Homeworld 3 has spent many years in development but at long last, the third game in the 3D RTS series is now available. As with all such games in this genre, pitching dozens of spacecraft against each other—with missiles and laser beams everywhere—can get pretty demanding on your PC hardware, especially on your CPU. So it makes a pleasant change to a new game that runs quite happily on low-spec components, even ones that are six years old.
Doing a full performance analysis of a game isn't easy. Well, it isn't, but also is. Let me explain. To check out how Homeworld 3 ran on a gaming PC involved doing four or five runs of the built-in benchmark and the same again for the game's single-player mode and multiplayer maps. That gets repeated for the three primary gaming resolutions (1080p, 1440p, and 4K), along with all of the quality presets.
