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Doom 3

Massive demonic invasion has overwhelmed the Union Aerospace Corporations (UAC) Mars Research Facility leaving only chaos and horror in its wake. As one of only a few survivors, you struggle with shock and fear as you fight your way to Hell and back, in an epic clash against pure evil.

Activision made it's miracle again with Doom 3, which is said to be the best-looking game ever, thanks to the brand-new 3D graphics engine used to generate its convincingly lifelike, densely atmospheric, and surprisingly expansive environments. If you are a fan of the previous Doom games, then you will get many flashbacks with this 3rd edition, since you will find re-conceived versions of almost every monster from both Doom and Doom II.

In this test, the framerate is limited by CPU power. But a P4 running at 2.8GHz is much faster than the CPU of the average game player so you can rest assured that the FX5950U gives you more than you need.

With an average of 50fps at 1024x768 resolution, gameplay is smooth even in the most demanding scenes.

Let's see what happens when we enable 4x for AA and 8x for AF.

Now things have changed. Sure, gameplay can still be smooth at 45 fps, but that's for the 800x600 resolution. Increasing it to 1024x768 drops the framerate to 32 which means that when the scene is full of monsters, it will drop below 25, so play would get irritating after a while as you keep on missing frames.