Homeworld Remastered: PC Performance Benchmarks for Graphics Cards and Processors

BASIC INFORMATION ON THE GAME

 

Release Year : 2015
Genre : Simulation, Strategy
Developer : Gearbox Software
Publisher : Gearbox Software

Immerse yourself in epic space strategy games that have redefined the real-time strategy genre. Control a fleet of ships and build your own armada in over 30 solo missions. Choose ship types, fleet formations and combat tactics depending on the strategic situation. Apply the most advanced research to build a wide range of ships - from a simple fighter to a giant aircraft carrier. The Homeworld games have been carefully redesigned by key members of the original game development team, with input and input from a dedicated fan community. The Homeworld Remastered Collection introduces players to Relic's legendary space strategy games Homeworld and Homeworld 2, adapted to modern operating systems, using the latest graphics rendering technologies,

As a free add-on, the collection contains original, unremastered versions of Homeworld Classic and Homeworld 2 Classic, which are faithful images of the original games adapted to modern operating systems. When you purchase the Homeworld Remastered Collection, you get free access to the Homeworld Remastered Steam Multiplayer Beta at launch. The multiplayer modes of Homeworld and Homeworld 2 have been combined into one centralized mode that gives access to the content (races, maps and game modes), as well as the improvements, features and technologies of both games, allowing for unrestricted space multiplayer battles of epic proportions.

THE GRAFICAL PART

In this subsection of our review, the main graphical aspects of this game are revealed. Particular attention is paid to the version of the graphics engine used, the version of the API used, graphics settings and the quality of the development of the main visual aspects.

Supported OS and graphics API

Homeworld Remastered is supported by major Windows operating systems, which include Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8. Other operating systems are not currently supported by the developers.

 

The priority and primary graphics API for Homeworld Remastered is OpenGL . 

Game engine

Homeworld Remastered is based on a game engine that was developed by Gearbox Software for use in their own developed products.

 

Unfortunately, we did not find more detailed information about the game engine, except for the above data ...

 

Advanced game settings

 

Homeworld Remastered has a fairly wide range of graphic settings, surpassing the first parts of the series in terms of parameters.

  

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. 

Various quality modes

The picture quality between different settings in Homeworld Remastered is almost imperceptible.

Comparison of FullHD and 4K

In 4K, Homeworld Remastered looks incredible, allowing you to fully enjoy the scale of the universe.

Comparison of anti-aliasing modes

Activating anti-aliasing full-screen anti-aliasing in Homeworld Remastered has a positive effect.

Comparison of game versions

Well, the work was done simply colossally, the game was able to reach a new level of graphics quality.

General visual design and game physics

Homeworld Remastered is a remaster of games from over a decade ago, and we can say that the publishers have been quite successful with the remaster. Of course, the game is not without technical bugs and technical flaws, so the publishers still need time to bring it to perfection...

 

  

Next, we will go directly to the gaming tests and determine what impact this game has on modern computer hardware. 

TEST PART

GPU test

All video cards were tested at maximum graphics quality by MSI Afterburner. The purpose of the test is to determine how video cards from different manufacturers behave under the same conditions. The average and minimum FPS were taken as the performance indicator. Below is a video of the test segment:    

Our video cards were tested at resolutions of 1920x1080, 2560x1600 and 3840x2160 at very high and maximum graphics quality settings allowed by Homeworld Remastered. AMD CrossFireX is currently not supported by the game. SLI does not work only in 4K resolution, which, to be honest, we see for the first time. The test segment is rather weak, but due to the fact that the game's saves are constantly "crumbled", we were not able to test it in a more difficult mode.

 

Testing at 1920x1080 resolution

 

Testing at maximum quality settings 1920x1080 

  

With these settings,  video cards of the Radeon R7 260X or GeForce GTX 750 Ti level showed an acceptable FPS. 

Testing at 2560x1600 resolution

Testing at maximum quality settings 2560x1600

 

With these settings,  video cards of the Radeon R7 260X or GeForce GTX 750 Ti level showed an acceptable FPS. The best solutions would be   the Radeon R9 270 or GeForce GTX 760.

Testing at 3840x2160 resolution

 

Testing at maximum quality settings 3840x2160

 

With these settings,  video cards of the Radeon R7 260X or GeForce GTX 660 level showed an acceptable FPS.   Radeon R9 290X or GeForce GTX 980 would be the best solutions  .

Testing of the video memory consumed by the game was carried out by the  MSI Afterburner program. The results on top video cards from AMD and NVIDIA were taken as an indicator at resolutions of  1920x1080 and 2560x1600 with various anti-aliasing settings.

Testing at maximum memory GPU quality settings

 

The recommended amount of video memory usage for 1920x1080 resolution will be 1536 MB of video memory, for 2560x1600 resolution - 2048 MB of video memory and for 3840x2160 resolution about 3076 MB of video memory. 

CPU test

  

We tested processor dependence on 16 models of basic configurations that are relevant today. The test was carried out in those places where the value of the video card for the game is minimal and its load was less than 99%, this time at a resolution of 1920x1080 with maximum graphics quality settings. 

Testing at maximum quality settings 1920x1080

 

The CPU performance in the game is sufficient for all models.

Loading of processor cores at maximum quality settings 1920x1080 Intel % 

 

Loading of processor cores  at maximum quality settings 1920x1080 AMD % 

 

Homeworld Remastered is capable of supporting up to 4 processing threads, but only 2 processing cores are fully utilized.

RAM test

The test was carried out on the base configuration Core i 7 5960X @ 4.6 GHz with 16GB DDR4 2400 MGz pre-installed memory. All used RAM was taken as an indicator. The RAM test on the entire system was carried out on various test benches without running extraneous applications (browsers, etc.).

Testing the game's RAM consumption at various quality settings 

 

As we can see, at various quality settings, the amount of RAM consumed in Homeworld Remastered is at the level of 220 megabytes.

Testing system RAM consumption  

 

With a 6 GB system, Homeworld Remastered consumes about 2 GB of RAM. In the presence of a system with 8 gigabytes, the RAM consumption of all RAM was 2.2 gigabytes. With a 16 GB system, total memory consumption was almost 2.9 GB. And with 32 gigabytes of RAM, the system consumes 4  gigabytes of RAM.