About Star Swarm Stress Test

Application description

Experience Epic Scale Space Battles with Star Swarm Stress Test

Dive into the future of gaming with Star Swarm Stress Test, a real-time demonstration of Oxide Games' groundbreaking Nitrous engine. Witness breathtaking battles and scenes featuring entire armies and fleets clashing simultaneously, eliminating loading screen interruptions and off-screen abstractions. Prepare for an unparalleled experience in scale and immersion.

Originally developed as an internal stress test, Star Swarm showcases the Nitrous engine's capability to render thousands of individual units onscreen at once, each operating with independent physics, AI, pathfinding, and threat assessment. This free download offers a glimpse into the potential of next-generation game development.

The Nitrous engine's SWARM (Simultaneous Work and Rendering Model) technology delivers exceptional performance on modern multi-core hardware. SWARM unlocks unprecedented possibilities in real-time 3D rendering, enabling features like Object Space Lighting – a film industry technique – and the seamless handling of vast numbers of unique units.

Please note that Star Swarm is a dynamic simulation. The AI and other processes operate in real-time, leading to slight variations in results across multiple executions, even on identical hardware. Fully deterministic behavior in the Nitrous engine's highly threaded environment remains an unrealistic goal.

The Nitrous engine currently powers two games in development: an Oxide Games project (yet to be announced) and Stardock's Star Control reboot. Nitrous is also available for licensing to other game developers.

Download Star Swarm for free and witness the power of the next-generation Nitrous engine on your gaming PC. See it to believe it!

Key Features

Unprecedented Scale: Experience battles with over 10,000 units onscreen simultaneously, opening possibilities for colossal-scale games.
SWARM Technology: Unleash the full potential of your hardware with SWARM technology, maximizing CPU and GPU core utilization for unmatched performance.
Benchmark Mode: Evaluate your PC's performance with multiple benchmark runs. Star Swarm's dynamic simulation provides real-world gaming performance data for your system.
Film-Quality Rendering: Enjoy visually stunning graphics with Object Space Lighting and real-time film-quality motion blur, bringing cinema-level visuals to your gaming experience.