compare how this demo plays with previous releases. Marvel at a football game that can manage goal kicks at 60fps by default. It’s taken Konami far, far too long, but the era of terrible lighting, an awful looking pitch, and cardboard crowds seems to finally be over.
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I’ve played both the PC and PS4 demos, and they are equivalent this year. In terms of the PC presentation of PES 2018, as promised by Konami it actually looks like the modern version of the game this time. It could also be that I’m getting a very minor frame-rate dip that Steam’s counter isn’t really registering. At those moments, it does feel like there’s a slight stutter or perhaps just some poor frame pacing. The only hiccup seems to be when I guess what you would call the main ‘broadcast’ camera has to move rapidly across the center of the pitch to follow a rapid attack. I’m not sure what manner of frame-capping or v-sync Konami are using to keep it at 60fps, but it feels relatively smooth. External shots of the stadium and pre-match stuff would drag it down to the 50s until I changed the anti-aliasing from TAA to FXAA. Using those, my machine (i5-6600 / 16GB RAM / 380X) could run the game fine at 60fps. The settings you see above are the ‘max’ for the PES 2018 demo. I didn’t think it was necessary to take a second screenshot just for that. There’s one more cut off at the bottom, which is ‘Crowd Quality’. The PES 2018 does have more graphics options all round, though. FIFA, however, can go above 60fps, which is worth considering if you’re hoping to play on a 144hz monitor.
This puts it one up on the FIFA 18 PC demo, which still defaults to 30fps in certain circumstances (menus, goal kicks etc) no matter what you select as your frame-rate. There’s a separate toggle for if you want replays to be at 60fps too.
That’s the only place you can select the resolution, and the only place where you can opt for either a frame-rate of 60 or 30. Just to complicate things a little, the PES 2018 demo has a launcher (above).
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The full game apparently supports 4K resolutions too, although I couldn’t get that to work via downsampling (or rather, AMD’s virtual super resolution) in the demo version. That makes a bit of a mockery of Konami’s insistence that the PC version wouldn’t be treated like garbage this year, but I suppose a late demo can be somewhat forgiven if the graphics have actually advanced out of the PS3/360 era this time. So instead of a demo ahead of release, we’ve got one on launch day. But I guess Konami were worried about people datamining the PC demo and learning that this football game has footballers in it, or something. The other platforms got the PES 2018 demo all the way back in August. It didn’t have to be released after EA’s effort, of course. Nipping away at the heels of the FIFA 18 demo released on PC earlier this week, it’s Konami’s demo for PES 2018.