just for entertainment Factor more than anything else I wanted to try running
Hawks 2 on the AMD Fusion
E350 Apu so this is a mini ITX board
from Gigabyte featuring The E350 which is both a CPU and a GPU it is both in
one so I just want to tell you guys right off the bat okay so we're only
getting about 20 to 30 FPS here and this
is running at very low detail so you can see the aliasing is fairly ID we're only
running at shoot I forget what it is like 1024x 600 res or something like
that and all the details are turned down but the game does
run and uh for single player as long as
you don't get you know too deep into these too as long as you get don't get
too close to the landscape uh it may actually be functional hard to say
depends some people have much lower thresholds than others I personally
wouldn't be able to play it at this kind of a frame rate but uh it looked a
little bit better before near the beginning I guess now uh we're probably
running into a more CPU bottleneck kind of scenario than GPU based on all of the
planes falling apart all the effects that are going on so um yeah what I'm
going to do is I'm going to run it at full details and just to see what kind
of a performance difference we actually see but first I'll get you guys the
overall Benchmark score here so here's the overall Benchmark score running
everything on low at the lowest possible res supported by the game and wide
screen and all that good stuff Stu so I'll be back in a moment with my full
quality directx11 results so just for
fun I decided to see you know for
forgetting about playable settings on the E350 AMD's Fusion Apu I decided for
Giggles I was going to turn the details up run this baby at 1080p with
tessellation on no anti-aliasing but everything else set to high to see what
kind of results we can get in a legitimate direct X11 game at HD
resolution supporting the latest dx11 features like say for example heavy
tessellation that uh we have going on in this game so we were able to achieve 8
FPS average which unfortunately isn't really playable but you wouldn't be
expecting to run an E350 Fusion Apu at
1080p with the highest details in the latest games anyway so I thought this
was an interesting experiment and thank you for checking out my video on Hawks 2
Gaming on the E350 APU