Star Wars Outlaws Performance Benchmark Review - 35 GPUs Tested 177

Star Wars Outlaws Performance Benchmark Review - 35 GPUs Tested

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Graphics Settings

  • The "video" settings screen handles all the usual monitor-related settings
  • Star Wars Outlaws supports "fullscreen," "borderless" and "windowed"
  • There is a "Cinematic display mode," which runs everything in 21:9 with huge black bars on top and bottom—not my cup of tea. I do like that there's "fill screen," which eliminates the black bars, even on 16:10
  • Supported aspect ratios are 16:9 and 21:9—nothing else. As you can see, our native 16:10 has black bars on top and bottom
  • V-Sync can be disabled completely, there is no hidden FPS cap
  • An FPS limiter is available, which can be freely set to between 30 FPS and 300 FPS
  • Upscalers supported are NVIDIA DLSS, AMD FSR, Intel XeSS and Temporal antialiasing
  • Additionally, you may enable AMD or NVIDIA Frame Generation, but you can't run DLSS Frame Gen with FSR Upscaling
  • NVIDIA users may enable DLSS 3.5 Ray Reconstruction
  • The "graphics" settings menu has the following performance profiles: "low," "medium," "high" and "ultra"
  • Distracting effects like chromatic aberration, film grain, depth of field and motion blur can be disabled. There's still some additional hidden motion blur, and the image looks a bit blurry and washed out
  • RTX Direct Lighting (RTXDI) is a new ray tracing-based technology for light and shadows, more on that in the conclusion
  • The "Advanced Graphics" setting has lots of options for fine-tuning of the performance. This is an excellent implementation of a settings menu.
  • Please note that some settings are not fully maxed out with Ultra. The screenshot shows Ultra, there's some headroom left in extra streaming distance, object detail and RT settings.

Test System

Test System - GPU 2024.2
Processor:Intel Core i9-14900K
Raptor Lake, 6.0 GHz, 8+16 cores / 32 threads
PL1 = PL2 = 330 W
Motherboard:MSI Z790 Carbon Wi-Fi II
BIOS 7D89vA3
Resizable BAR:Enabled on all supported cards
(NVIDIA, AMD & Intel)
Memory:Thermaltake TOUGHRAM XG
2x 16 GB DDR5-7200 MHz 36-46-46-96
Cooling:Arctic Liquid Freezer II
280 mm AIO
Thermal Paste:Arctic MX-6
Storage:2x 2 TB M.2 NVMe SSD
Power Supply:Seasonic Vertex GX 850 W
ATX 3.0 / 16-pin 12VHPWR
Case:darkFlash DRX70 Mesh
Operating System:Windows 11 Professional 64-bit 23H2
VBS enabled (Windows 11 default)
Drivers: NVIDIA: 560.94 WHQL
AMD: 24.8.1 Beta (24.10.37.01-aug19)
Intel: 101.5972 WHQL
Benchmark scores in other reviews are only comparable when this exact same configuration is used.

We tested the public uPlay release of Star Wars Outlaws. We used the newest drivers from all the GPU vendors. While NVIDIA and Intel have Game Ready support for the game, AMD does not.
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