After waiting almost two months after the release of The Cartel on the 360 and PS3 we finally have the game released on PC. When Call of Juarez The Cartel was first announced I couldn’t believe that Ubisoft decided to change the theme of the game. The core of Call of Juarez games is gone ...

Posted on September 3, 2011 at 1:27 PM in Benchmarks

Even though I mentioned choppy graphics earlier, Human Revolution features Direct X 11 but to be honest I think it’s useless and I’ll show you some DirectX 9 and DirectX 11 screenshots later on. Deus Ex Human Revolution is developed using a modified version of Crystal Dynamics. This engine doesn’t need a lot of power ...

Posted on August 20, 2011 at 10:43 AM in Benchmarks

As I did in the last couple of months, benchmarking current and former versions of AMD Catalyst, here is the newest one: AMD Catalyst 11.7 vs 11.8. Before we get started let’s take a look at 11.8′s newest features and performance improvements: New Features AMD Overdrive has been enhanced to include both CPU and GPU ...

Posted on August 18, 2011 at 5:32 AM in Benchmarks

As you all probably now almost all game developers and publishers are in vacation (probably Ibiza) during the summer so almost no games get released during this time. Given those facts I have to turn my attention on older game and today I did so on Medal of Honor 2010. Medal of Honor 2010 isn’t ...

Posted on August 14, 2011 at 4:06 AM in Benchmarks

This article is outdated, see this article: Windows 7 vs Windows 8 RTM: Gaming Performance Every gamer asks himself every now and then this question: Which is the best operating system for gaming? I’m here to answer that question. The real battle is between Windows XP and Windows 7 but if you ask me there ...

Posted on August 11, 2011 at 12:51 PM in Benchmarks

Everybody knows that Grand Theft Auto IV excels at two things: successfully putting you in the skin of a gangster and poor optimization. This benchmark will focus on the second thing. I’ve seen quite a few very badly optimized games but Grand Theft Auto IV puts them all to shame. Don’t get me wrong I ...

Posted on August 2, 2011 at 7:32 AM in Benchmarks

Catalyst 11.7 is probably the best driver ever to be released by AMD.AMD Catalyst 11.7 improves performance with a whooping 5.5%

Posted on July 29, 2011 at 2:33 PM in Benchmarks

Released more than one year ago, February 2010 to be precise, Bioshock 2 required high end hardware for it to perform decent on the highest settings. Let’s find out how Bioshock 2 performs on modern hardware. Today’s benchmark features both DirectX 9 and DirectX 10 in all tests. First up as usual are the operating ...

Posted on July 18, 2011 at 10:09 AM in Benchmarks

Back to the classics: StarCraft II was one of the most awaited games of all times. I remember when I got my SC2 beta key I felt like I won the lottery…

I’m benchmarking StarCraft II Wings of Liberty in Windows XP, Windows 7 and Windows 8, on both x32 and x64 architectures. On the second part of this benchmark I’m testing StarCraft II with one, two, three and four cores to see how much CPU power it needs for achieve best performance.

Before I start I must add something: This StarCraft II Wings of Liberty Benchmark is done on a very intense scene so this is kind of worst case scenario.

Posted on July 14, 2011 at 10:04 AM in Benchmarks

Call of Juarez Bound in Blood is one of my favorite games. Even though developers didn’t include support for Direct X 10 it looks fantastic even by today’s standards. The main reason behind not including Direct X 10 support is that the performance hit was not worth the gain in graphics.

Unfortunately Call of Juarez Bound in Blood fails to start in either version of Windows 8 so I had to remove it from this benchmark.

This benchmark will be a quick one, testing performance in Windows XP x32 / x64 and Windows 7 SP1 x32 / x64 and in the second part I will do the usual CPU and cores benchmark in Windows 7 SP1 x64.

Posted on July 13, 2011 at 8:22 AM in Benchmarks