- Company Of Heroes (DirectX9 & 10)

In Company of Heroes, gamers will experience the journey of the brave men of Able Company in a deep single-player campaign that begins with the invasion of Normandy through their fight across Europe, all set against the most dynamic battlefield ever seen in a game.

Company of Heroes' completely destructible environment means no two battles ever play out in the same way. Advanced squad AI delivers startling new realism and responsiveness, bringing soldiers to life as they interact with the environment and execute advanced squad tactics to eliminate the opposition forces.

The game offers impressive graphics, especially when maxing all visual quality settings for DirectX9:

We used the built-in benchmark for all tests at 1280x1024 resolution. The latest patch offers both DirectX10 and AA/AF support. Let's see how each card performs in the Company Of Heroes benchmark with the Highest Quality settings.

The Gainward 8600GT 512MB once again produced inferior performance to the Foxconn 7900GS at COH with all details maxed. With the latest patch, we enabled AA/AF and the results are very discouraging for both 8x00 cards, since at 4x AA, performance drops down to 16FPS.

Under Windows VISTA and DirectX10, we have more visual details enabled where we fully maxed everything, except for AA:

The performance is poor, with 12 FPS average rendering speed. You probably need to reduce several quality settings to be able to play the game with some satisfaction.