Image quality settings and benchmark system

Image quality settings and benchmark system

For this game, we use a frame time run with HIGHEST image quality settings, the highest possible quality mode. We will test a good number of cards in this D3D11 compatible title performance wise. Games typically should be able to run in the 40 FPS range combined with your monitor resolution. From there onwards you can enable/disable things if you need more performance or demand even better game rendering quality.  Overall you will experience high up-to Highest to be the nicer quality setting for PC gamers on a more mainstream to high-end setup. The game allows you to tweak several graphics settings but has your typical settings ranging from the lowest to the best (Highest) image quality settings. 

The title does not allow 3rd party overlays for FPS monitoring and video grabbing - in-game you can enable an FPS counter like shown above.

We will test in the upper intro scene, loaded with shaders and fire effects, quite heavy on the GPU. 

The graphics cards tested

In this review we'll test the following cards at the best PC experience, a maxed out quality mode (Ultra) with VSYNC OFF. The graphics cards used in this test: 

System Specifications & recommended drivers

Our test system is based on the eight-core Intel Core i7-5960X Extreme Edition with Haswell-E based setup on the X99 chipset platform. This setup is running tweaked at 4.20 GHz. Next to that, we have energy saving functions disabled for this motherboard and processor (to ensure consistent benchmark results). We use Windows 10 all patched up. Each card runs on the same PC with the same operating system clone.

The drivers are:

• GeForce cards use the latest 388.31 WHQL driver (download).
• Radeon graphics cards we used the latest AMD Radeon Crimson 17.11.2 Driver (download).