7 - Game Performance: Call of Duty 4
Gaming: Call of Duty 4
Activision recently released Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, the next installment in the popular war game series. Moving away from the World War II setting, Modern Warfare instead centers around a conflict involving Russia and the Middle East. And hey, you even get to die ... and then continue the game in the past.
We kick-off with Call of Duty 4.
Let's have a look and suit up in our best cloaking gear for COD4. For this benchmark we use disguise ourselves in the Ghillie suit, load up ACT II - All Ghillied up.
This particular "All Ghillied up" level I liked the most. Not just for gameplay, but also the intense and dense graphics utilized are breathtaking. Massive high-quality texturing, shaders and a serious amount of shadows, fog and debris are applied in this level to mask and hide as best as you can.
In the chart above you can observe how well the Inno3D GeForce 9600 GT OC versus baseline (reference clocked model) is doing. Pretty snazzy; as you'll be able to play the game fine up-to a resolution of 1600x1200 with excellent image quality settings!
Image Quality setting:
- 4x Anti Aliasing
- 16x anisotropic filtering
- All settings maxed out
Now let's have a peek at what happens when we decided to partner up the card in SLI mode and add a second 9600 GT.:
Call of Duty 4 loves SLI. When you compare the SLI results with the cart above you'll notice that it beats the Radeon 3870 X2 as well.
The level where we measure and the image quality settings used
