Sierra FEAR 1.08	Source: Sierra

FEAR is Sierra's latest first person shooter which relies heavily on DirectX 9 features. With its "Soft Shadows" feature enabled, even the fastest videocards run at a crawl, FEAR is definitely the new benchmark for future FPS games to follow.

Sierra FEAR 1.08
1024x768:	FPS	Ranking
Diamond Viper Radeon HD 2900XT	177
Diamond Viper Radeon HD 2900XT CrossFire	207
Asus EAX1900XTX 2DHTV/512M/A	188
Asus EAX1950PRO/HTDP/256M/A	109
MSI NX8800GTX-T2D768E	157
Foxconn FV-N88SMCD2-ONOC	150
MSI NX8800GTS-T2D320E-HD-OC	143
GeForce 8600GTS SLI	149
Foxconn 8600GTS-256	111
MSI NX8600GTS-T2D256E-OC	107
Albatron 8600GT-256	94
MSI NX8500GT-TD256E	54
MSI NX7950GX2-T2D1GE	143
MSI NX7900GTX-T2D512E	138
MSI NX7900GS-T2D512E-OC	112
Gigabyte GV-NX76T256D-RH	78
Biostar Sigma-Gate GeForce 7600GS	68
MSI RX2600XT Diamond	103
1600x1200:	FPS	Ranking
Diamond Viper Radeon HD 2900XT	119
Diamond Viper Radeon HD 2900XT CrossFire	153
Asus EAX1900XTX 2DHTV/512M/A	114
Asus EAX1950PRO/HTDP/256M/A	59
MSI NX8800GTX-T2D768E	132
Foxconn FV-N88SMCD2-ONOC	108
MSI NX8800GTS-T2D320E-HD-OC	103
GeForce 8600GTS SLI	97
Foxconn 8600GTS-256	56
MSI NX8600GTS-T2D256E-OC	54
Albatron 8600GT-256	48
MSI NX8500GT-TD256E	28
MSI NX7950GX2-T2D1GE	110
MSI NX7900GTX-T2D512E	79
MSI NX7900GS-T2D512E-OC	60
Gigabyte GV-NX76T256D-RH	39
Biostar Sigma-Gate GeForce 7600GS	34
MSI RX2600XT Diamond	49
1024x768 w/Soft Shadows Enabled:	FPS	Ranking
Diamond Viper Radeon HD 2900XT	143
Diamond Viper Radeon HD 2900XT CrossFire	167
Asus EAX1900XTX 2DHTV/512M/A	91
Asus EAX1950PRO/HTDP/256M/A	66
MSI NX8800GTX-T2D768E	134
Foxconn FV-N88SMCD2-ONOC	113
MSI NX8800GTS-T2D320E-HD-OC	112
GeForce 8600GTS SLI	110
Foxconn 8600GTS-256	61
MSI NX8600GTS-T2D256E-OC	60
Albatron 8600GT-256	52
MSI NX8500GT-TD256E	23
MSI NX7950GX2-T2D1GE	114
MSI NX7900GTX-T2D512E	85
MSI NX7900GS-T2D512E-OC	63
Gigabyte GV-NX76T256D-RH	40
Biostar Sigma-Gate GeForce 7600GS	31
MSI RX2600XT Diamond	53
1600x1200 w/Soft Shadows Enabled:	FPS	Ranking
Diamond Viper Radeon HD 2900XT	75
Diamond Viper Radeon HD 2900XT CrossFire	104
Asus EAX1900XTX 2DHTV/512M/A	42
Asus EAX1950PRO/HTDP/256M/A	30
MSI NX8800GTX-T2D768E	74
Foxconn FV-N88SMCD2-ONOC	55
MSI NX8800GTS-T2D320E-HD-OC	57
GeForce 8600GTS SLI	51
Foxconn 8600GTS-256	27
MSI NX8600GTS-T2D256E-OC	26
Albatron 8600GT-256	20
MSI NX8500GT-TD256E	10
MSI NX7950GX2-T2D1GE	59
MSI NX7900GTX-T2D512E	39
MSI NX7900GS-T2D512E-OC	30
Gigabyte GV-NX76T256D-RH	18
Biostar Sigma-Gate GeForce 7600GS	14
MSI RX2600XT Diamond	18

FEAR kills all but the most powerful videocards. As you can plainly see from the results, anything much above 1024x768 is too much for this mainstream MSI videocard.