Forward of the total launch subsequent week, a Black Fantasy Wukong benchmarking instrument has gone reside on Steam, and it’s free to downaload. It will mean you can check your gaming PC and discover the proper settings earlier than you play the total recreation, and I’ve been left impressed with the outcomes which have come via up to now, despite the fact that it fails to supply a peek at fight efficiency.
I’m not utilizing the very finest graphics card you should purchase for this testing, as an alternative I’m utilizing the identical Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 that we use for basic recreation settings exams. It’s a fantastic mid-range choice generally and, primarily based on this demo, it’ll make for a good selection for enjoying Black Fantasy: Wukong too.
Working Black Fantasy: Wukong on the Very Excessive preset that was chosen for me by default, and at 2,560 x 1,440, my gaming rig produced an 82fps common with a low of 73fps, and a excessive of 96fps. Aside from one main spike when first operating the check, the benchmark ran easily and was visually gorgeous each different time.
Issues solely obtained prettier when bumping as much as the Cinematic preset, the place the efficiency took a small hit and dropped to a 75fps common, due to a typically barely larger degree of settings comparable to shadow high quality, anti-aliasing, and consider distance. There have been no main spikes or drops, that means the minimal sat at an impressively excessive 63fps, whereas the utmost was 86fps.
Lastly, I ran the Cinematic preset one final time, however with ray tracing set to max settings. Right here is the place I anticipated my gaming PC to wrestle, however remarkably, the outcome was a 58fps common with lows of 48fps and highs of 72fps.
Every check was run with Nvidia DLSS set to High quality mode, which within the Black Fantasy: Wukong settings is represented as a sliding decision scale. It’s not doable to disable DLSS, FSR, or Intel XeSS, however you’ll be able to set them to their lowest doable setting. Body technology was additionally enabled in every check.
For context, my colleague additionally ran the benchmark at 4k with body technology disabled and DLSS set to DLAA (no upscaling, simply anti-aliasing), and an RTX 4070 Tremendous may ship a 25fps common, and that’s with out ray tracing, so clearly this recreation has the potential to significantly stress even high-end {hardware}. That mentioned, turning on body technology and this determine jumped straight as much as 40fps.
Whereas I used to be left impressed with the outcomes my gaming PC achieved within the benchmark, I’m left with questions over why the gorgeous fight sequences we’re seen in promotional materials are fully absent from the benchmark. It inherently raises the query of whether or not the sport’s efficiency will probably be fairly so constant when there’s fight concerned.
In case you love particular version graphics playing cards, take a look at this Black Fantasy: Wukong design from MSI, though sadly it seems you’ll be able to’t purchase one… but. Additionally, bear in mind you will get Black Fantasy Wukong without cost with sure new Nvidia GPU purchases.
