PNY XLR8 GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB PCIe 2.0 Graphics Card
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
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 Enemy Territory: Quake Wars |
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars is Based on id's radically enhanced Doom 3 engine and viewed by many as Battlefield 2 meets the Strogg, and then some. ET: Quake Wars also marks the introduction of John Carmack's "Megatexture" technology that employs extremely large environment and terrain textures that cover vast areas of maps without the need to repeat and tile many small textures. The beauty of megatexture technology is that each unit only takes up a maximum of 8MB of frame buffer memory. Add to that HDR-like bloom lighting and leading edge shadowing effects and Enemy Territory: Quake Wars looks great, plays well and works high end graphics cards vigorously. The game was tested with all of its in-game options set to their maximum values with soft particles enabled in addition to 4X anti-aliasing and 16x anisotropic filtering. |
NVIDIA-powered cards have typically fared very well in id produced OpenGL titles, and we saw no difference with their latest title, Enemy Territory: Quake Wars. The 8800s, and the GTX in particular, are running more than a third faster at the lower resolution than ATI's offerings. The delta between the GeForce cards and the Radeons is much less pronounced at higher resolutions, with the delta nearly halved.
