Far Cry 2
Far Cry 2 (DirectX 10)
Far Cry 2 is the spiritual sequel to one of the best selling and longest living games on the PC though this title was developed not by Crytek, but by Ubisoft directly using a completely new engine as well. The game is set in Africa and you have malaria – what else do you need to know?
Far Cry 2 settings
Far Cry 2 includes a great benchmarking utility that allows us to setup for in-game testing of all varieties and includes both the ability to benchmark based on time (variable frame count) or based on speed (fixed frame count) – we went with the time-based option to simulate real-world gaming and allowing for apples-to-apples comparisons.
This is the only benchmark that clearly shows use of the 1GB of frame buffer as opposed to the 512MB frame buffer – the GTS 250 at least sees a increase in performance for the first time. The other three offerings do have some trouble with Far Cry 2 at these resolutions and image quality settings so it would be wise to turn these down during your normal gameplay but our scores are useful for performance comparisons none the less.
