Supreme Commander

Publisher: THQ

We used the full retail version of Supreme Commander with the version 3220 patch applied. Supreme Commander is developed by Chris Taylor, the creator of the Total Annihilation series, and his development team, Gas Powered Games. Together, Taylor and his team have created what is widely regarded as the spiritual successor to one of the greatest RTS games of all time.

SupCom is a hugely tactical and strategic monster on a massive scale -- hundreds of units can appear on screen at once. It's a massive departure from anything else we've recently seen in the genre. It's one of (if not) the first RTS to allow the player to scroll out to view the scale of battle in its entirety.

We used the game's in-built performance test during our testing, as this provides over seven minutes of variable gameplay -- both zoomed in and out -- that should represent typical scenarios that a user is likely to encounter whilst playing the game. Due to the massive scale of the game, it's incredibly hard to accurately quantify performance in any other way.






Again, the factory overclocked Zotac 8800 GTX AMP! Edition trailed behind the overclocked EVGA 8800 GTX card and the stock-clocked GeForce 8800 Ultra by a fairly indistinguishable margin. It outperforms not only the standard GeForce 8800 GTX as you would expect, but also the Radeon HD 2900 XT CrossFire configuration - not good news for AMD.