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Serious Sam
provides a nice alternative to the dreary environment of
Quake III with bright colors and hordes of enemies.
The 3D engine automatically detects the installed video card
and adjusts visual settings accordingly. To avoid
this, we use an ?Extreme Quality? script to normalize the
settings, and then set the proper resolution. The
difference between the GeForce3 and GeForce4 is pretty clear
once again. However, choosing between the two GeForce4
cards is a little more difficult, since they both perform
identically at 1024x768 and 1280x1024. Running at
735MHz, the overclocked DDR memory is capable of providing
nearly 11.8GB per second of memory bandwidth, which
translates into roughly four percent additional performance
at 1280x1024.
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Comanche 4 - DirectX 8.1 Performance
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There
aren?t many flight simulators that come equipped with
benchmarking utilities, so Comanche 4 is truly a gem.
Furthermore, full support for DirectX 8.1 makes the game
ideal for testing the latest video hardware despite a heavy
reliance on CPU power. Again, the GeForce4 Ti4600 is
favored over the GeForce3 Ti500, and on top of that, the
ASUS V8460 is able to outperform the competing PNY Verto
GeForce4 Ti4600. Overclocking bolsters performance
somewhat, but even at 1280x1024, Comanche 4 is still limited
by the performance of our 2.2GHz Pentium 4.
3DMark 2001SE, More FSAA, Overclocking and The Rating
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