Game performance category

Action PC Performance Guides

58 game-specific calculators grouped by their main performance style.

How action games use PC hardware

Action games combine movement, combat, animation, effects, and often large environments. Their performance can shift quickly between quiet traversal, crowded fights, scripted set pieces, and fast camera movement.

Use these pages to compare realistic resolutions and presets, then verify the result in a repeatable demanding scene. Stable frame time matters as much as a high average when aiming, dodging, or moving through dense areas.

Busy combat

AI, physics, animation, and draw calls can expose CPU limits during large encounters.

Effects and resolution

Particles, reflections, shadows, and higher pixel counts can move the limit toward the GPU.

Fast movement

Rapid camera motion makes stutter and inconsistent frame pacing easier to notice.

Practical tuning

Reduce the heaviest effects one step at a time instead of lowering every setting together.

How to use these calculators

Open the game you actually plan to play, replace the preloaded example with your own CPU, GPU, resolution, and settings, then compare one change at a time. Read the estimate as a planning range rather than a promise.

Confirm the result with a repeatable in-game scene. Patches, drivers, cooling, laptop power limits, RAM configuration, background software, mods, and the selected map or save can all change measured performance.

58 linked guides

Action games

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Among Us

CPU sensitivity: Low · GPU sensitivity: Low · Planning memory: 4 GB

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Assassin's Creed Mirage

CPU sensitivity: Medium · GPU sensitivity: High · Planning memory: 16 GB

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Assassin’s Creed III Remastered

CPU sensitivity: High · GPU sensitivity: High · Planning memory: 16 GB

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Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag

CPU sensitivity: High · GPU sensitivity: High · Planning memory: 16 GB

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Assassin’s Creed Odyssey

CPU sensitivity: High · GPU sensitivity: High · Planning memory: 8 GB

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Assassin’s Creed Origins

CPU sensitivity: High · GPU sensitivity: High · Planning memory: 8 GB

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Assassin’s Creed Rogue

CPU sensitivity: High · GPU sensitivity: High · Planning memory: 16 GB

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Assassin’s Creed Shadows

CPU sensitivity: High · GPU sensitivity: Extreme · Planning memory: 16 GB

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Assassin’s Creed Syndicate

CPU sensitivity: High · GPU sensitivity: High · Planning memory: 16 GB

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Assassin’s Creed Unity

CPU sensitivity: High · GPU sensitivity: High · Planning memory: 16 GB

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Assassin’s Creed Valhalla

CPU sensitivity: High · GPU sensitivity: High · Planning memory: 16 GB

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Batman: Arkham City

CPU sensitivity: Medium · GPU sensitivity: Medium · Planning memory: 8 GB

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Batman: Arkham Knight

CPU sensitivity: Medium · GPU sensitivity: Medium · Planning memory: 8 GB

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Batman: Arkham Origins

CPU sensitivity: Medium · GPU sensitivity: Medium · Planning memory: 8 GB

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Chivalry 2

CPU sensitivity: Extreme · GPU sensitivity: Medium · Planning memory: 16 GB

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Deathloop

CPU sensitivity: High · GPU sensitivity: Medium · Planning memory: 16 GB

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Dishonored 2

CPU sensitivity: High · GPU sensitivity: Medium · Planning memory: 16 GB

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For Honor

CPU sensitivity: Extreme · GPU sensitivity: Medium · Planning memory: 16 GB

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Gears 5

CPU sensitivity: High · GPU sensitivity: High · Planning memory: 16 GB

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Gears of War 4

CPU sensitivity: High · GPU sensitivity: High · Planning memory: 16 GB

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Ghost of Tsushima Director’s Cut

CPU sensitivity: Medium · GPU sensitivity: High · Planning memory: 16 GB

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Grand Theft Auto IV

CPU sensitivity: High · GPU sensitivity: Low · Planning memory: 4 GB

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Grand Theft Auto V

CPU sensitivity: High · GPU sensitivity: Medium · Planning memory: 8 GB

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Grand Theft Auto VI

CPU sensitivity: High · GPU sensitivity: Extreme · Planning memory: 32 GB

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Hitman (2016)

CPU sensitivity: High · GPU sensitivity: High · Planning memory: 16 GB

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Hitman 2

CPU sensitivity: High · GPU sensitivity: High · Planning memory: 16 GB

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Hitman 3

CPU sensitivity: High · GPU sensitivity: High · Planning memory: 16 GB

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Just Cause 3

CPU sensitivity: Medium · GPU sensitivity: High · Planning memory: 16 GB

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Just Cause 4

CPU sensitivity: Medium · GPU sensitivity: High · Planning memory: 16 GB

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L.A. Noire

CPU sensitivity: Medium · GPU sensitivity: High · Planning memory: 16 GB

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Mafia II: Definitive Edition

CPU sensitivity: Medium · GPU sensitivity: High · Planning memory: 16 GB

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Mafia: Definitive Edition

CPU sensitivity: Medium · GPU sensitivity: High · Planning memory: 16 GB

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Mafia: The Old Country

CPU sensitivity: High · GPU sensitivity: Extreme · Planning memory: 16 GB

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Marvel’s Spider-Man 2

CPU sensitivity: High · GPU sensitivity: Extreme · Planning memory: 16 GB

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Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered

CPU sensitivity: High · GPU sensitivity: High · Planning memory: 16 GB

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Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales

CPU sensitivity: High · GPU sensitivity: High · Planning memory: 16 GB

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Max Payne 3

CPU sensitivity: Medium · GPU sensitivity: High · Planning memory: 16 GB

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Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes

CPU sensitivity: High · GPU sensitivity: Medium · Planning memory: 16 GB

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Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

CPU sensitivity: High · GPU sensitivity: Medium · Planning memory: 16 GB

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Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor

CPU sensitivity: Medium · GPU sensitivity: Medium · Planning memory: 8 GB

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Middle-earth: Shadow of War

CPU sensitivity: Medium · GPU sensitivity: Medium · Planning memory: 8 GB

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Mordhau

CPU sensitivity: Extreme · GPU sensitivity: Medium · Planning memory: 16 GB

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Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord

CPU sensitivity: Extreme · GPU sensitivity: Medium · Planning memory: 16 GB

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Mount & Blade: Warband

CPU sensitivity: Extreme · GPU sensitivity: Medium · Planning memory: 16 GB

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Prey (2017)

CPU sensitivity: High · GPU sensitivity: Medium · Planning memory: 16 GB

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Quantum Break

CPU sensitivity: High · GPU sensitivity: High · Planning memory: 16 GB

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Red Dead Redemption 2

CPU sensitivity: High · GPU sensitivity: High · Planning memory: 12 GB

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Ryse: Son of Rome

CPU sensitivity: High · GPU sensitivity: High · Planning memory: 16 GB

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Saints Row (2022)

CPU sensitivity: Medium · GPU sensitivity: High · Planning memory: 16 GB

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Saints Row IV

CPU sensitivity: Medium · GPU sensitivity: High · Planning memory: 16 GB

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Sea of Thieves

CPU sensitivity: Medium · GPU sensitivity: Medium · Planning memory: 8 GB

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Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition

CPU sensitivity: Medium · GPU sensitivity: High · Planning memory: 16 GB

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Sniper Elite 4

CPU sensitivity: High · GPU sensitivity: High · Planning memory: 16 GB

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Sniper Elite 5

CPU sensitivity: High · GPU sensitivity: High · Planning memory: 16 GB

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Sunset Overdrive

CPU sensitivity: High · GPU sensitivity: High · Planning memory: 16 GB

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Watch Dogs

CPU sensitivity: High · GPU sensitivity: High · Planning memory: 16 GB

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Watch Dogs 2

CPU sensitivity: High · GPU sensitivity: High · Planning memory: 16 GB

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Watch Dogs: Legion

CPU sensitivity: High · GPU sensitivity: High · Planning memory: 16 GB

Estimate notice

These pages provide internal comparison estimates, not live benchmark measurements. Use them to narrow options and plan tests, then verify the final setup with current independent benchmarks and your own repeatable gameplay check.