Game Settings
Prey has a few settings you can tweak out of the box to improve performance at the expense of graphical quality. Aside from the usual resolution options, Prey also allows you to adjust texture-quality settings and an assortment of check-box features.
As expected, resolution scales with performance. Expect to lose more than a few frames if you want to crank up the game to 1600x1200. Texture quality, however, did not affect the performance of our GeForce 7900 GTX (of course, this video card also had 512MB of RAM built in).
Of the check-box items, we found that the Glow, Shadows, and High-Quality Particle Detail options dropped performance the most. However, we advise keeping as many of these options enabled as these settings also add a great deal to the ambience of the game. If we had to rank them in order of what to eliminate first, we'd ditch Glow, then Shadows, followed closely by High-Quality Particle Detail. The other settings affected performance, but to a far lesser extent.
Resolution Performance Tests
(Longer bars indicate better performance)
Settings Performance Tests
(Longer bars indicate better performance)
Texture Quality Performance Tests
(Longer bars indicate better performance)
CPUs: Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800. Systems: Intel D975XBX, 1GB (512MB x 2) Corsair XMS DDR2 Memory, 160GB Seagate 7200.7 SATA Hard Disk Drive, Windows XP Professional SP2. Graphics Card: Nvidia GeForce 7900 GTX 512MB. Graphics Drivers: Nvidia ForceWare 91.31.
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