Enemy Territory: Quake Wars

Publisher: Activision

Built on an updated version of id Software's Doom 3 engine, Enemy Territory: Quake Wars is a team-based first person shooter that recently obtained the title of being the first game to use John Carmack's megatexture technology: a single texture that spans the entire map.

ET:QW also makes use of many vehicles and large open areas which means the action in view can get really intensive in this team based shooter. It's also the only game in this suite that utilises OpenGL instead of the pretty much industry-standard DirectX API. We used the full retail version of the game patched to version 1.4.

We recorded a timenetdemo on the Valley level which lasts for several minutes during an online game - this used lots of the different graphical effects to create what we've deemed to be a fairly typical slice of action to stress the system. We also created a custom autoexec file that enabled ultra high video settings, over and above that of the standard in game "high", including soft particles, as ATI has now remedied the display corruption present with that option enabled.






Generally speaking, the results in Enemy Territory: Quake Wars speak for themselves, as BFG Tech's GeForce 9600 GT OC 512MB follows the trend that was established across the other titles - it sits roughly halfway between the Zotac GeForce 9600 GT AMP! Edition and the reference-clocked card.

Compared to the ATI Radeon HD 3850, it's notably faster than the factory overclocked cards from both PowerColor and HIS right across the board. The only chink in the BFG Tech card's armour in this title is at 1680x1050 4xAA, where the Radeon HD 3870 manages to outperform it by a single frame per second on average.