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X2: The Threat

Trade your way through the space lanes and achieve mogul status.
Fight your way through dozens of interlinked missions within an all-new storyline.
Build your empire of stations and ships across the Universe.
Think if your next move could be your last as the Universe reacts to your actions.

A first person space experience designed for today's game players with sound and graphics to match.
Discover new worlds and races, become a trader, bounty hunter, pirate, miner or a cunning combination of them all.
The uneasy peace that befalls the Universe is about to be broken...
Can you meet the Threat head on?

Yes, this game is as good as it sounds. If you enjoyed freelancer, then you will fall in love with X2: The Threat. Apart for it's vast universe environment, perfectly suitable for countless space explorations, this game also includes a very remarkable 3D engine. Also, it's full support of Antiliasing and Anisotropic filtering settings makes it a good reference for testing the capabilities of latest generation VGA cards.

For our tests, I used a benchmark of X2 that I found on the net, and believe me, it is very demanding even for the high-end chipsets currently available.

Here, we got similar performance for both cards with the difference between ranging between 11 up to 18 fps.

When we increased the quality settings for X2: the threat, we noticed a drop of exactly 18 fps with the FX5950U. Yet, we're still satisfied since it never fell under 25fps.