Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

Publisher: Activision

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is different to all previous Call of Duty games, as it moves the action out of the World War II era and into the modern day. We have used the full version of the game with the 1.6 patch applied.

The game runs on a proprietary engine, which includes features like true world dynamic lighting, HDR lighting, dynamic shadowing and depth of field. Unlike most triple-A games that were launched late in 2007, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare only uses a DirectX 9.0 renderer and, given the realistic nature of the graphics, it proves that there's still life left in the old dog!

For our gameplay testing, we did a 90 second manual run through in the second mission of the game. All of the in-game settings were set to their maximum values, including texture details which were configured to 'Extra'. The 'Dual Video Cards' option was enabled for the multi-GPU configurations, but was disabled for all single GPU cards.

Finally, anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering were controlled from inside the game.








Like Crysis, Call of Duty 4 appears to show the biggest benefits to the Radeon HD 4870 1GB's additional 512MB of video memory when 4xAA is applied at high resolution. At both 1,920 x 1,200 4xAA 16xAF and 2,560 x 1,600 4xAA 16xAF, we witnessed an eight percent performance increase on the 4870 1GB. This took the 4870 from competing with Zotac's pre-overclocked GeForce GTX 260 AMP! Edition to competing with a stock-clocked GeForce GTX 280!