Prey

Prey uses the venerable game engine from ID software, Tech4 it’s called now, also used for Doom 3 and Quake 4. Prey started development back in 1995, and it took 11 years to see this project come to completion, to read the full back story of this game development cycle check Wikipedia here. The gameplay of the Prey is quite innovative in the way you move around the game world, you can change gravity direction, having you walking on the walls and ceiling, or go into “ghost” mode and see the world in a “spooky” way, as shown in the screenshot below:



We used the HardwareOC Prey benchmark utility to record the average frames rates of several timedemo loops, the recorded gameplay clip has all the actions described above, jumping, shooting and running through small hallways. First up 1024x768 High Quality setting:



At only 2xAA/4xAF setting the 7600 GT has an impressive lead over the 8600 GT cards, upping the AA level to 4xAA brings the cards closer together. The Club 3D is trailing here with the lower clocked memory, the extra 256Mb does not come into play here.



Pretty much the same results at 1280x1024. The last Prey bench:



The Club 3D is as good as on par with the Sparkle, but the average FPS is noticeably lower than the 7600 GT which does well in this benchmark.