F.E.A.R.

F.E.A.R. contains some of the most demanding graphics currently available. Visit most forums and you’ll no doubt find people thoroughly depressed over how low they have to set the detail levels to get the game up and running at a respectable pace with their hardware. For our testing soft shadows are off.

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F.E.A.R. is undoubtedly a more demanding game than Half-Life 2 to run on any PC, even with code which optimises dual core and dual GPU configurations and so we were interested to see if the gap between the two cards is larger, as it was when raising resolutions in HL2. Interestingly the average fps result actually reduces as the resolutions are increased in F.E.A.R. which results in some very close performance. The most important statistic is the minimum FPS in this case though as anything below 25fps can result in stuttery game play. Our results show that the BFG 7900GTX OC provides this performance at 1600x1200 with 4xAA and 16xAF, in fact it also comes very close at 2048x1536.