Game:

Quantum Break (2016)

Duration: 10:57

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After the disastrous PC port of a recent Xbox Exclusive Redfall and coming from a game studio that is known for great games and ports, like Prey 2017, a revisit to Quantum Break's PC Port reminds us how some older games still do some things better than games released in 2023. While Quantum Break did hammer PCs, especially when using the Microsoft Store version of the game which run terribly on Maxwell in dx12, it did offer incredible visuals for the time, using techniques like Global Illumination and Volumetric Lighting, along with some temporal reconstruction upscaler (like FSR 2 but far worse).

Finding optimized settings was pretty easy as the game doesn't need any sort of restarting when changing quality settings. The game lighting looks really good as Global Illumination, Volumetric Lighting and especially Effects are implemented perfectly. What lacks in the quality department is animation quality and lip-sync, BUT that's to be expected as games of that era didn't do great either.


How to Disable Motion Blur and Depth of Field
https://community.pcgamingwiki.com/files/file/2162-quantum-break-motion-blur-and-depth-of-field-disabler/

PC Wiki for Quantum Break (Source for most stuff in the video)
https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Quantum_Break

Why DX11 (Steam Version) is better than DX12 (Microsoft store version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PK55-kCviA


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Time Stamps
00:00 Intro
00:50 How to disable Motion Blur
01:30 In Search for Optimized Settings
01:40 Anti-Aliasing Comparison ON vs OFF (TAA)
01:53 Upscaling Method Explained (How it works)
02:10 Upscaling Comparison ON vs OFF
02:24 Global Illumination Quality Comparison Medium vs High
02:30 Volumetric Lighting High vs Ultra
02:35 Why it costs so much
02:53 Optimized Settings Conclusion
03:04 Benchmark


Driver version used : 531.79
Windows 11 22H2

My PC Specs
CPU : AMD RYZEN 7 2700 Overclocked to 3.95 GHz at 1.275V
Cooler : Noctua NH-D15 Chromax Black
GPU : Gigabyte GTX 1060 WINDFORCE OC 3G / Custom Overclock 2100Mhz/1.081mV Core & 4520Mhz Mem
PSU : CORSAIR HX750 80 PLUS Platinum
RAM : G.Skill Aegis 16GB DDR4 RAM (2x8GB) at 3200 MT/s
Motherboard : B450M Steel Legend
SSD 1 : Samsung 960 Evo 500GB Sata
SSD 2 : Kingston NV2 SSD 1TB M.2 NVMe PCI Express 4.0
Case : COOLER MASTER MASTERCASE H500 GUNMETAL ARGB
OS : Windows 11 Pro

Game installed on a Kingston NV2 SSD 1TB M.2 NVMe PCI Express 4.0

Game was played using a Dualsense Controller using DSX