I need more corpses

I've noticed in Dead Space 3 that on some occasions corpses from Necromorphs seem to disappear entirely too quickly. It seems around 3 is the magic number, though I've had some disappear before my eyes leaving only a single corpse in the area. Since I need to "check" corpses for items by viciously stomping them, corpses disappearing means A) I have to check them in combat (not pleasant on Hard) and I miss some items (also not cool).

Is there some settings tweak (.ini? Config file?) that will let me stack up the bodies? I have a high end gaming PC and graphics are maxed, so my system can handle much more rotting flesh than I'm currently getting.

Solution 1:

Unfortunately there does not appear to be a fix for this "problem".

There are several discussions around talking about this issue if you want something to read:

• Steam Forum 1

• Steam Forum 2

• Steam Forum 3

• Game FAQs 1

• Game FAQs 2

• Dead Space Wiki

An explanation for this problem could be the fact that Dead Space 3 was simply ported to PC without being optimized at all. There is an article on this topic that I recommend you read: Dead Space 3 on PC is an unoptimized console port. A quote from this article:

Steve Papoutsis, executive producer on Dead Space 3, has confirmed that the PC version of the game is just a console port. It will not be optimized for the platform.

There is similar article here about the optimization of Dead Space 3.

The lack of optimization is most likely the cause of this issue, and also explains why console players don't experience the same problem.