Our testbed’s loaded with high-end components to avoid bottlenecks in other parts of the system and show unfettered graphics performance. We tested the EVGA GTX 1060 3GB Gaming on PCWorld’s dedicated graphics card benchmark system. The game supports swanky G-Sync, FreeSync, and ultrawide displays as well. They’re designed to stress systems, built for today’s pricey multi-GPU PCs and the powerful graphics cards of tomorrow.

Rocking a beastly rig? Gears of War 4 includes future-proof “Insane” levels for the Screen Space Reflections and Depth of Field options. (If you’re looking for more help, Nvidia’s released a detailed Gears of War 4 performance guide that shows the different levels for each graphics option side-by-side.) The game also supports dynamic resolution scaling, which can intelligently tweak the resolution to keep your frame rate at optimal levels.Īll those yellow exclamation marks mean I’m probably pushing this graphics card too far. Even better, a yellow exclamation point appears next to the setting to let you know if you’re pushing something too far. All modern Radeon graphics cards do, as well as Nvidia’s GTX 10-series GPUs, though older GeForce cards such as the GTX 970 do not.) If you don’t feel like doing the gruntwork yourself, fear not: Gears of War 4 scans your system and presets everything to a recommended configuration, which proved pretty spot-on in practice.Įach graphics option includes a detailed report on the effect it has on your PC’s CPU, GPU, and RAM-a particularly nice touch when you’re trying to dial in the best performance for your rig. (One of those options, for enabling async compute, won’t appear if your graphics card doesn’t support the feature. You’ll find a whopping 40 different graphics options lurking in Gears of War 4’s Video and Video – Advanced tabs, letting you fine-tune virtually every aspect of the game’s visuals. The Coalition said Gears of War 4 was built from the ground up with PC performance in mind, and the truth in that statement becomes evident the very second you open the game’s settings.įurther reading: PCWorld’s Gears of War 4 review You’ll need the Windows 10 Anniversary Update installed to run this DirectX 12-exclusive game. Nvidia, which supplied PCWorld’s review copy, is also bundling Gears of War 4 free with all GeForce GTX 1070 and GTX 1080 purchases through the end of October. Buyers who preordered the Gears of War 4: Ultimate Edition ($100 on the Windows Store) can start playing on October 7. Gears of War 4 ($60 on the Windows Store) unlocks on October 11.

The Coalition obviously learned its lesson, because Gears of War 4 is downright marvelous as far as PC ports go.

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