BF2142 PERFORMANCE PREVIEW!!!

[Cookie Monster]

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Looking over the baseline 4xAA/16xAF numbers, the GeForce 7950 GX2 comes out on top in terms of single-card performance, although its margin of victory isn?t as great as you?d expect, particularly at higher resolutions. We believe this is because SLI currently isn?t as scaling as well as it normally does in BF2142, but more on this later. It?s a tight race between the GeForce 7900 GTX and the Radeon X1950 XTX, but ultimately the XTX board comes out ahead, particularly as you increase the screen resolution. The 7900 GTX and X1950 XTX go from a tie at 1280x1024 to the X1950 XTX taking a 9% lead by 2048x1536. Meanwhile, the 7900 GTX and Radeon X1900 XTX are locked in a virtual tie across the board. The GeForce 7900 GT isn?t able to keep up with the other high-end cards, we were honestly a little surprised to see it falling so far behind the 7900 GTX so we went back and re-ran our results but came to similar findings. If it weren?t for the 256MB vs 512MB benchmarks on page 3 we?d chalk it up as a frame buffer i.e. memory size issue, but that doesn?t appear to be the case. We honestly just don?t know why the GT falls so far behind the GTX, it?s probably a combination of the 200MHz clock speed deficiency, mixed with the slower memory speed (140MHz slower) and its smaller frame buffer. We also noted that the GeForce 6800 GS delivers roughly half the performance of a GeForce 7800 GTX 256MB.

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Finally firing squad used HQ!!

We?re continuing to test with adaptive/transparency AA turned on, for these tests we also set NVIDIA?s image quality setting from the default ?quality? setting to ?high quality?, which disables most of NVIDIA?s AF optimizations. We tested Battlefield 2142 running the game?s high quality mode, all sliders were cranked to the high quality setting.

 

[Acanthus]

No suprises, its the BF2 engine with some extra geometry.

The same as vietnam was to 1942.

 

[Cookie Monster]

Originally posted by: Acanthus
No suprises, its the BF2 engine with some extra geometry.

The same as vietnam was to 1942.

Well looks pretty good compared to BF2. But Ill be buying Quake wars.

edit - apparently, the new 91.47 drivers (i could be wrong) improves SLi AA.
Check this out Link
Compared to a G70, G71 has 35.5% performance improvement in SLi AA!! (At stock 7800GTX speeds)

 

[5150Joker]

Seems like SLI is having problems in this game and Crossfire is doing just fine:

When it comes to SLI versus CrossFire, CrossFire currently comes out ahead in Battlefield 2142 performance. Based on our tests, we have a strong feeling part of the reason why CrossFire put up such a strong showing in these tests in particular is because CrossFire was scaling a little better than SLI was in the Battlefield 2142 beta. In previous dual-GPU testing, we?ve found that enabling CrossFire and SLI typically yields just shy of a doubling in performance ? it?s usually a performance increase of 1.7x-1.9x, but not quite 2x. We included GeForce 7900 GT baseline scores so you could see that NVIDIA?s SLI isn?t delivering anywhere close to these ratios, particularly as you increase the screen resolution. By the time we hit 2048x1536, the performance increase from going from one 7900 GT card to two boards running in SLI was just 22%, that?s a long way from a doubling in performance! Keep in mind, as we mentioned in the intro, we had to force AFR mode to get SLI to scale at all with Battlefield 2142 beta, so its quite possible that the AFR mode we selected isn?t quite ideal for BF2142 and more driver work will be needed on NVIDIA?s part to get SLI to scale more appropriately.

 

[Cookie Monster]

Yes, its beta.
But im beginning to find FS review better and better. Theyve used TRAA and AAA along with HQ. Something that most of us would use.

 

[Acanthus]

5150 with ATi spin, thats new.

Its the same engine as battlefield 2, which ATi was stronger in.

Expect the same in 2142.

 

[secretanchitman]

hopefully it'll support my 6600GT...*pout*

 

[5150Joker]

Originally posted by: Acanthus
5150 with ATi spin, thats new.

Its the same engine as battlefield 2, which ATi was stronger in.

Expect the same in 2142.

So facts are now an "ATi spin"? I quoted FS directly so where's the spin exactly? The fact that you mention it's the same engine makes it even worse because AFAIK SLI doesn't have this problem with BF2.

 

[Wreckage]

Looks like the GX2 is still the top card on the market.

 

[5150Joker]

Originally posted by: Wreckage
Looks like the GX2 is still the top card on the market.

It also seems to have much better min. fps which is very important in FPS games like this. What I'd like to see accompanied with these reviews that give min. fps numbers is a graph like HardOCP features so we can see how long the dip at min fps was for because if it's only for a second then that makes no difference to gameplay but if it's persistent then that's a huge problem.

 

[josh6079]

Originally posted by: Wreckage
Looks like the GX2 is still the top card on the market.

It also looks like SLI is getting beat by CrossFire. I really wish Nvidia's GPU's were more powerful.

 

[Ulfhednar]

I hope this means more sites will get the ball rolling in terms of standardising "high quality" settings for Geforce drivers. :thumbsup:

 

[Acanthus]

Originally posted by: 5150Joker

Originally posted by: Acanthus
5150 with ATi spin, thats new.

Its the same engine as battlefield 2, which ATi was stronger in.

Expect the same in 2142.

So facts are now an "ATi spin"? I quoted FS directly so where's the spin exactly? The fact that you mention it's the same engine makes it even worse because AFAIK SLI doesn't have this problem with BF2.

Because youre sighting "problems" with SLI, even though there were no stability issues. Its just not scaling great. There probably isnt an SLI driver profile for the game yet, the game is beta.

So observations like yours, are clearly biased, especially with your retarded post history.

 

[Wreckage]

Originally posted by: 5150Joker

Originally posted by: Wreckage
Looks like the GX2 is still the top card on the market.

It also seems to have much better min. fps which is very important in FPS games like this. What I'd like to see accompanied with these reviews that give min. fps numbers is a graph like HardOCP features so we can see how long the dip at min fps was for because if it's only for a second then that makes no difference to gameplay but if it's persistent then that's a huge problem.

True, although I'm sure the full release of the game and some driver updates from both companies will bring even better numbers.

 

[5150Joker]

Originally posted by: Acanthus

Originally posted by: 5150Joker

Originally posted by: Acanthus
5150 with ATi spin, thats new.

Its the same engine as battlefield 2, which ATi was stronger in.

Expect the same in 2142.

So facts are now an "ATi spin"? I quoted FS directly so where's the spin exactly? The fact that you mention it's the same engine makes it even worse because AFAIK SLI doesn't have this problem with BF2.

Because youre sighting "problems" with SLI, even though there were no stability issues. Its just not scaling great. There probably isnt an SLI driver profile for the game yet, the game is beta.

So observations like yours, are clearly biased, especially with your retarded post history.

I think its all too evident that you just have a personal axe to grind rather than any observed bias in my post.

 

[CKXP]

Originally posted by: Wreckage

Originally posted by: 5150Joker

Originally posted by: Wreckage
Looks like the GX2 is still the top card on the market.

It also seems to have much better min. fps which is very important in FPS games like this. What I'd like to see accompanied with these reviews that give min. fps numbers is a graph like HardOCP features so we can see how long the dip at min fps was for because if it's only for a second then that makes no difference to gameplay but if it's persistent then that's a huge problem.

True, although I'm sure the full release of the game and some driver updates from both companies will bring even better numbers.

plus plenty of patches, knowing EA, also the last thing we need is another thread from akshayt..."help BF2142 beta runs like crap"

 

[Capt Caveman]

fwiw - as a BF2142 beta tester, the game is the suxs. All the bugs and issues from BF2 have been carried over then to add insult to injury, they released a second beta build which disconnects almost everyone after only a few minutes of play. Prior to the second beta build, they had a few hundred servers packed. Now, you'll maybe find ten servers populated. Also, after the second beta build, EA/Dice stopped posting on the BF2142 Beta forums.

 

[Sentry2]

I get quite a few problems while running Crossfire and BF2142. I get about half the performance of one X1900 while running Crossfire with cat AI set to normal(default driver settings). If I set it to advanced then I get about 50 - 60% more fps than 1 card for a short period of time and then for some reason it goes back to about half the fps of 1 card. I'm sure new drivers from red and green will fix any issues. I'm not out to defend Xfire or SLI as they both have their bugs. This is my first xfire setup though and I must say I'm quite impressed when it does work(which is most of the time).

The BF2142 beta is fun but I still like BF2 better so far.

 

[imported_RedStar]

"Well looks pretty good compared to BF2. But Ill be buying Quake wars. "

i will get both. But i am looking forward to quake wars more

 

[BroadbandGamer]

No native widescreen support, no thanks!

When is EA/Dice going to pull their head out of their @$$ and give us gamers native widescreen?

 

[Trevelyan]

Originally posted by: BroadbandGamer
No native widescreen support, no thanks!

When is EA/Dice going to pull their head out of their @$$ and give us gamers native widescreen?

Yep, I personally will not buy BF2142... maybe once its under $20 and several patches have been released.

 

[Ulfhednar]

I too am sick of no native widescreen support in Battlefield, it's like living in the dark ages. Can force it through a command line but that's beside the point, it still looks crap with the HUD stretching all over.

 

[LittleNemoNES]

Originally posted by: Ulfhednar
I too am sick of no native widescreen support in Battlefield, it's like living in the dark ages. Can force it through a command line but that's beside the point, it still looks crap with the HUD stretching all over.

So true.

 

[josh6079]

I also agree that they need to grow up and support widescreens like all of the more mature companies are doing. Put some blood in there too, not just dust. I want more realism, not some giant expansion to BF2 set in "Waterworld gone ice".

From the screenshots I've seen, the shadows still suck as well.

Quake Wars, here we come. Bye bye EA.

 

[Polish3d]

Truly. At this point its ridiculous