| BASIC GAME INFORMATION |
date of release: 1 March 2022 of the year
Genre: action/RPG
developer: Piranha Bytes
Publisher/Distributor: THQ Nordic
ELEX II is a continuation of the vintage RPG, where new dangerous adventures await you in the open world. In the game you will have the opportunity to return to the planet Magalan, which is going through hard times.
Now you have a better and faster way to explore the world before you, and complete freedom of movement is achieved thanks to the capabilities of the jetpack. After the grandiose victory, so loudly celebrated in the first part of the series, years of calm came. The break did not last long; after a while the planet was in danger again.
| THE GRAFICAL PART |
This subsection of our review highlights the main graphical aspects of this game. Particular attention is paid to the version of the graphics engine used, the version of the API used, graphic settings and the quality of development of the main visual aspects.
| SUPPORTED OS AND GRAPHICS API |
ELEX 2 supported Windows 8 /10/11.
The priority and main graphics API for ELEX 2 is DX11.
| GAME ENGINE |
The basis for the game ELEX 2 was the game engine Genome Engine, yes, the same game engine from Gothic 3, of course heavily modified.
The game also uses SpeedTree technology, a technology for visualizing plants in three-dimensional graphics, developed by Interactive Data Visualization. The use of specialized “SpeedTree” technology, in some cases, helps reduce the load on computer resources compared to using standard game engine tools; SpeedTree makes it much easier for designers to create plants.
PhysX is used as the physics engine.
| SETTINGS |
ELEX 2 has a wide range of graphics settings.
Below we have provided screenshots of the game at various graphics settings, where our readers can see the difference between the minimum and maximum graphics quality settings.
| QUALITY MODES |
| TECHNOLOGIES |
The graphics in ELEX 2 are not up to par with a modern nexgen…:
Well, then we will move directly to gaming tests and determine what impact this game has on modern computer hardware.
| TEST PART |
| Test configuration | |
| test stands |
GIGABYTE G1.Sniper Z97 GIGABYTE GA-X99-Gaming 7 WIFI GIGABYTE GA-AX370-Gaming 5 GIGABYTE X570 AORUS MASTER MSI MPG Z490 GAMING CARBON WIFI MSI MPG Z590 GAMING CARBON WIFI Asus Rog Maximus Z690 Hero |
| Multimedia equipment |
Seasonic PRIME TX-1000 power supply 32 GB DDR4 3200 CL15 ZEN1 32 GB DDR4 3600 CL16 ZEN2 32 GB DDR4 4000 CL18 ZEN3 32 GB DDR4 4400 CL18 Comet Lake 32 GB DDR4 3600 CL16 Rocket Lake 32 GB DDR5 5600 CL42 Alder Lake |
| Software configuration |
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| Operating system | Windows 10 21H2/ Windows 11(Alder Lake) |
| Graphics driver |
Nvidia GeForce/ION Driver Release 511.79 WHQL AMD Radeon Adrenalin Edition 22.2.3 |
| Monitoring programs |
MSI Afterburner |
Our video cards were tested at different screen sizes of 1920×1080, 2560×1600 and 3840×2160 maximum graphics quality settings. Family cards Vega were not included in the test, because at the time of the test the game does not work correctly on them, loading only clouds instead of locations…
NVIDIA GeForce RTX and GTX video cards are provided by LLC Business Development Center.
| GPU TEST |
In the video card test, the default resolution is 1920×1080; other resolutions are added and removed manually. You can also remove and add any positions of video cards. You can also select any of our test processors from the list in the drop-down menu, comparing its performance with the given video card tests (by default, the most productive solution is selected). The test is carried out on the most powerful CPU in this game and is scaled to other processors, taking into account their testing on NVIDIA and AMD video cards.
- Very high
When resolved 1920×1080 an average FPS of 25 frames was shown by video cards of the Radeon RX 5700 or GeForce GTX 1070 level. Minimum FPS of at least 25 frames can be provided by video cards of the level Radeon RX 5700 or GeForce GTX 1070. A comfortable average FPS of 60 frames can be provided by solutions Radeon RX 6700 XT or GeForce RTX 2080.
When resolved 2560×1440 an average FPS of 25 frames was shown by video cards of the Radeon RX 5700 or GeForce GTX 1070 level. Minimum FPS of at least 25 frames can be provided by video cards of the level Radeon RX 5700 or GeForce GTX 1070. A comfortable average FPS of 60 frames can be provided by solutions Radeon RX 6800 XT or GeForce RTX 3080.
When resolved 3840×2160 an average FPS of 25 frames was shown by video cards of the Radeon RX 6700 XT or GeForce GTX 1080 Ti level. Minimum FPS of at least 25 frames can be provided by video cards of the level Radeon RX 6700 XT or GeForce RTX 2080.
| VIDEO MEMORY CONSUMPTION |
Testing of video memory consumed by the game was carried out by the program MSI Afterburner. The indicator was based on the results on video cards from AMD and NVIDIA with separate screen sizes 1920×1080, 2560×1440 and 3840×2160 with various anti-aliasing settings. By default, the graph displays the most current solutions. Other video cards are added and removed from the schedule at the request of the reader.
- Very high
GameGPU
When resolved 1920×1080 video memory consumption of video cards from 8 gigabytes to 5 gigabytes, with 12 gigabytes 5 gigabyte, with 16 gigabytes 5 gigabyte.
When resolved 2560×1440 video memory consumption of video cards from 8 gigabytes to 5 gigabytes, with 12 gigabytes 5 gigabyte, with 16 gigabytes 6 gigabyte.
When resolved 3840×2160 video memory consumption of video cards from 8 gigabytes to 6 gigabytes, with 12 gigabytes 6 gigabyte, with 16 gigabytes 7 gigabyte.
| CPU TEST |
Testing was carried out at a resolution of 1920×1080. In the processor test, you can remove or add any processor positions. You can also select any tested video card from the list in the drop-down menu, comparing its performance with the given processor test results (by default, the most productive solution from NVIDIA is selected). Testing takes place on the most powerful NVIDIA and AMD video cards and scales to low-end models.
- Very high
When using video cards NVIDIA processors showed an acceptable indicator of at least 25 frames per second Ryzen 5 1400 or Core i 7 4770, and an FPS of at least 60 frames per second will be able to provide solutions at the level Ryzen 5 2600 or Core i 3 10100 .
When using video cards AMD acceptable figure is not less than 25 frames per second showed processors Ryzen 5 1400 or Core i 7 4770 .
- Very high
GameGPU
The game can load up to 16 streams. The game uses 8 threads as efficiently as possible.
| RAM TEST |
The test was carried out on the basic configuration of Core i 9 12900K with 32 GB DDR5 5400 MHz pre-installed memory. All used RAM was taken as an indicator. The RAM test on the entire system was carried out on various video cards without launching third-party applications (browsers, etc.). In the graphics, you can add and remove any resolutions and video cards as desired.
- Very high
GameGPU
When resolved 1920×1080 RAM consumption for video cards from 8 gigabytes to 8 gigabytes , with 12 gigabytes 8 gigabyte , with 16 gigabytes 8 gigabyte.
When resolved 2560×1440 RAM consumption for video cards from 8 gigabytes to 8 gigabytes , with 12 gigabytes 8 gigabyte , with 16 gigabytes 8 gigabyte.
When resolved 3840×2160 RAM consumption for video cards from 8 gigabytes to 8 gigabytes , with 12 gigabytes 8 gigabyte , with 16 gigabytes 8 gigabyte .
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