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Once games are released with Shader Model 4 and Vista has been out for a while, it is likely that we will transition our AMD, Intel and video card test platforms to Vista as our main operating system. It takes a lot of work to do so and with no DX10 games available or even patches for games to show improved effects with SM 4, there's nothing needing Vista. NVIDIA's 8800 series are the only cards on the market with full support for Shader Model 4. It is a bit irrelevant to change our test platform only to change it again when the apps come out to support it.
Test System
- AMD FX-62 CPU
- 2GB Crucial Ballistix DDR2 667MHz memory
- ASUS EAX1950 Crossfire card
- Crossfire testing done with GIGABYTE X1900XTX card
- ASUS 16x DVD-ROM
- Ultra X-Finity 600W PSU
- ASUS M2R32-MVP motherboard
- Windows XP with SP2
- ATI CCC 7.1 drivers
Tests
- 3dmark06 1280x1024, 1600x1200, 1920x1200, 2048x1536 default run
- 3dmark05 1280x1024, 1600x1200, 1920x1200, 2048x1536 default run
- FEAR 1280x960, 1600x1200, 2048x1536 no AA no AF, 4x AA 16x AF Performance Demo max settings except no Soft Shadows
- Oblivion 1280x1024, 1600x1200, 1920x1200, 2048x1536 no AA no AF, HDR enabled. Custom walkthrough of Anvil
- COD2 1280x1024, 1600x1200, 1920x1200, 2048x1536, no AA no AF, 4x AA 16x AF Custom timedemo
- Quake4 1280x1024, 1600x1200, 2048x1536, no AA no AF, 4x AA 16x AF, Custom Timedemo of first level, HQ settings
- Dark Messiah Might and Magic 1280x1024, 1600x1200, 2048x1536 no AA no AF, 4x AA 16x AF Custom walkthrough of Prologue using FRAPs, max settings
- Need For Speed Carbon 1280x1024, 1600x1200 no AA no AF, 4x AA 16x AF, Custom Quick Race using FRAPs, maximum settings
- Battlefield 2142, 1280x1024, 1600x1200, 2048x1536, no AA no AF, 4x AA 16x AF, Custom Timedemo using FRAPs, max settings
- Tomb Raider Legend 1280x1024, 1600x1200, 2048x1536, no AA no AF, 4x AA 16x AF, Custom walkthrough of first level up to the Temple using FRAPs, max settings
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