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UT2004 (DX8.1)

Unreal Tournament 2004 is a multiplayer first person shooter that combines the kill-or-be-killed experience of gladiatorial combat with cutting-edge technology.

Ten game modes - both team-based and "every man for himself" -- provide even the most hardcore gamer with palm-sweating challenges through unbelievably detailed indoor arenas and vast outdoor environments.

As the ultimate techno-gladiator of the future, players will take their fates into their hands, battling against up to 32 other players online in action-packed, frag-filled arenas.

We conducted our tests using maximum details on the following two, botmatch levels.

Ons-torlan for On-Slaught and ctf-bridgeoffate for the Capture-the-flag game type. UT2004 is not much of a graphics-intensive game, so we had the chance to see how much CPU bound the same VGA card would be on a mid-end computer system such as a P4 2.4GHz on an ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe motherboard with 2x256Mb of PC3200 OCZ memory modules.

The difference in fps is exciting. UT2004 gets an average performance boost of 60fps, a fact which proves that the Sapphire 9800 pro Ultimate is still a remarkable card being able to deliver such framerates when the CPU can keep pace with its quality.

On the other hand, we got a noticeable performance decrease with the 64-bit drivers when benchmarking on the darker and closed set of Capture-the-flag Bridge Of Fate map.