<b>Survival competitive game of past and present lives</b>
Nowadays, the hottest survival competitive game is "PUBG: Battle Royale", but on the foreign live broadcast website Twich, another more casual and more colorful survival competitive game "Fortnite" has a trend of surpassing "PUBG". Behind the popularity of Fortnite, there are also many players who say that the gameplay is copied from PUBG. When it comes to battle royale genre games, PUBG: Battle Royale is naturally not the first, and many players may think that Battle Royale is from a mod of H1Z1 or Armed Assault 3, in fact, earlier, even when we were in elementary school, there was already a shadow of survival competition.
As we know, the survival competitive game is mostly set up in 100 people melee, surviving until the last place to win, as early as 2000, this setting appeared on the screen with the controversial work of Japanese director Hiroharu Takami," "Battle Royale", in the movie, a class of junior high school students are randomly thrown to the desert island, each classmate is equipped with a different weapon, but also including the pot lid used by the male protagonist, and finally evolved into a pan in the game. The only task of these students on the desert island is to kill all the other former classmates until the last one.
The reason for this is that all the activities of the students will be broadcast live on television, becoming a means for the rulers to prevent the people from dividing, after all, no one wants to be selected to participate in this brutal struggle, but this setting and rules can't help but remind us of another movie, "The Hunger Games".
In 2012, "The Hunger Games" also used the same setting, but this work did not show too much desperate content, so this work is more acceptable to the majority of fans. In the same year, the survival simulation game "DayZ" appeared survival competitive mod, and the "Minecraft" that can be called the "Minecraft" with countless gameplay also appeared The Hunger Games mod, at this time, the player also knew that the original survival competition could really be shown in the form of a game.
Then there's the "Arma3" MOD we know and the "H1Z1: King of The Killings" hit. It can be said that the movie "Battle Royale" created the concept of survival competition, the emergence of "The Hunger Games" gave birth to the gamification development of survival competition, and "Arma3" and "H1Z1" let more people know about this genre of games, and finally the "PUBG" and "Fortnite" survival mode is the successor of the survival competition theme and the most extensive and mature finished product. Of course, limited in space, there are many such as "Garden War" and the countless similar games in the mobile game I did not mention, if you are interested, the author can also collect more information for you to provide you with a more complete and more detailed history of survival competitive game development.
<b>Fortnite with its own character</b>
The Battle Royale mode we're testing today inherits most of the SETTINGs of PUBG in terms of settings, but differs from its more cartoonish style and flexible gameplay that can create bunkers by collecting materials.
It can be said that when engaging with the player for a short time, PUBG predicts the direction of the enemy and aims in advance through listening to the sound position is very important, and the control of the ballistic trajectory also directly determines whether it can survive in the encounter with the enemy; although the marksmanship in Fortnite is also very important, but unlike in PUBG, Fortnite pays more attention to how to use the environment and position to create favorable conditions for itself, because of the existence of construction, and when the enemy encounters, our choices are also richer. And the means of defeating the enemy In addition to conventional rifles, bazookas and even traps can also be considered.
In addition, "PUBG" as a more realistic game, in the battle to hide themselves has become particularly important, especially in the final round, who can be a good "Voldemort", who has a greater living space, and in "Fortnite", or due to the existence of construction, the player's movement is obviously much larger, and even we can break through the building to obtain the weapons inside, so the probability of being found by the enemy is much greater, the author is not saying that the old yin forced here there is no room for survival, but unlike the "PUBG" often seen miracles.
We know that the two games are still shooting games in the final analysis, so the shooting feel directly affects the player's game experience, in "PUBG", shooting skills are particularly important, the judgment of enemy distance, the prediction of ballistic drops and the muzzle of the gun firing continuously, we all need to memorize to improve accuracy; in Fortnite, the shooting experience has been greatly weakened, the bullet flight time has been weakened to a degree that is easy to control, so we pay more attention to not marksmanship practice, It's about how to flexibly use more weapons to complete effective kills.
In addition, "Fortnite" is not a latecomer, long before the chicken eating game, it appeared in the form of a survival game, "eating chicken" is only a part of its gameplay, so although the two games overlap in some parts, they are still games with different audiences and excellent quality.
Of course, as a game developed by Unreal Engine 4, its image quality is still excellently guaranteed, so whether the requirements for graphics cards and processors in this game are high or not, and how much video memory capacity we need to open to high image quality, these are the problems that the author of this article wants to explore.
However, before testing, the author needs to introduce the test platform used for all players, in order to better play the performance of the graphics card and accurately test the CPU occupancy, the author has completely replaced the test platform, our i7-6900K can finally be honorably retired after more than a year of service.
<b>Test platform and test method</b>
First of all, in the choice of processor, because AMD recently released the new Ryzen2000 series, so in order to keep up with the "trend of the times" as soon as possible, the author also replaced the AMD Ryzen 2700X processor with higher frequency and stronger performance, and opened the MSI AfterBurner monitoring software during the test to see the number of CPU cores occupied.
And the graphics card part, in order to test the unity, the author chose the NVIDIA core AIC Soltei graphics card, due to the Soltei graphics card overclocking after the graphics card performance increase is very large, in order to ensure the universality of the evaluation, the author did not perform any overclocking action on the graphics card, only to the basic frequency of the test, and this time the participating graphics card has a total from the Soltei GTX 1080Ti PGF flagship level to the entry level of the Soltei GTX 1050Ti X-Gaming OC, We hope to provide you with the most comprehensive test results possible.
In addition, in order to ensure the stable output of the flagship graphics card and processor, the author used the Dragon 1000W power supply from the Great Wall. In terms of drivers, I have updated to the latest version 391.35 as of the test.
In the screen setting part, the author chose three resolutions of 1080P, 2K, and 4K, which were tested under the highest special effects, and the effects that affect the frame number of the game, such as vertical synchronization and frame limit, have been turned off.
<b>Mainstream 1080P resolution test</b>
Under the mainstream 1080P resolution, we naturally do not have to worry about the performance of high-end to flagship model graphics cards, and the important thing to see here is the performance of GTX 1050Ti and GTX 1060.
You can see that the entry-level graphics card GTX 1050Ti also has an average frame performance of 50 under the highest special effects, so it is easy to run the game smoothly by slightly reducing the effect performance to 60 frames, while the dessert-grade GTX 1060 frames are close to 90, and the minimum frame is also more than 60, so in the 1080P resolution performance of this game, we don't need to worry about the performance of the graphics card, but because the minimum video memory in the graphics card we tested also has 4G, so for GTX Graphics cards such as the 970 and GTX 1060 3G, we need to further observe the video memory usage.
The graph shows the video memory, memory and CPU usage of the highest resolution 1920x1080 resolution, which can be monitored by MSI Afterburner software.
Since the graphics card used by the author in the picture is GTX 1080Ti, so the graphics card usage is not the focus of the project, the use rate under the highest special effects can be seen in the video memory below the maximum effects of about 3G, so for the graphics card of 2G video memory, the full effects will be slightly difficult to run this game, and gtX 970 and GTX 1060 3G are completely without this pressure. In terms of temperature, due to the strong heat dissipation performance of the Sotai non-public version, even in the running of such a large game, the GPU temperature is only 66 ° C, and the graphics card overheating and frequency reduction is naturally not to worry.
The CPU part, the more used part is only 3-4 threads, so it can be inferred that the game is a dual-core optimized game, so if the player feels that their graphics card performance is enough, but the game is still stuttered, you can consider the CPU appropriate overclocking, dual-core games for the frequency of the demand will generally be higher. The memory part, because the current player's mainstream installed memory is already 8G-16G, so the occupation of 6G generally will not have much impact on most players, but low memory players need to pay attention to the game runtime do not open too much background software.
<b>2K and 4K high resolution testing</b>
After the resolution is increased to 2K, gtX 1050Ti has been unable to run games smoothly, and GTX 1060 has less than 60 frames, so it can be seen that although Fortnite is a 100-player battle royale game, the need for configuration will be reduced as much as possible in order for more people to play smoothly, but at 2K resolution, we still can't use mainstream graphics cards to achieve a stable 60 frames. The GTX 1070 and above graphics card can smoothly run stably at more than 60 frames at 2K resolution, and the Card King GTX 1080Ti is more than 100 frames, which is a significant lead.
At the final extreme 4K resolution, other graphics cards except gtx 1080Ti have been defeated, and it can be seen that the Q version of Fortnite's survival competitive game is not as balanced as we expected in terms of configuration requirements at high resolution.
<b>3DM gaming hardware channel summary</b>
Overall, such a combination of architecture + survival competition and the integration of completely different concepts into one of the game successfully attracted a large number of players, although the domestic due to agency release reasons did not reach the phenomenon-level heat, but in foreign countries, especially Twitch and other live broadcast platforms the number of viewers has exceeded the previous hottest "PUBG", and its unique American style plus brisk rhythm is also easy to attract players who do not like to compete too high, but because the competition is not strong enough, Whether the repetitive game content can keep the players fresh and exciting is also a problem that "Fortnite" has to face up to, of course, if you don't like too complicated game system or have a small partner to open the black together, then this game is very worth experiencing, especially the current game can be played for free.
Returning to the part of the graphics card test, we can see that under the mainstream 1080P resolution, entry-level graphics cards such as GTX 1050Ti graphics cards can also reach the level of 50 frames in extreme image quality, that is to say, appropriately reducing the picture quality can make more and even the previous generation of graphics cards smooth games, which is much lower than the threshold of "PUBG". However, in high resolution, the load of Fortnite on the graphics card is still not to be underestimated, especially in 4K resolution, even only GTX 1080Ti can reach 60 frames under the highest special effects, so players with high-resolution screen + high-end cards still need to measure whether their configuration can meet the standard of 4K operation.