Much like Shadows, Water Reflections are a huge performance hit on Ultra. We've opted for a priority score of 3 for Water Reflections quite simply because Medium is all that's really necessary unless you want to minutely compare the differences. Ultra feels like a needless performance compared to High or Medium, so it's best to settle somewhere in the middle for optimal frame rates in Planet Zoo. Tread carefully with this one then, as pretty much every individual object has a shadow rendered.
Shadows is probably the graphics option which has the single biggest impact on visual quality in Planet Zoo but it's also the biggest performance hit. Provided you have enough, there will be no performance impact. This graphics setting is pretty much solely dependent on the available VRAM on your graphics card. This quite simply affects the resolution of textures rendered in Planet Zoo. Taking the top-down management view you won't really see the effect of this graphics setting, but zoom right on in to your menagerie of animals and this graphics setting can make a big difference to Planet Zoo's visual quality without a noticeable FPS hit. It is very much distinct from Textures Resolution though, in that we're dealing with things a lion's fur, or a chameleon's leathery skin. Materials affects the quality of the various material surfaces in Planet Zoo. Now this one took us quite a while to figure out but it's actually quite an important one. It's a nice middle ground but it's noticeably lower quality than native TAA. There is a half-step setting which uses upscaling. Temporal Antialiasing, or TAA, dramatically reduces pixelated edges, or 'jaggies'. This is the only form of antialiasing to be found in Planet zoo and, suffice to say, we recommend you turn it on despite the performance. The most notable graphics settings in Planet Zoo are Temporal AA, Shadows, Water Reflections, Screen Space Reflections, and Geometry Detail, all of which cause double-digit percentage frame rate hits when shifting from Low to Ultra. Planet Zoo less so, but it's still occasionally hitting 100% usage across all cores on an Intel Core i7-5820K 4.3 GHz.Ī fast CPU and graphics card means faster performance (although there is a frustrating performance ceiling), and there are a number of key graphics settings which can be tweaked to encourage a more stable frame rate. Planet Coaster is an absolute performance. Planet Zoo is still very taxing, although it's notably less CPU-heavy than Planet Coaster. We're dealing with Aardvark exhibits here, rather looping inverted rollercoasters which stretch off into oblivion. However, Planet Zoo tends to be on a smaller scale.
At a glance you can see which are the most demanding graphics settings and will therefore most impact your frame rate in Planet Zoo.īeing a successor of sorts to Planet Coaster, Planet Zoo looks and runs much the same as its theme park brethren.
The further right the bar goes, the more demanding the graphics option is when switching from Low (or Off) to Ultra. Planet Zoo Graphics Options Performance Breakdown We tested a medium-sized zoo with all the facilities which would stress each of these graphics settings as best as possible. Planet Zoo System Requirements Planet Zoo Benchmarksįor the benchmark results below we used a AMD Radeon R7 370 2GB, an Intel Core i7-5820K 6-Core 4.2GHz, and 16GB DDR4 memory. This allows you to see, at a glance, where the performance hits are going to come from, as well as which graphics settings we think you should enable (high priority score) and those which you can leave on Low (low priority score). We've benchmarked each graphics option in Planet Zoo, recording the average frame rate (FPS) in order to determine the performance cost of enabling each of these graphical features. It's out now, on PC, although it's certainly no slouch to run. From Frontier Developments (RollerCoaster Tycoon 3, Planet Coaster), Planet Zoo is a zoological management sim with the sort of depth we've never seen before. Salutations animal lovers (or haters, depending on your view of cages)! Red Dead may be swallowing up the headlines but a little gem known as Planet Zoo happened to launch on the same day.
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