Total War SHOGUN 2 DX11 with built-in benchmark: even more demanding than Metro 2033!

[voidshatter]

It has successfully owned my 2 x 6950 2GB Crossfire

The latest 2GB patch from Steam now enables a small built-in benchmark, through the beginning scene of the demo battle.



The 3rd option is not hardware demanding at all. With the following steps it is possible to stress test your system:

a) Select "Play Total War: SHOGUN 2", and change everything to max in game options:



b) Exit game, and re-open the Steam startup menu and select "Benchmark Game Settings".

Here are results of 2 x 6950 2GB Crossfire:



and for single 6950 2GB:



and here is a plot of the output log file using Excel:



Crossfire suffers a lag spike in the 4th second or so. Not sure if others have the same problem.

I'd say such fps is not playable for multiplayer game sessions, or 3rd party MODs to enable larger size of troops.

[Easy Rhino]

that game should be demanding in dx11 mode considering the pretty graphics and the scope of gameplay.

[Neuromancer]

Looks good! is the benchmark available in the demo or just the full game?

EDIT: Oh yeah and that is excellent multi gpu scaling

[voidshatter]

Originally Posted by Neuromancer

Looks good! is the benchmark available in the demo or just the full game?

EDIT: Oh yeah and that is excellent multi gpu scaling

Not sure about the demo but it's definitely included in the full game

[KainXS]

what do you get when you do the dx9 bench

[crazyeyesreaper]

hmm i was aware of theis bench option before it was enabled thanks to a certain someone, overall i found the bench rather worthless compared to upping the unit sizes and just doing a custom battle

[voidshatter]

Originally Posted by KainXS

what do you get when you do the dx9 bench

149fps for DX9 Graphics Balanced 720p

30fps for DX9 CPU

[LifeOnMars]

What CPU do you have?

[Lionheart]

I just want the damn game, but Im poor at the moment

[voidshatter]

Originally Posted by LifeOnMars

What CPU do you have?

980X [6C6T] @ 4GHz

[cadaveca]

Originally Posted by voidshatter

980X [6C6T] @ 4GHz

How about just filling out your system spec's?


Results in OP are due to AA levels. 6950 2GB (unlocked @ 850/1300)get 9x.x FPS with no AA, 4x.x FPS with 4x, P67 platform, 2600k @ stock, 4GB @ 1333 CAS9.



DX9 CPU:




DX9 Balanced:



Game settings maxed(No AA):



DX11 1080P(4xAA)

[voidshatter]

Originally Posted by cadaveca

How about jsut filling out your system spec's?

It's damn annoying OK then, I'll try to recall the full spec...

980X [6C6T] @ 4GHz
EVGA E760
6 x 2GB DDR3 @ 1600MHz C7, Uncore 3200MHz
2 x MSI 6950 2GB Twin Frozr II @ 810/1250, 1536SP
Catalyst 11.5 WHQL
Intel X25-M 160G G2
2 x 1TB WD Black
blablah

It doesn't seem to work when I fill in the form never mind

[cadaveca]

Well, seems, like I surmised, CPU doesn't really play much of a role in this benchmark, or it's stupidly memory intensive.

[voidshatter]

Originally Posted by cadaveca

Well, seems, like I surmised, CPU doesn't really play much of a role in this benchmark, or it's stupidly memory intensive.

I was sure that before this patch, the game fully utilize 3 cores of my CPU.

[cadaveca]

Wow, 3 cores. No, but really, lol WHUT.

I just love the EPIC music.

[crazyeyesreaper]

3 cores LOLZ if i remember right all CA did the entire time the game was in development was keep saying the game will use up to 6 cores up to 6 cores up to 6 cores yadda yadda lol



more on topic


Steam will no longer allow me to play Shogun II, gives me game not available try again later.

scratch that now it dosent even do that,

steam is loading shogun II... then it just dissappears and nothing happens no exe loaded nothing lol this patch is full of fail

[voidshatter]

Originally Posted by crazyeyesreaper

3 cores LOLZ if i remember right all CA did the entire time the game was in development was keep saying the game will use up to 6 cores up to 6 cores up to 6 cores yadda yadda lol



more on topic


Steam will no longer allow me to play Shogun II, gives me game not available try again later.

Well maybe I was not observing the peak usage. I just looked into task manager and saw 50% usage on my 6C6T (HT off) several times. I'll now make a log of CPU usage during the benchmark using Everest.

[AlienIsGOD]

same Crazy, Steam kept crashing every time i tried to run the game or the benckmark. Now i cant even log into Steam, getting the network connection error or steam network problem message

[crazyeyesreaper]

awesome so Creative Assembly's new patch systematically wiped out Steam LOL, man they never cease to impress me Creative Assembly's games are like mini nukes using guesstimation timer on when to detonate.

[cadaveca]

Same problem here. WTF!!!

[crazyeyesreaper]

WOOO HOOO ALL ABOARD THE CA FAIL TRAIN!!!! lmao, worse case senario it will be fixed within 6 months, best case senario an hour or 2 lol

[voidshatter]

Originally Posted by crazyeyesreaper

3 cores LOLZ if i remember right all CA did the entire time the game was in development was keep saying the game will use up to 6 cores up to 6 cores up to 6 cores yadda yadda lol



more on topic


Steam will no longer allow me to play Shogun II, gives me game not available try again later.

scratch that now it dosent even do that,

steam is loading shogun II... then it just dissappears and nothing happens no exe loaded nothing lol this patch is full of fail

Yes it can sometimes use 6 cores during my most stressful benchmark session



However most of the time my graphics cards are clearly the bottleneck.

[AlienIsGOD]

I blame the OP for bringing this benchmark to our attention as soon as i seen this thread and tried to load the game and/or benchmark it, crash city

[voidshatter]

Originally Posted by cadaveca

Results in OP are due to AA levels. 6950 2GB (unlocked @ 850/1300)get 9x.x FPS with no AA, 4x.x FPS with 4x, P67 platform, 2600k @ stock, 4GB @ 1333 CAS9.

I was suspecting that the game in DX11 mode with AA eats a huge amount of vram, because when I disable AA I get dramatical boost of fps. I speculate that not even 2GB vram is enough to feed it. I'm also interested to see how 580 1.5GB performs at such stress benchmark. It is reported that 5870 1GB is refused by the benchmark at DX11 max settings because of insufficient vram.

[crazyeyesreaper]

id like to see how a 580 performance as well since some german pc magazine basically said all ATi cards were unable to sustain 30fps in DX11 mode.