ATI versus NVIDIA: Crysis WARHEAD

Crysis WARHEAD

With a top-end PC (although Warhead has supposedly benefited from an improved game engine, you'll still need a fairly beefy system) rest assured, developer Crytek has enhanced more than just the graphics engine.

Crysis Warhead has good looks. As mentioned before, the game looks better than Crysis, and it runs better too. Our test machine that struggled a bit to run the original at high settings ran Warhead smoothly with the same settings. Yet as much as you may have heard about Crysis' technical prowess, you'll still be impressed when you feast your eyes on the swaying vegetation, surging water, and expressive animations. Outstanding graphics. Couldn't say more here. Crysis Warhead then: we up the ante a little more by enabling DX10.

• Level Ambush
• Codepath DX10
• Anti-Aliasing 2x MSAA
• In game Quality mode Gamer

Crysis WarHEAD is an obvious SLI preferred title. We finally reach roughly 60 FPS in 2560x1600 and again scaling is very good for NVIDIA GPUs, and not surprisingly ... worse for ATI.