Electronic Arts has finally released Respawn’s latest Star Wars game, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order. Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order is using Unreal Engine 4, so it’s time to benchmark it and see how it performs on the PC platform.
For this PC Performance Analysis, we used an Intel i9 9900K with 16GB of DDR4 at 3600Mhz, AMD’s Radeon RX580 and RX Vega 64, NVIDIA’s RTX 2080Ti, GTX980Ti and GTX690. We also used Windows 10 64-bit, the GeForce driver 441.20 and the Radeon Software Adrenalin 2019 Edition 19.11.2 drivers. Surprisingly enough, NVIDIA has included an SLI profile for this game that works on our GTX690.
Respawn has added a few graphics settings to tweak. PC gamers can adjust the quality of Textures, Shadows, Anti-Aliasing and Visual Effects. There are also options for View Distance and Post-Processing. Moreover, the game will allow you to lock your framerate to 30fps, 45fps, 60fps, 90fps, 120fps or 144fps. PC gamers can also enable or disable Chromatic Aberration, Motion Blur, Film Grain and Camera Shake.
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order does not come with a built-in benchmark tool. As such, we’ve decided to benchmark the first planet you visit (and not the game’s intro sequence). This first planet appears to be more demanding which is why we’ve chosen it over the game’s intro.
This new Star Wars game does not appear to require a high-end CPU. In order to find out how the game scales on multiple CPU threads, we simulated a dual-core, a quad-core and a hexa-core CPU. Without Hyper Threading, our simulated dual-core system was able to come close to a 60fps experience at 1080p/Epic. However, there were major stuttering issues while exploring the environments, as well as drops to 50fps. With Hyper Threading enabled, we were able to get a constant 60fps experience.
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order only supports DirectX 11 and is one of the few games that does not benefit from Hyper Threading on quad-core/hexa-core/eight-core CPUs. As we can see, the game was running noticeably faster when Hyper Threading was disabled.
Unfortunately, we were not able to test this game on our Intel i7 4930K. After all, Origin has been constantly locking our account (due to the hardware changes we were making). To be honest, it was a real pain in the ass finishing this analysis due to these lock ups. So yeah, sadly we won’t have any comparisons between the Intel i7 4930K and the i9 9900K.
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order does not also require a powerful GPU in order to be enjoyed. Our GTX980Ti, Vega 64 and RTX2080Ti had no trouble running the game with 60fps at 1080p/Epic settings. Our AMD Radeon RX580 also provided a 60fps experience (though there were occasional dips to 50fps).
At 1440p/Epic settings, our Vega 64 offered a 60fps experience with some dips to mid-50s. On the other hand, our RTX2080Ti was able to offer framerates higher than 80fps. And as for 4K, our RTX2080Ti was able to offer a somehow smooth experience. There were some minor dips to 44fps, however – and for the most part – NVIDIA’s GPU was able to handle the game. Those seeking for a constant 60fps experience will have to reduce their resolution to 1800p.
Graphics wise, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order looks gorgeous. The environments are full of details and every character looks great. I should also note that Cal’s hair is ridiculously detailed and animated. All Star Wars enemies and ships look phenomenal, and there are some amazing particles effects. Moreover, there are some cool scripted destruction events.
Things are not perfect though. The game has numerous invisible walls and there are slight pop-in issues, even on Epic settings. The game also suffers from some stuttering issues, especially when loading new areas. This issue affects all versions of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, so hopefully Respawn will address it via a post-launch update.
All in all, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order runs pretty great on the PC platform. Contrary to the console versions, the stuttering issues are not that awful on the PC. Moreover, the game can run with 60fps on a variety of PC configurations. While there is definitely room for improvement, the game already looks and runs great on the PC.
Enjoy!
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After all, Origin has been constantly locking our account (due to the hardware changes we were making)
Man that sucks.
It’s a good game; I do wonder though if EA has set the bar for Star Wars games so low that it looks even better by comparison?
“Contrary to the console versions, the stuttering issues are not that awful on the PC”
I viewed the two Digital Foundry videos on the console versions and what a disaster they are! Hideous multiple-seconds long freezes on Xbone and PS4, failure to maintain the lowly 30fps cap in ‘quality’ mode on all consoles, sub-1080p dynamic resolution in ‘performance’ mode on PS4 Pro while often coming nowhere near to 60fps, etc.
Nothing surprising, what do you expect in 2019 from a hardware that was obsolete on day one in 2013 ? lol
By far the worst console generation in history.
Completely agree !! For the hardware and the games, console exclusives went really full ret*rd, best time to be on PC, and we can play Breath of The Wild on CEMU easily lol, the only game that made buy a PS4 was Bloodborne, witnessing this gem condemned to be locked at 30 fps is really sad
In addition to Zelda BotW using Cemu we also have the likes of Mario Kart 8, Super Mario 3D Land, Xenoblade Chronicles X, The Wonderful 101, Bayonetta 2, Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze and Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker. Wii U may have been a commercial failure but it sure had a handful of great games that happily for us are best played on PC.
All of them are running great, except Bayonetta 2 having issues with dynamic shadows, but it’s playable at a stable framerate.
The commercial failure was all Nintendo’s fault, the marketing wasn’t that great
Completely agree, the hardware and the games too, the console exclusives went full ret*rd on this gen, the only console games that are really interesting for me are Zelda BOTW and Bloodborne, the first one is easily playable on CEMU (and looks far better) the second one made me buy a second hand PS4, and i’m shocked that this gem is eternally blocked to run at 30 fps
Yep, Zelda BotW with all the many mods available is so much better on PC via Cemu than it is on the actual host console that it’s not even funny!
With the progress being made by Yuzu and Ryujinx the game’s Switch-exclusive sequel will very likely be best played on PC too!
I hope so, Yuzu seems to progress very well, didn’t tried it yet, is there a way to use graphic pack in Yuzu just like CEMU ??
Agreed the most underwhelming in all categories: fewer exclusives and not many essentials,underpowered from the start with “pro” versions that are still limited by the horrid cpu they chose from the get go,payable online,barely any risk taken or fresh ideas the last good console gen for me was the ps2/gamecube/xbox after that it became more and more lackluster.
Tell me about it, all those consoletards were like “MUH 8GB OF GDDR5” and i was like “so what? They got tablet cpus and more ram doesnt mean more power”
Here we are after all those years with the best looking games having come out on the first year or so as ps4 exlusives. The devs of the order 1886 said they can do the same things on pc as well, nope wasnt enough for those moronic conosletards. THEY RELEASED UPGRADED CONSOLES, THE WHOLE POINT OF CONSOLES IS THAT YOU DONT NEED TO UPGRADE. This gen has been a joke.
“THE WHOLE POINT OF CONSOLES IS THAT YOU DONT NEED TO UPGRADE”
Currently beneath my living room TV is a Sega Mega Drive/Genesis with both a Mega-CD/Sega CD and 32X attached, haha!
The marketing/propaganda went so far, they were even some guys at EA who said that the PS4/One were 2 gens ahead from actual PCs, they released FIFA 14 on a next gen engine, and blocked the PC version on the old gen one, and all the consoletards were happy, this is f*cking ridiculous, i was so frustrated because of all this damage control, now i’m just laughing, i think the best thing this gen did, is the fact the a lot of consoletards know that their consoles are garbage, thanks to Candyland and the Youtube 60 fps mode, and the “human eye can’t see more than 24 fps” became a meme and no one will dare to say that anymore, thank god !!
Yoir life is miserable
Of course
amazing isnt it, this gen has been a joke
It most certainly hasn’t been an Excellent console generation!
A fascinating one lol, as you can witness how denial is an absolute illness “i prefer 30 fps it’s more cinematic” LOL
Are you ok Bub? You used the word “Excellent” dont tell me fernando the bot got to you ?
beep boop
True!!!
Only the “pro” consoles seems to be okayish, and the ps4 version is somewhat decent while the original xbox is a disaster.
Still they need to patch those freezes on all systems its not normal for a non open world game
“Graphics wise, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order looks gorgeous”
Are u f**ing kidding me?
I don’t know for the rest but yeah, graphics are good, i mean it’s far from average graphically, where is the problem ??
Apart the wookies looking like plastic toys the game looks very good much better looking than their previous games this gen(titanfall 1 and 2)
I find the game to be overall beautiful thanks to the lighting and the locales, only the character models are not really detailed and are quite generic in some cases, like on the character Cere and the wookies.
Animations are a real mess in this game. Same for the enemy models. Only lighting and level design are good enough.
Just finished the game, absolutely excellent experience, well done EA!
EXCELLENT.
Now give us a detailed review
“The graphics are excellent, The sound is excellent, the ai is excellent the gameplay is excellent, the story is excellent the ending is excellent, the combat is excellent, the level design is excellent, the artistic direction is excellent, the controls are excellent, the menus are excellent, the enemy and weapon variety is excellent the cinematics are excellent, the animations are excellent”
Wow what an EXCELLENT review, thank you very much Fernando.
Indeed, it’s an excellent game all around.
Man i just can’t say “excellent” anymore without feeling like i’m an idiot, goddamn he stole words from my head
Dont give any credit to EA it was Respawn studio work and they had surprisingly much freedom for this game, until EA gobble them up too and ruin them and close them like all EA former talented studios.
EA had a lot of pressure from Disney for this game (they’re apparently ok with the movies being awful but not the games lol), that’s why Respawn had the greenlight, man i wish they could get the same pressure for Mass Effect and Battlefield…
“until EA gobble them up too and ruin them and close them like all EA former talented studios”
Right, matter of time sadly…
Yes, it’s surprising that EA gave them the freedom to make this game, looks like a lot of thought went into it. If this sells well, hopefully EA will give the green light to other single player experiences. Or maybe not. Let’s see.
I wonder what happened to spectrospencer, that idiot that claimed that the xbox one x would be superior to a pc with a 1070.
Well look here
Pc with a 980ti(equivalent slightly worst than a 1070):
Running this game maxed out above 60fps all the time never dropping below 65 fps at 1080p
Xbox one x “performance” mode:
Run between 30-55fps most of the time mid 40’s at settings that are probably nowhere near max settings at 1080p.
If you see that spectro when you claimed that the 980ti wont keep up with the xbox one x, oh boy how wrong you where assuming such nonsense.
Sp4ctro has tried to make a comeback with the account TXOMIN (surely one other as we?l)
I remember well his dumb claim and his mind weakness. It was funny to kick his clown a r s e.
GenXgamer or something like that has replaced him or is him having now become a Sony fanboy.
Sorry, not going in his defense, he is sick of his mind, but you are certainly naive with this statement.
CPU was never the forte of any of the consoles of this generation. Will the 980ti run the game at 30 almost maxed out at 4k? because the xbox one x runs it…
If less than 60 is a problem for you then his statement was never intended to compete with your perspective of power.
Lol you are so wrong the xbox one x version run this game in quality mode at 1440p with a dynamic resolution dropping this target resolution when needed and its definitely not pc max settings.
While a 980ti can run this max settings at an average of 54 fps at 1440p without dynamic resolution
Check your facts next time
I’m really enjoying this game but running into some horrid stuttering issues when moving from place to place (loading I’m sure). Occasionally I even get sustained frame downs down into the teens for no apparent reason. It goes away when I move to another spot on the map. Generally I’m running at 90 fps, fairly locked. But man those stutters really mess up the experience.
Such ugly looking characters and the graphics overall look terrible, just take a look at those last 4 screen shots. Then to top it off it seems to be a platforming Souls game yuck no thanks.
The animation and character design is odd…
The cinematography on the other hand is superb.
Noticed a lot of tricks to the camera angles to allow more time for the game to load the assets, even then it couldnt solve the issue, i dont think it will be solved anytime soon. The interesting point is that this game might be a good contender to test ssds primarily nvme ssds. Certainly this is already a next gen game done so well that almost passed thru the very low io speeds of the console hdds.
test game use gtx 1050
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaEMmABjLW4&feature=youtu.be