| BASIC GAME INFORMATION |
Release date: May 3, 2018
Genre: Strategy (RTS)
developer: Creative Assembly
Publisher: SEGA
Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia is the first game in the new Total War Saga sub-series. Its events unfold in 878 from the birth of Christ. After the Viking invasion of Britain, they settled on misty shores, but the rulers of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland have no intention of giving up their power.
A crucible of historical opportunity where the future of all of Albion is born, Britain will become a new battlefield where players can lead their troops into battle on the most detailed campaign map in the Total War line-up.
| 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 |
Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia is supported on Windows 7/8 and Windows 10.
The priority and main graphics API for BATTLETECH is DirectX 11.
| GAME ENGINE |
Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia is based on the Warscape+ game engine. Warscape is a game engine developed by the British company The Creative Assembly for internal use in its Total War games. Warscape is intended for use only on personal computers running Microsoft Windows. The first game to use Warscape was Empire: Total War, the fifth game in the Total War series, and was released on March 3, 2009.
Beginning with 2004’s Rome: Total War, Total War games used the Total War engine, which was used until 2007’s Medieval II: Total War – Kingdoms. After this, it was decided to create a new engine – “Warscape”, the first game on which was “Empire: Total War” in 2009.
During the development of Napoleon: Total War, the engine was “well polished,” Craig Laycock of The Creative Assembly told Armchair General. However, during the development of Total War: Shogun 2, the engine was further redesigned and significantly improved. The main innovation was support for DirectX 11 and some AMD technologies: Eyefinity and CrossFireX.
“Total War: Shogun 2” was promoted by AMD as part of a marketing campaign for HD 6xxx series video cards as a game that actively uses the capabilities of DirectX 11. However, a few days before the game’s release, it became known that it would not contain a DX11 mode. The developers stated that they did not have time to finalize this mode, and it will be released later as a patch. The heavily modified Warscape engine in Total War: Rome 2 made it possible to view exotic cities in the smallest detail, and the new camera makes it possible to observe the battlefield from any angle.
In Total War Warhammer, the developers have moved away from the 32-bit engine and the game runs in 64-bit mode by default, meaning it will no longer be limited by two gigabytes of allocated RAM.
| ADVANCED GAME SETTINGS |
Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia has a wide range of graphics settings, typical for all game series total war.
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.
| DIFFERENT QUALITY MODES |
The difference in quality is visible to the naked eye.
MLAA smoothes better than MSAA, but it blurs the image somewhat, and its performance advantage is undeniable.
| GENERAL VISUALS AND GAME PHYSICS |
The graphics in Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia are similar to previous games in the series, with minor cosmetic changes.
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 |
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 |
| Graphics driver |
Nvidia GeForce/ION Driver Release 397.31 AMD Radeon Crimson Edition 18.3.4 |
| Monitoring program |
MSI Afterburner v4.4.2 FRAPS |
Our video cards were tested at different screen sizes of 1920×1080, 2560×1600 and 3840×2160 selected maximum graphics quality settings. All settings were set to maximum by default, but MSAA 4X anti-aliasing was replaced with MLAA and the unlimited memory option was enabled.
| 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).
- Very high
When resolved 1920×1080 an average FPS of 25 frames was shown by video cards of the Radeon R7 370 or GeForce GTX 1050 Ti level. A minimum FPS of at least 25 frames can be provided by video cards of the Radeon R9 380X or GeForce GTX 960 level. A comfortable average FPS of 60 frames can be provided by solutions of the Radeon R9 Fury X or GeForce GTX 980 Ti level.
When resolved 2560×1440 average FPS of 25 frames showed level video cards Radeon R9 380X or GeForce GTX 1060. A minimum FPS of at least 25 frames can be provided by video cards of the level of Radeon R9 290X or GeForce GTX 1060. A comfortable average FPS of 60 frames can be provided by solutions of the level Radeon RX Vega 64 or GeForce GTX 1080.
When resolved 3840×2160 an average FPS of 25 frames was shown by video cards of the Radeon RX Vega 56 or GeForce GTX 1070 level. A minimum FPS of at least 25 frames can be provided by video cards of the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti level.
| 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.
- Very high
GameGPU
When resolved 1920×1080 Video memory consumption for video cards with 3 gigabytes of onboard memory is 2300 megabytes, with 4 gigabytes 2500 megabytes, with 6 gigabytes 2400 megabytes, with 8 gigabytes 2400 megabytes and with 11 gigabytes 3000 megabytes.
When resolved 2560×1440 Video memory consumption for video cards with 3 gigabytes of onboard memory is 2600 megabytes, with 4 gigabytes 2700 megabytes, with 6 gigabytes 2700 megabytes, with 8 gigabytes 2700 megabytes and with 11 gigabytes 3400 megabytes.
When resolved 3840×2160 Video memory consumption for video cards with 3 gigabytes of onboard memory is 3000 megabytes, with 4 gigabytes 3600 megabytes, with 6 gigabytes 3400 megabytes, with 8 gigabytes 3400 megabytes and with 11 gigabytes 4100 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).
- Very high
When using video cards NVIDIA an acceptable figure of at least 25 frames was shown by the FX-9570 or Core i 3 2100 processors, and an average FPS of 60 frames can be achieved by solutions of the level Ryzen 3 2200G or Core i 5 2500.
When using video cards AMD processors showed an acceptable indicator of at least 25 frames FX-9570 or Core i 3 2100, and an average FPS of 60 frames can be provided by solutions of the level Ryzen 3 2200G or Core i 5 6600.
- Very high
GameGPU
The game uses a maximum of 8 computing threads. But all only 4 threads are maximally used.
| RAM TEST |
The test was carried out on the basic configuration of Core i 7 [email protected] GHz with 32 GB 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 video cards without launching third-party applications (browsers, etc.). In the graphics, you can add and remove any resolutions and video cards as desired.
- Very high
GameGPU
When resolved 1920×1080 RAM consumption of a system by a video card with 3 gigabytes of onboard memory is 4000 megabytes, with 4 gigabytes 4400 megabytes, with 6 gigabytes 4200 megabytes, with 8 gigabytes 4200 megabytes and with 11 gigabytes 5000 megabytes.
When resolved 2560×1440 RAM consumption of a system by a video card with 3 gigabytes of onboard memory is 4200 megabytes, with 4 gigabytes 4500 megabytes, with 6 gigabytes 4300 megabytes, with 8 gigabytes 4400 megabytes and with 11 gigabytes 5400 megabytes.
When resolved 3840×2160 RAM consumption of a system by a video card with 3 gigabytes of onboard memory is 47000 megabytes, with 4 gigabytes 4700 megabytes, with 6 gigabytes 4400 megabytes, with 8 gigabytes 4500 megabytes and with 11 gigabytes 5700 megabytes.
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