Creative Labs 3D Blaster 5 FX5900 Review - Page 10 - Return to Castle Wolfenstein

Return to Castle Wolfenstein

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.

Again, we can see some really nice numbers. Although marginal, the 5950 stays ahead of them all, yet compared to it's older brother the 5900 Ultra, the difference is nothing. Creative's 5900 is again doing really impressive numbers as it's equal to the 9800 Pro. Let's observe the score with quality settings.

Again really good performance, the 5950 Ultra remains on top of the list and again, the 5700 Ultra is a hoot with such quality settings and the 5900 is in-between them, with a resolution of 1600x1200 it still manages to push out 69 frames per second. If you don't believe in memory bandwidth limitation, have a look at the overclock results, nice.