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.
Ah, now these are some good results for AMD! In Far Cry 2 the HD 5850 is able to best both the GTX 275 and the GTX 285 pretty easily and of course leaves the HD 4890 behind as well.
Once again CrossFire is proving to be a very scalable architecture as the pair of HD 5850s reaches as high as 76% over a single card. Also again, the HD 5870 results show it to be about 20% faster than the single HD 5850.
Our experience with Far Cry 2 were not as great as other titles using AMD Eyefinity technology even though it was on AMD’s “working” list we received before testing.
