The Division 2 Performance Analysis – 15 Cards Tested!

Overview

The developers have done a stellar job here, which will no doubt put a thorn in the side of recently launched Anthem. Where the latter struggles, The Division 2 excels. This is loot-based team building gameplay that is as good as it gets. There’s a wealth of diversity to the in-game items, enemies and some fantastically put together set pieces. Overall, the game keeps progression and looting meaningful. At least, in the 30-hour campaign, there are scarcely any reasons to be bored.

Gameplay

The game is pretty familiar for those who’ve played the original. However, a change of location, a beef-up in the graphics, and some tidy revisions to the overall gameplay have amped up what was already a rather fantastic experience. Loot shooters are done to death, but in the mix, this one can stand proud with tight squad gameplay, great design, and the hours just melt away. Anthem and Destiny quickly got repetitive for me, but so far, The Division 2 is keeping me hooked.

Graphics

A fantastic near one-to-one reconstruction of Washington DC is pretty impressive. I haven’t been there myself, but it still looks pretty legit. Of course, with the first game mimicking New York, it’s great to see them keep a similar theme and pick a new city. The graphics are jaw-dropping at the best of times, and still fantastic at their world. Better still, good performance figures aren’t hard to attain.

Even the older RX570 punched above 60 FPS at 1080p. All cards we’re able to at least get near to 50-60 FPS at 1440p too. 4K was a demand though, with only the two top RTX cards breaking 60 FPS. However, that’s on the High profile, and some tweaking would get the likes of the GTX 1080 or VEGA 64 into that sweet 60 FPS zone easily enough.

High Frame Rates

The scaling on this game is quite interesting. Everything ran great at 1080p and 1440p High. However, 4K was much more demanding overall, even for high-end cards. Fortunately, the scaling of the graphics offers huge flexibility. For fidelity High works well, for those with spare FPS, Ultra is there too. However, dropping to medium settings can net both fantastic visuals, with hugely improved performance overall. For those of you who are gaming above 60 FPS, medium settings are the way forward for reaping those glorious 144Hz+ gains.

Meeting Expectations

Impressive graphics scaling, unlocked framerates, great resolution support and more. Ubisoft promised, and they delivered. Now if you’ll excuse me. I have to get back to playing The Division 2!