Sleeping Dogs started development as an original title, but was announced in 2009 as True Crime: Hong Kong, the third installment and a reboot of the True Crime series. As a result of the game’s high development budget and delays, it was canceled by Activision Blizzard in 2011. Six months later, it was announced that Square Enix had picked up the publishing rights to the game, but the game was renamed Sleeping Dogs in 2012 since Square Enix did not purchase the True Crime name rights.
This game is still a system killer at these maximised settings. We test at 1920×1080 and 2560×1600.
The Sapphire R280X Toxic Edition takes second place behind the GTX780 at 1920×1080. The position reverses however when we increase the resolution to 2560×1600 thanks to improved minimum frame rates.