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Monolith’s F.E.A.R. is one of a few games where Nvidia’s GeForce 7950 quad SLI graphics sub-system is able to demonstrate its strong points. Being a part of “The Way It’s Meant to Be Played” program by Nvidia, F.E.A.R. Extraction Point also demonstrates advantages of four graphics chips. Unfortunately, in 1280x960 resolution quad SLI turns on “compatibility” mode where only one chip out of four is operating.

Even though all the premium graphics cards more or less allow playing comfortably, Nvidia GeForce 7950 GX2 is significantly faster that the Radeon X1950 XTX, whereas ATI’s Radeon X1950 XTX CrossFire has no chances against Nvidia’s GeForce 7950 quad SLI.

For some reason, ATI’s CrossFire technology does not demonstrate really high performance scalability in F.E.A.R. Extraction Point with FSAA 4x and AF 16x enabled. Only the GeForce 7950 quad SLI allows to play F.E.A.R. Extraction Point in 1600x1200 resolution with all the eye candy set to maximum.

Although the Radeon X1950 XTX is slightly faster than the GeForce 7950 GX2, their performance is too low to be useful for gaming.