Publisher: Ubisoft
Far Cry 2 is a first person shooter from Ubisoft and was one of the most hotly-anticipated games of 2008. While it continues the
Far Cry franchise that Crytek started in 2004,
Far Cry 2 is built on its own in-house engine and has no association to anything Crytek has worked on or is working on now.
The game
uses DirectX 10.1 to improve anti-aliasing performance and quality. The improvements are made by reading the multisampled depth buffer in a single pass - something that was only introduced officially with DirectX 10.1. However, Ubisoft has also made the enhancements available to Nvidia hardware as well through a DirectX 10 extension.
We used the game's built-in benchmarking tool to measure performance in DirectX 10/10.1 mode - this provided a pretty accurate rundown of how various graphics cards perform and it shows off a lot of the game's special effects. We set every option to its maximum setting and tested at 1,680 x 1,050, 1,920 x 1,200 and 2,560 x 1,600 with various anti-aliasing settings.
Anisotropic filtering is controlled by the game's quality settings and forcing AF from the driver control panel does not have any effect on visual quality or performance.
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Nvidia GeForce GTX 295 1,792MB
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ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 2GB
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Sapphire Radeon HD 4890 1GB Atomic
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Nvidia GeForce GTX 285 1GB
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Sapphire Radeon HD 4890 Vapor-X 2GB
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Nvidia GeForce GTX 275 896MB
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ATI Radeon HD 4890 1GB
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Nvidia GeForce GTX 295 1,792MB
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ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 2GB
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Sapphire Radeon HD 4890 1GB Atomic
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Nvidia GeForce GTX 285 1GB
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Sapphire Radeon HD 4890 Vapor-X 2GB
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Nvidia GeForce GTX 275 896MB
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ATI Radeon HD 4890 1GB
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Nvidia GeForce GTX 295 1,792MB
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ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 2GB
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Sapphire Radeon HD 4890 Vapor-X 2GB
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Nvidia GeForce GTX 285 1GB
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Sapphire Radeon HD 4890 1GB Atomic
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Nvidia GeForce GTX 275 896MB
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ATI Radeon HD 4890 1GB
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The Sapphire copes very well with
Far Cry 2 in DX10.1 mode, outpacing Nvidia's GeForce GTX 275 at every resolution we tested at. It coped better than a GeForce GTX 285 at 2,560 x 1,600, where the extra video memory gave the card room for all textures and the hefty frame buffer.
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