Supreme Commander will be available on the 20th of this month and if you are going to grab yourself a copy, keep in mind that this game is not even half as good with low quality settings as it is with high quality settings. Of course when the game is finally released, the game performance might be a little less taxing than what we have seen here today, though I very much doubt it. In fact I really believe that our results are some what conservative given we were never heavily engaged with the AI (Artificial Intelligence). With a rather limited amount of units on a small map I really do not believe we pushed this game anywhere near its limits.

Imagine a map two or three times bigger with more than twice as many players engaging in a non-stop battle. Surely this will be far more demanding when compared to the demo we tested here today. Another thing to keep in mind is that all our tests were run on a relatively high-end Core 2 Duo system with 2GB’s of DDR2 memory. While we are not going to test more platforms until the full version is released, it will be interesting to see how the GeForce 7900GS for example and even the GeForce 8800 GTX cards, handle themselves on slower platforms.

Back when we first looked at Company of Heroes the results were a little surprising and we found that with medium quality settings even a GeForce 7300GT paired with an Athlon64 3800+ processor could deliver reasonable performance. However, Supreme Commander is obviously a lot more demanding, as even the 7600GT was unable to handle medium quality settings. The performance differences between the 7900GS and X1950 Pro were very small as both graphics cards produced very similar results. Surprisingly, both were limited to 1024x768 with high quality settings enabled.