Wrap Up: Tin can Exist Enjoyed On Modest Hardware

By now you're probably wondering where nosotros've hidden our usual CPU tests. Unfortunately, this fourth dimension around we don't have whatsoever CPU benchmarks for you and that'southward generally considering of the 60fps limit. To exam CPU operation we'd need to pick the fastest possible GPU and test it nether CPU-express weather condition, for instance at a low-ish resolution such as 1920x1080.

The problem is here is that high-finish GPUs are limited by the 60fps cap and anything equal to or faster than the GTX 780 tin can as well hit the cap when comparing minimum frame rates. If we expect back at games such as The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Grand Theft Car V, Battlefield Hardline, Evolve, Dying Low-cal, Dragon Age: Inquisition, Alien: Isolation and fifty-fifty Batman: Arkham Knight, all averaged over 60fps in our game tests.

I will say that The Phantom Pain isn't CPU-intensive considering the Core i5-4690K delivered the verbal aforementioned minimum frame rates with the GTX 980 Ti at two.5GHz as information technology did at 4.5GHz. The AMD FX processors were also able to deliver stiff performance that was comparable to the Core i5 and i7 processors. Moreover, we managed Cadre i7-like performance using the Pentium G3258 running at the aforementioned clock speeds. Performance is all about the GPU in this championship.

Normally nosotros skip over any game with a hard-coded frame rate limit every bit information technology's hard to accept that release seriously with such a limitation on PC. However, The Phantom Pain is a high quality game and despite what seems like a basic performance limitation, information technology has impressive graphics.

And then far I've only played about 5% through the campaign only it's been a lot of fun and that's coming from someone who doesn't particularly savor action-chance/stealth type games. The most abrasive thing about Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain for me has been getting into the game.

Constant server problems accept forced me and many others to play in offline mode. Being offline meant navigating half a dozen or so menus saying the game couldn't connect to the servers, that we were in offline mode and and so on. Pouring common salt in the wound was the fact that some of these menus took quite long to timeout.

Still, we look that the server issues volition exist resolved presently and they probably aren't about as crude if y'all don't have to reload the game several dozen times over a 2 day period.

Once again, apologies to those who wanted to come across the R9 Fury X and Fury in our results. AMD simply doesn't have the samples to spare in Commonwealth of australia and stores take been out of stock for weeks. The lack of the Fury cards did put a bit of a damper on our comparison, simply we suspect the majority of yous will detect more than value in the mid-range GPU results.

Later on all, the most popular gaming resolution is 1080p and here we found ample performance from affordable graphics cards such as the GTX 950 and R9 380. Even those from about forgotten generations, such every bit the HD 7950, performed exceptionally well.

Information technology's worth remembering that Metal Gear Solid Five: The Phantom Pain is an Nvidia "The Manner It'due south Meant to be Played" championship and equally such the light-green team has a leg upwardly on driver development. Coinciding with the game'due south release Nvidia launched the GeForce 355.82 driver which you'll desire to install for the best possible experience in The Phantom Pain.

For those wondering, SLI works with the latest commuter, though AMD fans will feel a phantom pain when trying to use Crossfire. It sort of works if forced only performance is erratic and sometimes the frame rates dip down to unmarried card levels. There are also a number of graphical glitches.

Overall, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain looks like a fun game that tin be enjoyed on modest hardware and nosotros're glad to accept finally tested the performance of a game in this franchise.