| BASIC GAME INFORMATION |
Release date: January 24, 2023
Genre: Action, Adventure games, Role-playing games
developer: Luminous Productions
Publishing house: Square Enix
If the world is on the verge of destruction, urgent action must be taken. Some will become heroes, some will use the help of magical creatures, but our heroine of today’s adventure is full of hatred for her enemies. They destroyed most of her people and now she lives with revenge and the desire for the total destruction of these creatures.
| NEW PRODUCTS PROVIDED FOR TESTS BY MSI |
Now participating in our test MSI GEFORCE RTX 4090 GAMING X TRIO 24 GB. This video card is based on the Ada Lovelace architecture, operates at a frequency of 2750 MHz, has 16384 stream processors and 24 gigabytes of video memory.
This time the company’s top video card is participating in our test. MSI GEFORCE RTX 4070 Ti GAMING TRIO 12 GB. The GeForce RTX 4070 Ti is based on the AD104 GPU and features 7680 CUDA cores and 12GB of GDDR6X memory.
In our review we present you with the motherboard MSI MPG X670E Carbon WIFI. MSI MPG X670E Carbon WIFI is equipped with a highly reliable power system, with 16 power modules designed to work with powerful multi-threaded AMD Ryzen 7000 series processors. You can directly view the testing of this motherboard on our website.
| NEW PRODUCTS PROVIDED FOR TESTS BY ASUS |
This time the company’s top video card is participating in our test. ASUS Radeon RX 7900 XTX.. This video card is based on the Ada Lovelace architecture, operates at a frequency of 2750 MHz, has 9728 stream processors and 16 gigabytes of video memory. You can get acquainted directly with the testing of these video cards on our website.
This time the company’s new video card is participating in our test. ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4080 OC. This video card is based on the RDNA 3 architecture, operates at a frequency of 3000 MHz and has 24 gigabytes of video memory.
In our review we present you with the motherboard ASUS ROG Strix B650-A Gaming Wi-Fi. ROG Strix B650-A Gaming WiFi includes 4 DDR5 DIMM modules with a maximum capacity of up to 64 gigabytes and a frequency of up to 6400 MHz. For the file subsystem, the motherboard supports 3 M.2 PCIe 5.0/4.0 x4 slots and 4 SATA 6 Gb/s ports. You can directly view the testing of this motherboard on our website.
| NEW PRODUCTS PROVIDED FOR TESTS BY GIGABYTE |
In our review we present you with motherboards GIGABYTE Z690 AERO G и Z690 AORUS MASTER. We use these motherboards as test benches for new generations of processors Intel.
| NEW PRODUCTS PROVIDED FOR TESTS BY KINGSTON |
In our review we used RAM: 32 GB DDR4 3600 CL16 Kingston FURY Renegade, 32 GB DDR4 4000 CL18 Kingston FURY Renegade,32 GB DDR5 6000 Kingston FURY Renegade. And for game tests we use an external Kingston XS2000 Portable SSD 1TB.
| 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 |
Forspoken supported Windows 10/11.
The priority and main graphics API for Forspoken is DX 12.
| GAME ENGINE |
Luminous Engine is a game engine developed by the Japanese company Square Enix for internal use. The engine was created as a cross-platform one – compatible with IBM PC-compatible computers running Microsoft Windows and game consoles. Announced in 2010, the Luminous Engine replaced the studio’s previous internal engines, including Crystal Tools, which had become outdated by the time Final Fantasy XIII-2 was developed, and the company feared that its continued use would complicate the expected transition to the eighth generation of gaming systems. The new engine was supposed to significantly increase the efficiency and speed of developing computer games of various genres.
The only game released using the Luminous Engine was Final Fantasy XV. The company has also released tech demos showing off the engine’s capabilities – Agni’s Philosophy in 2012 and Witch Chapter 0 in 2015. In 2018, Square Enix established an internal studio, Luminous Productions, specifically to develop AAA games using the Luminous Engine.
One of the main priorities when developing Luminous Studio was multiplatform (cross-platform), as a result of which the engine supports any platform that has programmable shaders.
Luminous Studio supports many features for editing and processing game content and assets: visual editing, real-time editing, collaborative parallel editing, automatic assembly and testing of objects, asset management system, task management, etc.
Graphics engine
The graphics engine used in the PC version of Luminous Studio has native support for Direct3D 11, including tessellation. In addition, many other technologies are supported, including various ones, including diffuse, real-time reflections, refraction and ray distortion. It is stated that the graphics engine will feature “strikingly realistic visual fidelity.”
Animation engine
The Luminous Studio development team pays great attention to character animation. They believe that animation is one of the most important components of creating photorealistic graphics, and unnatural animation stands out noticeably and disrupts photorealism. Particular attention is paid to procedural animation, in particular to such methods as inverse kinematics for the whole body, etc.
Luminous Studio will use a combination of pre-recorded motion capture animation along with procedurally generated animation. A special database contains many pre-recorded animations for many movements and actions (for example, walking or swinging a sword). When creating a character animation, the most relevant animation entries are retrieved from the database and adjusted based on the character’s current conditions and/or environment. The developers gave several examples, the first describes the imposition of a procedural approach on a recorded walking animation in the case of a character walking on an uneven surface. In the following example, the animation engine could change a pre-recorded sword swinging animation depending on how heavy the sword is, or combine the walking and sword swinging animations as the character swings it in motion.
Physics engine
The physics engine included in Luminous Studio supports the simulation of tissues and liquids.
Game AI
Engine developers pay great attention to gaming artificial intelligence. According to Luminous Studio’s lead developer and game AI researcher Yoichiro Miyake, previous AI engines are based on reactive loops, while here the developers want to implement a new scalable AI that can recognize game scenes. Miyake gave an example in which the level editor communicates with the AI, and the latter can recognize its terrain and structures, intelligently using them when fighting a human player. If these algorithms can be implemented, then such AI will become universal, suitable for games of many genres. According to Miyake, the developers are striving to create an AI that will be closely connected with other subsystems of the engine, and not placed in a separate independent module. Also an important priority is the creation of scalable AI that can be used both in casual games for low-power portable consoles and in “big” games for the next generation of consoles.
| GRAPHICS SETTINGS |
Forspoken has a fairly wide range of graphic 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 |
| DLSS/FSR |
Well, in terms of the quality of object detailing native the best of all…
| GENERAL VISUALS AND GAME PHYSICS |
The graphics don’t seem to be particularly suitable for next-gen:
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 |
ROG Strix X570-E Gaming Z490 AORUS PROAX GIGABYTE Z590 VISION GIGABYTE Z690 AERO G Z690 AORUS MASTER MSI MPG X670E Carbon WIFI ASUS ROG Strix B650-A Gaming Wi-Fi |
| Sponsorship video cards |
MSI GEFORCE RTX 4090 GAMING X TRIO 24 GB MSI GEFORCE RTX 4070 Ti GAMING TRIO 12 GB MSI GEFORCE RTX 3080 SUPRIM X 12 GB MSI GEFORCE RTX 3070 Ti GAMING TRIO 8 GB ASUS Radeon RX 7900 XTX ASUS TUF Gaming GEFORCE RTX 4080 OC |
| Multimedia equipment |
Monitor Philips 326M6VJRMB/00 Seasonic PRIME TX-1000 power supply Kingston XS2000 Portable SSD 1TB 32 GB DDR4 3600 CL16 Kingston FURY Renegade 32 GB DDR4 4000 CL18 Kingston FURY Renegade 32 GB DDR5 5600 CL40 Kingston Fury Beast 32 GB DDR5 6000@6400 CL30 Kingston FURY Renegade Kingston FURY Renegade PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 SSD MPG CORELIQUID K240 housing |
| Software configuration |
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| Operating system | Windows 10 21H2/ Windows 11(Alder Lake) |
| Graphics driver |
Nvidia GeForce/ION Driver Release 528.02 WHQL AMD Radeon Adrenalin Edition 23.11.2/22.12.1 |
| Monitoring programs |
MSI Afterburner |
Our video cards were tested at different screen sizes of 1920×1080, 2560×1600 and 3840×2160 high и ultra (this option uses ray tracing)graphics quality settings. The test was carried out in a game with a lock of 120 FPS.
We did not test in the benchmark where the lock is 240 FPS, because firstly, our light test segment is significantly heavier than the bench (and in the mix-ups in the game the drawdowns are even more significant), and secondly, due to loading of locations between segments of the benchmark, it is impossible to adequately measure the minimum FPS …
| 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.
- High
- Ultra +
High
When resolved 1920×1080 average FPS of 25 frames showed level video cards Radeon RX 6600 or GeForce RTX 2060. Minimum FPS of at least 25 frames can be provided by video cards of the level Radeon RX 6600 or GeForce RTX 2060. A comfortable average FPS of 60 frames can be provided by solutions Radeon RX 6700TX or GeForce RTX 3060 Ti.
When resolved 2560×1440 average FPS of 25 frames showed level video cards Radeon RX 6600 or GeForce RTX 2060. Minimum FPS of at least 25 frames can be provided by video cards of the level Radeon RX 6600 XT or GeForce RTX 2060. A comfortable average FPS of 60 frames can be provided by solutions Radeon RX 6800 or GeForce RTX 3080.
When resolved 3840×2160 average FPS of 25 frames showed level video cards Radeon RX 6700 XT or GeForce RTX 3060 Ti. Minimum FPS of at least 25 frames can be provided by video cards of the level Radeon RX 6800 or GeForce RTX 2080 Ti. A comfortable average FPS of 60 frames can be provided by solutions Radeon RX 7900 XTX or GeForce RTX 4080.
Ultra
When resolved 1920×1080 average FPS of 25 frames showed level video cards Radeon RX 6700 XT or GeForce RTX 2060. Minimum FPS of at least 25 frames can be provided by video cards of the level Radeon RX 6700 XT or GeForce RTX 2060. A comfortable average FPS of 60 frames can be provided by solutions Radeon RX 6800TX or GeForce RTX 3080.
When resolved 2560×1440 average FPS of 25 frames showed level video cards Radeon RX 6700 XT or GeForce RTX 2060. Minimum FPS of at least 25 frames can be provided by video cards of the level Radeon RX 6700 XT or GeForce RTX 2080. A comfortable average FPS of 60 frames can be provided by solutions Radeon RX 7900 XTX or GeForce RTX 4080.
When resolved 3840×2160 average FPS of 25 frames showed level video cards Radeon RX 6800 or GeForce RTX 3080. Minimum FPS of at least 25 frames can be provided by video cards of the level Radeon RX 6900 XT or GeForce RTX 3080.
| 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.
- High
- Ultra +
GameGPU
High
When resolved 1920×1080 video memory consumption of video cards from 8 gigabytes to 6 gigabytes, with 12 gigabytes 9 gigabyte, with 16 gigabytes 11 gigabyte with 24 gigabytes 12 gigabyte .
When resolved 2560×1440 video memory consumption of video cards from 8 gigabytes to 7 gigabytes, with 12 gigabytes 10 gigabyte, with 16 gigabytes 12 gigabyte with 24 gigabytes 13 gigabyte .
When resolved 3840×2160 video memory consumption of video cards from 8 gigabytes to 8 gigabytes, with 12 gigabytes 12 gigabyte, with 16 gigabytes 13 gigabyte with 24 gigabytes 14 gigabyte .
Ultra
When resolved 1920×1080 video memory consumption of video cards from 8 gigabytes to 7 gigabytes, with 12 gigabytes 10 gigabyte, with 16 gigabytes 11 gigabyte with 24 gigabytes 13 gigabyte .
When resolved 2560×1440 video memory consumption of video cards from 8 gigabytes to 7 gigabytes, with 12 gigabytes 10 gigabyte, with 16 gigabytes 12 gigabyte with 24 gigabytes 14 gigabyte .
When resolved 3840×2160 video memory consumption of video cards from 8 gigabytes to 8 gigabytes, with 12 gigabytes 10 gigabyte, with 16 gigabytes 13 gigabyte with 24 gigabytes 15 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.
- High
- Ultra +
High
When using video cards NVIDIA processors showed an acceptable indicator of at least 25 frames per second Ryzen 3 3100 or Core i 3 10100, and an FPS of at least 60 frames per second will be able to provide solutions at the level Ryzen 5 3600 or Core i 5 10600.
When using video cards AMD acceptable figure is not less than 25 frames per second showed processors Ryzen 3 3100 or Core i 3 10100 , and FPS not lower than 60 frames per second will be able to provide level solutions Ryzen 3 3300 or Core i 5 10600.
Ultra
When using video cards NVIDIA processors showed an acceptable indicator of at least 25 frames per second Ryzen 3 3100 or Core i 3 10100, and an FPS of at least 60 frames per second will be able to provide solutions at the level Ryzen 9 3900 or Core i 7 10700.
When using video cards AMD acceptable figure is not less than 25 frames per second showed processors Ryzen 3 3100 or Core i 3 10100 , and FPS not lower than 60 frames per second will be able to provide level solutions Ryzen 9 3900 or Core i 7 10700.
- Ultra +
GameGPU
The game can load up to 24 streams. The game uses 12 threads as efficiently as possible.
| RAM TEST |
The test was carried out on the basic configuration of Core i 9 13900K with 32 GB DDR5 6400 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.
- High
- Ultra +
GameGPU
High
When resolved 1920×1080 RAM consumption for video cards from 8 gigabytes to 14 gigabytes, with 12 gigabytes 14 ggigabyte, with 16 gigabytes 13 gigabyte, with 24 gigabytes 14 gigabyte .
When resolved 2560×1440 RAM consumption for video cards from 8 gigabytes to 14 gigabytes, with 12 gigabytes 14 gigabyte, with 16 gigabytes 13 gigabyte with 24 gigabytes 14 gigabyte .
When resolved 3840×2160 RAM consumption for video cards from 8 gigabytes to 15 gigabytes, with 12 gigabytes 14 gigabyte, with 16 gigabytes 13 gigabyte with 24 gigabytes 14 gigabyte .
Ultra
When resolved 1920×1080 RAM consumption for video cards from 8 gigabytes to 15 gigabytes, with 12 gigabytes 15 ggigabyte, with 16 gigabytes 13 gigabyte, with 24 gigabytes 15 gigabyte .
When resolved 2560×1440 RAM consumption for video cards from 8 gigabytes to 16 gigabytes, with 12 gigabytes 15 gigabyte, with 16 gigabytes 13 gigabyte with 24 gigabytes 15 gigabyte .
When resolved 3840×2160 RAM consumption for video cards from 8 gigabytes to 19 gigabytes, with 12 gigabytes 15 gigabyte, with 16 gigabytes 13 gigabyte with 24 gigabytes 15 gigabyte .
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