Page 11 - RTCW

Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Powered with a highly optimized Quake III engine, high detail settings and of course a heavy time-demo to get test results will will now use this software.

Powered by the Quake III Arena engine, the Wolfenstein universe explodes with the kind of epic environments, A.I., firepower and cinematic effects that only a game created by true masters can deliver. The dark reich's closing in. The time to act is now. Evil prevails when good men do nothing.

a highly decorated Army Ranger recruited into the Office of Secret Actions (OSA) tasked with escaping and then returning to Castle Wolfenstein in an attempt to thwart Heinrich Himmler's occult and genetic experiments. Himmler believes himself to be a reincarnation of a 10th century dark prince, Henry the Fowler, also known as Heinrich. Through genetic engineering and the harnessing of occult powers, Himmler hopes to raise an unstoppable army to level the Allies once and for all.

That being said, RTCW boasts very nice textures, impressive effects and fantastic character models. At this point not many videocards have been included in this specific comparison, there will be when time passes of course.

 You win a little you take a little, the 5950 Ultra is marginally faster compared to the 9800 XT. It's hardly worth mentioning though. Let's take a look with 4x anti aliasing and 8x anisotropic filtering enabled.

With quality settings enabled both cards (5950U and 9800XT) are about the same performance wise that is. The results are amazingly good.