#Prototype 2 pc 1080p
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#Prototype 2 pc windows

Yeah, we are calling this a brawler because you are basically beating the crap out of everyone. Prototype 2’s storyline is a bit basic but what’s really important here is that this is a mindless, addictive third person action brawler.

#Prototype 2 pc upgrade

Naturally, by completing missions you can upgrade your character’s abilities, meaning that you can find more awesome ways in dealing with your enemies.

Players can kill their enemies in brutal ways, use stealth mechanics to approach and complete goals without alerting anyone. Gameplay wise, Prototype 2 is a lot of fun and similar to the first Prototype game. A simple SSAO effect has been used that tries to improve things, however the whole shadowing system feels ancient and there is no self-shadowing. LOD settings are a bit aggressive and you will definitely notice a lot of pop-ups while speeding, climbing building or jumping around. The game’s environments and neighborhoods feel alive, with different people doing different things, but the lighting model is a somewhat dated. Not only that, but their textures are as low as they can get.

The polygon count of the character models is sufficient, though some of them look really blocky. Radical Entertainment might have reused some assets, especially when it comes to buildings and vehicles. Graphics wise, Prototype 2 looks similar to its predecessor. It’s one of those games that will benefit from your CPU’s architecture and does not rely much on the number of your CPU cores. This is a major issue and proves how un-optimized Radical’s title actually is. What also shocked us was the fact that our CPU was not put to the stress, even when we simulated a dual-core system. Even though we were averaging around 30-50fps, our CPU utilization (with our simulated dual-core system) was around 80%. What’s also funny is that there is no noticeable difference between a dual-core and a quad-core. Since this game relies so much on the CPU, we expected to see a better CPU utilization. As you can see, the game scales on four cores but does not stress them.

At least that’s what our GPU suggests from its behavior and ironically, Radical Entertainment’s title does not take advantage of quad-cores at all. When we tried the game in Single GPU mode, there weren’t any similar performance drops. Obviously, that was due to the custom SLI profile that has been used, and our concerns were reinforced as this low performance issue was fixed when we alt-tabbed. Not only that, but there were major performance drops after completing a mission. SLI scaling was mediocre as we noticed a 20-40% usage on both of our GPU cores.

#Prototype 2 pc 1080p

Prototype 2 ran with 30-55fps at 1080p and max settings. As said, there is no SLI profile, meaning that we had to force it via Prototype’s profile.

#Prototype 2 pc windows

As always, we used an overclocked Q9650 (at 4.2Ghz) with 4GB RAM, a GTX 295, Windows 7-64Bit and the latest version of Nvidia’s GeForce ForceWare drivers. However, there are memory leaks when using that particular profile. Sure, you can enable SLI by including the executable file to the profile of the first game. Truth be told, we decided to give Nvidia enough time to release a proper SLI profile for Radical Entertainment’s game, but the green team has let us down. Prototype 2 was released two weeks ago, and here we are today with our Performance Analysis for it.