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F.E.A.R.


F.E.A.R. is a force to be reckoned with, as it brings almost every one of our video cards to their knees. The only competitor which actually manages to maintain >40 FPS score past 1024x768 is the GeForce 7600 GT OC in SLI. The Radeon X1800 XT maintains an average 6 FPS lead over the 7600 GT OC in the non-AA/AF runs, but then mirrors the 7600 GT SLI on the AA/AF runs. The 7600 GT suffers a fairly significant hit when AA/AF are enabled, showing us that this card simply doesn't have the horsepower to drive F.E.A.R. in all its antialiased, anisotropic-filtered glory. This game is simply not playable at 1600x1200 with AA/AF on any of these cards, in all honesty.
Serious Sam 2


Serious Sam 2, with its modern graphics engine, manages to push these cards in a noticeable manner, but not quite as much as F.E.A.R. Performance with the X1800 XT and 7600 GT OC SLI ranges from "splendid" to "good", depending on your choice of resolution and AA/AF. Performance with the single 7600 GT is also decent at 1024x768 with and without AA/AF, but at the higher resolutions shifts into that grey area that may or may not keep you satisfied. The 40 FPS mark is what I consider the minimum framerate that I am happy with from an averaged-score benchmark, because I take into account the heavy-action scenes and their associated drops in performance.
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