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Half the Way to the Half-Life 2: Counter Strike: Source Benchmarked (page 3)Category: Video by Anton Shilov Alexey Stepin, Yaroslav Lyssenko [ 10/10/2004 | 11:00 AM ] Testbeds and MethodsWe will talk more about the Source engine, its conceptions and details, when the Half-Life 2 is released, but now let us try to figure out what graphics card you will need for the Counter Strike: Source. For our benchmarking we used two computers: with AGP 8x interface and with PCI Express x16 interface for graphics cards configured as follows: Testbed 1:
Testbed 2:
Software:
We did not disable any texture filtration optimization from NVIDIA’s or ATI’s drivers. Please keep in mind that these drivers are on the beta stage of testing by appropriate developers. We would like to point out that we do not typically test the hardware using beta or alpha drivers. However, NVIDIA’s official drivers at press time were dated July, 2004, while ATI has just corrected a memory management bug in the new 8-07 drivers. So, we had to stick to beta drivers that were obtainable from official web-sites of NVIDIA and ATI.
We used the following graphics cards for our performance-measurement actions:
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