Game performance - Brothers in Arms Hell's Highway
Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway
Hells Highway, another WWII shooter some might say. But in reality the setting of war is really just a vehicle for Gearbox to tell the storyline of a Band of Brothers which is led by you, Sergeant Matt Baker, as they deal with the madness and consequences of war. The game tells the story of Operation Market Garden in the country yours truly lives, in the Netherlands (aka Holland). It's about the besieged journey from Eindhoven to Arnhem where tremendous battles were fought.
Exactly that road, Highway 69; the road from Eindhoven to Arnhem was later nicknamed: Hell's Highway.
On of the most impressive details is that the area of Operation Market garden was completely reconstructed by historical documents and images. It's uncanny to see and experience the design of 1944 Holland. Even now in 2008 you can still see striking similarities from our country. Street signs, building structures, clothing and even the clinker bricks on the roads dispense a true authentic mood. This reviewer is Dutch, so what level would be more appropriate than one of the starting levels, in a field in the Netherlands, moving towards a large windmill ahead of us. Lot's of geometry is to be found here and in fact one of the more complex scenes to render for the GPU. Yes, welcome to Holland.
Since the graphics engine of this game can deal with a lot, we opt for the best image quality available in-game.
Now this is why I only wanted a maximum four processor results in the each chart, things can start to look messy and confusing real fast.
What's interesting to see is that in the lower resolutions Core i7 920 has a small performance advantage. And in the higher resolutions the Phenom II. We'll see this more today. The AMD 790 chipset shows a lot of potential here.
Once we overclock we see that BIA definitely likes faster clocked Phenom II processors. I did not include it in the results, but overclocked the Phenom II X4 940 @ 3.8 GHz would smack around the Core i7 920 performance wise.
But then again... that one can be overclocked as well. Aaah, the never-ending circle I guess ;)
