Last Thoughts

Gamers can enjoy the Homeworld Remastered Drove with some fairly mundane hardware, which isn't too surprising for the polished version of a 12-year-one-time game. However, if yous intend to play huge multiplayer matches with hundreds if not thousands of ships, then y'all can expect some major slow downs on mid-range hardware.

Similar we said earlier, most of the mid-range graphics cards pushed higher up 100fps at 2560x1600 during the start of the game when you're collecting resources and building/researching ships. The loftier-cease cards went as high as 140fps and most of the lower-stop solutions were good for around 70fps through this relatively uneventful phase.

As the number of ships increased, all the same, frame rates slowly dropped. Afterward we reached a few hundred ships we were seeing lag with the low-stop and even mid-range hardware. Once our main boxing unfolded, frame rates fell to levels lower than what we bear witness in this review because we display averages and not the worst case scenario.

If y'all're happy to play with acceptable frames most of the time but tin can tolerate a slideshow of a boxing, and then yous should be fine to run Homeworld Remastered with relatively depression-cease hardware such equally the GTX 750 Ti or Hard disk drive 7850. All the same, if you desire smooth performance through sizeable battles, we recommend a R9 280X or GTX 770.

Ideally, you'll want a processor with iv threads. It was interesting to run across the Core i7-5960X, 4960X and 3930K perform so well. These processors characteristic a 20MB, 15MB and 12MB L3 cache, then possibly this was the key to the extra operation over the 8MB L3 cache i7-4770K. Unsurprisngly, nosotros also recommend Intel over AMD here.

Unfortunately, the FX range took a chirapsia in Homeworld Remastered, though we think this is because the game doesn't heavily utilize more than two cores. This is an old game that hasn't been designed or optimized for more than iv threads and that's bad news for AMD gamers. A Core i3 or i5 will deliver the best blindside for your buck.

Homeworld Remastered looks similar a respectable rehash of an erstwhile favorite and I can meet it providing many gamers with countless hours of fun. Now, what I wouldn't practise for a remastered Command & Conquer with multiplayer...