In this section you can take a look at comparative game screenshots taken with different graphics cards in scenes as identical as possible.

All screenshots are taken at the best graphics settings available ingame. Note that slow cards can offer just a few fps at such detail level, which is merely unplayable. Therefore you shouldn't consider screenshots taken with such weak cards as qualifying.

Should you find a mistake or inaccuracy in any gallery, or have ideas or comments regarding this section in general, please email to Danil Gridasov.

Contents

1. What's new
2. Graphics cards
3. Up-to-date galleries
4. Archived galleries

• Archived some of the galleries (no updates in them from now on).

• Added screenshots for Act of War: Direct Action; Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30; Need for Speed Underground 2 and Prince of Persia: Warrior Within.

• Updated screenshots of Call of Duty, Doom 3, Painkiller after applying the latest patches.

• The following patches were released in the past month for games in our galleries:

  • Patch v1.b for Act of War: Direct Action
  • Patch v1.02 for Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30
  • Patch v1.64 for Painkiller: Battle Out of Hell

Graphics cards

The following cards were used in making of this material:

• ATI Radeon 9600 (Sapphire Radeon 9600)
• ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (Gigabyte RADEON 9800 PRO GV-R98P128D)
• ATI Radeon x800 Pro (PowerColor RADEON x800 PRO Limited Edition)
• NVIDIA GeForce Fx 5900 (ASUS V9950 128MB)
• NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT (Prolink PixelView GeForce 6600GT AGP)
• NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra (NVIDIA Reference)

Besides, earlier we used the following cards for taking screenshots:

• ATI Radeon 9200 (Gigabyte Radeon 9200) (until 02.2005)
• NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti4600 (NVIDIA Reference) (until 02.2005)
• NVIDIA GeForce Fx 5200 (Palit Daytona GeForce Fx 5200) (until 02.2005)
• NVIDIA GeForce Fx 5700 Ultra (Albatron GeForce Fx 5700 Ultra) (until 02.2005)

Screenshots taken with these cards are not updated anymore.

Up-to-date galleries

These galleries are updated in cases of new graphics card additions or significant changes in certain games (like new patches incompatible with older savegames or introducing new visible effects).

1. Act of War: Direct Action
2. Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30
3. Call of Duty: United Offensive
4. Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher's Bay, The
5. Deus Ex: Invisible War
6. Doom 3
7. Far Cry
8. FlatOut
9. Half-Life 2
10. Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne
11. Need for Speed Underground 2
12. Painkiller: Battle Out of Hell
13. Prince of Persia: Warrior Within
14. Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow
15. Unreal Tournament 2004
16. IL2-Shturmovik: Forgotten Battles. Aces In The Sky.

Archived galleries

These galleries are not updated anymore, but are still available for browsing.

1. Armed & Dangerous (updated until 02.2005)
2. Colin McRae Rally 04 (updated until 02.2005)
3. Command & Conquer Generals (updated until 02.2005)
4. Need for Speed: Underground (up to 03.2005)
5. Silent Hill 3 (updated until 02.2005)
6. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (updated until 02.2005)
7. Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness (updated until 02.2005)
8. Tron 2.0 (updated until 02.2005)
9. Yager (updated until 02.2005)