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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The X1650 PRO is capable of running F.E.A.R. with all details at maximum at respectable speeds. Enabling AA and AF drops the frame rate by a small margin – the game remains playable except for the most intense firefights. The scene we used for benchmarking made us notice that although the card handled the HL2 Ep1 particle effects without a hitch, it was having severe problems coping with all the smoke on screen in this case – the frame rate diminished drastically when smoke and dust were displayed.