Earlier this month, Bandai Namco launched The Blood of Dawnwalker. Powered by Unreal Engine 5, it’s time to benchmark this new motion RPG and study its efficiency on PC.
For our benchmarks, I used an AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D, 32GB of DDR5 at 6000Mhz, AMD’s Radeon RX 6900XT, RX 7900XTX, RX 9070XT, in addition to NVIDIA’s RTX 2080Ti, RTX 3080, RTX 4090, RTX 5080, and RTX 5090. I additionally used Home windows 10 64-bit, in addition to the GeForce 616.92 and the Radeon Adrenalin Version 26.9.1 drivers.
Insurgent Wolves has added a couple of graphics settings to tweak. PC avid gamers can modify the standard of Shadows, Lighting, Textures, Shading, Foliage, and extra. The sport additionally helps Intel XeSS, AMD FSR, and NVIDIA DLSS. Nonetheless, there’s solely assist for AMD FSR Body Gen and NVIDIA DLSS Body Gen. Moreover, there is no such thing as a assist for DLSS Multi-Body Gen.
The Blood of Dawnwalker doesn’t have a built-in benchmark instrument. So, for our benchmarks, I used the primary village. This seems to be one of the crucial demanding areas you will discover early within the sport.
The Blood of Dawnwalker is a GPU-heavy title. At 1080p, our NVIDIA RTX 5090 was used to its fullest. So, likelihood is you’ll be bottlenecked by your GPU, and never by your CPU.
At 1080p/Extremely, the sport may run at over 60 FPS on our high three GPUs. These have been the NVIDIA RTX 4090, RTX 5080, and RTX 5090. The AMD Radeon RX 9070XT and RX 7900XTX can even present a clean gaming expertise, offered you utilize a FreeSync monitor.
At 1440p/Extremely, solely the NVIDIA RTX 4090 and the RTX 5090 can run the sport easily. As for Native 4K/Extremely, there is no such thing as a GPU that may come near a 60 FPS expertise.
The excellent news is that the sport’s Excessive settings are extra cheap. Through the use of them, we have been capable of hit 60 FPS at Native 4K on our NVIDIA RTX 5090. So, I extremely suggest avoiding the Extremely Settings. As an alternative, you should use a mixture of Excessive and Extremely. Then, you should use an upscaler, and upon getting a wholesome base body fee, you should use Body Gen.
Graphics-wise, I used to be not impressed by what this new UE5 sport has to supply. Though it makes use of Lumen, it may look a bit flat and bland at occasions. Satirically, this can be a sport that may tremendously profit from DLSS 5. So, count on one other article through which we’ll use a DLSS 5 Mod to overtake its dated visuals.
I must also notice that the devs haven’t fastened the camera stutters I’ve reported. Alongside these stutters, the sport additionally has traversal stutters. So, until you slowly transfer the digital camera, your general expertise can be worse than what you might have in Oblivion Remastered.
General, I used to be not impressed by The Blood of Dawnwalker. And earlier than you begin screaming, I’m speaking about its tech, not its gameplay. This can be a PC Efficiency Evaluation, not a sport assessment. The sport suffers from many stutters. Its excessive GPU calls for additionally don’t match the visuals on display screen. Fortunately, you may decrease the settings to enhance efficiency. So, it’s good to see that the sport can scale effectively by means of its graphics settings. Nonetheless, Insurgent Wolves has lots of post-launch optimization work to do. As a result of proper now, it’s a technical mess!
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 might be discovered on consoles. John cherished – and nonetheless does – the 16-bit consoles, and considers SNES to be the most effective consoles. Nonetheless, the PC platform received him over consoles. That was primarily resulting from 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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