Gory Gaming: Bulletstorm Performance Analyzed
Although the game had significant performance issues when it was released, Bulletstorm now benefits from the latest graphics drivers and a patch from its developers. Now is the perfect time to see what kind of hardware this game requires for smooth play.
Image Quality Settings
Bulletstorm has four visual settings: Postprocess Quality, Texture Quality, Shadow Quality, and World Detail. Each can be set to low, medium, or high.
First let’s see the results of each setting:
Low quality certainly doesn’t look bad considering that it’s the minimum quality level, but poor texture resolution can be distracting, as seen on the rock texture at the bottom-left.
At medium quality, the increased texture resolution is really the only obvious improvement, through the out-of-focus background suggests some subtle post-processing filtering is at work.
High quality appears to add a great deal of lighting detail, including high dynamic range. The water quality is also notably better, and textures receive another increase in fidelity.
GeForce vs. Radeon
Now let’s see if the game renders any differently on GeForce and Radeon graphics hardware:
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The overall rendering quality appears the same. And speaking of graphics hardware, let’s have a look at some of the cards we’re testing.
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JohnnyLucky The next time how about installing a game on a solid state drive and a hard disk drive so we can find out about any differences in game play.Reply -
shubham1401 mayankleoboy1i enjoy the game and i am not embarrassed to admit it on my 3.33ghz core 2 duo and gtx580, it stutters a lot during some areas and level loading. even a slight CPU use by another processes make this game unplayable.Reply
Didn't happen with me. I have a 2.66Ghz C2D and 9800GT. And I played the whole game with ~45Fps at 1600X900 medium settings.
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yyrkoon JohnnyLuckyThe next time how about installing a game on a solid state drive and a hard disk drive so we can find out about any differences in game play.Reply
Where have you been for the last decade? It would only effect level loading. -
haplo602 why are the pictures and descriptions on the cards backwards ? I mean firs the image than the description ? since we are scrolling DOWN normaly, it's the wrong way around.Reply -
Maziar Thanks for the review :)Reply
The good thing about Unreal engine is that the PC game powered by it are almost always optimized and that's what's lacking in most of todays' PC games. -
hannibal The thing that "Epic is serious about multithreading" is good thing to see! We have had so long time 4 to 6 core CPUs, that it has been a shame that those cores had not been supported in games so far. This is very promising indeed!Reply -
Formata I love this sort of article. Would be nice to see that same sort of comparison done with Witcher 2Reply -
joshyboy82 I had no interest in buying this game, but I read the review to see if it my change my mind. Sadly it won't. I already am into too many games and I just can't seem to beat CS:S, so when I've run out of Witcher sequels and Portals, I'll only have Battlefields and Diablos to conquer, before I become a full time farmer (as a in-game career) in Skyrim. Sorry about your luck.Reply