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Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Powered with a highly optimized Quake III engine, high detail settings and of course a heavy time-demo to get test results will will now use this software.

Powered by the Quake III Arena engine, the Wolfenstein universe explodes with the kind of epic environments, A.I., firepower and cinematic effects that only a game created by true masters can deliver. The dark reich's closing in. The time to act is now. Evil prevails when good men do nothing.

a highly decorated Army Ranger recruited into the Office of Secret Actions (OSA) tasked with escaping and then returning to Castle Wolfenstein in an attempt to thwart Heinrich Himmler's occult and genetic experiments. Himmler believes himself to be a reincarnation of a 10th century dark prince, Henry the Fowler, also known as Heinrich. Through genetic engineering and the harnessing of occult powers, Himmler hopes to raise an unstoppable army to level the Allies once and for all.

That being said, RTCW boasts very nice textures, impressive effects and fantastic character models. At this point not many videocards have been included in this specific comparison, there will be when time passes of course.

I admit, nothing much to look at as again we swapped this test with a new timedemo recently. Very few results right now yet it will give you a pretty good idea of what the card can handle. I must state though that RTCW is very CPU dependant. Let's take a look with 4x anti aliasing and 8x anisotropic filtering enabled. BTW the GeForce FX 5900 Ultra listed in the benchmark table is the NVIDIA reference design and the GeForce FX 5900 128 is Gainwards 128 MB GeForce FX 5900 (non Ultra).

The results are really good, even at 1600x1200x32 you'll be able to play the game without a hickup.