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MSI NX6600GT AGP

Feb 25,2005 0

8. Half life 2

 

Review Pages

1. Introduction - Package
2. A closer look
3. Test System
4. 3DMark05
5. 3DMark 2003
6. Aquamark3 / 3DMark 2001
7. Codecreatures
8. Half life 2
9. Doom 3
10. Far Cry
11. Thief 3
12. Colin McRae 05
13. Ground Control II
14. Overclocking
15. Conclusion

 

08 - Half life 2

Half life 2 is no doubt the most anticipated pc game of all times. Gamers keeping the excellence of Half Life 1 in their mind as well as the remarkable E3 demo preview, have been anxiously waiting for the much delayed release of HL2.

Regarding the storyline, the player again picks up the crowbar of research scientist Gordon Freeman, who finds himself on an alien-infested Earth being picked to the bone, its resources depleted, its populace dwindling. Freeman is thrust into the unenviable role of rescuing the world from the wrong he unleashed back at Black Mesa. And a lot of people he cares about are counting on him.

Characters - Advanced facial animation system delivers the most sophisticated in-game characters ever seen. With 40 distinct facial "muscles," human characters convey the full array of human emotion, and respond to the player with fluidity and intelligence.

Physics - From pebbles to water to 2-ton trucks respond as expected, as they obey the laws of mass, friction, gravity, and buoyancy.

Graphics - Source’s shader-based renderer, like the one used at Pixar to create movies such as Toy Story® and Monster's, Inc.®, creates the most beautiful and realistic environments ever seen in a video game.

AI - Neither friends nor enemies charge blindly into the fray. They can assess threats, navigate tricky terrain, and fashion weapons from whatever is at hand.

To measure performance we used the Video Stress Test(VST) that is available in the CounterStrike:Source beta available through Steam. We set all the details to the highest level and changed the resolutions from 800x600 to 1600x1200.

 

 

800x600 seems to be too small a resolution for these cards and all seem to be limited by the CPU power. This effect is lost at 1024x768 and above where we begin to see some actual differences. The MSI NX6600GT offers great performance even under the resolution of 1600x1200 with 55fps on average.

With quality settings enabled the difference between the PCI-E and AGP versions of 6600GT seems huge, especially under 1024x768 were we got a gap of 21fps.

 

Review Pages

1. Introduction - Package
2. A closer look
3. Test System
4. 3DMark05
5. 3DMark 2003
6. Aquamark3 / 3DMark 2001
7. Codecreatures
8. Half life 2
9. Doom 3
10. Far Cry
11. Thief 3
12. Colin McRae 05
13. Ground Control II
14. Overclocking
15. Conclusion

 

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