Those who own previous games also have access to it

Aug 26, 2015 11:40 GMT  ·  By

A few new details about the recently released Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 multiplayer beta stage on PC have just surfaced online. First up, those who own Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, Ghosts, or Black Ops 2 on the PC can access the trial for free, but it seems that some serious stuttering appears when trying to play the title at maximum settings.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 is scheduled to launch this November, but in order to ensure that the game and its multiplayer mode work as intended across the most important platforms, developer Treyarch has recently released an online beta stage.

You don't need to pre-order to get into the Black Ops 3 PC beta

The multiplayer test already ended on PS4 last week, and earlier today, August 26, it has kicked off officially on the PC and Xbox One platforms.

Officially, you need to pre-purchase the final version of Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 in order to get a code for the PC beta stage. However, it seems that Steam users who previously owned Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, Ghosts, or Black Ops 2 now also have in their library the Black Ops 3 beta stage available for download and play.

Stuttering issues are affecting Black Ops 3 beta players

However, it seems that, even if you do get into the Black Ops 3 PC beta, the test phase lives up to its name and offers an incomplete experience in terms of performance improvements. Many players are reporting, via NeoGAF, stuttering when playing at the maximum settings, despite having top-of-the-line graphics cards like the Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 Ti.

Lowering the settings for textures, anti-aliasing, or Scene Resolution Ratio seems to improve the performance somewhat but there are still quite a few problems.

It's possible that Treyarch will release an update or patch for Black Ops 3's PC beta, in order to solve some of these problems this week.

Check out a video of the game's performance issues below.