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Battlefield 2 - EA

The award-winning Battlefield franchise invades the high tech frontlines of modern warfare in the new sequel, Battlefield 2. The game brings the intensity and excitement of Battlefield 1942 into the modern era with enhanced team play and the latest, most technologically advanced vehicles and weapons systems available to man.
 

This is probably one of my favorite games ever. I love what it can do in terms of gameplay and image quality. It's also jackpot on the first run. We had to use FRAPS to measure the performance and by command prompt remove a nasty framerate cap. The results do not lie.

BTW the game by itself does not support this kind of resolution, but simply make a little .bat file and insert the following:

bf2 +menu 1 +szx 2560 +szy 1600 +fullscreen 1

Would you believe that you are again looking at 4xAA and 16xAF here ? Amazing performance at both single card and SLI modes. Look at SLI @ 2560x1600 go by the way ... 72 FPS !

That's really impressive.

Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory

Sam Fisher returns for his third installment. Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, the third game in the acclaimed Splinter Cell series, manages to improve the games visuals, make the gameplay a bit more nonlinear and adds some new gameplay modes to the already exhaustive Splinter Cell brand. Anyone who has seen Chaos Theory in action can attest to its visual masterpiece. Dynamic lighting is back in a big way. No longer are shadows blobby, elongated representations of the characters. Now we have shadows that are detailed and exact.
Another of the biggest renovations of the graphics is the amazing use of bump and normal mapping. Now when you are sulking around in the shadows of espionage Sam actually has a recognizable face, with expressions and features that look real. Rather than the flat textured faces we have seen in the games previous.

The game is so darn good.  

It's still extremely good fun at 49 FPS @ 2560x1600. And for the single Sparkle P790+ card you can play the game up to a resolution of 1920x1200. We had HDR and 16xAF enabled.

Call of Duty 2

Call Of Duty 2 redefines the cinematic fighting game. It's a complete wargaming experience with more immense, more intense, more realistic battles than ever before. Beautifully rendered graphics, dynamic lighting and shadows, groundbreaking AI, and choice-based gameplay innovations make this the most intense WWII shooter yet. Go online for Axis vs. Allies team-based multiplayer action, building on the intense Call of Duty multiplayer modes.

I was not disappointed by the performance of the Sparkle P790+, no Sir not at all. With a single card you can play up-to 1600x1200 & maybe 1920x1200. But with the SLI combo 1920x1200 is extremely playable. Call of Duty 2 is SO HARD on the graphics core.