Day 720?! We’re in HD now!

I got most of the way through Survivor recently before coming to similar conclusions as you. I remember the first game feeling really tight in its level design while Survivor feels a lot looser. I waited a few years before playing Survivor to let them work out the performance issues, but even on my 5080 and 9950x3D it was still chugging half the time no matter how low I moved the settings. It’s a real shame because I went back and played the opening section (which granted get’s a lot more work put into it) of the first game and I think it looked and ran better.