High-end CPU owners (of hexa-cores or octo-cores) won’t see any additional benefits as the game is unable to use more than five-six CPU cores.Īnd while the game does not require a top of the line CPU to shine, it demands high GPU horsepower. Quad-core owners won’t have any issues with Lichdom and while the game scales on four CPUs, it does not stress them. Still, we strongly suggest enabling Hyper Threading if you are owners of dual-core systems as there is a noticeable performance boost. As we can see in the following graph (note: we used a low resolution to avoid GPU bottlenecks), even a simple dual-core processor is able to handle Xaviant’s first-person caster. Lichdom: Battlemage is mainly a GPU-bound title.

As we can see in the following comparison, there are more jagged edges in the SLI screenshot (do note that we used the same settings). The only downside here is that there is some strange incompatibility between SLI and AA. Still, those with SLI systems can go ahead and use Crysis 3’s SLI compatibility bits in order to enable it. As Xaviant noted, SLI and Crossfire systems will be supported in the future. Unfortunately, Nvidia has not included an SLI profile for this title. However, the game comes with some really harsh GPU requirements.įor this Performance Analysis, we used an i7 4930K with 8GB RAM, Nvidia’s GTX690, Windows 8.1 64Bit and the latest version of the GeForce drivers.

Lichdom: Battlemage is powered by Cryengine 3, meaning that the game should scale well on multi-core CPUs.

Lichdom: Battlemage has been officially released and it’s time to see how this new first person caster performs on the PC platform.

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