Rise of the Tomb Raider is a game that saw noticeable improvements via its post-release patches. So withour further ado, here are our top 10 most optimized PC games of 2016 (navigate the list via pages). These games almost made it to our Top 10 list, proving that 2016 was actually a great year (at least regarding the tech state of PC games). Ubisoft’s STEEP performs great on the PC platform, as do Dead Rising 4, Overwatch, Killer Instict, Titanfall 2 and Deus Ex: Mankind Divided. In short, we’re examining a game’s technical aspect, meaning that not only must the engine scale well on modern-day hardware, but the developer must also ensure that things like PC specific graphical features, PC technologies (like SLI and Crossfire) and PC controls are properly implemented.īelieve it or not, we had a lot of trouble picking only ten games. Yes yes, we got some really awful PC games in 2016 (like Dishonored 2 and Mafia III, however we also good some really stellar PC versions for a lot of triple-A games. A game that has been optimized for the PC is one that can scale on multiple CPU cores and multi-GPUs, that is not plagued by ‘console-ish’ side effects (like really low FOV, controller only on-screen indicators and mouse acceleration/smoothing issues), that packs a respectable amount of graphics options to adjust, and that – above all – looks and runs great on a variety of PC systems. As such, we are judging their final 2016 versions as some developers have released noteworthy patches for their titles that that improve overall performance and stability.Īs we’ve already stated, we judge games based on their PC performance optimizations. For this list, we tested all the games that were released in 2016 (and for which we had a PC Performance Analysis article). We know that a lot of you have been looking forward to our annual “Top 10 most optimized PC games” article.

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