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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 image quality. We had to use FRAPS to measure the performance and by command prompt remove a nasty framerate cap. The results do not lie.

BTW the game by itself does not support these high resolutions, but simply make a little .bat file and insert the following:

bf2 +menu 1 +szx 2560 +szy 1600 +fullscreen 1

Would you believe that you are again looking at 4xAA and 16xAF here?  The 150 USD X1650 XT can push up-to 19x14 here which is really good. The X1950 Pro will take it another notch higher.

Crossfire again is showing good performance increases. A common factor we see a lot though is that the performance results in the highest resolutions crumble big-time. The reason for this is pure and simple - frame buffer. We would really need 512MB memory in the higher resolutions.