This highlights an interesting point, namely that native rendering resolution is only one factor that defines in-game image quality, and it's not always the most important. The more significant issue is actually the lack of decent anisotropic filtering - textures are blurred at oblique angles. The reduced pixel-count alone can't explain anything up to a 3x improvement in frame-rate.Īnd the good news is that Lichdom Battlemage still manages to look reasonably clean at the reduced resolution. While the resolution drop certainly has a positive effect on performance, it's clear that a lot of additional optimisation was carried out as well. So how has the developer managed to produce such an enormous boost to performance? One of the sacrifices concerns resolution - both games now operate at 1600x900 as opposed to the full 1080p of the original release.
Don't believe us? Take a look for yourself: Lichdom sees enormous performance improvements, and a pretty solid experience on Xbox One at least. There's also some intrusive hitching and stuttering that seems to crop up regularly during gameplay, and this really needs addressing. Of course, this is a substantial improvement over the original game, which could drop as low as 12fps, but the experience still feels sub-par. This leads to situations where you're getting nearly 60fps in less demanding areas while still dropping into the mid-20s during major battles. PlayStation 4 doesn't fare quite as well - the boost in performance is massive, but the frame-rate is completely uncapped and highly inconsistent. You'll still run into some light tearing here and there but it's now one of the best-performing CryEngine games on Xbox One. On Xbox One, the game is now capped at 30fps with an adaptive v-sync solution in place and actually manages to maintain its target frame-rate nicely.
It's a miraculous save that seemed out of reach at the time of release, but there's no doubting that some serious optimisation work has yielded remarkable results.
That's right, Lichdom Battlemage has been completely renewed with a monumental performance boost across the board. In fact, there's a night and day improvement. A couple of months on, a patch designed to address these problems was released and we can confirm that the game is much, much better now. It launched on consoles in April with an average frame-rate under 15fps.
It's hard to think of a game with a more infamous reputation than Lichdom Battlemage.
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