Marvel Rivals performance bottlenecks are "a very big problem", agree NetEase, but don't worry, they're adding a box

Is determination a Marvel supervillain themed astir PC crippled representation requirements? Let's presume that determination is, and that her sanction is Dr RAMsbottom. For excessively agelong has Dr RAMsbottom - aka the Bottlenecking Belle, aka Zero Sub Sixty - plagued the lives of Marvel Rivals players. For excessively agelong has she reduced our superheroic exploits to an unsightly stop-motion parade.

Be of bully heart, ye Rivals, for the boffins astatine NetEase (the ones that weren't abruptly laid disconnected successful February) are devising immoderate countermeasures. Specifically, they're reasoning astir adding a container you tin tick to someway chopped backmost the game's representation usage "significantly" and amended your framework rate.

"On PC, we recognize that [optimization] is simply a large problem, particularly for the representation consumption," Marvel Rivals manager Guangyun Chen told cheery RPS fanzine PCGamer during an interrogation astatine GDC 2025. "So it whitethorn beryllium that successful Season 2, we volition person an experimental cheque container successful our launcher players tin usage to trim representation [consumption] significantly."

How this volition enactment is unclear. Given that perceptions of lacklustre PC crippled show alteration wildly betwixt users, I wouldn't enactment it past NetEase to invoke the aged placebo effect and virtually conscionable adhd a container to the rubric surface with "tick to realise your PC's latent superpowers" written adjacent to it successful Arial Bold. Perhaps lying video crippled menus are Dr RAMsbottom's Kryptonite? They should adhd a ample arrow pointing to the box, conscionable to beryllium safe.

Chen wouldn't beryllium drawn connected specifics by PCGamer. "It's a precise large problem, but it's a batch of enactment to signifier [a fix]," helium acknowledged. "We cannot conscionable merchandise it successful a tiny patch, we person to afloat trial it. But we recognize the occupation and we're going to support optimizing."

I haven't been excessively bothered myself by show issues moving Rivals connected my 16GB PC, but past again, I americium the benignant of sicko who enjoys making beauteous games tally connected low-spec machines. My verdicts are unsound. How person you been getting connected with it?

Rivals Season 2 begins connected 11th April, and there's the committedness of caller Team-Ups, among different things.