![]() AMD simply doesn't have the samples to spare in Australia and stores have been out of stock for weeks. Still, we expect that the server issues will be resolved shortly and they probably aren't nearly as rough if you don't have to reload the game several dozen times over a two day period.Īgain, apologies to those who wanted to see the R9 Fury X and Fury in our results. Pouring salt in the wound was the fact that some of these menus took quite long to timeout. Being offline meant navigating half a dozen or so menus saying the game couldn't connect to the servers, that we were in offline mode and so on. The most annoying thing about Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain for me has been getting into the game.Ĭonstant server issues have forced me and many others to play in offline mode. So far I've only played about 5% through the campaign but it's been a lot of fun and that's coming from someone who doesn't particularly enjoy action-adventure/stealth type games. However, The Phantom Pain is a high quality game and despite what seems like a basic performance limitation, it has impressive graphics. Normally we skip over any game with a hard-coded frame rate limit as it's hard to take that release seriously with such a limitation on PC. Performance is all about the GPU in this title. Moreover, we managed Core i7-like performance using the Pentium G3258 running at the same clock speeds. The AMD FX processors were also able to deliver strong performance that was comparable to the Core i5 and i7 processors. I will say that The Phantom Pain isn't CPU-intensive considering the Core i5-4690K delivered the exact same minimum frame rates with the GTX 980 Ti at 2.5GHz as it did at 4.5GHz. If we look back at games such as The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Grand Theft Auto V, Battlefield Hardline, Evolve, Dying Light, Dragon Age: Inquisition, Alien: Isolation and even Batman: Arkham Knight, all averaged over 60fps in our game tests. The problem is here is that high-end GPUs are limited by the 60fps cap and anything equal to or faster than the GTX 780 can also hit the cap when comparing minimum frame rates. To test CPU performance we'd need to pick the fastest possible GPU and test it under CPU-limited conditions, for example at a low-ish resolution such as 1920x1080. Unfortunately, this time around we don't have any CPU benchmarks for you and that's mostly because of the 60fps limit. Wrap Up: Can Be Enjoyed On Modest Hardwareīy now you're probably wondering where we've hidden our usual CPU tests. ![]()
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