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.
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.
This is pretty interesting: at 1600×1200 we saw a HUGE scaling boost of about 68% going from a single 9800 GX2 to Quad SLI – but that scaling didn’t follow the Call of Juarez test up into the other resolutions. At 1920×1200 that percentage has dropped to 20% and at 2560×1600 to 15% not to mention the fact that both the HD 3870 X2 and the aged NVIDIA 8800 Ultra single GPU cards are performing much better.
