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Gaming: Battlefield 2 - EA
The award-winning Battlefield franchise invades the high tech frontlines of modern warfare in the new sequel, Battlefield 2. The game brings the intensity and excitement of Battlefield 1942 into the modern era with enhanced team play and the latest, most technologically advanced vehicles and weapons systems available to man.
I just love what this game can do in terms of gameplay and the image quality it brings us. We had to use FRAPS to measure the performance and by use of the game command prompt remove a nasty framerate cap. The results do not lie.
Small note: the game by itself does not support these high resolutions, but simply make a little .bat file and insert the following, save this .bat file in the BF2 game directory and startup at the resolution of your choice:
bf2 +menu 1 +szx 2560 +szy 1600 +fullscreen 1
Again we wee that 2400XT really struggle .. then hey .. it's like a 60 bucks card. The 2600 XTGDDR3 will bring you an enjoyable framerate upto-1600x1200. The more expensive GDDR4 version disappoints though, only very a marginal difference we can measure, definitely not worth the extra money.
Call Of Juarez DX10 Benchmark
This game benchmark which is just so delicious to look at, is using Shader Model 4 with DirectX 10, so the usage of Vista is mandatory.
There's a huge mud-fight going on between Techland and NVIDIA, AA related. And I personally gave NVIDIA the benefit of the doubt here as the explanation from techland was plain silly.
Due to this we decided to continue using this test yet in all circumstanced we disabled AA. This takes the sting out of the equation and makes the software reliable to benchmark once again.
But what a drama this benchmark is with mid-range graphics cards... ridiculous. Let's move on shall we? You can download the benchmark from our download section, located right here.
Since this test demands 100% DX10 compatibility, I obviously could not include other DX9 cards.
Physics based particle water system - Physics done via geometry shader
