Half-Life
2 Episode 1 is the first in a series of games
that chronicle events after the end of Half-Life
2. The game engine is Valves “Source”
however unlike the original Half-Life 2 valve
have progressed on to the more advanced level
with the addition of some excellent HDR lighting
which combines very well with the existing engine
to produce some lovely looking visuals which are
at times mind blowing.
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There
was virtually no difference in performance between
the two boards. The 3fps advantage of the PCI-E
card in the first test is probably caused by the
slower clock speeds of the AGP card. Surprisingly
the roles are reversed when the image enhancing
are turned off with the Sapphire card taking a
slight lead.
During
our testing we noticed that the notorious sound
stuttering bug was more noticeable on the AGP
card for some reason. This can probably be attributed
to the slower transfer speeds of the AGP bus,
as the PowerColor board had the disadvantage on
paper due to only 256Mb of memory.
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