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Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (CoD4) is a first person shooter running on a custom engine. It has nice graphics but the engine is somewhat dated compared to others and it runs well on modern PCs. It is the first CoD installment to take place in a modern setting instead of in World War II.

It differs from the previous Call of Duty games by having a more film-like plot that uses intermixed story lines from two perspectives; that of a USMC sergeant and a British SAS sergeant. There is also a variety of short missions where players control other characters in flashback sequences to advance the story. Call of Duty 4’s move to modern warfare introduced a variety of modern conventional weapons and technologies including plastic explosives.

There are currently about 20 multiplayer maps in CoD4. It is still very popular. CoD Modern Warfare 2 was also released with updated visuals but it is also not very demanding on graphics cards.  Our timedemo benchmark was created by ABT’s own Senior Editor, BFG10K.  Here is CoD4, at 1920×1200 and 2560×1600 resolutions with all in-game settings completely maxed out plus 4xAA:

We see that a popular multiplayer game is very playable even on midrange graphics cards and it plays very smoothly with this generation’s CPUs. There is no practical difference playing on either CPU platform and overclocking is unnecessary.