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VGA performance: Tom Clancy HAWX 2 (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 -- for this game we selected the following image quality (IQ) settings. We locked our image quality settings to 4x AA, for ATI graphics cards we will enable DX10.1 mode.

  • 4x AA
  • 16x AF
  • ALL settings @ HIGH
  • All candy like HDR, DOF etc ON
  • DirectX 10/10.1 mode + Ambient occlusion, sun shafts and shadows at HIGH

Very little to say really. Performance is on par with Vista, oh and can I just add that the new 190.38 WQHL driver works wonders, performance increased quite a bit over previous drivers.

And then the Radeon HD 4890 and 4870 X2. Both also show stable and, performance wise, very similar results when you compare both operating systems.

A great game, and again no stability issues were spotted with Windows 7.

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