Fallout 3
Publisher: BethesdaFallout 3 is the revival of Interplay’s excellent Fallout series of games following many years out of the limelight. It’s developed and published by Bethesda and, judging by the success of the game, we’ll be seeing more Fallout games in the future.
Despite using the Oblivion engine which is now a few years old, the game looks absolutely stunning. Bethesda has spiced up the graphics a bit since Oblivion and has extended the engine – there are some great explosions, soft shadows and smoke effects that are particularly noteworthy.
We tested the game by manually playing a section of the game that incorporates a number of explosions and effects that you’re likely to experience during your time in post-apocalyptic Washington DC. We recorded the frame rate using FRAPS.
The in-game details were set to their highest values and both anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering were controlled by the application settings instead of through the driver control panel. This meant that transparency anti-aliasing was enabled, along with HDR and all of the cool smoke effects.
Fallout 3’s engine is by default capped to 60 frames per second, which can make benchmark results very unclear, especially when testing at lower resolutions or with high end graphics cards. To remove the 60FPS cap you’ll need to find the Fallout3.ini file in \Documents\My Games\Fallout3 and edit the file so that iPresentInterval=0. This removes the frame rate cap, and allows us to get a much better idea of a card’s true abilities.
For analysis of these and all other results, please read the Results Analysis page.
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Posted by Guest-23315 - Tue Oct 13 2009 08:35
Guess I should stay put
Posted by RotoSequence - Tue Oct 13 2009 08:48
If the card comes in between $120 and $150, the card is in a sound position, providing performance at a similar price point as its predecessors (the 4870 and 4850), but with new features, and higher profit margins for AMD. The launch price of the 5770 is $160 and it is in stock today.
If the card doesn't sell well at that price point, I'll bet it will easily drop a few dollars while still turning a tidy profit for AMD. It's inevitably going to be cheaper to fabricate and manufacture than the last generation, and in the future, I don't doubt that it will deserve far more than a 4/10 on the value scale.
Posted by Tim S - Tue Oct 13 2009 09:00
It's a card that 4770 users would probably upgrade from and there's a decent performance difference between the two... however, AMD is asking us to almost pay twice as much for that extra performance here in the UK. We've been able to do that ever since the 4770 launched.
Posted by rollo - Tue Oct 13 2009 09:02