Image quality settings and benchmark system
Image quality settings and benchmark system
Before we begin with the graphics performance tests a little explanation. We use a time based measurement based upon framerate recording. Since this title does not have a built in benchmark we start a scene and record a part of the level that gives us an average framerate. Anno 2205 does have a movie fly-by mode we could use, but the FPS drop there is massign and not relevant to actual gaming/gameplay, so we do not use it. Our in-game quality settings are:
We use near Ultra High quality settings on everything (hey this is PC gaming right?) versus an acceptable level of performance. Games typically should be able to run in the 40 FPS range combined with your monitor resolution. An land based RTS however already feels good at 30 FPS (true that). From there onwards you can enable/disable things if you needmore performance or demand even better game rendering quality. Take a good look at our settings which we can recommend for the best PC experience.
For mainstream and upwards we recommend the High Ultra quality level, yet lower AA towards 2x or 4X. We will be testing at Ultra High with 4xAA which seems to be a really nice balance for any card starting in ther 150 EURO range versus your relevant monitor resolutions.
- GeForce GTX 760
- GeForce GTX 770
- GeForce GTX 780 Ti
- GeForce GTX 950
- GeForce GTX 960
- GeForce GTX 970
- GeForce GTX 980
- GeForce GTX 980 Ti
- GeForce GTX Titan
- GeForce GTX Titan X
- Radeon R7 370
- Radeon R9 280X
- Radeon R9 285
- Radeon R9 290
- Radeon R9 290X
- Radeon R9 380
- Radeon R9 380X
- Radeon R9 390
- Radeon R9 390X
- Radeon R9 Fury
- Radeon R9 Fury X
- Radeon R9 NANO
The benchmark can be quick or slow depending on your graphics card, resolution and image quality settings. Typically for a benchmark run there will be a scene rendered where the output of the number of frames rendered over time equals to an average framerate.
System Specifications
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 4.40 GHz on all cores. 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.
- GeForce cards use the latest 359.06 driver (download).
- AMD Radeon graphics cards we used the latest AMD Radeon Crimson 15.12 Driver (download).
