Rainbow Six: Vegas

Rainbow Six Vegas (DirectX 9)


The Rainbow Six series has always been a high quality set of games that center on action-based tactical assualt.  The new Vegas iteration takes a bit more of the action approach similar to what we have seen in Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter.  This game is the first to use the new Unreal 3 engine and you can tell!  The graphics are amazing and really stress our systems.

BFG GeForce 8600 GTS OC2 ThermoIntelligence Review - Graphics Cards 54

BFG GeForce 8600 GTS OC2 ThermoIntelligence Review - Graphics Cards 55

BFG GeForce 8600 GTS OC2 ThermoIntelligence Review - Graphics Cards 56

BFG GeForce 8600 GTS OC2 ThermoIntelligence Review - Graphics Cards 57

BFG GeForce 8600 GTS OC2 ThermoIntelligence Review - Graphics Cards 58

BFG GeForce 8600 GTS OC2 ThermoIntelligence Review - Graphics Cards 59

I did honestly expect larger gains here on our Rainbow Six: Vegas benchmark but for some reason the BFG 8600 GTS OC2 ThermoIntelligence was just 5% faster than the 8600 GTS GPU at stock speeds.  Based on the new Unreal Engine 3 from Epic, its possible this engine is just pushing these cards limited number of stream processors a bit too hard. 

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