By dropping the quality settings to “Quality” we managed to increase our average framerate to 42.4fps on that simulated dual-core system. Total War: ATTILA was able to run with 36.4fps with “Max Quality” settings at 1024x768 on our GPU (that was behaving like a GTX680) on a simulated dual-core system. In addition, we dropped our resolution to 1024x768 – as a means to avoid any possible GPU limitation – and ran the benchmark in Single GPU mode (in order to avoid the aforementioned SLI scaling issues)

Obviously, the in-game performance is superior to that in various occasions. Before continuing, do note that all of our tests were made via the game’s benchmark tool, showcasing a really demanding scenario. While normally strategy games are CPU-bound, we were kind of impressed with what The Creative Assembly has managed to achieve with this latest iteration of its Warscape Engine. This could very well mean a possible engine limitation with multi-GPU systems, or a driver issue that NVIDIA needs to resolve. While our actual framerate was improved, the performance difference between Single GPU and SLI was next to nothing (and once again, our GTX690 was being used at only 50%). When we dropped our resolution to 1024x768, we noticed a similar behaviour.

This would hint towards a possible CPU limitation, however that was not the case. While running the game in Single GPU mode, we witnessed our one GPU core being stressed. For unknown reasons, our GPU usage was only used at 50% during the campaign (and sometimes during the entire benchmark). While NVIDIA has already included an SLI profile for this title, SLI scaling is really all over the place. Total War: ATTILA is built on the next iteration of the Warscape Engine, and it’s time now to see how this strategy game runs on the PC platform.Īs always, we used an Intel i7 4930K with 8GB RAM, NVIDIA’s GTX690, Windows 8.1 64-bit and the latest WHQL version of the GeForce drivers. Total War: ATTILA has just been released and Green Man Gaming was kind enough to provide us with a review code for it.

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