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ATI Radeon HD 4850 Versus NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+
| Manufacturer: | AMD |
| Product: | Radeon HD 4850 versus the GeForce 9800 GTX+ |
| Date: | Thu, Jun 19, 2008 - 12:00 AM |
| Written By: | Nathan Kirsch - |
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Call of Duty 4
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is a first-person shooter developed by Infinity Ward and published by Activision for Xbox 360 , Playstation 3 and PC. It is the fourth installment in the Call of Duty video game series. It was announced on April 25, 2007 and was released on November 6, 2007 in North America. The single player game can be completed in well under seven hours, but the graphics are awesome.
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare runs on a proprietary graphics engine, and has features such as true world-dynamic lighting, HDR lighting effects, dynamic shadows and depth-of-field. "Bullet Penetration" is calculated by the engine, taking into account things such as surface type and entity thickness. Certain objects, such as cars, and some buildings are destructible. This makes distinguishing cover from concealment important, as meager protection such as wooden fences, thin walls and such no longer provide sufficient protection. The bullet's speed and stopping power are decreased after penetrating an object, and this decrease is calculated realistically depending on the thickness and surface of the object penetrated. The game also makes use of a physics engine, which was not implemented in previous Call of Duty titles for the PC. Death Animations are a combination of pre-set animations and ragdoll physics. Some mistook the game's graphics to be DirectX 10 based, but it is stated that the graphics use DirectX 9.
Results: Call of Duty 4 with the graphics cranked up to 4xAA and 16xAF is tough on graphics cards. The Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 and NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+ both were able to play COD4 above 30FPS at 1920x1200. The GeForce GTX 280 is still king of the hill, but the game is playable on nearly all of the cards at 1920x1200. In the end the Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 was just a bit faster.
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