dumb sticker

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congrats to anand to adding the filters
no more dumb "first post" or "in soviet russia" anymore

anyways with regard to the card
why on earth would you not buy the egva card as it comes with BF2 --- its one of the few games that taxes the card -- even if you have the game already - selling it would net you an extra $30 at least
kudos to evga for including a good game

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Actually, Chronicles of Riddick can stress the card too. It's also a really good game.

If the choice is just between BF2 and Riddick and you already have BF2 I would *definitely* suggest Riddick.

Nothing beats $500 for the 450MHz card with BF2 right now though.

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Great review, and props for filtering all the random spam.

I can't wait to see the BFG review as it will help me decide which 7800 I am going to get.

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I know how to show FPS in bf2, but does it have a in game benchmark?

Curious how you benchmark bf2 as I would like to see how some cards compare (or not compare i should say).

Good review

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anand has an article about different gpu's in bf2 stupid

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You'll need to create (or find one for downloading) a "demo" file which you can then run with the timedemo feature of the demo.cmd script file.

A couple of sources for general information on downloading the demo.cmd script,creating demos, converting them to AVIs, and running timedemos.

From the BF2 Tweak Guide

EA UK's BF2 Forum Thread on the BF2 Recorder

And, Overclockers.AU article on running BF2 benchmarks (mentioned in the BF2 Tweak Guide.

HTH,

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How do you turn on the FPS in BF2? Thanks.

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Use the tilde ~ key to access the console and enter this command, "renderer.drawFps 1" (no quotes).

You can find these tips and a lot more in the Battlefield Tweak Guide that I mentioned in my first link in the post above.

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A lot of people have been asking, so here ya go ... links to our battlefield 2 benchmark demos files.

[L]http://images.anandtech.com/reviews/video/bf2/atfinal3.bf2demo[/L]
[L]http://images.anandtech.com/reviews/video/bf2/atfinal3cam.bf2cam[/L]

There are instructions somewhere on battlefield2.com that describe how to use the demo.cmd file, but you will need to edit this file to set resolutions other than 800x600.

Our data is compiled from the last 1700 frames of our demo run. The many thousand other frames that can result come from the load screen and aren't useful to show performance.

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