Shadow Warrior 2 releases later today and below you can find some 4K screenshots from it. As always, we’ve included the MSI Afterburner statistics in these screenshots in order to give you an idea of how the game runs on a single GTX980Ti in 4K on Max settings.
Shadow Warrior 2 runs with more than 30fps in 4K and on Max settings on a single GTX980Ti, something that definitely pleased us. We’ll have more to say about the game’s performance in our upcoming PC Performance Analysis article, however we can safely say that Shadow Warrior 2 performs incredibly well on the PC.
While not technically as advanced as Gears of War 4, Shadow Warrior 2 looks – for the most part – great. We did notice some low-res textures, some characters look mediocre and the lighting under certain conditions appears to be flat, but overall we believe that Shadow Warrior 2 looks great.
But anyway, enjoy the following screenshots and stay tuned for our PC Performance Analysis article.
Those interested can download the uncompressed 4K images from here!
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The original shadow warrior itself wasn’t really good looking. But for one thing it did run like crap.
It ran just fine.
no it did not, there were huge framerate drops with alot of things on screen due to dx9 only
Even at low settings I was getting drops at 35 fps. My gpu at least during the time wasn’t weak either. It was an HD 7790. HD 7790 is capable of running bioshock infinite at max(without DOF alternate).
They actually fixed that with a DX11 patch however even before the patch the game ran really well for me with only a few dips down to 50fps. I also thought it looked really good and when the console versions launched they had lots of the more impressive settings pared back or missing despite the fact they had moved on to a multi-threaded API.
i dunno. Aside from texture quality everything in it looked mediocre.
Serious Sam 3 beat its visuals 2 years earlier.
You think?. I also own Serious Sam 3 and was impressed with it’s visuals as well to be fair. If you look at the Digital Foundry Eurogamer Face Off article for the game you can see what was cut from the console versions of the game. I liked the later levels more in the game.
? Are we talking about serious sam or shadow warrior?
I owned both on pc and ran both on high. And for me aside from texture quality there was nothing impressive about Shadow Warrior’s visuals. I just said I ran it at low to make a point on how poor the optimization was at the time of release.
I was impressed with Serious Sam’s visuals as well however I felt that Shadow Warrior had a certain charm and appreciated it’s later levels , particularly the docks stage. Yes it did have issues at launch, especially the reflection settings which tanked the single core DX9 API.
We must support this dev guys !! This is 100% pc game from pc developer not some fu’g ekhe’mafia3’em console crap port.
But console versions of Mafia 3 are even worse than PC version. They look worse, run worse and have the same bugs and glitches as the PC version. I think we should start differentiating between bad port and bad game. Mafia 3 is a decent port of a badly made game.
plus it’s DRM free. They are worth our money!
What are you talking about? This is a console game. A console game with a decent port, allegedly. So what? You have to buy a game now simply for NOT BEING A TERRIBLE PORT? Pshhh.
“While not technically as advanced as Gears of War 4…” Shadow Warrior 2 will have HDR10 and multi-GPU support implemented upon release.
But only if you have 4k tv you can use HDR since no monitors with it exist yet.
Yeah thats to bad. You know that I just bought the Acer 27 g-sync TN mate ( we spoke on Geforce)
It will hold me over to the HDR monitors will arrive. Cant wait for em 🙂
And you know that i also bought the 24 1440p dell monitor 5 months ago because i couldnt wait until 4k HDR moniors. I willl buy one of them in 2018 or in 2019 if their price is not too expensive until then my current monitor is more then enough!
Yep thats right mate 🙂
True we atleast have great monitors to hold us over until the HDR monitors will arrive, and plenty of time to save up some cash for them 😉
I am more then happy with mine. But we allways wants the next big thing huh. Well thats the life of a pc gamer ..LOL!
I hear HDR tv’s cause quite the deal of input delay.. .not something I would want to sacrifice for the extra color tones.
Both games are good, just because Gears don’t have mGPU on launch doesn’t mean it’s a bad game, every critic is praising the PC version. HDR is another thing but seriously how many of us use HDR TVs for gaming ? we are once again making a trivial thing an excuse to bash a game that is otherwise very good in terms of quality. Our main problem is UWP and that’s fine but say that clearly rather than just finding excuses to bash a good PC game.
No one said that Gears 4 was a bad game. Its Shadow Warrior 2 that was being bashed.
The graphics are freaking amazing and colorful… and it runs well? Whats the catch? Some kind of awful drm? No, 30 fps lock? No, awful fov? No? Well whats the catch then?
It’s the first game that has Nvidia Multi Res Shading Technology as well.
What is that again ?
People with sticks up their butts will need to have their sticks removed before they play this.
Lest their delicate sensibilities be offended ;D
Its a trap if you buy this game it installs DRM on your Graphics card any pirated game you play reduces the VRAM to 256MB you have been warned don’t purchase this game.
Who wants some Wang?! https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e512066e7694c6059ce1efbe72b142de41822237608077e332fd45e1c9de4dd8.jpg
Going to delay my purchase till next week :s
On the flip side game seems to run pretty well 😀
I tried to figure out a pun to put here…. I failed.
Ok, try with this:
I might have to delay the purchase for a indefinite amount of time. 😡
On the flip side… erm… uhhhhh…
Damn, I’m also out of ideas. :/
Alienware’s giving away the first Shadow Warrior. I’ve already grabbed my key.
Shadow Warrior(2013) was one of the best looking games in 4k that I ever played.
I remember just walking around the cherry blossoms and coy fish ponds.
Looked stunning in 4k, Colours really popped in that area.
Can’t wait to see what this one is like.
I wonder if there is any secrets in this one, Like Godzilla walking in the background in the last one. 😉