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 definitely a game I was expecting the Diamond HD 3870 1GB to make a difference on simply because of the huge texture base that Call of Juarez uses. That wasn’t the case though as at all resolutions the 1GB frame buffer did not improve performance over the 512MB frame buffer. However, at all resolutions the Diamond card did beat out the NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX card in this particular benchmark – something we are used to seeing by now.
