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 1.5 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.








If we disregard the GeForce 9800 GX2 because it’s in a completely different class of performance, BFG Tech’s GeForce 9800 GTX OCX comes out as the fastest card across the board. It’s not only significantly faster than the Radeon HD 3870 X2 at all resolution, but it’s also quite a bit faster than the reference clocked GeForce 9800 GTX. On average, we saw about a 10 percent performance improvement as a result of the higher clocks – that’s certainly nothing to sniff at, and we found it to be quite noticeable in some scenarios.