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Company of Heroes |
DirectX 10 Gaming Performance | |
Company of Heroes |
Relic Entertainment's World War II era real-time strategy game Company of Heroes was originally released as a DirectX 9 title for Windows, but recent upates to the game have incorporated support for new DirectX 10 features that improve image quality and enhance the game's finer graphical details. The game features a built-in performance test, which which we used to attain the results below. Our Company of Heroes tests were run at resolutions of 1280x1024 and 1600x1200 with anti-aliasing disabled or 4x anti-aliasing enabled, and all of the game's image-quality related options were set to high. |
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Our DirectX 10 Company of Heroes benchmark seems to favor the NVIDIA cards. The R4850 512M's scores were closer to the Radeon HD 4870's than we expected, and the R4850 512M couldn't keep up with the GeForce 9800 GTX, which we also didn't expect to see.