PES 2011 PC Demo, Performance & High-Resolution Screenshots

What a great day today. Konami has just released the demo of their soccer franchise, Pro Evolution Soccer. Yes soccer fans, PES 2011 demo is finaly with us and you can download it from here. We won't discuss if it's a good game or not. After all, you can find out for yourselves. Instead we'll see how well it performs, how to enable SLI and some high resolution screenshots.

Let's get one thing straight. PES2011 is not demanding at all. In our test system (Q6600, 4GB DDR2 and a GTX295) the game was running amazingly with constant 60fps at 2048x1536. The game engine takes advantage of multicores as we can see bellow, although the overall CPU usage was around 50-60%. This clearly shows that Pro Evolution Soccer 2011 doesn't need a really high-end CPU to shine.

It doesn't also tax the GPU at all. Even at that high resolution with high details, the GPU usage was only 40%. We tried to force the AA through the CP, but it didn't work. As there isn't any SLI profile for this game yet (even in the latest ForceWare 260.63 Beta), you can enable it by renaming the executable file to "pes2010.exe".


We should also note that there is already a tweak tool for the demo. With this tool you can change the playtime, the camera position and the game resolution. You can find it here with some installation instructions.
 
So now that you know how well it performs, download it and test it. We are really looking forward to Fifa's 11 demo that will also be released today. Stay tuned for more and enjoy the following high resolution screenshots of PES 2011.