Company of Heroes Performance Guide

Settings

We didn’t have enough time to iterate through all the possible setting combinations, but we did run through two sets of numbers that help to show how much each setting affects performance. The first set of tests shows how Company of Heroes performs with only one setting maximized at a time. Frame rates are higher in these these tests since almost all of the settings are disabled.

The second set of numbers show how the game performs with all settings maxed out. From there, we disabled one setting at a time while leaving all the other settings at maximum to see how much each individual setting affected performance levels with everything enabled. If you disable Model and Shader Quality you will see enormous performance gains, but image quality will suffer greatly because the game won't let you turn on many other settings. The Post Processing, Reflections, and Effects Fidelity settings all seemed to erode performance to a large degree. You also might want to keep an eye on the texture settings if you have a weak graphics card.

All Settings Off

(Longer bars indicate better performance)

All Settings Off

Model Detail Slider High, Rest Settings Off

Model Quality High, Rest Settings Off

Effects Density Ultra, Rest Settings Off

Shader Quality High, Rest Settings Off

Building Detail High, Rest Settings Off

Tree Quality High, Rest Settings Off

Object Scarring On, Rest Settings Off

Terrain Detail High, Rest Settings Off

Reflections High, Rest Settings Off

Effects Fidelity High, Rest Settings Off

Post Processing On, Rest Settings Off

1280x1024

All Settings Off

195

Model Detail Slider High, Rest Settings Off

193

Model Quality High, Rest Settings Off

192

Effects Density Ultra, Rest Settings Off

189

Shader Quality High, Rest Settings Off

148

Building Detail High, Rest Settings Off

147

Tree Quality High, Rest Settings Off

147

Object Scarring On, Rest Settings Off

146

Terrain Detail High, Rest Settings Off

135

Reflections High, Rest Settings Off

126

Effects Fidelity High, Rest Settings Off

126

Post Processing On, Rest Settings Off

116

Maximum Settings

(Longer bars indicate better performance)

Model Quality Low, Rest at Max

Shader Quality Low, Rest at Max

Post Processing Off, Rest at Max

Terrain Detail Low, Rest at Max

Reflections Low, Rest at Max

Effects Fidelity Low, Rest at Max

Model Detail Slider Low, Rest at Max

Building Detail Low, Rest at Max

Tree Quality Low, Rest at Max

Object Scarring Off, Rest at Max

Physics Off, Rest at Max

Effects Density Low, Rest at Max

All Settings at Maximum

1280x1024

Model Quality Low, Rest at Max

180

Shader Quality Low, Rest at Max

180

Post Processing Off, Rest at Max

73

Terrain Detail Low, Rest at Max

71

Reflections Low, Rest at Max

70

Effects Fidelity Low, Rest at Max

70

Model Detail Slider Low, Rest at Max

66

Building Detail Low, Rest at Max

64

Tree Quality Low, Rest at Max

64

Object Scarring Off, Rest at Max

64

Physics Off, Rest at Max

63

Effects Density Low, Rest at Max

63

All Settings at Maximum

63

Resolution Performance Tests

(Longer bars indicate better performance)

800x600

1024x768

1280x1024

1600x1200

2048x1536

Ultra Settings

800x600

100

1024x768

81

1280x1024

63

1600x1200

45

2048x1536

30

System Setup: AMD Athlon 64 FX-60 CPU @ 2.8GHz, Asus A8N32 SLI Deluxe, 1GB (512MB x 2) Corsair XMS Memory, 160GB Seagate 7200.7 SATA Hard Disk Drive, Windows XP Professional SP2. Graphics Cards: GeForce 7900 GTX 512MB. Graphics Drivers: Nvidia Forceware 91.47.