Steambox Part 3 – Installing Windows 8.1 and General System Performance

By Dan Stoltz

Metro Last Light

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Metro: Last Light is a first-person shooter video game developed by Ukrainian studio 4A Games and published by Deep Silver. The game is set in a post-apocalyptic world and features action-oriented gameplay with a combination of survival horror elements. It uses the 4A Game engine and was released in May 2013.

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Metro: Last Light was benchmarked with very high image quality settings with the SSAA set to off and 16x AF. These settings are tough for entry level discrete graphics cards, but are more than playable on high-end gaming graphics cards. We benchmarked this game title on the Theater level.

Metro Last Light Benchmark Results

Benchmark Results: The Ultra Image Quality settings were once again to much for the hardware in the Steambox. At 1920×1080 the system was only able to average 26.86 frames per second. The system was even struggling at the medium image quality settings with an average of 42.63 frames per second at 1920×1080.