Battlefield 2 / 2142
Battlefield 2 (Direct X)
Battlefield 2 is one of the first games to come along in quite a while that turned out to really push the current and even following generation gaming hardware. Having the privilege of being the first game that might need 2 GB of memory is either a positive or negative, depending on your viewpoint. Here are our IQ settings used:
Our map was the Strike At Karkand that turns out to be one of the most demanding in the retail package in terms of land layout, smoke and other shader effects.
Both the reference 8800 GTX and the overclocked XFX model perform very well in our BF2 tests here, easily passing up the other competing cards including the 8800 GTS and the 7900 GTX card from last generation.
