VGA performance: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (DX9)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Modern Warfare 2 is set five years on from COD4 and brings a new villain into town: Vladimir Makarov. All the trouble start when Makarov frames the US for a terrorist attack on a Russian airport (yes, the infamous airport level). The rest of the story follows the same intertwined British and US mission format as before, and the missions are all incredible set-pieces that involve storming oil rigs, climbing icy cliffs and, of course, an adrenaline packed snowmobile chase. Visually the 3D engine seems to be the same as the COD4 one, it's tweaked though and nearly abused to push out the very best of its capability. The result is a very decent looking game really, smoke, fog, sun, vegetation detailed texturing of objects building and characters.
Our selected image quality settings are the most complex you can set in-game. 4xAA, maxed out anisotropic filtering, the best textures, everything is enabled to its maximum capability. Any decent graphics card can run the game, it's that simple. There's no need to give in to lower quality settings.
Image Quality setting:
- 4x Anti-Aliasing
- 16x Anisotropic Filtering
- All settings maxed out
Very good performance for Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2, playable at all resolutions.
Above you can see a performance chart as recently introduced in all our new graphics card reviews. Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 however is a new title and we still need to add the results from a handful of GeForce graphics cards for comparison. Anyway, you get the idea. Top notch performance.
