Serious Sam SE
Now let us look at another game, Serious Sam the Second Encounter. This game has some of the best graphics that I've seen in a game recently. As such it is very demanding on the video card, thus making it a very good benchmark. Lets see the results at 1024 without AA.
| Video Card |
Minimum FPS |
Average FPS |
Max FPS |
| Parhelia: |
23 |
62.1 |
121 |
| MSI 8888 (405/729) |
24 |
64.90 |
117 |
| MSI 8888 (Stock) |
33 |
51.52 |
89 |
We see the same type of results as we saw at 1600*1200 in Jedi Knight II. Here when overclocked, the MSI card is able to beat the Parhelia in this test. We note a small point as when overclocked and also with the Parhelia the minimum frame rate is slower than that at stock settings, which is most likely a small glitch in the benchmark test. We see a rather large jump in frame rates in this game, but still we see the overclocked MSI card do very well in this setting. What about when enabling AA and ansiotropic filtering.
| Video Card |
Minimum FPS |
Average FPS |
Max FPS |
| Parhelia: |
23 |
46.83 |
88 |
| MSI 8888 (405/729) |
18 |
24.75 |
37 |
| MSI 8888 (Stock) |
13 |
17.91 |
26 |
Here we see the results of a efficient antialiasing method in action. But even so when we overclock the MSI card it does help it improve by a large amount, though many will still call it unplayable with these settings. The MSI card loses 2/3 of its average frame rate by enabling these options. So how does the MSI card perform at 1600*1200, lets see.
| Video Card |
Minimum FPS |
Average FPS |
Max FPS |
| Parhelia: |
23 |
36.40 |
66 |
| MSI 8888 (405/729) |
25 |
36.46 |
64 |
| MSI 8888 (Stock) |
19 |
26.14 |
44 |
When we bump up the resolution we see that the MSI card does perform better than it does with AA enabled. When overclocked this card catches the Parhelia and has a very similar graph, which is nice to see, and it manages to be fairly 'playable' at this resolution. We've looked at a couple of OpenGL games, now lets look at some DirectX games.
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