Destroy All Human PC Performance Review and Optimisation Guide

Conclusion

Destroy All Humans is a game that’s incredibly accessible on PC, hardware-wise, can run well on modest systems and has enough graphical settings to make the game playable on some incredibly old graphics cards. 

With popular graphics cards like AMD’s RX 580 and Nvidia’s GTX 1060, 1440p 60FPS framerates are possible with a few minor settings tweaks, and 1080p 60 FPS average framerates are possible at maxed-out game settings. With this in mind, anyone with a gaming-oriented system should be able to play Destroy All Humans with relative ease. 

While the game does require an RTX 2080 Ti to stay at over 60 FPS at 4K in all situations, large performance increases are possible with a few minor settings changes. On our RTX 2060, as you can see on page 5, a 38% increase in average framerate is possible by lowering Post-Processing from Ultra to High, and doing the same with Shadow QUality will yield a 9% boost. That’s a performance boost of almost 50% at 4K with two lowered graphical settings. That’s enough to get average framerate on an RTX 2060 over 60 FPS. 

Strangely there is an issue with Destroy All Humans’ settings with make Post Processing’s Normal Setting more demanding than the game’s High Setting, thanks to Normal’s use of Ambient Occlusion. This settings oddity was present on all graphics cards that we tested, making this appear to be a game-level issue. This issue may be addressed with a future game patch.

Some PC gamers may be annoyed at Destroy All Humans’ 120Hz framerate cap on the platform, but the reasoning behind this decision is simple. It increases framerate stability. Manually unlocking Destroy All Humans’ framerate can cause stuttering, as framerates over 120 FPS are hard to maintain, and a solid 120Hz plays a lot better than playing the game at higher framerates with little stability. 

If you want some nostalgic fun with this PS2-era remake, Destroy All Humans is a fun title. Just remember that this game plays like a remake, so do not expect to see many aspects of so-called “modern” game design. Some levels will feature huge difficulty spikes, and others will almost be too easy. Remember that this game is only £24.99 on Steam. Expect a fun game, not a masterpiece. 

Destroy All Humans runs well on PC, features satisfying visuals and scales well to a variety of hardware configurations. Most PC gamers shouldn’t have trouble running Destroy All Humans, and those that do should look at our optimisation page to see which settings have the most performance impact.

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