dang sorry gonna repost this (gotta remind myself not to post when i'm so sleepy 😛)
don you don't know what you are talking about pfft saying old duke fans are compeletely disapointed is nonsense. i've played every duke game to date and i was perfectly pleased with DNF , sure it's no "game changer" but neither were any of the old duke games, yeah so DN3D had some neat interactions but it hardly set it's self up as a pack leader back then. if it had , then younger generations would actually have heard about it more commonly , like they have with doom and quake for instance. I think you like most the press , just threw DN3D up on some pedastal that it was never really on , and that causes you guys (and gals) to expect to much from DNF, sure it could have been better givin the dev time , but it did change engines twice durring development , and in the end it's still a duke game , (ie poor AI lotta jokes , and duke's bluntness). now that it's out i'm more concerned with what gear box will do with future iterations of it .. (and i hope like hell they don't turn it into a serious shooter).
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also gonna ad , nice article in general though , just think you could have left out the derogatory comments about the game, in an article that is supposed to be about benchmarking the game.
PS. i'm amazed , running win XP still in dx 9 with a dual core athy 64 (5000+ black ed OC'ed to 3 ghz) and i'm runing a radeon 5770 HD , yet my own fraps benches are only slightly lower than yours with every thing maxed and FXAA despite the fact you got a much more beastly processor in your test benches. (this is at 1920x1080 res too), but yeah should have been a no brainer that any one sporting a mid to high end single card could push this game no sweat.