The extremely anticipated sequel to Dragon’s Dogma, Dragon’s Dogma 2, has been launched. Powered by the RE Engine, it’s time to benchmark it and look at its efficiency on the PC platform.
For our benchmarks, we used an AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D, 32GB of DDR5 at 6000Mhz, AMD’s Radeon RX580, RX Vega 64, RX 6900XT, RX 7900XTX, NVIDIA’s GTX980Ti, RTX 2080Ti, RTX 3080 and RTX 4090. We additionally used Home windows 10 64-bit, the GeForce 551.86, and the Radeon Adrenalin Version 24.3.1 drivers. Furthermore, we’ve disabled the second CCD on our 7950X3D.
Capcom has added quite a few graphics settings to tweak. PC players can alter the standard of Ambient Occlusion, Anti-Aliasing, Textures, Grass/Bushes and extra. At launch, the sport additionally helps AMD FSR 3.0 Tremendous Decision and NVIDIA DLSS 3 Tremendous Decision. There’s additionally a setting for Ray Tracing. As we’ve stated, although, there isn’t help but for Body Technology.
Dragon’s Dogma 2 doesn’t function any built-in benchmark instrument. So, for our benchmarks, we’ve examined the Vernworth capital metropolis. This seems to be probably the most demanding areas of your complete sport. As such, it is going to give us a fairly good concept of how the remainder of the sport runs. For our GPU benchmarks, we used the next sequence. For our CPU assessments, we used the sport’s tavern. The tavern has a variety of NPCs and seems to be probably the most CPU-heavy space.
To see how the sport runs with several types of CPUs, we simulated dual-core, quad-core, and hexa-core CPUs. Dragon’s Dogma 2 is likely one of the few video games that may absolutely max out 8 CPU cores/threads.
The sport requires a minimum of a modern-day quad-core CPU with Hyper-Threading/SMT. Something apart from that and also you’ll be getting a variety of stuttering points. Hell, even our simulated six-core CPU had noticeable stutters. Simply take a look at the frametime graphs. On the left, now we have the sport working with six CPU cores, and on the correct now we have the sport working with all eight CPU cores.
In brief, sure. What you’ve heard about Dragon’s Dogma 2 is true. It is a actually CPU-heavy title, and you’ll need a top-of-the-line CPU. Capcom is at present wanting into bettering its CPU efficiency, so hopefully, issues will get higher. And no, from what we’ve seen, the sport doesn’t justify these huge CPU necessities. Oh, and for these questioning, the sport defaults on the second CCD (which doesn’t have entry to the 3D V-cache) on the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D. So, make certain to disable CCD1 on that particular CPU.
As we’ve already reported, there’s a DLSS 3 Body Technology Mod that you may obtain. This could noticeably enhance efficiency in these CPU-heavy areas on high-end CPUs which might be geared up with an RTX40 collection GPU. Nonetheless, we don’t advocate utilizing it. You see, for the DLSS 3 Mod to work, you MUST allow DLSS 3 Tremendous Decision. And proper now, the DLSS 3 Tremendous Decision implementation in Dragon’s Dogma 2 is the worst I’ve ever seen.
Listed here are two screenshots. On the left, now we have DLAA (the sport doesn’t help it however you may drive it through the NVIDIA Inspector Device), and on the correct now we have TAA. As you may simply see, TAA seems to be miles higher and sharper than DLAA. I don’t understand how Capcom has managed to f’okay it up. From what we all know, the group is working with NVIDIA to enhance DLSS. So, till they repair these terrible picture high quality points, we propose avoiding it just like the plague.
At 1080p/Max Settings/No Ray Tracing, a variety of GPUs can really run Dragon’s Dogma 2 with 60fps. Proper now, the sport runs higher on AMD’s {hardware}. I used to be additionally impressed with the efficiency of the AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 which got here near a 60fps expertise.
At 1440p/Max Settings/No RT, solely our prime 4 GPUs had been capable of push fixed 60fps always. Nonetheless, it seems that the decision enhance additionally impacts the CPU efficiency in Dragon’s Dogma 2. That is one thing we additionally noticed in Forza Horizon 5. So, be sure you hold that in thoughts. Elevating your decision can even have an effect in your CPU efficiency.
At Native 4K/Max Settings/No RT, the one GPUs that may present a by some means clean expertise are the AMD Radeon RX 7900XTX and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090. Nonetheless, the RTX4090 additionally drops to 52fps within the tavern (which is probably the most CPU-taxing space). So no, proper now there isn’t any GPU that may brute-force its method at 4K for fixed 60fps in all areas always (with out utilizing the DLSS 3 Body Technology Mod).
Graphics-wise, Dragon’s Dogma 2 seems to be advantageous. Capcom has used a variety of high-resolution textures, and there are some superb wind and physics results. The sport additionally tremendously advantages from RTGI, and we extremely advocate utilizing it as it may well enhance the sport’s visuals. Severely, the most important challenge proper now with DD2 is just not its graphics however its tremendously big CPU necessities.
Earlier than closing, I ought to notice that the KB&M controls really feel actually bizarre on this sport. It seems that Capcom has used totally different sensitivity values for the X and Y axes. As such, the digicam motion feels bizarre. All the earlier Resident Evil video games, which used RE Engine, didn’t endure from this challenge so I don’t know what the builders had been smoking. What I do know is that at decrease mouse DPI settings, the mouse motion feels bizarre.
All in all, Dragon’s Dogma 2 wants a variety of work. Sure, homeowners of high-end PC programs will have the ability to brute-force their method (particularly with the DLSS 3 Body Technology Mod). Nonetheless, the sport suffers from so many points. From the terrible DLSS 3 Tremendous Decision implementation to the ridiculously excessive CPU necessities and the bizarre mouse controls, this seems like an unpolished sport that wanted extra time within the oven. Let’s a minimum of hope that Capcom will repair these points through post-launch updates!
John is the founder and Editor in Chief at DSOGaming. He’s a PC gaming fan and extremely helps the modding and indie communities. Earlier than creating DSOGaming, John labored on quite a few gaming web sites. Whereas he’s a die-hard PC gamer, his gaming roots will be discovered on consoles. John cherished – and nonetheless does – the 16-bit consoles, and considers SNES to be among the best consoles. Nonetheless, the PC platform received him over consoles. That was primarily as a result of 3DFX and its iconic devoted 3D accelerator graphics card, Voodoo 2. John has additionally written the next diploma thesis on the “The Evolution of PC graphics playing cards.”
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