

Trion also seems to prevent having both Defiance and Defiance 2050 installed simultaneously, prompting me to re-download each whenever I wanted to switch back. Testing each game proved incredibly difficult, with Defiance 2050 in particular crashing when attempting to alt+tab out of the game while in fullscreen mode, however this was only a problem when testing outside of my native resolution as fullscreen (windowed) worked like a charm. x2 WD Black 1TB Performance Hard Drives.NVIDIA Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1080 Xtreme 8G.The system used for the tests is my personal build running Nvidia’s GeForce Game Ready Driver Version 398.36 released on the 26th of June, containing: Once this number is converted back into frames per second for ease of understand, it carries the same concept of “the higher the number, the better,” but isn’t bogged down by as many outliers.


While the concept of ‘minimum frame rate' has been used in the past to determine the single lowest value of all frames achieved during testing, 1% and 0.1% lows give greater insight into the inconsistency between frames themselves by using frametimes. To minimalise outliers, this was repeated three times for each individual test before using FRAFs to determine the average frame rate, as well as the 1% and 0.1% lows. Tests were conducted using FRAPs, capturing the average frame rate across each resolution (1080p, 1440p and 1440p Ultrawide).

I can’t determine what caused this change, but the cap firmly remained on 100Hz throughout tests. Initially, I could only switch between 60Hz and 100Hz, but the lower option was soon replaced with a choice of 49.99Hz, 59.97Hz and 84.96Hz. Sadly, tests will not exceed 100fps as both games limit the frame rate to the upper refresh rate of the monitor, with mine being 100Hz. “Graphics Quality” only toggles shadows, bloom and motion blur on or off, while scaling the proxy memory. Despite both Defiance and Defiance 2050 offering support for ultrawide resolutions at 21:9 aspect ratio, the remaining options are quite limited in comparison to other triple-A games. Although 2013’s Defiance supported integrated GPUs, Defiance 2050 requires users to sport an Nvidia GeForce GTX 650, an AMD Radeon 7770 or something better.īoth games run on the Gamebryo Engine, housing the same graphical options for players to choose from. This is still below average and should be achievable, however some systems might suffer with graphics. Trion made the jump from DirectX 9 to DX11 with Defiance 2050, maintaining its 2.0GHz processor minimum requirement, but doubling its memory from 2GB to 4GB. With so much going on under the hood, just how much more intensive is Defiance 2050 to run? Defiance 2050 is Trion World’s effort to rebuild 2013’s Defiance from the ground up, promising brand new textures, higher resolutions and an overhaul to gameplay systems that place emphasis on larger-scale action than its predecessor.
