Black and White 2 v.1.2 Performance Update

Black and White 2 v1.1 vs. v1.2 Performance

We were interested to see what kind of performance difference there is between the 1.1 and 1.2 patch, so we tested the highest end cards from both ATI and NVIDIA with both patches. We ran the benchmark at 4 different resolutions, with AA enabled. Here are the results, starting with NVIDIA.





As the graphs show, there isn't a significant difference in framerates between the two patches for this card. This basically means that the 1.2 update doesn't really affect performance for NVIDIA cards.





On the X1900 however, we see that there is a marked improvement in all resolutions with the 1.2 patch, and while the 7900 GTX formerly outperformed the X1900 XTX in the previous patch, it now lags slightly behind the ATI card. While the difference isn't that great between the X1900 XTX and 7900 GTX, ATI's performance gain between patches is good news for any ATI owners with this game.

Now let's look at the general performance tests.