Oh no, I've done it again. Run for the hills!

Nah in all seriousness, some good comments were raised in the middle of the fanboy ramblings. Specifically how 'subjective' my comments were. This is a very fair point, so I've quickly unpacked the 4870 and took some quick screenshots & videos. Unfortunately I couldn't get a screenshot from Crysis on my Vista machine, only XP running the 6600GT

First up, the Mass Effect issue I noticed:


1920x1200, 4x AA, 16xAF, High Quality Transparency AA. Click to enlarge.

Stalker Clear Sky:



ATI left, NV right. Enhanced dynamic lighting, high detail preset. Unplayable on both, but still a curiosity I found.

Now for the distracting pattern / moire / unsharp mask like issue. Its only visible in motion so here's a dodgy video I made:

NV HL2 In Motion
ATI HL2 In Motion

Settings were the same as in Mass Effect, 1920x1200, 4x AA, 16xAF, High Quality Transparency AA.

I'm afraid that's all I've got, I really don't want to spend ages cataloging every single difference. Suffice it to say I didn't encounter any visual anomolies with the NV card, but at the same time ATI's IQ on occasion was superior - albeit subtly.

Hmmm, I don't recall seeing those artifacts with the HD4870 512mb.

Ahh ME such a cool game, PS

Did you find the frames/per sec on mass effect dropped below 60 at any time (especially around the citadel) and did you find the game got unstable after about 1. 30 mins + playtime?

titaniumx3 said:

Hmmm, I don't recall seeing those artifacts with the HD4870 512mb.

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It could be to do with the AF / ADAA?

Peter450 said:

Ahh ME such a cool game, PS

Did you find the frames/per sec on mass effect dropped below 60 at any time (especially around the citadel) and did you find the game got unstable after about 1. 30 mins + playtime?

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I'm afraid I didn't test it long enough to be able to say

Just added the Clear Sky screenshots

Boogle, how dare you...you should have compared the...

Nah joking, nice one