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Far Cry 2 – DirectX 9.0

Far Cry 2 is the latest Ubisoft first person shooter and an eagerly anticipated title. Continuing the Far Cry series from Crytek, started in 2004, Far Cry is now actually completed independent from its original makers. The game now has its own engine named Dunia and uses a range of technology from dynamic weather and vegetation to full day/night cycles to non-direct lighting.

This engine also supports DX 10 under Vista, and DX9 if the user is running XP and is quite similar to CryTek’s CryEngine 2 used on Crysis and Crysis Warhead.
The following settings were used under DirectX 9.0:

• 1280×1024, 0xAA, medium settings
• 1280×1024, 8xAA, optimal settings
• 1680×1050, 0xAA, medium settings
• 1680×1050, 8xAA, optimal settings

The Far Cry 2 results were a bit of a mixed bag with some results at either end of the spectrum with up the 4870 or down at the lower 4770 level. However, the gaming benchmarks seem to be much better than the results seen in the synthetic ones early on.

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