- BattleField 2142

The year is 2142, and the dawn of a new Ice age has thrown the world into a panic. The math is simple and brutal: The soil not covered by ice can only feed a fraction of the Earth's population. Some will live, most will die. In Battlefield 2142, players will choose to fight for one of two military superpowers in an epic battle for survival, the European Union or the newly formed Pan Asian Coalition.

Armed with a devastating arsenal of hi-tech assault rifles, cloaking devices and sentry guns, players will also do battle using some of the most imposing vehicles known to man. Massive battle Mechs wage fierce combat on the ground, while futuristic aircraft rule the skies. When facing one of these new behemoths, players will need to use their wits and an arsenal of new countermeasures like EMP grenades to level the playing field.

Team play features allow up to 64 players to enter the action on the front lines as part of a formal squad, or work behind the scenes in Commander Mode to direct the strategic assaults of their teammates. With in-game success, players increase their rank and unlock awards, including new weapons, medals and more, delivering the most comprehensive and flexible persistence in the Battlefield universe to date.

In order to benchmark graphic cards, we recorded our own timedemo using the build-in command (demo.recordDemo). Then we used Guru3D BF2 benchmark modified in order to support BF 2142. We used the following quality settings, anti-aliasing is disabled inside game, we use Forceware AA/AF to enable disable such rendering modes:

Since the game counts all frames, including loading screens, using Excel we removed them so all numbers represent pure gaming experience. Note that all test performed at 1280x1024 with default camera view.

Without enabling AA/AF, we can see the performance of each card at 1280x1024. The difference between both 7900GS cars is minimal.

Enabling AA/AF affect the performance of each VGA card. In order to have a playable frame rate, you should keep anti-alaising to 4x.