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NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra and GeForce 6800: NV40 Enters the Scene (page 31)

Category: Video

by Tim Tscheblockov , Alexey Stepin , Anton Shilov

[ 04/14/2004 | 01:48 AM ]

Far Cry Demo

If it were only about the performance, we’d again state that the GeForce 6800 Ultra is unrivalled. Alas, we met image quality problems in this game:

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NV40

There’s no shader water, no EMBM relief, but there are some problems with texturing and lighting. A large portion of the scene would become blue from time to time, like it was with the S3 DeltaChrome. In all other games, save for Command & Conquer: Generals (see below), the GeForce 6800 Ultra outputs a picture of excellent quality, without any artifacts. Probably, the ForceWare version 60 driver is to blame for that.

We saw the same problems in the full version of Far Cry; hopefully, the driver updates will do away with them.