Galaxy GTX 275 Overclocked Review
Far Cry 2
Far Cry 2 is a free roaming first-person shooter developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft. Although it uses the name of the original Far Cry game, the similarities end right there. Far Cry 2 is a completely different story set in a completely different environment.
Far Cry 2 uses the Dunia game engine developed by Ubisoft’s Montreal development team for Far Cry 2. Dunia means “world”, “earth” or “living” in Arabic but also used in many languages with Arabic loanwords including Punjabi, Persian, Nepali, Bengali, Hindi, Indonesian, Kurdish, Turkish, Malay, Marathi, Urdu, Gujarati, Marvadi and Swahili. To portray the African setting in the game as realistically as possible, the development team went to Africa to study how things work there. The Dunia engine features Dynamic Weather, dynamic fire propagation (influenced by weather system), realistic fire, physics, full day/night cycles. Realistic fire is a high point of this game. It has the best looking depiction of a fire in a video game to date. The engine takes advantage of DirectX9 and DirectX 10 technologies.
I used the benchmark tool that comes with the game.
The GTX 275 enjoys a narrow lead over the HD 4890 in the average FPS department, but takes a considerable lead as far as the minimum FPS are concerned. The HD 4870 lags behind the other cards by a great margin, probably due to being limited by its 512 MB video memory at this high resolution.
