Settings adjustments are required to get the done done.
An R9 390 falls short at 1080p with all settings maxed out, handing in around 45fps in the opening university chapter. With the game fully patched, a full 60fps is now entirely possible - given the right hardware at hand.
To make matters trickier still, using the in-game 30fps cap to sidestep this problem was also a no-go, bringing its own frame-pacing issues that caused intrusive stutter. For those running on a conventional 60Hz monitor, this meant it resided at 50fps even with the most powerful hardware running at the lowest settings. Before this new update, the title stuttered no matter which graphics card or setting you used, as a result of hitting a performance ceiling - roughly five sixths of your monitor refresh. Let's address the frame-rate concerns first, our main issue with the launch version of the game.
The good news is that with Remedy's latest patch things are looking brighter, and while there are still some major issues, it is indeed possible to play the game at a straight 1080p60. Ranging from stuttering frame-rates owing to a 50fps cap on 60Hz displays, a 30fps mode with severe frame-pacing issues, and also driver crashes on Nvidia cards - it all left a bad taste in the mouths of those who'd spent so much on the game at launch.
Quantum Break was left in a bit of state at the PC version's launch, but this week we have update 1.7 - a whopping 27GB patch - to potentially address its issues.