The editorial team’s focus this week was the technology test for Star Wars Outlaws (test), which attracted a lot of interest from readers. As usual, it features various graphics card benchmarks that show the very high demands of the game.
Current games need a fast graphics card
If you want to play with high graphics quality, you need a very fast graphics card for Star Wars Outlaws and at the same time you have to use upsampling to achieve smooth frame rates. The article also took a look at the image quality, with the general ray tracing and DLSS ray reconstruction being absolutely positive. The additional dynamic lighting RTXDI from Nvidia, on the other hand, was not convincing. The image quality hardly improves as a result, but the already low frame rates definitely plummet. In addition, the VRAM consumption increases enormously.
Another gaming technology test came in second place, this time for the hit title Black: Myth: Wukong (test) from China. Like Star Wars: Outlaws, Black Myth: Wukong places very high demands on your PC. The situation becomes even more extreme with full ray tracing, where even GeForce RTX 4000 graphics cards can run out of steam. Since the increase in image quality with full ray tracing is visible but not particularly high, it only makes sense to use the technology on the fastest graphics cards.
The PlayStation 5 Pro is still expected to be released this year
The PlayStation 5 Pro console, which has not yet been officially announced, has attracted a lot of attention. At Gamescom, developers inadvertently dropped the topic of the PlayStation 5 Pro, and the console was an open secret at the trade fair. It is still unclear when exactly the PlayStation 5 Pro will be released, but a release this year is still not out of the question.
The Windows 11 update 24H2 came in second place, achieving significantly higher gaming performance, especially on AMD Ryzen processors, than with the current version 23H2, up to 35 percent Hardware Unboxed AMD’s Zen 5 and Zen 4 CPUs benefit roughly equally from Windows 11 24H2 (Ryzen 7 9700X 11 percent, Ryzen 7 7700X 10 percent), while Intel’s Core CPUs benefit significantly less in initial tests.
Next week is all about the IFA
Over the next week, ComputerBase will be publishing numerous reports on the IFA trade fair, which will be taking place in Berlin, and the editorial team will, as usual, report from the event on site.
With this reading material in your luggage, the editorial team wishes you a relaxing Sunday!
