In Nvidia’s case that would be Driver Version 373.06 and on the AMD side we are using Radeon Software 16.10.1.
We will look into getting more graphics cards for these tests specifically in the future.Īll of the graphics cards included in this test were run with the latest drivers installed. Do keep in mind that I work away from our GPU review team, so while they have extra cards like the RX 480 and GTX 1060 for graphics card review comparisons, I do not have either of those cards at present. These are the current graphics cards I personally have on hand for these performance tests. CPU: Intel Core i7 6700K with 4.2GHz boost clock.įor graphics cards we will be running the following:.
This game is based on Unreal Engine 4 which produces some fantastic visuals, with Gears of War 4 fitting in well with other high-end games on PC today.įor our performance tests today I will be running Gears of War 4 on the following system: I have played through the first two acts of the game, so I have seen plenty of explosions, extreme weather effects and crumbling buildings. This makes for some interesting scenery, with military controlled zones looking rather high-tech and secure, while the main protagonist’s village is more basic with amateur buildings but much more grass and trees. Civilisation is rebuilding and humans have banded together in individual settlements/villages with the government rationing out resources. Gears 4 is set many years after the locust war. Click the thumbnail images for 1440p screenshots. The Coalition and Microsoft have paid a lot of attention to detail here.Ĭlick images to enlarge. If all of that wasn’t enough to impress you, then you can also find details on exactly what every option in the menu does and how much it will impact CPU, GPU or VRAM performance while hovering over each setting. These options will only appear if you are running a capable card, so in our tests today it was present for the R9 290, R9 390x, R9 FuryX and GTX 1080 but not the GTX 970. Also if you are a stickler for anti-aliasing, you can adjust the sharpening level to make sure no jaggies are ever present.Īll UWP games work with DirectX 12 so in the advanced settings, you will also find some specific features like Asynchronous Compute and Tiled Resources, which will help you balance your graphics card’s workload for better performance. Texture quality adjustments are split up, so rather than having one texture option that affects the entire game, you can pick and choose to have higher textures on characters but lower resolution ones for the world itself or vice versa. Not only are all of the basics there but you get access to features like super sampling and even dynamic resolution, which will allow the game to adjust image quality on the fly to ensure frame rates remain steady even in the most demanding scenarios. As you can see in the six screenshots above, The Coalition has spared no expense when it comes to providing complete adjustability. Gears 4 has an options menu to end all options menus.
However, today might mark the start of a new chapter as Gears of War 4 has arrived and it is excellent – from the graphics options right down to just how well it runs. Efforts like Quantum Break underperformed on PC hardware and the early days of the Universal Windows Platform were riddled with missing features.
Back at the start of 2016 it was starting to look like Microsoft had completely forgotten how to deliver a solid PC game.