BioShock

This latest game based on the Unreal 3 engine has been getting rave reviews for delivering an immersive first person shooter experience. You crash land with your plane near and underwater city and explore the depths of it for coming 20 or so gameplay hours. The art style and details really make this “shooter” stand out from the rest, and with a gripping story will have you playing it for hours on end.



The first 5 min of gameplay were logged and the average and minimum FPS included in the charts below, the in-game detail was set to High. AA/AF were both disabled.



At 1024x768 the Sparkle takes a nice lead over the other cards; the Club 3D is tied with the 7600 GT.



Further increasing the resolution doesn’t change the outcome by a lot, the situation between the cards remain the same, with average FPS for all cards close to unplayable.

Enemy Territory: Quake Wars

The team based FPS game is build on an adapted Doom 3 engine, with mega texture support to offer fluent seamless high detail textures throughout the game world. It’s a fast paced action game with many outdoor areas, vehicles to quickly go from one spot to the other, with two distinctive sides and different classes to play.



We played through a session at 1280x1024 and noted average/min FPS;



As with previous ID software based games, the engine caps the FPS in this game, while vsync was disabled, the maximum FPS here was capped to 30; all cards were able to provide fluent gameplay here, only by looking at the min FPS we can see a difference, the Sparkle is again in the lead, followed by the Club 3D and XFX.