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 the graphics cards, we recorded our own timedemo using the built-in command (demo.recordDemo). We then used the Guru3D BF2 benchmark modified, in order to support BF 2142. We used the following quality settings. Anti-aliasing is disabled in the game, so we use Nvidia's 3D Control Panel to enable/disable the AA/AF rendering modes:

Note, that the 1280x1024 resolution is not supported in the game. However, it can be enabled from the command line. All tests were performed at the resolution of 1280x1024 with the default camera view. Since the game counts all frames, including loading screens, we have discarded them so that all measurements represent pure gaming experience. Let's now proceed to the first test results.

At 1280x1024, the Gainward 8800GTS GS was behind the 7950GT SLI.

Enabling AA/AF in Battlefield 2142, enhances visual quality and of course gaming experience. It's very interesting that as AA rises, the performance impact on the 7950GT SLI combo is far greater than on the 8800GTS GS which maintains its very good performance.