Call of Duty 2
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The sequel of Call of Duty was released last year and features a whole new graphics engine which really put you in the middle of a war zone in all its terrifying glory. The gameplay is more newbie friendly with the auto-healing and easier to kill enemies, nevertheless with the difficulty cranked up you’ll have many auto-spawning foes to kill.

We've chosen to play the "Hold the line" scene which is at the beginning of the "Battle of El Alamain" level. You find yourself in the dusk racing the Germans to get hold of a little town in the desert. Unfortunately, both armies hit the town at the same time, so there is quite some chaos in the beginning. In order to have good benchmark results I started to record frames from the very first second the scene plays. You are on your way to the little town, and there are Germans on your left and right. Just let the truck driver do his work and you do yours: shoot!




The Fatal1ty has a nice lead over the reference 7600GT, making the game playable even up to 4xAA, which noticeably reduces the aliasing in-game. I also tried 2xAA but found the reduction in IQ not worth the small increase in FPS, with 4xAA the XFX is able to pump out enough frames to keep gameplay fluent.




This resolution might be a stretch for the 7600GT series, while the XFX has a lead over the reference card, it’s not large enough to make the game really enjoyable even without AA enabled.