13 - Game Performance: S.t.a.l.k.e.r. Clear Sky | F.e.a.r.

Gaming: S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Clear Sky

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky is a survival FPS game for PC based on a 'what-if' scenario of the second Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant accident. The game is created as a warning to mankind against mindless play with technologies. S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky is the official prequel to the renowned S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game by the Ukraine-based GSC Game World studio. The game is set in 2011 and brings forth the events to have preceded the third campaign of Strelok to the Zone center. S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky introduces an alternative look onto the events of the original game and offers the player to try himself out as a mercenary in search of his own path in the world of S.T.A.L.K.E.R

I can't help just loving the graphics quality when you do what we did with it's settings. New in our benchmark suite, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. CS which was released in September 08. We bring in heavy artillery against the graphics cards, the mother of all image quality settings, DX10 mode with Enhanced full Dynamic lighting Image Quality setting:

• In-game Software Anti Aliasing enabled
• 16x anisotropic filtering
• DX10 mode with Enhanced full Dynamic lighting maximum image quality

Sun rays burst through cracks in wooden roofs. Lightning lights up the night sky as well as dark interiors. It looks terrific and atmospheric, which is what S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is all about really.

This setting is for the hardcore graphics freaks like yours truly, and it is grand that they implemented it. We opted to use this very extreme setting as standard test, so we can use it for a long time.

Thus far the X2 is the only card that really makes the game playable throughout all resolutions. Very impressive once again.