| BASIC GAME INFORMATION |
Release date: 2018 year
Genre:RPG
developer: Warhorse
Publisher: Buka
Kingdom Come: Deliverance is a new open-world first-person adventure medieval RPG game from former employees of Bohemia Interactive, 2K Czech and Altar Interactive powered by the CryENGINE engine. The game will offer a non-linear story, a revolutionary melee combat system and a living world.
The action will take place in the Holy Roman Empire at the end of the Middle Ages, where there is no magic, monsters, dragons, enchanted weapons and other attributes of “medieval” fantasy. The developers promise to immerse players in a harsh and brutal struggle for power. In addition to battles of varying scale and significance, you will have to establish connections and improve your reputation.
| 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 |
Kingdom Come Deliverance is supported by Windows 7/8 and Windows 10.
The priority and main graphics API for Kingdom Come Deliverance is DirectX 11.
| GAME ENGINE |
Kingdom Come Deliverance uses the CryEngine (4th generation) game engine developed by Crytek, which was first introduced in 2013 and has been constantly improved since then. The original game, released in 2006, used the id Tech 4 engine. At that time, Human Head Studios modified the engine by adding a dynamic portal system. According to Pete Hines, Bethesda’s head of marketing, Prey 2 (prior to restarting development) did not use id Tech 5 because the engine was not ready at the time of the game’s development, as it was itself in development.
This is a powerful set of tools that works on all major platforms and allows the developer to focus on the game and not bother with the technical part. CryEngine was used to create groundbreaking trilogies such as Crysis and Ryse.
CryEngine 3 was officially announced on March 11, 2009, and the official release of the engine took place on October 14, 2009. The first game for which the use of CryEngine 3 was announced is the first-person shooter Crysis 2 from Crytek. At the end of March 2010, in an interview with GameReactor magazine, Cevat Yerli said that developers from Crytek had to face a number of problems when developing CryEngine 3 for consoles: “The most difficult thing was the process of scaling CryEngine 3 for consoles while maintaining picture quality and the proper level of performance. Of course, there were challenges, but we are very proud that our team was able to overcome them.”
Shaders in CryEngine 3 are written once in a high-level programming language, and then automatically compiled for each platform. Shader output is optimized through artist settings and for the 3D environment in which the shader will be used. Thanks to this, it becomes possible to create effects such as the “invisibility effect”, wet, dirty and frozen surfaces, which can be “layered” on top of each other and combined with other shaders that simulate effects such as metal, glass and others. CryEngine 3 supports real-time per-pixel lighting, reflections, refractions, volumetric heat effects and animated textures to simulate windows, bullet holes, surfaces with sun glare and many other effects. CryEngine 3 shaders use a unified shader architecture that has been available since Direct10D XNUMX.
“Ubershader” is a single shader program with many features: from one to four lights, light types, specular cubemaps, fog, detailed textures, normal maps, specular textures, etc. Millions of Ubershader combinations can be generated. Ubershader uses dynamic branching, splitting into multiple passes, reducing combinations, and accepting options with less functionality and lower performance requirements. Uses asynchronous shader compilation and a distributed task system to compile the shader cache.
| ADVANCED GAME SETTINGS |
Kingdom Come Deliverance has both standard and advanced base settings.
Below we have provided screenshots of the game at various graphics settings, where our readers can see the difference between the minimum, medium and maximum graphics quality settings.
| DIFFERENT QUALITY MODES |
The difference between the settings is visible, but it is not very critical.
| GENERAL VISUALS AND GAME PHYSICS |
Kingdom Come Deliverance is one of the most technologically advanced games to date. But the whole game is spoiled by bugs, which still persist almost a year after its release. Also, the optimization that makes smooth gameplay only on top-end hardware has failed.
Next, we will move directly to gaming tests and determine what impact this game has on modern computer hardware.
| TEST PART |
| Test configuration | |
| test stands |
Test bench No. 1 based on the Intel Socket 2011 platformv3 Test bench No. 2 based on the Intel Socket 2011 platform Test bench No. 3 based on the Intel Socket 1155 platform Test bench No. 4 based on the AMD Soket AM3+ platform Test bench No. 5 based on the Intel Socket 1150 platform Test bench No. 6 based on the Intel Socket 1151 platform Test bench No. 7 based on the AMD Soket AM4 platform |
| Multimedia equipment | Monitor Philips 241P6 |
| Software configuration |
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| Operating system | Windows 10 Pro 1809 |
| Graphics driver |
Nvidia GeForce/ION Driver Release 417.35 AMD Radeon Crimson Edition 18.12.3 |
| Monitoring program |
MSI Afterburner v4.6 FRAPS |
Our video cards were tested at different screen sizes of 1920×1080, 2560×1600 and 3840×2160 Ультра graphics quality settings. We would also like to draw your attention to the fact that high-resolution textures were added to the test, which appeared in the game much later than the release and were not used in our first test.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 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).
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When resolved 1920×1080 an average FPS of 25 frames was shown by video cards of the Radeon R9 380X or GeForce GTX 1050 Ti level. A minimum FPS of at least 25 frames can be provided by video cards of the Radeon R9 290 or GeForce GTX 970 level. A comfortable average FPS of 60 frames can be provided by solutions of the Radeon RX Vega 56 or GeForce GTX 1070 level.
When resolved 2560×1440 an average FPS of 25 frames was shown by video cards of the Radeon RX 570 or GeForce GTX 1060 level. A minimum FPS of at least 25 frames can be provided by video cards of the Radeon R9 Fury X or GeForce GTX 980 Ti level. A comfortable average FPS of 60 frames can be achieved by solutions at the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti level.
When resolved 3840×2160 average FPS of 25 frames showed level video cards Radeon RX Vega 64 or GeForce GTX 1080. Minimum FPS of at least 25 frames can be provided by video cards of the level Radeon RX Vega 64 LC or GeForce GTX 1080 Ti.
| 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 and 2560×1440 with different 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.
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GameGPU
When resolved 1920×1080 maximum video memory consumption for video cards with 4 gigabytes is 2700 megabytes, with 6 gigabytes 3200 megabytes, with 8 gigabytes 2900 megabytes and with 11 gigabytes 3400 megabytes.
When resolved 2560×1440 maximum video memory consumption for video cards with 4 gigabytes is 3300 megabytes, with 6 gigabytes 3700 megabytes, with 8 gigabytes 3500 megabytes and with 11 gigabytes 4100 megabytes.
When resolved 3840×2160 maximum video memory consumption for video cards with 4 gigabytes is 4000 megabytes, with 6 gigabytes 5000 megabytes, with 8 gigabytes 4900 megabytes and with 11 gigabytes 5200 megabytes.
| 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 tests(by default, the most productive solution from NVIDIA is selected).
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When using video cards NVIDIA an acceptable figure of at least 25 frames was shown by the Ryzen 3 1200 or Core i 3 7100 processors, and an average FPS of 60 frames can be achieved by the Ryzen 5 1600 or Core i 7 5960X solutions.
When using video cards AMD an acceptable figure of at least 25 frames was shown by the Ryzen 3 1200 or Core i 5 2500 processors, and an average FPS of 60 frames can be achieved by the Ryzen 7 1800X or Core i 5 8600 solutions.
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GameGPU
The game uses a maximum of 16 computing threads. But all 8 threads are most effectively used.
| RAM TEST |
The test was carried out on the basic configuration of Core i 9 9900K with 32 GB DDR4 3200 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.
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GameGPU
When resolved 1920×1080 maximum RAM consumption of the system by a video card with 4 gigabytes is 7200 megabytes, with 6 gigabytes 7100 megabytes, with 8 gigabytes 7100 megabytes and with 11 gigabytes 8100 megabytes.
When resolved 2560×1440 maximumRAM consumption of the system by a video card with 4 gigabytes is 7400 megabytes, with 6 gigabytes 7300 megabytes, with 8 gigabytes 7300 megabytes and with 11 gigabytes 8200 megabytes.
When resolved 3840×2160 maximumRAM consumption of the system by a video card with 4 gigabytes is 8600 megabytes, with 6 gigabytes 7500 megabytes, with 8 gigabytes 7600 megabytes and with 11 gigabytes 8400 megabytes.
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