The
Comanche 4 benchmark demo is a unique benchmark as it represents a real-world
gaming experience. It contains the single player "Eagle's Talon" mission from
the game as well as a detailed cinematic. This DirectX 8.1 benchmark demo will
measure your system's performance in the standard frames per second format. The
benchmark was run with audio disabled.
Comanche 4 says the same thing as the other 3D
benchmarks have been telling us, and that is that Socket 939 Athlon64
motherboards like the Asus A8V are damn fast!
A
completely rewritten 3D engine based on DirectX8 encompasses many visual effects
such as volumetric Nebulae (gas clouds) that have a real impact in the game (you
can hide in them), many new engine, shield, weapon and explosion effects.
Objects cast real dynamic 3D shadows! Dynamic DP3 bump mapping allows a
previously unseen level of detail.
I reran
the overclocked system a few times to make sure that the frame rates we were
getting were correct. At stock speeds, the nVIDIA based Gigabyte K8NSNXP-939
produces frame rates a bit lower than the Asus A8V.