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| Metro 2033 |
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Metro 2033
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Metro 2033 is your basic post-apocalyptic first person shooter game with a few rather unconventional twists. Unlike most FPS titles, there is no health meter to measure your level of ailment, but rather you’re left to deal with life, or lack there-of more akin to the real world with blood spatter on your visor and your heart rate and respiration level as indicators. The game is loosely based on a novel by Russian Author Dmitry Glukhovsky. Metro 2003 boasts some of the best 3D visuals on the PC platform currently including a DX11 rendering mode that makes use of advanced depth of field effects and character model tessellation for increased realism. We tested the game engine using the Metro 2033 benchmark tool. |
The G74SX-A1, though surpassed by the Eurocom notebook, landed about where we’d expect compared to the other systems. However, the two MSI systems boasted better framerates in the higher-res test.
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| FarCry 2 |
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FarCry2
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Like the original, FarCry 2 is one of the more visually impressive games to be released on the PC to date. Courtesy of the Dunia game engine developed by Ubisoft, FarCry 2's game-play is enhanced by advanced environment physics, destructible terrain, high resolution textures, complex shaders, realistic dynamic lighting, and motion-captured animations. We benchmarked the test systems in this article with the FarCry 2 benchmark tool using one of the built-in demo runs recorded in the "Ranch" map. |
It’s a bit odd that the G74SX-A1 is all over the map in terms of benchmark rankings; in one test it doesn't quite measure up, and on the next one--such as this FarCry 2 test--it handily beats out the competition, by a fairly substantial margin. At this point we're suspect of NVIDIA driver variances rather than anything directly attributed to the hardware.
