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by Dr. Ian Cutress on July 20, 2020 1:30 PM ESTGaming Tests: Strange Brigade
Strange Brigade is based in 1903’s Egypt, and follows a story which is very similar to that of the Mummy film franchise. This particular third-person shooter is developed by Rebellion Developments which is more widely known for games such as the Sniper Elite and Alien vs Predator series. The game follows the hunt for Seteki the Witch Queen, who has arose once again and the only ‘troop’ who can ultimately stop her. Gameplay is cooperative centric with a wide variety of different levels and many puzzles which need solving by the British colonial Secret Service agents sent to put an end to her reign of barbaric and brutality.
The game supports both the DirectX 12 and Vulkan APIs and houses its own built-in benchmark as an on-rails experience through the game. For quality, the game offers various options up for customization including textures, anti-aliasing, reflections, draw distance and even allows users to enable or disable motion blur, ambient occlusion and tessellation among others. Strange Brigade supports Vulkan and DX12, and so we test on both.
- 720p Low
- 1440p Low
- 4K Low
- 1080p Ultra
The automation for Strange Brigade is one of the easiest in our suite – the settings and quality can be changed by pre-prepared .ini files, and the benchmark is called via the command line. The output includes all the frame time data.
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All of our benchmark results can also be found in our benchmark engine, Bench.
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jebo - Wednesday, July 22, 2020 - link
Can we get a rundown of the underlying systems being used? RAM etc.Thanks for this!
GeoffreyA - Wednesday, July 22, 2020 - link
Astounding work, Ian! All the best on the project.Kdam - Wednesday, July 22, 2020 - link
Thanks for the effort. I was wondering if it was possible to include a cam benchmark (mastercam or other)nathanddrews - Thursday, July 23, 2020 - link
Would it be possible to add a sort or filter to see 95th percentile frame rates only? A filter by quality level? It would make reading the data much easier. QOLOldTech920 - Thursday, July 23, 2020 - link
Your CPU table (on page 2) is weirdly incomplete for Nehalem and Westmere CPUs. Specifically, it's missing the whole 1st generation Nehalem HEDT parts (aka "Bloomfield" 45 nm chips using the X58 chipset), such as i7-920, i7-940, through i7-975 EE . Combined with a recent GPU, these are still amazingly viable 4-core/8-thread CPUs.Robberbaron12 - Monday, July 27, 2020 - link
THere is no support for X58 and skt 1366 anymore in the latest version of Win 10, so its not possible to install the test suite. I know it still works if you had a 3-4 year old version on Win 10 but you can to clean install now, and I'm pretty sure skt 1156 is going the same way.Oxford Guy - Tuesday, July 28, 2020 - link
Windows 10 is a disgrace.juraj2 - Friday, July 24, 2020 - link
That is a great project. I would like to see as performance per watt has been changing during the years. Also, current benchmarks show for example CPU with 105W, but that is completely false because during the test CPU was consuming much more power. This makes results confusing and mostly in favour of Intel. Intel is cheating a lot in this regard.Oxford Guy - Tuesday, July 28, 2020 - link
Real power consumption is definitely more interesting than the "let's pretend" TDP numbers.alpha754293 - Monday, July 27, 2020 - link
This is fantastic!!!I was the person who asked for the OpenSSL benchmark because I was moving a lot of data around and needed SHA256 to ensure the data transfers completed successfully.
Thank you for putting this together.