F.E.A.R. version 1.08 (DirectX 9.0c)
Before DirectX 10 and Vista, F.E.A.R. was one of the most graphically-intensive games available and many hardware review sites still have it in their benchmark arsenal.




In a previous 8600GT review Ryan wrote back in April, he had major hitching problems that he believes were associated with NVidia’s Vista drivers. Well, these driver issues seemed to have been resolved because we didn’t notice any issues during this benchmark this time around. The EN8600GT performed very well at 1280×960, but as the resolutions increased, it seemed to lag behind the HD2600XT a little. It was more consistent than the HD2600XT, but its overall FPS average was 10 FPS lower than its ATI counterpart.