From our Dawn of War II: Chaos Rising review:
“The much improved single-player campaign remains great fun for its eight hour duration (excluding the painfully tedious final battle), and the continued emphasis on both tight, squad based combat and special abilities delivers a strategy experience that’s still refreshingly unique despite the unwieldy size of the fiction. Add in the chance to play as the Chaos faction in multiplayer matches, a bunch of new multiplayer maps for all Dawn of War 2 players and some new game modes and Chaos Rising proves to be a pretty generous addition to the original.”
Like the original Dawn of War II, Chaos Rising is based on the Essence 2.0 engine, and has DX10 features. We run the game with Ultra image quality, and use the updated built-in benchmark. However, we still use FRAPs to measure the frame rate, as the game’s figures are unreliable. We repeat each test three times, discarding anomalous results and averaging the consistent ones.
Dawn of War II: Chaos Rising
1,680 x 1,050 0xAA 16xAF, DirectX 10, Maximum Detail
ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB
Nvidia GeForce GTX 295 2GB
ATI Radeon HD 5970 2GB
ATI Radeon HD 5850 1GB
Nvidia GeForce GTX 285 1GB
Nvidia GeForce GTX 480 1.5GB
Nvidia GeForce GTX 470 1.3GB
76
40
76
40
76
34
76
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76
32
76
30
76
30
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Dawn of War II: Chaos Rising
1,680 x 1,050 4xAA 16xAF, DirectX 10, Maximum Detail
Nvidia GeForce GTX 285 1GB
Nvidia GeForce GTX 480 1.5GB
Nvidia GeForce GTX 470 1.3GB
Nvidia GeForce GTX 295 2GB
ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB
ATI Radeon HD 5970 2GB
ATI Radeon HD 5850 1GB
74
37
73
30
71
30
70
25
73
25
70
21
70
21
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Minimum
Dawn of War II: Chaos Rising
1,920 x 1,200 0xAA 16xAF, DirectX 10, Maximum Detail
Nvidia GeForce GTX 285 1GB
ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB
Nvidia GeForce GTX 480 1.5GB
ATI Radeon HD 5970 2GB
Nvidia GeForce GTX 470 1.3GB
ATI Radeon HD 5850 1GB
Nvidia GeForce GTX 295 2GB
75
39
74
34
73
29
73
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71
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74
27
71
24
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Dawn of War II: Chaos Rising
1,920 x 1,200 4xAA 16xAF, DirectX 10, Maximum Detail
Nvidia GeForce GTX 295 2GB
Nvidia GeForce GTX 480 1.5GB
Nvidia GeForce GTX 470 1.3GB
ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB
Nvidia GeForce GTX 285 1GB
ATI Radeon HD 5850 1GB
ATI Radeon HD 5970 2GB
73
30
69
29
68
24
71
21
61
20
63
17
62
16
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Minimum
Dawn of War II: Chaos Rising
2,560 x 1,600 0xAA 16xAF, DirectX 10, Maximum Detail
Nvidia GeForce GTX 295 2GB
Nvidia GeForce GTX 480 1.5GB
ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB
Nvidia GeForce GTX 470 1.3GB
ATI Radeon HD 5970 2GB
ATI Radeon HD 5850 1GB
Nvidia GeForce GTX 285 1GB
72
26
68
21
66
21
59
18
56
16
57
16
53
15
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Dawn of War II: Chaos Rising
2,560 x 1,600 4xAA 16xAF, DirectX 10, Maximum Detail