Kingdom Come: Deliverance Notebook and Desktop Benchmarks
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The Czech developer's studio Warhorse was founded in 2011 and the goal of its first project was definitely to go big: Kingdom Come: Deliverance presents itself as an enormous and very detailed role-playing game, whose scope comes close to other well-established games such as The Witcher 3, Elex, Fallout 4 or Skyrim.
Compared to the Elder Scrolls series, whose graphical content (the landscape, for example) often appears generic, Kingdom Come: Deliverance can boast with realistic medieval surroundings that offer a lot of depth and work well, even without fantasy elements such as dragons, elves and goblins. With skills to improve, trading to do and quests to fulfill, you will find a diverse range of possibilities and might lose yourself in this game for hours.
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Unfortunately, Kingdom Come: Deliverance still has to deal with various bugs (graphics glitches, clipping errors, ...), as well as some more general issues which annoyed us during our trial gaming session. This started with the controls, which - particularly during combat - seemed spongy and imprecise. The developers should also improve the way the game can be saved. Although you can use detours to save manually (sleeping in a bed, drinking special potions), your progress is usually only saved at specific events, which is why you often have to repeat long sequences after turning off the game.
Kingdom Come also has some performance issues which are not connected to the graphics card or chosen settings - we have not been able to find out where they are coming from. Even when you just stop your character in the middle of the countryside and do not move the camera, some systems suffer from extreme frame rate fluctuations. This means that PCs and notebooks that would actually offer sufficient performance can have issues with displaying this game.
Apart from that, we enjoyed Kingdom Come so far. Thanks to its depth, this RPG is a nice change to the current casual trend. If you are willing to spend a substantial amount of time getting used to the game, and can accept the game's smaller and larger deficiencies, you will be rewarded with a surprisingly unique experience.
Kingdom Come has made use of the CryEngine from Crysis-developer Crytek. Although many textures could be sharper even at maximum settings, and the animations and character's expressions leave a little to be desired, the title can impress with a harmonious overall look. This includes not only the generous views (there are some great panoramas), but also the thick vegetation with lots of grasses, plants and trees. The changing weather conditions also contribute to this special atmosphere.
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Kingdom Come offers plenty of configurable settings which you can use to adapt the optics to your system's capacities. Tuning fans will find 16 options in the expanded graphics menu, which are all explained shortly in separate windows. If you do not want to play around with these settings, you can simply use one of the five presets in the "normal" graphics menu. This still offers controllers to adjust resolution, image mode, vertical field of view and gamma. If necessary, you can also add an FPS display.
Talking of FPS: If you do not deactivate vertical synchronization through the console (press ^ in the game and then type the command "r_vsync 0"), the frame rate will be limited to the display's refresh rate. Of course, the FPS lock was turned off for our tests.
Great: After changing settings you do not have to wait for the game to restart (unlike with many other games), although changing between the various presets on an HDD can feel like an eternity. If you install Kingdom Come on an SSD, you will be rewarded with noticeably shorter loading times. The game currently takes up about 34 GB of storage.
Benchmarks
Due to the subpar saving options, we used the beginning of the game for our speed tests. After the main character has a short discussion with his mother, he is quickly free to roam the first settlement. As you can see in the video below, we ran from our parent's house towards the village center for about 20 seconds, during which the frame rates dropped dramatically at some points.
As Kingdom Come generally tends towards drops in performance, 50 FPS would be ideal - although even then you cannot avoid temporary judders.
Results
Games with low-end GPUs on the level of the Intel HD Graphics 630 or GeForce 920M / 940M will not be able to play this medieval RPG. Even low details and 1280x720 pixels are too demanding for cheaper GPUs. In order to play Kingdom Come at all, you will have to at least have a lower mid-range chip such as the GeForce MX150 or GTX 950M. For 1920x1080 pixels and a medium preset, the minimum is a GeForce GTX 1050 Ti or GTX 970M.
The device will need to be equipped with a real high-end GPU in order to play this game in high details. Only a GeForce GTX 1060 /GTX 980M can reach the 50 FPS mark. Maximum settings demand a GeForce GTX 1070 or GTX 980. Only few manage resolutions above 1920x1080. Even the current king of notebook GPUs, the GeForce GTX 1080, will reach its limits when playing this game at 2560x1440 pixels and the ultra-high preset. Not a single test unit was able to display 3840x2160 pixels smoothly.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance | |
3840x2160 Ultra High Preset 2560x1440 Ultra High Preset 1920x1080 Ultra High Preset 1920x1080 High Preset 1920x1080 Medium Preset 1280x720 Low Preset | |
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (Desktop), 4790K | |
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (Desktop), 6700K | |
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile, i7-7820HK | |
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (Desktop), 6700K | |
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile, 6820HK | |
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980, 6700K | |
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (Desktop), 6700K | |
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile, 6820HK | |
AMD Radeon RX 480 (Desktop), 4790K | |
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M, 6700HQ | |
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti (Desktop), 4790K | |
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile, i7-7700HQ | |
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M, 6700HQ | |
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (Desktop), 4790K | |
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile, i7-7700HQ | |
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile, i7-7700HQ | |
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M, i7-7700HQ | |
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M, 6700HQ | |
NVIDIA GeForce MX150, i7-7700HQ | |
AMD Radeon RX Vega 11, R5 2400G | |
AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000), R3 2200G | |
NVIDIA GeForce 940MX, 6700HQ | |
NVIDIA GeForce 940M, 5700HQ | |
NVIDIA GeForce 920M, 2970M | |
Intel HD Graphics 630, i7-7700HQ | |
Intel HD Graphics 615, i7-7Y75 |
Overview
Test Systems
Device | Graphics Card | Processor | RAM | Operating System |
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Desktop-PC I | MSI GeForce GTX 1080 (8 GB GDDR5X) MSI GeForce GTX 1070 (8 GB GDDR5) Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 (6 GB GDDR5) Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 (4 GB GDDR5) |
Intel Core i7-6700K | 2 x 8 GB DDR4 | Windows 10 64 Bit |
Desktop-PC II | Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (11 GB GDDR5X) Asus GeForce GTX 980 Ti (6 GB GDDR5) XFX Radeon R9 Fury (4 GB HBM) Sapphire Radeon R9 290X (4 GB GDDR5) Sapphire Radeon R9 280X (3 GB GDDR5) MSI Radeon R7 370 (2 GB GDDR5) |
Intel Core i7-4790K | 2 x 4 GB DDR3 | Windows 10 64 Bit |
Alienware 17 R4 | Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 (8 GB GDDR5X) | Intel Core i7-7820HK | 1 x 16 GB DDR4 | Windows 10 64 Bit |
Asus G752VS | Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 (8 GB GDDR5) | Intel Core i7-6820HK | 2 x 16 GB DDR4 | Windows 10 64 Bit |
MSI GT62VR | Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 (6 GB GDDR5) | Intel Core i7-6820HK | 2 x 8 GB DDR4 | Windows 10 64 Bit |
MSI GE72 | Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 Ti (4 GB GDDR5) | Intel Core i7-7700HQ | 2 x 4 GB DDR4 | Windows 10 64 Bit |
Asus GL753VD | Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 (4 GB GDDR5) | Intel Core i7-7700HQ | 1 x 8 GB DDR4 | Windows 10 64 Bit |
MSI GL62 | Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 (2 GB GDDR5) | Intel Core i7-7700HQ | 2 x 4 GB DDR4 | Windows 10 64 Bit |
Asus G752VY | Nvidia GeForce GTX 980M (4 GB GDDR5) | Intel Core i7-6700HQ | 2 x 16 GB DDR4 | Windows 10 64 Bit |
MSI GS60 | Nvidia GeForce GTX 970M (3 GB GDDR5) | Intel Core i7-6700HQ | 2 x 4 GB DDR4 | Windows 10 64 Bit |
MSI GE72 | Nvidia GeForce GTX 965M (2 GB GDDR5) | Intel Core i7-6700HQ | 1 x 8 GB DDR4 | Windows 10 64 Bit |
MSI GL72 | Nvidia GeForce GTX 960M (2 GB GDDR5) | Intel Core i7-7700HQ | 1 x 8 GB DDR4 | Windows 10 64 Bit |
MSI PE60 | Nvidia GeForce GTX 950M (2 GB GDDR5) | Intel Core i7-6700HQ | 2 x 4 GB DDR4 | Windows 10 64 Bit |
MSI PL62 | Nvidia GeForce MX150 (2 GB GDDR5) | Intel Core i7-7700HQ | 1 x 8 GB DDR4 | Windows 10 64 Bit |
MSI CX72 | Nvidia GeForce 940MX (2 GB DDR3) | Intel Core i7-6700HQ | 2 x 8 GB DDR4 | Windows 10 64 Bit |
MSI GP62 | Nvidia GeForce 940M (2 GB DDR3) | Intel Core i7-5700HQ | 1 x 8 GB DDR3 | Windows 10 64 Bit |
MSI CX61 | Nvidia GeForce 920M (2 GB DDR3) | Intel Celeron 2970M | 1 x 8 GB DDR3 | Windows 10 64 Bit |
Asus N551ZU | AMD Radeon R9 M280X (4 GB GDDR5) | AMD FX-7600P | 2 x 4 GB DDR3 | Windows 10 64 Bit |
4K Monitor | Nvidia Driver | AMD Driver |
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2 x Asus PB287Q, Philips 328P6VJEB | ForceWare 390.77 | Adrenalin 18.2.2 |