Year: 2010
Genre: Arcade / Racing (Motorcycles) / 3D / 3rd Person
Developer: Techland
Publisher: Deep Silve
System requirements for maximum visual quality in Nail’d recommended by the gameGPU website:
The minimum
Operating system: Vista®, Windows 7
Processor: Core 2 Duo E6400 2.13 GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200 2.6 GHz above
RAM: 1 GB
Video card: DirectX®9 compatible video adapter with 256 MBRAM Radeon HD 4670 or GeForce GT 220 above
DirectX: DirectX®9
Winchester: 3 GB free space
Effective
Operating system: Vista®, Windows 7
Processor: Core 2 Duo E6600 2.4 GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600 2.9 GHz above
Memory: 1.5 GB
Video card: DirectX®9 compatible video adapter with 256 MB RAM Radeon HD 2900 or GeForce 8800 GTS 640 mb above
DirectX: DirectX®9
Winchester: 3 GB free space
Optimal
Operating system: Vista®, Windows 7
Processor: Core 2 Duo E6750 2.66 GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000 3.0 GHz above
RAM: 1.5 GB
Video card: DirectX®9 compatible video adapter with 512 MB RAM Radeon HD 3850 or GeForce GT 430 above
DirectX: DirectX®9
Winchester: 3 GB free space
Review: Playability
Nail’d is a new racing arcade game with a unique mind-blowing atmosphere accompanied by good musical compositions. The game has some similarities to last year’s arcade game Pure, but this time we have even more incredible action. Throughout all the races you will find a constant feeling of high speed on simply incredible tracks. Lightning-fast reflexes and tactical skills will play a very big role, which will constantly put you between victory and defeat.
A variety of motorcycles, ATVs and other extreme vehicles are available, and it is also possible to perform various stunts. Several game modes are available in multiplayer, including huge tournaments among extreme drivers from all over the world. The game has 16 tracks located in four zones. Up to 12 people can take part in each race.
We invite you to evaluate part of the game walkthrough of Nail’d, where you can see for yourself the quality of this product:
Nail’d, in addition to the incredible action, has quite adequate controls that easily respond to the slightest touch on the manipulator, which makes it an incredibly convenient and amazing arcade game. The game is recommended for all fans of reckless arcade games…
Review: Graphics
Nail’d has very nice graphics and is based on the well-known, but not very common graphics technology among developers, Chrome Engine 4. Chrome Engine is a series of game engines developed and supported by the Polish company Techland.
Initially, the Chrome Engine was PC-exclusive, but the latest versions have already been developed to support current generation game consoles – Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. On PCs, the engine supports older versions of DirectX, current DirectX 9/10 and DirectX 11. Unfortunately, the game Only DirectX 9 is used…
Working with locations and objects
-Static and dynamic detection of visible surfaces using manually configurable occluders and portals.
-Advanced resource management system that allows rational use of data processing by the GPU.
-A complex material system that allows you to easily use various scripts for materials in the MaterialEditor utility, available for game developers on the Chrome engine.
-Supports per-pixel lighting using normal mapping, bump mapping, parallax mapping, environmental mapping or custom Phong shading.
-A system of access levels that allows you to modify all visual aspects of processed objects, a system of access levels for decals.
-Support for levels of detail for landscapes and objects.
-Highly optimized geometry rendering in open spaces, enhanced by polygon reduction in models or geomipmapping and polygon reduction.
-Procedural vegetation and meshes that allow you to create landscapes, grass and bushes or rocks with mountain cliffs.
-A flexible road system that allows you to create paths for moving objects, roads, streams or rivers of varying complexity. Using this feature, it is possible to create large locations, such as a city, with simulating the movement of pedestrians and cars, similar to the Grand Theft Auto series of games.
Effects and lighting
-Post-effects manager: 64-bit HDR rendering, depth of field, tone mapping, edge antialiasing, gamma correction, motion blur, bloom, glow, ambient occlusion. Support for some effects was added in the third version of the engine (Chrome Engine 3).
-Advanced dynamic soft lighting techniques, including the shadow mapping method, dynamic shadows from all scene objects, shadow output filtering.
-Advanced particle system, customizable in the Visual FxEditor utility. With this function you can create various environmental effects: city dust caused by wind, fog, solar refractions, rain, water surfaces or fire extended to objects subject to combustion (specified in the properties).
Physics engine
The physics engine integrated into Chrome is based on the open source Open Dynamics Engine, a freely distributed software packaged as a plug-in library. Supports solid state physics, basic physics with predefined interaction paths.
Supports player actions with various objects “lying” on the level, partially destructible environment, rag doll physics for simulating death, vehicle physics, fabric physics for clothing animation, sound effects for interacting with objects, level of physics detail (allows you to adjust the degree of interaction with objects , from minimal to most complex, to save resources).
Review: Resource-intensive game
For Nail’d you will need a Core 2 Duo E6600 2.4 GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600 2.9 GHz processor and 1,5 gigabytes of RAM.
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Hardware configuration |
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Processors |
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550@ 4.25 GHz cache L2 12 MB Intel® Core™ [email protected] GHz cache L3 8 MB Intel® Core™ [email protected] GHz cache L3 8 MB |
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motherboards |
Maximus II Formula socket LGA775 product provided by the company Asus MSI X58 Pro socket LGA1366 product provided by the company MSI MSI P55-GD55 socket LGA1156 product provided by the company MSI |
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Memory |
GOODRAM PLAY 1600MHz (8-8-8-24) product provided by the company GOODRAM GOODRAM Pro 2000MHz (8-8-8-29) product provided by the company GOODRAM |
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Video Cards |
GeForce 8800 GTS 640 MB |
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Hard disks |
3×2 RAID0 Western Digital Caivar WD2500GL 250 GB, 7200 rpm, SATA 3 Gbit/s |
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Power Supplies |
FSP GROUP EVEREST 800W 2xSeaSonic S12D 850 Silver 850W product provided by the company SeaSonic |
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System software and drivers |
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Operating system |
Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate Edition x64 |
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DirectX |
DirectX 11 |
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Platform Driver |
Intel INF Chipset Update Utility 9.1.0.1012 |
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Graphics driver |
Nvidia GeForce/ION Driver Release 260.99 AMD Catalyst 10.10 |
All video cards were tested at maximum graphics quality by the Fraps program in the most resource-intensive part of the game. Less productive video cards up to the level GeForce GTS 250 and Radeon HD 4830 tested based on the Core 2 Quad Q9550 processor, and more productive ones based on Core™ i7 processors.
Our video cards are tested generally in all different screen sizes, and you can evaluate how your video card behaves relative to other modern solutions in almost all different gaming screen sizes.
Testing at maximum quality settings 1024×768
So, at a resolution of 1024×768, any video cards of the Radeon HD 4650 or GeForce 9600 GSO level and higher will be required to handle the game. If we take into account the minimum FPS of 25 frames, then the Radeon HD 4670 or GeForce GT 220 can be considered recommended for the game.
Testing at maximum quality settings 1280×1024
When increasing the resolution to the level of 1280×1024, almost all video cards remain functional and a Radeon HD 3690 or GeForce 9600 GSO level and higher will be required. Recommended video cards for Nail’d are Radeon HD 4670 or GeForce 8800 GTS and higher.
Testing at maximum quality settings 1680×1050
At a resolution of 1680×1050, the required minimum is video cards of the Radeon HD 2900 or GeForce 8800 GTS level. Recommended video cards. Radeon HD 5670 or GeForce 8800 GTS and higher should be considered providing an acceptable minimum FPS.
Testing at maximum quality settings 1920×1080
At an HD resolution of 1920×1080, the required minimum is video cards of the Radeon HD 5570 or GeForce 8800 GTS level. The most optimal cards for Nail’d should be considered video cards of such a level as the Radeon HD 3850 or GeForce GT 430. Based on the purchase of video cards specifically for this game, then currently the Radeon HD 5670 or GeForce GTS 430 look most preferable.
Conclusion: Nail’d is a beautiful, dynamic and exciting arcade game that will leave many players indifferent. And the quite affordable system requirements will pleasantly surprise most owners of not even the “latest” gaming PCs.
