Techland's new game,"Fading Light 2," finally landed on PC after years of waiting for players. This game was built using C-Engine. Today, foreign media DSOGaming conducted a performance analysis of the PC version of "Gone With the Light 2". Here is the full text of the article:
In this performance analysis article, our CPU uses intel i9 9900K, memory uses 16GB DDR4 3800Mhz, and graphics cards are AMD Radeon RX580, RX Vega 64, RX 6900XT, NVIDIA GTX980Ti, RTX 2080Ti, and RTX 3080. The operating system uses Windows 10 64-bit, driven by GeForce 511.65 and Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition 22.1.2.
Techland has added a variety of quality options to the game for adjustment. PC players can set anti-aliasing, particles, daylight shadows, contact shadows, ambient occlusion, global illumination, reflections, and fog qualities. The game also offers FOV settings, as well as color blindness and sharpening options. This game supports AMD FSR and NVIDIA DLSS and light tracking.
Gone With the Wind 2 doesn't have a built-in scoring tool. We decided to test using two scenarios. During the GPU test session we select the forest area at the beginning of the game. During the CPU test session we selected the night scene in the first urban area (there will be a large number of zombies).
To test the game's performance in a variety of CPU environments, we simulated dual-core, quad-core, and six-core CPUs. Surprisingly, this game does not require high-end CPU support. While our simulated dual-core environment won't be able to launch the game without hyper-threading, it can still run to 90fps at 720p/full quality no-light chase setting. At the same time, we also noticed that there is an occasional stuttering phenomenon, but overall, it is completely playable.
Fading Light 2 uses the DX11 and DX12 APIs. However, we recommend using the DX12 for better compatibility with CPU multithreading. This game can be used with a full eight cores on our Intel Core i9 9900K. To avoid the presence of stuttering that can result from high CPU usage, we recommend enabling hyperthreading.
At 1080p/full quality no-light chasing settings, most of the participating graphics cards provided a smooth gaming experience. The AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 performs well, running to 60fps in stress test scenarios. Thanks to the DX12 API, Gone With Light 2 performs very well on the A card. Of course this is in the case that the game does not have light chase enabled. Although we did not test the light chase this time, we tried to use the light chase game in the AMD Radeon RX 6900XT environment. Unfortunately, AMD's high-end graphics card cannot provide a smooth experience at this time, and even the native 1080p cannot be smooth. Since the A card does not support DLSS and can only use FSR, and the FSR effect of this game will cause the picture to blur, in short, use the A card do not consider light chasing.
At a 1440p/full-quality no-light chase setup, all three of our best graphics cards offer a stable 60fps experience. None of the participating graphics cards in the native 4K environment can provide a 60fps experience. As mentioned above, this is a stress test, which means that other scenarios may be better. But it is not excluded that there will be cases of eating more configuration later in the game than the scene we chose.
Unfortunately, the graphics compatibility achieved by this game through the picture quality setting is relatively poor. As you can see from the icon, the RTX3080 can only run to 60fps at native 4K resolution at the lowest quality. Then again, despite the minimum quality, the game's graphics aren't too bad.
Graphically, "Fading Light 2" is much better than the previous game. The game's wind effect is very good, and the number of enemies displayed on the same screen is also quite large. The action system of this game is great, but there is still room for improvement in the character's lip synchronization. Most of the character details are well done, but they are still incomparable with other AAA masterpieces. The game has a mold piercing problem, which cannot be avoided under the full picture quality setting. Overall, while the game looks great, there's nothing particularly impressive about it. But if you turn on the light chase effect, it is different.
All in all, Fading Light 2 runs smoothly on many PC configurations. You don't need to be too high to run smoothly at a 1080p/full quality setting. If you don't open the light chase, "Fading Light 2" works better on the A card and does not require high-end CPU support. But if you want to increase the resolution of the game, it is not so comfortable. At 1440p/full quality setting you will need a powerful graphics card. If you turn on to the 4K/full quality setting, there is no graphics card that can run this game smoothly (if you don't open DLSS).