Digital Storm Bolt II: Devil’s Canyon Inside

Name: Digital Storm Bolt II: Devil’s Canyon Inside
Brand: Digital

by Joshua Gulick — Tuesday, October 14, 2014, 12:00 PM EDT

Developed by Relic Entertainment and published by Sega, Company of Heroes 2 is an online World War II real-time strategy game (RTS) that uses Relic’s Essence Engine 3.0 to create realistic, snowy battlefields. We ran this game’s benchmark at 1920x1200, 2560x1600, and 3840x2160 resolutions. We set the Anti-Aliasing setting to medium and Image Quality to Higher. All other settings were put on High.

Company of Heroes 2

DirectX 11 RTS Gaming Performance

The Bolt II handled Company of Heroes 2 like a champ, putting up the highest average frame rate among our comparison systems at the 1920x1200 resolution. At higher resolutions, the Bolt II settled into the ranks a bit, but still provided strong frame rates.

Tags: Intel, core i7, Asus, Valve, Digital Storm, 4k, Devil's Canyon

Joshua Gulick

Josh cut his teeth (and hands) on his first PC upgrade in 2000 and was instantly hooked on all things tech. He took a degree in English and tech writing with him to Computer Power User Magazine and spent years reviewing high-end workstations and gaming systems, processors, motherboards, memory and video cards. His enthusiasm for PC hardware also made him a natural fit for covering the burgeoning modding community, and he wrote CPU’s “Mad Reader Mod” cover stories from the series’ inception until becoming the publication editor for Smart Computing Magazine. A few years ago, he returned to his first love, reviewing smoking-hot PCs and components, for HotHardware. When he’s not agonizing over benchmark scores, Josh is either running (very slowly) or spending time with family.