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.
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.