Supreme Commander
After all this it was nice to see some light at the end of the tunnel, in the form of the game known as Supreme Commander. The RTS title has a significant impact on all systems in a computer, including video card, CPU, and RAM. This makes it a good all around benchmark. The score outputted by the benchmark mode is a composite score. In the case of the 9500GT, the score was only 17% slower then the same test rig with the 9600GT card. That score of course takes into account CPU, RAM, and other factors. We taking a look at the FPS separately, SupCom still only managed to average about 30 FPS. This isn’t a bad thing, since low frame rates don’t affect gameplay as much in RTS titles as they do in first person titles.
The afore mentioned light at the end of the tunnel turned out to be the bright flash from a nuclear detonation. These effects are some of the more punishing present in Supreme Commander. It was nice that I didn’t have to reduce the settings too much to enjoy their destructive beauty.
Crysis
The final game in our melange of tests is the one and only Crysis. This is a good example of me being cruel and unusual, as at the settings used for our benchmarks there’s no way I could expect the 9500GT card to run this game. Cranking the resolution way down and shutting off much of the eye candy did result in a playable experience…
…but it looked nothing like this. Games like Crysis unfortunately need hefty graphics subsystems to make them work at full speed while looking the way they are supposed to look. I think I should end it there. Let’s wrap this up.
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