but can it run crisis the age-old question from The Glory Days of gaming
and computers when we all still used optical drive Windows Vista was still a
thing and 4K was just a glimmer in some developers eye since the Glory Days were
a full eight years ago we decided that it was time to ask that question again
but with Modern Hardware and see if we've gotten any closer to being able to
run crisis without having to use a like military supercomputer or something give
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learn more so the goal here was to check out how well modern product Stacks from
both AMD and from NVIDIA could run a
completely notoriously demanding title from yester year namely The Witcher 2
assassin of the Kings from 2011 and the aformentioned crisis 1 from 2007 we ran
both games at 1080p with the settings completely maxed out including enabling
Uber sampling on The Witcher 2 which is an extremely hard to run anti-aliasing
setting that was Infamous for causing huge performance hits on gpus at the
time our AMD GPU stack included the topend R9 Nano and a surix Radeon 390x a
Gigabyte wind Force r9290 a Sapphire R9
285 compact an MSI gaming r9270 and
finally a reference r7260x on the NVIDIA side we used a
reference GeForce gtx980 TI a Gigabyte
G1 gaming gtx980 an amp Omega Edition
GTX 970 from Zotac an isus strix GTX 960
and a GTX 950 with a reference GTX 750
Ti for comparison as well we threw in a couple older cards too like a GeForce
GTX 480 as well as an 8800 GT which was
released around the same time as these games were for both Brands we use the
latest drivers as of mid October 2015
all of our testing took place on our standard test bench consisting of an
Intel Core i7 5930k processor an ASUS
x99 Deluxe motherboard 16 GB of Corsair
Vengeance ddr4 RAM a Samsung 850 Pro 1
TB SSD a Corsair h100 I GTX all-in-one
cooler and a Corsair ax1200i fully modular power supply quite
a far cry from your average high-end rig from back when crisis was released and
people were unboxing their shiny new Q 6600s with all that said let's get right
to the results people who utilized the answer to but can it run crisis as the
definitive measuring stick for any gaming rig back in the late 2000s would
probably be pleasantly surprised at how much gpus have evolved since then all
but one of our modern cards achieved playable frame rates at 1080p with
everything maxed out with higher end cards starting at the
gtx970 and the r9290 getting frame rates
between the mid 70s and low 9s not too
surprising when you consider that for example the 980 TI has more than four
times the number of cudak cor as one of the most popular top- end cards back
when crisis came out the GeForce 8800
Ultra the only modern card that came up short was our 750 Ti which only mustered
8 frames per second not so great and
therefore cannot really run crisis but
while these numbers are fine if you have a 1080p 60 HZ monitor they might leave
you feeling a little disappointed if you wanted to run crisis at higher
resolutions or frame rates than you did back in the mid 2000s but when you
consider the fact that frame rates in the 80 to 90 range are what you'll get
on number of much more recent titles on
Modern Hardware you can have expected crisis to run far better than it did for
us additionally we noticed some very prominent screen tearing on a lot of our
cards basically all of them so while our modern tech stack from gpus past the but
canot run crisis test it wasn't really with flying colors moving on to the
Witcher 2 we experienced slightly lower numbers as the game is only about 4
years old as opposed to eight but still still playable frame rates and for the
most part that's what we got with everything maxed out and Uber sampling
enabled we saw a range from 27 frames
per second on a GTX 950 and the r9270 to
65 FPS on the gtx980 ti the only cars
that didn't achieve playable frame rates were the r7260x and again the GTX 750 Ti
interestingly we saw some pretty significant differences between AMD and
NVIDIA cards during our Witcher 2 benchmarks although team red and Team
Green were a lot closer on our crisis test NVIDIA ran away from AMD in The
Witcher 2 with even the top end R9 Nano
and R9 390x trailing the GTX 970 by a
full 9 FPS and falling even further behind when compared to the top of the
NVIDIA stack cards we suspected this was due to AMD cards reacting weirdly with
Uber sampling so we tested uh without Uber sampling running and saw the FPS
jump to 100 1 on the Nano but it still
lagged behind the GTX 970 which put out
117 FPS we dug a little bit further and
we found that the Nano was throttling its GPU usage quite a bit which might
also explain the strange results we got in The Witcher 2 when we tested it on
another AMD card the Radeon 7970 back in
2012 you can check out the results of that video up here but regardless of
which team's card you have in your rig I wouldn't expect buttery smooth Gameplay
at higher than 1080p resolutions if you crank everything up this game's pretty
intense to run but even though the numbers might be slightly underwhelming
considering how long both of these games have been on the market we've still
obviously made a lot of progress in terms of how much your dollar will get
you our GTX 480 a topend card back in
2010 only put out 40 FPS in crisis and
24 FPS in Witcher two with Uber sampling
which was beaten by the 107 $7
r9270 and a GTX 950 and just in case
you've forgotten how difficult it was to run crisis our super old school 8800 GT
crashed out of Crisis but was able to get six FPS in Witcher two so what's our
conclusion other than this was pretty fun it's pretty clear that there's been
a big improvement over the past few years of what you can do with even just
a mid-range GPU but games that are
legendarily difficult to run will still live up to that reput ation to a certain
extent obviously you're still going to be in a great position to enjoy older
titles if you have a decent modern card under the hood but if you ask your
system can you run crisis at 4K you might not get that fantastic of
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