| BASIC GAME INFORMATION |
release year: 2013
Genre: Action/RPG
developer: Neocore Games
Publisher: Neocore Games
The renowned Professor Van Helsing teams up with Count Dracula and his undead army to retake the city of Borgovia from the crazed mutant destroyers sent by a mad scientist. Such a plot awaits us in an RPG from Neocore Games, which is scheduled for release in the first half of 2013.
Players will experience a fantastic gothic noir universe – the Borg Mountains, reminiscent of 19th century Europe, filled with magic, amazing technology and monsters. In a new video, the developers demonstrate the capabilities of the main character Van Helsing in the ability to use his great sword, a deadly pistol and some hidden techniques in the wild.
| 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 |
The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing is supported by major Windows operating systems, which include XP, Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8. Other operating systems are not currently supported by developers and will not receive support.
The priority and main graphics API for The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing is DirectX 9.
| Game engine |
The game is based on its own game engine, which was developed by Neocore Games for use in its own products.
We did not find any more detailed information about the game engine, except for the data listed above…
| Advanced Game Settings |
The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing has a very solid arsenal of graphic settings. We can change both basic and advanced graphics settings, optimally adjusting them to the configuration of your computer.
Below we have provided screenshots of the game at various graphics settings, where our readers can see the difference between minimum, medium, high and maximum graphics quality settings.
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With different quality settings, the graphics quality in The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing changes quite significantly, as does performance. |
| General visual design and game physics |
The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing is a very good project, where the quality is visible in everything – both in the playful component and in the graphics. Despite the fact that the game’s release is also announced on XboX, we have not just a console port, but rather the opposite – a very high-quality PC gaming project.
Everything is relative. And if we compare The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing with its closest competitor, Diablo 3, then graphically the first one looks more attractive. We have more graphic settings, a more detailed living game world, and, of course, better effects.
Well, then we will move directly to gaming tests and determine what impact this game has on modern computer hardware.
| TEST PART |
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Test configuration |
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test stands |
Test bench No. 1 based on the Intel Socket 2 platform011 Test bench No. 2 based on the Intel Socket 1155 platform Test bench No. 3 based on the Intel Socket 1366 platform Test bench No. 4 based on the Intel Socket 115 platform6 Test bench No. 5 based on the AMD Soket AM platform3 Test bench No. 6 based on the AMD Soket AM3 platform Test bench No. 7 based on the AMD Soket AM platform2 Test bench No. 8 based on the Intel Socket 1155 platform Test bench No. 9 based on the AMD Soket AM3 platform Test bench No. 10 based on the AMD Soket AM3 platform+ |
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Multimedia equipment |
3D monitor LG W2363D Monitor LG E2750 Dell U3010 monitor product provided by the company AMD 3D Vision Kit product provided by the company Nvidia |
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Software configuration |
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Operating system |
Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate Edition x64 SP1 |
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Graphics driver |
Nvidia GeForce/ION Driver Release 314.22 AMD Catalyst 13.3 beta 3 |
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Monitoring program |
MSI Afterburner v2.3.1 |
| GPU test |
All video cards were tested at maximum graphics quality using 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 performance indicators. Below is a video of the test segment:
Our video cards were tested at separate screen sizes of 1920×1080 and 2560×1600 with the maximum graphics quality settings allowed The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing. Multi-chip configurations from NVIDIA and AMD showed zero increase in performance, which indicates insufficient driver optimization.
Testing at maximum quality settings 1920×1080
At a resolution of 1920×1080 at maximum settings, an acceptable level of performance was shown by video cards of the Radeon HD 5770 level or GeForce GTS 450. The optimal video cards will be Radeon HD 5770 or GeForce GTS 450.
Testing at maximum quality settings 2560×1600
At a resolution of 2560×1600 at maximum settings an acceptable level of performance was shown by video cards of the Radeon HD 6850 level or GeForce GTX 550 Ti. The optimal video cards will be Radeon HD 7750 or GeForce GTX 460.
| VRAM test |
Testing of video memory consumed by the game was carried out by the program MSI Afterburner. The indicator was based on results on top video cards from AMD and NVIDIA with separate screen sizes 1920×1080 and 2560×1600 with different anti-aliasing settings.
Testing at maximum memory GPU quality settings
The recommended amount of video memory usage for this game is about 500 MB for basic graphics quality settings. For ultra resolutions and maximum settings, you will need about 700 megabytes of video memory.
| CPU test |
We tested processor dependence on 19 models of basic configurations that are relevant today. The test was carried out in those places where the value of video cards for the game is minimal and its load was less than 99%, this time at a resolution of 1680×1050 with maximum graphics quality settings.
Testing at maximum quality settings 1680×1050
The highest performance in The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing, and this time it was Intel processors that showed the best performance.
Loading of processor cores at maximum quality settings 1920×1080 Intel%
Loading of processor cores at maximum quality settings 1920×1080 AMD%
The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing supports more than two processor cores to some extent, but does not fully utilize their resources.
| RAM test |
Testing of the RAM consumed by the game was carried out by monitoring directly through the Windows task manager. The test was carried out on the basic configuration of Core i 7 [email protected] GHz with 16GB DDR3 2400 MGz pre-installed memory.
Testing at various quality settings
As we can see, with various basic quality settings, the amount of RAM consumed in The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing ranges from 700-1000 megabytes. Thus, for a comfortable game you need to have 2 minimum GB of RAM installed in your PC.
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