Blood Bowl 2 - PC performance graphics benchmarks of Graphics Cards

BASIC GAME INFORMATION

 

Year of construction: September 22, 2015
Genre: Strategy (Real-time / Turn-based) / Sport (Futuristic) / 3D
developer: Cyanide Studios
Publishing house: Focus Home Interactive

Blood Bowl 2 is a fantasy video game created under license from Games Workshop. It is a kind of adaptation of the world of Warhammer: Fantasy Battles to the rules of American football. Each team can have 16 people participating at a time. The game itself takes place both in turn-based strategy mode and in real time.

THE GRAFICAL PART

This subsection of our review highlights the main graphical aspects of this game. Particular attention is paid to the version of the graphics engine used, the version of the API used, graphic settings and the quality of development of the main visual aspects.

Supported OS and graphics API

Blood Bowl 2 is supported by major Windows operating systems, which include Windows 7 and Windows 8/10. Other operating systems are not currently supported by developers and will not receive support. 

 

The priority and main graphics API for Blood Bowl 2 is DirectX 11. 

Game engine

The Blood Bowl 2 game engine is a proprietary product of Cyanide Studios. Rather, the engine is a further development of the product line for games based on its own intellectual property Blood Bowl 2. 

 

We were unable to find detailed information other than our own visual observations. 

Advanced Game Settings

Blood Bowl 2 has very weak graphics settings, which amount to only changing the overall level of quality and screen resolution.

  

Below we have provided screenshots of the game at various graphics settings, where our readers can see the difference between the minimum, medium and maximum graphics quality settings. 

Various quality modes

As we can see, the picture quality is most noticeable when moving from low to medium settings.

Screenshots in 4K

Blood Bowl 4 looks a little better in 2K.

General visual design and game physics

Blood Bowl 2 is a turn-based strategy game in the sports genre and does not contain any revelations. The graphics are nice, but nothing more...

 

  

 Next, we will move directly to gaming tests and determine what impact this game has on modern computer hardware. 

TEST PART

GPU test

All video cards were tested at maximum graphics quality using MSI Afterburner. The purpose of the test is to determine how video cards from different manufacturers behave under the same conditions. The average and minimum FPS were taken as performance indicators. Below is a video of the test segment:  

 Our video cards were tested at separate screen resolutions of 1920x1080, 2560x1600 and 3840x2160 at maximum graphics quality settings allowed by Blood Bowl 2. AMD CrossFireX and SLI are not currently supported by the game. The game has an FPS limit of 62 frames.

Testing at resolution 1920x1080

Testing at maximum quality settings 1920x1080 

  

With these settings, video cards of the Radeon HD 7850 or GeForce GTX 750 Ti level showed acceptable FPS.

Testing at 2560x1600 resolution

Testing at maximum quality settings 2560x1600

 

With these settings, video cards of the Radeon HD 7850 or GeForce GTX 660 level showed an acceptable FPS. The optimal solutions would be the Radeon R7 370 or GeForce GTX 760.

Testing at resolution 3840x2160

Testing at maximum quality settings 3840x2160

 

With these settings, an acceptable FPS rate was shown by video cards of the Radeon R9 280X or GeForce GTX 780 level. The optimal solutions will be the Radeon R9 290 or GeForce GTX 780 Ti.

Testing of video memory consumed by the game was carried out by the program MSI Afterburner. The indicator was based on results on top video cards from AMD and NVIDIA with separate screen sizes 1920x1080 and 2560x1600 with different anti-aliasing settings.

Testing at maximum memory GPU quality settings

 

The recommended amount of video memory usage for a resolution of 1920x1200 will be 2048 MB of video memory, for a resolution of 2560x1600 - 2048 MB of video memory, and for a resolution of 3840x2160 about 3076 MB of video memory. 

CPU test

We tested processor dependence on 16 models of basic configurations that are relevant today. The test was carried out in those places where the video card value for the game is minimal and its load was less than 99%, this time at a resolution of 1920x1080 with the given graphics quality settings without anti-aliasing.  

Testing at maximum quality settings 1920x1080 

 

The CPU performance in the game is sufficient for all models. 

Loading of processor coresat maximum quality settings 1920x1080 Intel% 

 

Loading of processor cores at maximum quality settings 1920x1080 AMD% 

 

Blood Bowl 2 uses a total of 4 processor threads.

RAM test

The test was carried out on the basic configuration of Core i 7 5960X@4.6 GHz with 16GB DDR4 2400 MGz pre-installed memory. The entire used operational memory was taken as an indicator. The RAM test on the entire system was carried out on various test benches without launching third-party applications (browsers, etc.).

Testing the game's RAM consumption at various quality settings 

As we can see, with various quality settings, the amount of RAM consumed in Blood Bowl 2 is within 1000 megabytes.

Testing system RAM consumption  

 

On a 6GB system, Blood Bowl 2 consumes about 2.7GB of RAM. In the presence of a system with 8 gigabytes, the RAM consumption of all RAM was 2.9 gigabytes. With a 16 GB system, the total memory consumption was almost 3.3 gigabytes. And with 32 gigabytes of RAM, the system consumes 4 gigabytes of RAM.  

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