Image Quality and System requirements

Image quality settings and benchmark system

For this game, we utilize the highest possible quality option and the best visual quality settings (Ultra) and have Raytracing enabled. Games should be able to run at 45-50 frames per second when paired with a matching monitor's resolution; raytracing, however, will impact performance profoundly. You can enable/disable features if you want greater performance or a higher level of game rendering quality. The graphics settings in The Callisto Protocol are organized into multiple pages, offering players a range of options to customize their gaming experience. The game offers different display modes, including borderless windowed, windowed, and fullscreen. The Callisto Protocol also supports AMD FSR 2 upscaling, which is enabled by default on all settings profiles. However, it can be turned off for more specific testing purposes. Unfortunately, the game does not support NVIDIA DLSS.

Players can also choose visual elements, such as Motion Blur, Depth of Field, and Film Grain. The game features ray tracing options, including RT shadows, RT reflections, and RT transmissions (this enhances subsurface scattering effects). The game comes with an integrated benchmark, the benchmark may show 100 FPS, but during actual gameplay, players can expect a lower FPS of around 85-90 FPS. The test has been improved with the latest updates.

The graphics cards tested

In this article, we'll use the following cards at a properly good PC experience graphics quality wise, the quality mode as shown above with Vsync disabled. The graphics cards used in this test are: 

• GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
• GeForce RTX 2060
• GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
• GeForce RTX 3060
• GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
• GeForce RTX 3070 Ti
• GeForce RTX 4070 Ti
• GeForce RTX 4080
• GeForce RTX 4090
• Intel ARC A770
• Radeon RX 6700
• Radeon RX 6800 XT
• Radeon RX 6900
• Radeon RX 7900 XT
• Radeon RX 7900 XTX
• Radeon RX 6600 XT

Test environment (system specification)