Editor’s Word: 2K supplied a evaluation copy of Lego 2K Drive for PC and Dell India supplied Dell Alienware X15 R2 for long-term efficiency testing to IGN India.
Lego 2K Drive is now accessible on for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox Sequence X and S, Xbox One and PC. Developed by Visible Ideas and printed by 2K, the sport launched worldwide on April 19. The sport will take you, a racer, on an journey within the Lego world of Bricklandia as you compete for various cups. On this journey, you possibly can compete in opposition to different gamers, or just benefit from the panorama within the story mode.
Forward of the worldwide launch, IGN India obtained a evaluation copy of Lego 2K Drive. We examined the sport on the Dell Alienware X15 R2 to see the way it performs at launch. For context, X15 R2 is provided with the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Ti GPU and Intel Core i7- 12700H CPU. Right here’s extra on our expertise of enjoying the Lego 2K Drive on the Dell Alienware X15 R2.
System Specs of the Dell Alienware X15 R2
Earlier than we deal with the efficiency of the sport, let’s revisit the entire specs sheet of the X15 R2. This offers you some concept about what to anticipate from the sport efficiency part. Right here is the entire specs checklist.
- Mannequin: Alienware x15 R2
- Show: 15.6-inch FHD (1920×1080), 360Hz Refresh Fee
- Processor: twelfth gen Intel Core i7-12700H (14 cores, 20 threads) 24MB cache, As much as 4.70 GHz Clock Velocity throughout Turbo increase.
- Graphics: Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Ti GPU with 8GB GDDR6
- Reminiscence: 32GB LPDDR5 5200 MT/s
- OS: Home windows 11 Dwelling
- Storage: 1TB M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD
- Webcam: 720p
- Ports: 1x USB 3.2 Gen 1 port with PowerShare, 1x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Sort-C port with DisplayPort and Energy Supply, 1x Thunderbolt 4 port with DisplayPort and Energy Supply, 1x Common Audio Jack, 1x HDMI 2.1 port, 1x MicroSD card slot
- Connectivity: Wi-Fi 6 (6E Pre-certified) AX1675 802.11ax 2×2 Wi-fi LAN and Bluetooth 5.2
- Dimensions: 14.16 × 10.91 × 0.626-inches (W x D x H)
- Weight: 2.35 kg
Advised System Necessities for the sport
Take a look at the system necessities for PC that 2K has instructed to run the sport easily.
Minimal:
- Requires a 64-bit processor and working system
- OS: Home windows 10 64-bit, Home windows 11 64-bit
- Processor: Intel Core Intel i5 4690 / AMD Ryzen 5 1500X or higher
- Reminiscence: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia 960 2GB / AMD R9 380 or higher
- DirectX: Model 12
- Community: Broadband Web connection
- Storage: 12 GB accessible area
- Sound Card: DirectX 9.0x appropriate sound card
Really helpful:
- Requires a 64-bit processor and working system
- OS: Home windows 10 64-bit
- Processor: Intel Core i7-4790 / AMD Ryzen 5 3500 or higher
- Reminiscence: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia GeForce 1070 4GB / AMD RX Vega-56 or higher
- DirectX: Model 12
- Community: Broadband Web connection
- Storage: 12 GB accessible area
- Sound Card: DirectX 9.0x appropriate sound card
The Dell Alienware X15 R2 fulfills each the minimal and really helpful parameters of the sport. Let’s examine how Lego 2K Drive performs in the actual world.
Testing Lego 2K Drive in numerous modes
Lego 2K Drive doesn’t supply complete customization choices for the graphics facet of the sport. There are solely few toggles accessible together with completely different DirectX modes. We ran the sport at 120 FPS which is the utmost refresh charge possibility accessible and carried out the assessments in each DirectX modes.
Throughout the first run, we centered performed the sport in DirectX 12 mode and the second, we tried the DirectX 11 mode. Right here is the way it carried out in each these modes.
Understanding the assessments
Let’s perceive what “1% Low Common” and “0.1% Low Common” imply within the image above. 1% Low is a metric that represents 1% of the frames of your complete length of our gaming session, which recorded the bottom body charges per second. 0.1% low refines issues additional, to offer us the bottom 0.1% of the frames from everything of our gaming session, with the least framerates per second.
Efficiency of the sport
When in DirectX 11, the sport runs at a excessive common FPS of 80.8. Even the 1% Lows are at a mean of 45 FPS and 0.1% Low common was 29.9 FPS. As these values spotlight, there was hardly any stuttering or lag that I observed. Enjoying the sport on the Dell Alienware X15 R2, was a easy expertise.
Nevertheless, in DirectX 12 mode, whereas the typical FPS stayed comparable, the 0.1 Low common and 1% Low common, dropped to 10.2 and 26.4 respectively. The sport did noticeably stutter a couple of times, however it didn’t matter a lot within the warmth of the second. Total efficiency was satisfying for me. However, contemplating the much less advanced nature of the sport, I anticipated higher efficiency from the laptop computer and the sport.
| Graphics API Modes | DirectX 11 | DirectX 12 |
|---|---|---|
| Common FPS | 80.8 | 78.7 |
| 1% Low Common FPS | 45 | 26.4 |
| 0.1% Low Common FPS | 29.9 | 10.2 |
Thermals
The Dell Alienware X15 R2 persistently thermal throttles whereas gaming with temperatures peaking at 109-degree Celsius. It’s value noting that I positioned the laptop computer in a sufficiently ventilated and funky area whereas gaming when these temperatures had been recorded. Regardless, this may pose a difficulty to some gamers when enjoying racing video games like Lego 2K Drive.
It’s attainable that you could be additionally really feel some portion of the warmth whereas urgent down on sure keys throughout prolonged gaming periods. We double checked with Dell to verify that this working temperature is regular for a skinny package deal just like the X15 R2.
Verdict
Summing up, enjoying Lego 2K Drive on the Alienware X15 R2 has been painless if I ignore the thermal state of affairs. Even whereas taking the thermal efficiency under consideration, the visible and graphics high quality, the smoothness and the audio efficiency, the general expertise was very satisfying and fulfilling. I don’t keep in mind registering any main efficiency points past some minor stutters all through the length of the sport. Nevertheless, we did hope for some greater tier of efficiency from the {hardware} this laptop computer options contemplating the extent of this recreation.
