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'.

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






The XFX 9600 GSO XXX Edition is the fastest card tested here in Call of Duty 4 when anti-aliasing is enabled, but it falls behind the ATI Radeon HD 3870 when it's disabled. That's obviously down to the fact that the Radeon HD 3000 series had incredibly poor AA performance and this reality is cemented when you see the Radeon HD 4670 outperfoming AMD's fastest single GPU solution from its previous generation of hardware.