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Testing - HL2 Episode 1
 Our Half-Life 2 Episode 1 benchmark consists of Gordon emerging into the streets to find ant lions and Combine soldiers fighting. Gordon proceeds to kill a mother ant lion and lots of baby ant lions while generally blowing up anything in the way. The gravity gun is used to push a couple of cars over ant lion dens, then some more Combine soldiers are killed. The timedemo ends after Gordon enters a small room and sets off a mine. (No, I didn't accidentally die, I'm not a noob!) Overall, the timedemo is pretty representative of gameplay. All of the in-game graphical settings were set to high. The "Reflections" drop down menu was set to "Reflect All." The "HDR" drop-down menu was set to "Full." Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering were controlled through a batch file which changes the in-game settings. After the batch has finished running, the average frames per second for each test is output to a file. For each test, the timedemo was run three times and the results were averaged. The game was up-to-date as of 10/9/06. Note: HL2 Episode 1 uses a unique method of implementing HDR, and the NVIDIA cards are actually capable of HDR + AA in this game.
Half-Life 2 Episode 1 @ 1280 x 960
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Half-Life 2 @ 1600 x 1200
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Half-Life 2 @ 2048 x 1536
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Page 1: Introduction
Page 2: The Cards Page 3: Test Setup Page 4: Testing - Half-Life 2 Episode 1 Page 5: Testing - F.E.A.R. - First Encounter Assault Recon Page 6: Testing - Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher's Bay Page 7: Testing - Need for Speed: Most Wanted Page 8: Testing - X3: Reunion Demo Page 9: Testing - 3DMark '06 Page 10: Performance Summary & Closing Thoughts 
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