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VGA performance: Tom Clancy's HAWX (DX10)

Tom Clancy's HAWX

We don't see many air combat games on the market these days and I sincerely don't know how many of you are still into classic flight sims. The famed Ace Combat series was nice. I did play the latest installment, Ace Combat 6, and I must say it has all the essentials of a decent arcadish-flavored flight game.

With HAWX we enter a new level. There are well over 50 planes in the game, each of which carries a destructive payload. You'll need it, as you'll engage multiple hostiles across a war-torn but still gorgeous looking terrain. However, you won't be alone, and you'll have the option of issuing orders to your squad mates, just like we are used to in the Ghost Recon series.

Visually, the game's impressive, especially when flying in close to cities, which really shows off the building details. But it's when the game pulls into the third-person perspective while you dog-fight that the game flaunts its visuals and you really see much of the environment. The genre of air combat games could finally see decent revival with Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X., and we like that... very much actually.

Tom Clancy's HAWX amazes me when it comes to originality, but more importantly... graphics wise it's quite a lovely game. For this game we selected the following image quality (IQ) settings. We locked our image quality settings to 4xAA, for ATI graphics and all DX11 cards, we enable DX10.1 mode.

  • 4xAA
  • 16xAF
  • ALL settings @ HIGH
  • All candy like HDR, DOF etc ON
  • DirectX 10/10.1 mode + Ambient Occlusion, sun shafts and shadows at HIGH

It is the most surprising thing really, where HAWX was 100% in favor of ATI, the tide has turned with the GTX 400 series, the GTX 470 is performing just really well here.

With so much brute power we see the GTX 480 nearly sodomizing the R5870 here as well. That is just very strong performance. Very nice.

You can look at these charts as performance VGA charts, per session. As stated, ATI cards dominate thanks to DX 10.1. Very good overall performance for HAWX.

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