12 - Game Performance: Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: GRAW 2 | Race Driver GRID
Gaming: Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2
Don't mistake the PC version for being a port of the Xbox 360 game. The PC version has larger and different levels than those featured on the Xbox 360, as well as a different graphics engine and style of gameplay.
The game itself looks great and the intricate physics modeling seen in the single-player version is still active in the multiplayer version.
There are all sorts of other interactions you'll encounter in multiplayer.
For instance, aluminum cans litter the street and stepping on them not only kicks them around, but also creates a loud sound that may betray your presence to the enemy.
And here are the results done with the newer GRAW2. Image Quality settings:
- Edge Smoothing Anti Aliasing
- 16x anisotropic filtering
- Dynamic shadows HIGH
AMD always struggles in this test, and NVIDIA always has been really strong, even the 9800 GTX+ annihilating the 4870.
Gaming: Race Driver - GRID
Codemasters has released Race Driver: GRID, offering many Race events to compete in. Word is: "Charge a Ford Mustang GTR muscle car through the iconic streets of San Francisco, race a BMW 320Si in the Jarama Touring Car Race and drift around the docks of Yokohama in a Nissan Silvia S15. Race against 11 friends on your favorite track and test your mettle online or prove yourself in the single player game." GRID is a stunning game with great racing feel, but most of all .. excellent graphics.
Based on the Ultra image quality settings and to spice image quality up, we enabled 4xMSAA as well.
Image Quality Settings
- Ultra - everything maxed out
- 4x MSAA
Again a win for the 4870. Now you already noticed it I guess, if you are wondering why there are no 2560x1600 results. I blocked them out. We consistently see weird FPS behavior at that resolution, so I decided to remove these results completely until that bug has been squashed. Overall though, stunning framefrates.
