BioShock
First up on the list is the first person shooter BioShock. This game is a DX9 title, but it does employ some DX10 tricks. For testing, we ran through a quick battle in one of the final areas. The Foxconn 9500GT-256FR3 OC video card held up decently in these tests, though it did lag out on some more intensive scenes. Averaging 30 FPS does provide for an OK gaming experience, but really 60 FPS is where you want your average to be. That way game play doesn’t drop to slide show mode in a particularly heated battle.
In-game picture quality was still what we’ve come to expect from NVIDIA. When the game was running smoothly, it still managed to impress. Still this final battle is light on the water effects, and I’d be worried about stepping into some of the more graphically intense areas of the game.
Cal of Duty 4
When we wanted to switch to a more realistic mode of combat, we started up Call of Duty 4. It still managed to tell the same story of performance. CoD4 does tend to have a little more going on during gameplay, so it’s performance numbers are in turn lower. It was playable, but I got to personally experience a couple of slide show moments.
For testing, I of course kept all the detail settings at the levels we use in all our tests. The game did look quite nice, but it would have been very difficult to play competitively. I tweaked the CoD4 options, and was able to get a more manageable frame rate, at the cost of some picture quality.
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