Hogwarts Legacy: Lines and Spells on PC Zing

When Hogwarts Legacy was announced, I knew there would be a lot of excitement at home. Our family is a fan of the world of Harry Potter and we have played through the LEGO version of this magical world perhaps a hundred times. Now armed with a Zing PC and the power of a Gainward GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER, I took the opportunity to revisit Hogwarts and test out the game. Developers at Avalanche Software used the Unreal Engine to create the game, allowing the game to benefit from a wide range of NVIDIA technologies to enhance its performance. I was wondering how DLSS and DLAA would impact performance in this magical world—and what kind of magic NVIDIA was actually doing.

DLAA | Source: Avalanche Software/Custom

DLSS quality | Source: Avalanche Software/Custom

DLSS balanced | Source: Avalanche Software/Custom

DLSS Performance | Source: Avalanche Software/Custom

DLSS Ultra Performance | Source: Avalanche Software/Custom

I tested Hogwarts Legacy at 1440p with Ultra Detail settings. In DLAA mode, the game reached 80 FPS, which is on the border of comfortable gaming. Interestingly, this is the first game in which I was unable to enable DLAA frame generation, which could certainly improve the resulting performance. However, as soon as I switched to DLSS in Quality mode, the difference was noticeable – the graphical quality was almost the same, but the FPS immediately increased to a pleasant 130 FPS. Switching to Balanced only added about 10 FPS, while switching to the lower Performance and Ultra Performance qualities added another 10 FPS, bringing performance closer to 150 FPS.

RTX ON/OFF

Frame generation here brings a significant improvement – in DLSS Quality mode FPS increased from 130 to an average of 165, in Balanced to 175 and in Performance to almost 200 FPS. Additionally, thanks to NVIDIA Reflex, the latency that would otherwise increase during frame generation is well controlled, so the game runs smoothly and without lag.

RTX ON/OFF

However, if we switch to ray tracing, the visuals of the game will improve significantly, but the FPS will suffer significantly. In DLAA mode without frame generation I get a low 45fps. When you enable DLSS in Quality and Frame Generation mode, FPS will reach higher values ​​around the 100 FPS mark. Switching to Balanced adds another 20 FPS, which is optimal – the Higher Performance and Ultra Performance modes increase FPS even more, but at the cost of a drop in graphics quality. As a result, the game becomes grainy and reflections don’t look very good because the game is clearly trying to get too much out of the low resolution. But ray tracing adds a new dimension to the game, not only through reflections but also improved shadows.

But overall, Hogwarts Legacy runs great on PC Zing, which any fan of the wizarding world will appreciate. Additionally, the game will likely receive new in-game content soon and is currently on sale on Steam – a great opportunity for anyone looking to relive Hogwarts.