Call of Duty 2

Call of Duty 2 (Direct X)


Call of Duty was the best selling FPS of 2003 and Call of Duty 2 looks to continue that tradition with a great game style and supurb graphics.  Below are graphical settings we used in our testing.

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The first mission was used in its entirety as the benchmark. 

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Interestingly, to see these gains in CrossFire mode, we had to set “Optimize for SLI” in the settings; heh.  Oh well, the results are impressive!  The ATI X1800 XT CrossFire config sees a 70% gain in frame rate with 0xAA and a 75% gain with 4xAA!!  These numbers allow the X1800 XT XF to pass up the 7800 GTX 256s in SLI mode quite easily though the 512s still hold a slight lead.

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Wow, talk about exact opposites.  Try as I might, I couldn’t get any better results from the XL CrossFire configuration.  Even though we see performance gains of up to 18% in CrossFire mode, the 7800 GTs in SLI mode are as much as 210% faster with AA enabled!

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