Far Cry 2 is the latest first person shooter from Ubisoft, and while it continues the Far Cry franchise that Crytek started in 2004, this game is built on its own in-house engine and has no association - other than its name - to anything Crytek has worked on or is working on now. We used a retail version of the game and the in-built gameplay demo set to High-Very High settings under DirectX 10.
Core i7 965 (4x3.2GHz, Single Channel, SMT enabled)
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Again, even on another motherboard, we're seeing poor performance in Far Cry 2, so at least we can rule out the motherboard and BIOS as a factor in this performance anomaly. The extra GHz and memory bandwidth generates a few FPS but not much - we suspect this is a driver issue, but neither Intel or Nvidia has commented to us about it yet.
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