2023-11-02 12:14:35
This game under Unreal Engine 4, stripped of cutting-edge graphics technologies, poses no problem for the GeForce RTX 4090 in native 4K. On the other hand, the absence of shader preloading requires a few warm-up rounds!
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Between the Forza Motorsport “simcade” and The Crew: Motorfest – an alternative to Forza Horizon – racing game fans are spoiled at the end of 2023 and may already no longer know where to turn. Another proposition is about to present itself to them: EA Sports WRC. Available for a few hours for those who pre-ordered it, This officially licensed rally game from the FIA World Rally Championship will be more generally available tomorrow, November 3. If you have a powerful configuration, you should be able to take advantage of it in good conditions, although with one big downside.
The first tests carried out by John Papadopoulos of the DSOGaming site reveal that this EA Sports WRC runs at around 80fps in native UHD/Ultra with a GeForce RTX 4090 on a particularly demanding race. The configuration of our colleague mobilizes the flagship from NVIDIA associated with a Ryzen 9 7950X3D and is of course not representative of the average gamer’s machine, but it serves to evaluate how the latest productions work on the most efficient hardware of the moment; and 80 FPS in native 4K are rarely reached… This bodes well for playing in lower definitions with more common components.
Loading shaders directly during the race
The demonstration must nevertheless be put into perspective, since some users criticize the optimization, which they consider bad. Above all, as you will have noticed in the video, EA Sports WRC is not really a technological showcase, far from it. This title, developed by Codemasters, runs under Unreal Engine 4 ; so don’t expect to find EU 5-exclusive features like Nanite or Lumen. Additionally, there is no hint of ray tracing. You can therefore estimate that 80 frames per second with the best GPU of the moment for such rendering is not crazy. For the good points, note that the software offers both NVIDIA DLSS and AMD FSR.
In fact, the minimum and recommended configurations are not very high. All you need is an AMD Ryzen 5 2600X or Intel Core i5-9600K combined with an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 or Radeon RX Vega 56 graphics card; ideally, an AMD Ryzen 7 3700X or Intel Core i5-10600K coupled with a GeForce RTX 2070 or Radeon RX 5700 XT.
If the title works therefore seems to run rather well in 4K with state-of-the-art hardware and its requirements are modest on paper, it suffers from a shader compilation problem according to our colleague. EA Sports WRC not compiling shaders at launch but does it directly during the first races, which can lead to stuttering, a very annoying phenomenon in a racing game.
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