Not only that, but our GPU usage dropped to mid-50s for no apparent reasons. Even though downsampling worked fine under DX9, it caused severe slowdowns under DX11.
Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon’s DX11 seems buggy at the moment, especially when players enable the higher levels of MSAA, or when they try to downsample it. A single GTX680 is powerful enough for max settings at 1920×1080, while a GTX690 is essential for 2560×1440. Our test system was able to run this puppy with constant 60fps, meaning that those with weaker GPUs will have to lower some settings in order to avoid a possible GPU bottleneck. Similar to the original Far Cry 3 game, Blood Dragon requires a high-end GPU and an ‘above average’ CPU to shine. And in case you’re wondering then no a dual-core system won’t be able to provide you a constant 60fps experience.įar Cry 3: Blood Dragon performs ideally under the DX9 path. This further proves that games are still not optimized for quad-core CPUs, something that will hopefully change when next-generation consoles hit the streets. Unfortunately though, there was no difference between a tri-core and a quad-core. The difference between a dual-core and a tri-core CPU is around 15-20fps. Our overclocked Q9650 was able to maintain a 60fps experience, though the CPU usage was not up to those incredibly high levels that we’ve witnessed in the original Far Cry 3 game. Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon works like a charm. Nvidia has included an SLI profile for Blood Dragon in its latest beta drivers, so make sure to download and install them if you own an SLI system. As always, we used a Q9650 at 4.2Ghz with an Nvidia GTX690, 4GB RAM, the latest version of the GeForce drivers and Windows 7-64Bit. So, time to see whether Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon is as optimized as its predecessor or not. Fast forward a couple of months and here we are today with our GTX690 and Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon, the standalone expansion that is powered by the same engine.
As we said back then, we only judged the DX9 version of it as we could not test its DX11 path (due to our previous GPU). Back in December 2012, we claimed that Far Cry 3 was the most optimized game for the PC platform.
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