Wednesday, January 18th 2017
Unigine Superposition Benchmark not Good Enough for Steam
Unigine's dazzling-looking Superposition benchmark (which was due for a late 2016 launch but still hasn't made the rounds, having an expected release date on Q1 of the current year) won't be coming to your average PC gaming platform of choice: Steam.
Apparently, the absence of the benchmark on Steam isn't a choice made by Unigine itself; instead, the "Superposition" benchmark has effectively been locked from entering Steam's catalog on account of it not being "suitable" for their Greenlight initiative. And this comes on the toes of the benchmark having recently achieved the status of number one application on Greenlight - not an easy thing to do, considering the amount of applications that vie for that spot.
Unigine is one of the most considered faces of PC benchmarking, with their products always occupying a special spot on any benchmark suite, due to both their ability to bring even the most powerful hardware to its knees, and looking beautiful while doing so. Particularly, their Heaven benchmark was a kind of poster child for tessellation, with its iconic dragon statue receiving marked improvements in rendering results that scaled with the setting.
Superposition, however, will be based on a revamped engine, the Unigine 2 Engine, bringing with it support for DirectX 11, OpenGL 4.5 and later, as well a dedicated VR mode compatible with both trend-setters of the VR world, the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. The Superposition benchmark will also include a GPU cooling stress test, designed to test your graphic card's stability at high operating temperatures, as well as your cooling solutions' ability to tame the operating temperatures on your GPU of choice. The benchmark will also support both Windows and Linux, and like its predecessors, feature scalable settings for your benchmarking enjoyment.
Apparently, the absence of the benchmark on Steam isn't a choice made by Unigine itself; instead, the "Superposition" benchmark has effectively been locked from entering Steam's catalog on account of it not being "suitable" for their Greenlight initiative. And this comes on the toes of the benchmark having recently achieved the status of number one application on Greenlight - not an easy thing to do, considering the amount of applications that vie for that spot.
Superposition, however, will be based on a revamped engine, the Unigine 2 Engine, bringing with it support for DirectX 11, OpenGL 4.5 and later, as well a dedicated VR mode compatible with both trend-setters of the VR world, the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. The Superposition benchmark will also include a GPU cooling stress test, designed to test your graphic card's stability at high operating temperatures, as well as your cooling solutions' ability to tame the operating temperatures on your GPU of choice. The benchmark will also support both Windows and Linux, and like its predecessors, feature scalable settings for your benchmarking enjoyment.
47 Comments on Unigine Superposition Benchmark not Good Enough for Steam
Let them put it on GOG and case solved.
So Valve, you get the bonehead of the year announcement! And you earned it in January. :rolleyes:
Why you ask? -- Have you honestly seen the amount of bollocks on steam greenlight that beg to be greenlit?? All those shoddy unity asset flippers and 'one-man-in-a-room' Russian game makers who cut and paste assets from other games, release it in a poor and unplayable state then call out those people on YT or Twitter who tried to play their games but couldnt because it was utter crap.
Heres a YT playlist of one of the most vocal people on YT against the trash that is greenlit on steam...
Just run The Division, Just Cause 3 or Rise of the Tomb Raider and see for yourself. These games (engines) bring any modern GPU to its knees while providing superior graphics, animation and physics.
Sure, Unigine can up the polygon count or tesselation till the benchmarks runs at 5 fps @ FHD, but that's not the point.
So I had been looking forward to Superposition and keeping an eye out for it's release already. It's easy enough to dl from them without Steam. It just doesn't make much sense for Steam to disallow Unigine while allowing other benchmarks (and graphics benchmarks for that matter) like 3dmark, which they have for many years.
No worries.
I sometimes install these things on machines just to test run them, and i am not going to download steam and connect just for that
Sucks.
People compare results, surely, but, it's an exercise in futility half the time due to many different reasons...most notably not like systems, clocks, settings, drivers, etc...among many others. Look at half the threads here tracking scores, its a damn joke...but mostly because who is running them here are clueless.