The game scales well with quad-cores but was developed with dual-cores in mind. All in all, Sniper Elite V2 looks great and does not require a top of the line PC.
And when the X-Ray (slow-mo bullet camera) is initiated, you can enjoy the detailed bullet, the trail from it and the explosion of your enemies’ organs – which are modeled with exceptional details. And it’s a joy when you take the shot and hit an enemy grenade – which results into a big blast – or when you get a headshot from very far away. The bullet ballistics is carefully created and as a result of that, both wind and gravity affect your shots. The slow-mo camera effects, on the other hand, are gorgeous. Still, Sniper Elite V2’s visuals are pleasant to the eye, though its animations are not as fluid as we’d hoped to. The lighting system is quite good, though its TOD settings can’t compete with the likes of Crysis. There are also some nice little details, like the bottom of the enemies’ boots. Shadows are cast from various light sources, and all characters are nicely detailed. SSAO is supported, though its overall quality could be better. Rebellion has upped the quality of the textures (from the console version), though there are still some low-res textures here and there. Graphics wise, Sniper Elite V2 looks great. Good news then to those of you with older CPUs as you will not encounter major issues with it. Sniper Elite V2 is definitely optimized for dual-cores and does not require a high-end CPU to shine. Not only that, but the game was not maxing out our two – simulated – cores in our tests. When we tried to simulate a dual-core system, we did not notice any performance hit. Interestingly, the difference between a dual-core and a quad-core is minimal. As we can see, the game scales but does not stress a Q9650 at 4.2Ghz. Sniper Elite V2 scales well on quad-cores but does not take advantage of them. However, there were scenes where SLI was performing worse than Single-GPU mode (due to the negative SLI side effects that we mentioned). The difference between SLI and Single GPU was around 10-15fps. In fact, the game was mostly running with 60fps, meaning that you will be able to enjoy Rebellion’s title even if you don’t own a top of the line card. Thankfully, the game is playable on max settings (with medium FSAA) at 1080p. Naturally, we tried Sniper Elite V2 and in Single-GPU mode, meaning that our GTX295 performed like a GTX275. Oh, and there was some flickering in a couple of stages, as well as negative SLI scaling in some occasions. Moreover, we weren’t CPU limited in those scenes, something that shows how bugged this current SLI profile actually is. There were some occasions where scaling was at 50% and there wasn’t anything on-screen to justify this low scaling. SLI scaling was all over the place and was averaging around 70%. While testing the game, we witnessed some inconsistent performance in SLI mode.
Nvidia has included an SLI profile for Sniper Elite V2, however it seems that it needs a little bit more work and tweaking.
#Sniper elite v2 windows
As always, we used an overclocked Q9650 (4.2Ghz) with 4GB of RAM, a GTX295, Windows 7-64Bit and the latest version of the ForceWare drivers. Sniper Elite V2 is a multiplatform title and although it is enjoyable and fun on the PC, it could look – and perform – better. Unfortunately, there is no option to adjust the FOV, and you might notice some pop-in when the levels are initially loaded. There is also a mouse smoothing option, so be sure to disable it if you want to avoid any mouse acceleration side effects. There have been some improvements to the game’s textures and there are keyboard indications for all in-game actions. Sniper Elite V2 was self-published by Rebellion themselves and is a nice port.
#Sniper elite v2 Pc
Rebellion has released the PC version of Sniper Elite V2, and it’s time to see how this sniper game performs on our beloved platform.
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