| BASIC GAME INFORMATION |
Year of construction: Dec 4. 2021
Genre: Action / Adventure / Simulator / Survival
developer: RocketWerkz
Publishing house: RocketWerkz
ICARUS is a sessional PvE survival simulator for up to eight people. The harsh Icarus awaits you – the greatest mistake in the history of mankind. In pursuit of wealth, you will have to explore the area, gather, make tools and track down animals.
Prospectors leave the orbital station for a strictly limited time and go to fight the difficult conditions of an alien planet, carry out faction assignments and look for rare and very valuable exo-resources. The survivors return to orbit and use the extracted exomatter to develop new equipment to undertake an even more risky mission with their newfound knowledge. Those who failed to return were destined to disappear without a trace.
| 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 |
Icarus supported Windows 7 / 810/11.
The priority and main graphics API for Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice is DX11/12.
| GAME ENGINE |
Icarus is based on the Unreal Engine 4 game engine, developed and supported by Epic Games.
Thanks to his work, each playthrough of the game is unique and inimitable, which increases the replay value of the game. The first game created on the engine, Unreal, appeared in 1998. Since then, various versions of this game engine have been used in more than a hundred games, including Deus Ex, Dishonored, Lineage II, Thief: Deadly Shadows, Postal 2, the Brothers in Arms series, Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell, Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six, as well as in the famous game series Unreal and Unreal Tournament from Epic Games themselves. Being primarily adapted for first-person shooters, the engine was also used to create games of other genres.
Written in the high-level language C++, the Unreal Engine 4 allows you to create games for most operating systems and platforms: Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac OS and Mac OS X, Xbox consoles, Xbox 360, PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation 3, Wii, Dreamcast and Nintendo GameCube. In December, Mark Rein demonstrated the work of the Unreal Engine 3 on the iPod Touch and iPhone 3GS. In March 2010, the engine was demonstrated on the Palm Pre communicator, based on the webOS mobile platform.
To simplify porting, the engine uses a modular system of dependent components: supports various rendering systems (Direct3D, OpenGL, Pixomatic; previously supported Glide API, S3 Metal, PowerVR SGL), audio playback (EAX, OpenAL, DirectSound3D; previously supported A3D), voice playback tools text, speech recognition (only for Xbox360, PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii and Microsoft Windows, also planned for Linux and Mac), modules for working with the network and support for various input devices.
Windows Live, Xbox Live, and GameSpy technologies are supported for online play, including up to 64 players (clients) simultaneously. Despite the fact that the development tools do not officially include support for a large number of clients on one server, the engine has been used to create MMORPG games. One of the most famous representatives of the genre, Lineage II, uses the Unreal Engine.
| SETTINGS |
Icarus has a sufficient 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 |
| RT ON OFF |
| TECHNOLOGIES |
Graphics in Icarus are standard as for games on Unreal Engine 4:
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 497.09 AMD Radeon Adrenalin Edition 21.12.1 |
| 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 in DX12. DLSS and FSR were tested in maximum quality modes
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.
- Max+RT
- Very high
When resolved 1920×1080 an average FPS of 25 frames was shown by video cards of the Radeon RX 590 or GeForce GTX 1060 level. Minimum FPS of at least 25 frames can be provided by video cards of the level adeon RX Vega 56 or GeForce GTX 1060. 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 Vega 56 or GeForce GTX 1070 level. Minimum FPS of at least 25 frames can be provided by video cards of the level adeon RX Vega 64 or GeForce RTX 2070s. A comfortable average FPS of 60 frames can be provided by solutions Radeon RX 6800 or GeForce RTX 3080. .
When resolved 3840×2160 an average FPS of 25 frames was shown by video cards of the Radeon RX 6800 or GeForce RTX 2080 Ti level. Minimum FPS of at least 25 frames can be provided by video cards of the level Radeon RX 6800 or GeForce RTX 2080 Ti.
RT
When resolved 1920×1080 an average FPS of 25 frames was shown by video cards of the Radeon RX 6600 FSR or GeForce RTX 2060s level. Minimum FPS of at least 25 frames can be provided by video cards of level Radeon Radeon RX 6700 XT or GeForce RTX 2070. A comfortable average FPS of 60 frames can be provided by solutions Radeon RX 6800 or GeForce RTX 2080 Ti.
When resolved 2560×1440 an average FPS of 25 frames was shown by video cards of the Radeon RX 6700 XT or GeForce RTX 2060s level. Minimum FPS of at least 25 frames can be provided by video cards of the level adeon Radeon RX 6700 XT or GeForce RTX 2080. A comfortable average FPS of 60 frames can be provided by solutions Radeon RX 6900 XT or GeForce RTX 3080.
When resolved 3840×2160 average FPS of 25 frames showed level video cards Radeon RX 6800 xt or GeForce RTX 2080 Ti. Minimum FPS of at least 25 frames can be provided by video cards of the level Radeon RX 6800 FSR or GeForce RTX 3080. A comfortable average FPS of 60 frames can be provided by solutions GeForceRTX 3080 Ti DLSS.
| 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.
- Max+RT
- Very high
GameGPU
When resolved 1920×1080 video memory consumption of video cards from 8 gigabytes to 8 gigabytes, with 12 gigabytes 12 gigabyte, with 16 gigabytes 16 gigabyte.
When resolved 2560×1440 video memory consumption of video cards from 8 gigabytes to 8 gigabytes, with 12 gigabytes 12 gigabyte, with 16 gigabytes 15 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 15 gigabyte.
RT
When resolved 1920×1080 video memory consumption of video cards from 8 gigabytes to 8 gigabytes, with 12 gigabytes 12 gigabyte, with 16 gigabytes 16 gigabyte.
When resolved 2560×1440 video memory consumption of video cards from 8 gigabytes to 8 gigabytes, with 12 gigabytes 12 gigabyte, with 16 gigabytes 15 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 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.
- Max+RT
- 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 1400 or Core i 7 4770.
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, and FPS not lower than 60 frames per second will be able to provide level solutions Ryzen 5 1400 or Core i 7 4770.
RT
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 7 2700 or Core i 7 4770.
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, and FPS not lower than 60 frames per second will be able to provide level solutions Ryzen 7 1800 or Core i 7 4770.
- Very high
GameGPU
The game can load up to 12 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 MGz 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.
- Max+RT
- Very high
GameGPU
When resolved 1920×1080 RAM consumption for video cards with 8 gigabytes 22 gigabytes, with 12 gigabytes 18 gigabyte , with 16 gigabytes 16 gigabyte.
When resolved 2560×1440 RAM consumption for video cards with 8 gigabytes 23 gigabytes, with 12 gigabytes 20 gigabyte , with 16 gigabytes 17 gigabyte.
When resolved 3840×2160 RAM consumption for video cards from 8 gigabytes to 25 gigabytes , with 12 gigabytes 23 gigabyte, with 16 gigabytes 20 gigabyte.
RT
When resolved 1920×1080 RAM consumption for video cards with 8 gigabytes 22 gigabytes, with 12 gigabytes 21 gigabyte , with 16 gigabytes 18 gigabyte.
When resolved 2560×1440 RAM consumption for video cards with 8 gigabytes 23 gigabytes, with 12 gigabytes 22 gigabyte, with 16 gigabytes 19 gigabyte.
When resolved 3840×2160 RAM consumption for video cards from 8 gigabytes to 25 gigabytes , with 12 gigabytes 25 gigabyte , with 16 gigabytes 20 gigabyte.
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