RYSE-Son-of-Rome feature

Ryse: Son of Rome – Low Versus High Screenshots Comparison

Crytek was kind enough to provide us with a review code for Ryse: Son of Rome PC, and below you can find a comparison between the game’s Low and High settings. Do note that we could not change the quality of the game’s Textures (as they were locked at High).

The biggest differences between these two settings are the square-ish and low-quality shadows, the blurry shading effects, as well as the reduced reflections that are being displayed.

As always, High is on the left whereas Low is on the right. And we strongly suggest opening the images in new tabs instead of using our gallery plugin.

Our Performance Analysis for Ryse will go live later today or tomorrow, so stay tuned for more!







  • Dracula ™ © ®

    The differences are weak as hell, apart from some armor textures.Where are those original Crysis days where you could see an entirely different game even between Medium and High..

    • randir14

      Those days are gone and good riddance. Crysis 3 still looks pretty good on low settings, while Crysis 1’s low settings look like something out of Nintendo 64.

      • Durka Durka

        crysis 3 on low still looks better than the console versions no joke.

      • Zatara

        Crysis 3 on Low looks better than this s**t.

    • Durka Durka

      well xbone already did run the game on subpar settings.

    • Nines

      It’s just a quick cash grab. Crytek didn’t want to spend resources to create a proper PC version. it was obvious since they announced it.

      • Zatara

        This. Called it from the moment I saw the first PC Trailer. Sad, sad joke. Everyone was drooling over the “amg great Grafix” that look even worse than what we got in Crysis 3, years ago.

        Another pathetic Crytek failure.

    • darkchazz

      It means they have optimized the engine so much that it isn’t needed to turn off every single rendering effect on low settings as Crysis 1 does, but instead lower the quality and samples of these effects.

  • Guest

    The differences are weak as heck, apart from some armor textures.Where are those original Crysis days where you could see an entirely different game even between Medium and High..

  • ArchnophobiA

    Shadows is the only differences.

    • Spencer

      shadows, rendering, lighting, AO.

      Look at the third set of pictures, and look at his bracers on low, then look at high

  • SGTBuzzyBean

    Are high settings the max settings?

    • John Papadopoulos

      yeap (at least in the review code, there are only Low/Medium/High)

      • SGTBuzzyBean

        Oh okay, thanks for letting me know.

  • Ville N

    Textures take only vram, no graphical power, so otherwise these look very similar. Tesselated roads on low? I find it hard to believe these sometimes, are the devs just lazy?

  • 7thGuest

    Pics 11 & 12 are inconsistent. The Marius model is on high but the guy in the floor apparently is on low, next one he’s on low and the floor guy looks better wtf?

    • John Papadopoulos

      Yeap, most probably pop-in issue when we were taking that image. We’ll add some more images from later levels

      • 7thGuest

        Oh, dumb me, didn’t thought about that :s
        Thanks John!

  • http://smoke.livejournal.com/ Smoke Tetsu

    On the left side the old man had white hair and on the right side he used Just For Men hair dye…. so he has black hair. :P

    • KenleySo

      Lol

  • Steffen Fufb

  • Durka Durka

    so this game is graphically impressive?

    AHAHHAH Really?

    • Nines

      The new graphics king they say.

  • Universe

    Little difference to justify the 25 FPS loss.

  • Nines

    The biggest differences between these two settings are the square-ish and low-quality shadows, the blurry shading effects, as well as the reduced reflections that are being displayed. In addition,

    In addition…?

  • Nines
    • KopyKat007

      LMAO!!!

    • http://half-left.deviantart.com/ Sean

      LMAO, looks like the NPC quality in Total War Rome II.

    • Jey

      dammit i lol’d hard

  • Anon

    ???

    • asgaro

      illuminati confirmed.

  • benbenkr

    On the 6th comparison shots, the Low setting screenshot has better IQ than all the other Low setting screenshots in this article. Just look at the bracers.

    Explain.

  • Guest

    Console peasantry is getting worse and worse. Just look at N4G. It’s a $0N¥ pauper infestation with low IQ morons that love 30fps gimped games.

  • Steffen Fufb

    Why is the ram and vram difference between 3 and 30mb and that one strange screen has no info hud?

  • http://steamcommunity.com/id/BrainFlush BrainFlush

    I for one am excited to play it.

    Don’t care about reviews or opinions, and never have.
    Because if I did I wouldn’t have 1200+ games I have would 10.

  • Jey

    FF13 on PC is 720p max?? lol wow.. that’s dumb, glad i didnt get it.. i already own the ps3 version but i thought PC one would be at least 1080p