As such, we were almost certain that, for some unknown reason, we were limited by our CPU.
It’s worth noting that our GTX980Ti was used at only 58% when we were running the game in 1080p and on Ultra settings. Halo Wars 2 does not require a high-end GPU in order to be enjoyed. On the other hand, our GTX690 was able to run our GPU scene with a minimum of 47fps and an average of 57fps in 1080p and on Ultra settings (with Textures set to Medium in order to avoid any VRAM limitations). In 4K, our GTX980Ti was able to run the game with an average of 63fps and a minimum of 53fps. In our GPU test (lots of idle units that were not moving around in our base), our GTX980Ti was able to push an average of 96fps and a minimum of 85fps on Low, and an average of 89fps and a minimum of 79fps on custom Medium and Ultra settings.
Even on Low settings, we were unable to get a constant 60fps experience while there were a lot of units fighting on screen. Since such scenarios stress both the CPU and the GPU, and as there isn’t any built-in benchmark tool, we decided to conduct two tests one for the GPU and one for the CPU. However, it appears that the game suffers from some optimization issues. Halo Wars 2 is mostly a CPU-bound title as our GTX980Ti was barely used in 1080p. PC gamers can also enable/disable Anti-Aliasing, Ambient Occlusion, Cloud Shadows, Particle Shadows, Particle Lights and Screen Space Reflections. PC gamers can adjust the quality of Textures, Level of Detail, Texture Filtering, Shadow Map Resolution, Foliage and Terrain.
Halo Wars 2 comes with a respectable amount of graphics settings. Yes, even Gears of War 4 – a game that was advertised to support multi-GPUs from the get-go – does not support multi-GPUs yet. NVIDIA has not included any SLI profile for this title in its latest drivers and from the looks of it there won’t be any in the near future. After all, this is a Windows 10-only game we’re talking about and all of them do not support multi-GPUs.
Halo Wars 2 only supports DX12 and while Microsoft declined sending us a review code, it’s time to see how this new strategy game performs on the PC platform.įor this PC Performance Analysis, we used an Intel i7 4930K (turbo boosted at 4.2Ghz) with 8GB RAM, NVIDIA’s GTX980Ti and GTX690, Windows 10 64-bit and the latest WHQL version of the GeForce drivers. While the first Halo Wars was not originally released for the PC (it arrived however as a pre-order bonus for its sequel), Halo Wars 2 was made available on the PC immediately and alongside its Xbox One brother (thanks to Microsoft’s Xbox Play Anywhere program).
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