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Kurtis Kronk
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Jan. 24, 2006

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Benchmarks - F.E.A.R. First Encounter Assault Recon

So far as we know there is no way to record a timedemo in FEAR, and playing a game like this with FRAPS tracking the frame rates wouldn't work well because it would be very difficult to do the same thing and get into the same firefights over and over. The results wouldn't be consistent. All hope is not lost, however, because FEAR has a built-in benchmark. You just go to Options > Performance, and then click on Test Settings.

All of the in-game Video settings were set to maximum, and then we customize the "advanced video card options." The defaults from setting to "maximum" are left except for FSAA, Texture Filtering, and Resolution, which are adjusted accordingly. The benchmark is run three times per setting and the results averaged.

F.E.A.R. - First Encounter Assault Recon @ 1280 x 960
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No AA / No AF

4x AA / 8x AF

ATI X1900 XTX 512 MB

XFX 7800 GTX 256 MB

ATI X1800 XT 512 MB

XFX 6800 GT 256 MB

ATI X850 XT PE 256 MB

FPS

No AA / No AF

4x AA / 8x AF

ATI X1900 XTX 512 MB

ATI X1800 XT 512 MB

XFX 7800 GTX 256 MB

ATI X850 XT PE 256 MB

XFX 6800 GT 256 MB

FPS

F.E.A.R. - First Encounter Assault Recon @ 2048 x 1536
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No AA / No AF

4x AA / 8x AF

ATI X1900 XTX 512 MB

XFX 7800 GTX 256 MB

ATI X1800 XT 512 MB

ATI X850 XT PE 256 MB

XFX 6800 GT 256 MB

FPS

No AA / No AF

4x AA / 8x AF

ATI X1900 XTX 512 MB

ATI X1800 XT 512 MB

XFX 7800 GTX 256 MB

ATI X850 XT PE 256 MB

XFX 6800 GT 256 MB

FPS

The X1900 XTX is hands-down the winner in our FEAR tests, but even it can't handle 2048x1536 in this resource hog of a game.

We'd like to thank Directron.com for donating the ASUS A8N-SLI Premium Socket 939 Motherboard which we used for testing.

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Page 1: Introduction
Page 2: Introducing the X1900 Series (R580) / Architecture & New Features
Page 3: The Card (X1900 XTX)
Page 4: Test Setup
Page 5: Benchmarks - Half-Life 2
Page 6: Benchmarks - Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
Page 7: Benchmarks - F.E.A.R. First Encounter Assault Recon
Page 8: Benchmarks - Quake 4
Page 9: Benchmarks - Need for Speed Most Wanted
Page 10: Closing Thoughts

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3 User Comments

1 - Posted by J2T on May 31, 2007 - 5:53 am

??? time warp?

2 - Posted by Kurtis on May 31, 2007 - 12:17 pm

i'm sure there was a spam post, then the spam was deleted, leaving a bumped thread. =]

3 - Posted by J2T on June 1, 2007 - 6:07 pm

haha, excuses excuses :)

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