Performance in Strategies

Age of Empires 3

Just like in Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory , the ATI RADEON X800 XL works in the Shader Model 2.0 mode and delivers a lower-quality picture than graphics cards with support of Shader Model 3.0 do. As for the rest of the devices, NVIDIA is victorious once again, while the RADEON X1600 XT, belonging to the new generation of graphics cards from ATI Technologies, does not allow you to play this game with comfort even in 1024x768. We could not test Age of Empires 3 in 1600x1200 with enabled FSAA and anisotropic filtering due to problems with the image quality.