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.
We tested this title at 1920×1080 with the highest image quality settings.The GTX770 struggled with this particular engine at 2560×1600 with the same image quality settings.
Performance is acceptable with borderline results at these ultra high settings. The frame rate is generally smooth, but there are some environmental sections in the game when the frame rate drops close to the borderline at 25 frames per second.