Call of Juarez

Call of Juarez (DirectX 10)


Call of Juarez is one of the most visually impressive games I have come across in some time.  Set in the Wild West time frame, this game puts a bit of a spin on the classic FPS style with some slowdown effects as well as playing characters that are essentially against one another. 

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XFX GeForce 8800 GT Graphics Card Review - G92 Revealed - Graphics Cards 84

XFX GeForce 8800 GT Graphics Card Review - G92 Revealed - Graphics Cards 85

The main DX10-based options here are the “enhanced quality” here at the very bottom as well as the shader model set at 4.0 above. 

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In our Call of Juarez testing, the 8800 GT is a good performer as it is able to get close to the performance levels of the 640MB of the 8800 GTS though it can’t quite match it.  With a slightly slower memory system (256-bit versus 384-bit), and with the incredibly large textures that the DX10 version of CoJ uses, we are seeing the first signs of the technical deficit on the G92 specs. 

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XFX GeForce 8800 GT Graphics Card Review - G92 Revealed - Graphics Cards 89

Unfortunately for NVIDIA, the 169 driver sees a regression in their CoJ SLI performance — notice that the 8800 GT only sees a single frame increase in the average FPS while the GTX and GTS cards continue just fine.

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