Wolfenstein II The New Colossus: PC graphics analysis benchmark review

Posted on: 11/05/2017 01:25 PM

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Vulcan should be more often used....dx12 sucks compared to it and is tied to one platform, which is biggest isssue...

Posted on: 11/05/2017 01:31 PM

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Wow.. last gen cards getting hammered. Can it really be vram? 4gb cards seem choked, 8gb+ cards doing well. Is 4gb heading the way of 2gb cards so soon?

Posted on: 11/05/2017 02:06 PM

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Only when you play on "Mein Leben".

4GB still runs pretty good with Medium/High settings.

PS: I wish reviewers would stop using these exorbitantly stupid Über-settings and also throw some medium/high test runs in, for us lowly budget peasants.

Posted on: 11/05/2017 02:17 PM

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Huh so the async compute option really is missing for certain GPU models with the latest (non-beta) patch, interesting.

Image streaming can also go up a bit higher but that really taxes 4 GB GPU's to their limits since it allocates pretty much all VRAM by using a value of 4096 instead of 2048 though the improved texture clarity is nice, biggest downside of idTech6 even if it's better than idTech5 was but it takes a while for textures to stream in due to the sheer size of the texture data used so it's in little chunks at a time though overall it allows for very detailed scenes with less tiling from how I understood it, more varied texture work too but memory held back the initial idTech5 games though the overall environmental detail was pretty good even so far as I remember.

EDIT: Well perhaps not the biggest downside, but it's one of the more noticeable traits of the engine or how to say.

No OGL support in Wolf2 either, guessing idTech6.5 is leaving that behind though it would have made for some interesting API comparisons though AMD kinda trails behind in overall performance so might not have made for a good comparison for their GPU's other than showing how much more work they've put into Vulkan support heh.

Posted on: 11/05/2017 02:44 PM

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I'm glad the 'trial' version of this garbage game was available for me to try.

For the first time since I've been a pc gamer, it actually forced me by way of message, to upgrade to a specific new driver...it wouldn't let me play it without it.

Then after upgrading to it and getting to the menu, I find that the game has flickering black lines across the screen in the middle, so I google it and basically you have to play it at less than 4k to make the lines go away, which dozens of people reported in forums.

Then I finally load the game and find that the in game vsync still doesn't work, just like the new order.

Then I force it in nvcp and find that this game is so broken that even forcing it in the exact driver the game tells you to use, vsync doesn't work and also doesn't fix the black lines in the middle of the screen.

After googling around and reading various forums about how many problems this dumpster fire of a game has, I uninstalled it, and will never bother again. Glad for the demo, I would have been furious if I had paid for it, and reading hilberts problems....this game is clearly half baked.