
The second you jump on a horse, things are likely to get weird-not only can you see further, you're moving faster, which means your gaze jumps further into the distance. Where view distance is concerned, it's not quite so jarring watching things popping in if you're only sprinting around the battlefield on foot. There's not a lot between TAA, TAA low, and FXAA, either, so don't worry about messing with this setting, especially if you're going to try downscaling.ĭo have a play around with the resolution scale feature, however-you're looking at close to a 70% performance increase at half resolution scale, and it's almost impossible to tell the difference visually. With the epic preset, TAA is on by default, and is worth keeping that way for a smooth look. The GUI also sticks at native resolution. That's slightly more pixels than it would need to render at 1440p, yet with a slightly improved framerate than we've been getting at QHD. Stepping down the resolution scale by half, means your GPU will render half the pixels of 4K, but somehow it's downright indistinguishable from 4K.

In scaling down the game resolution by 50% on a native 4K monitor, the devs have managed to get TAA to super effectively emulate the fidelity of the higher resolution (with what they're hilariously calling 'Temporal Magic'). It struggled a lot even at 1440p, and that was with minimal bloodshed, so I'd hate to think how it would fare in a multiplayer arena.

At higher resolutions, though, it did have a little bit of a struggle-it ended up unplayable at 4K, only able to pump out 29 fps on average, with 1% lows of 24 fps. Our budget build, powered by an MSI GeForce GTX 1650 Super Gaming X and Intel Core i5 10400F, managed similar frame rates at 1080p. An average of 82 fps at 4K is certainly commendable. Then there's the mid-range machine's RTX 3060 Ti Ventus 2x and AMD Ryzen 5 5600X (opens in new tab) combo, which gave no issue running the game on epic preset at any resolution.

With a flagship configuration like this one, you're going to rip through those frames like a knight wielding a big ol' war axe. Moving on to the gaming PCs and our top dog-powered by an MSI RTX 3080 Gaming X Trio and AMD Ryzen 9 5900X (opens in new tab)-aced every resolution without breaking a sweat.
CHIVALRY MEDIEVAL WARFARE NO 1920X1080 PC
As our partner for these detailed performance analyses, MSI provided the hardware we needed to test Chivalry 2 on different PC gaming hardware.
