The Chronicles of Riddick

The Chronicles of Riddick is a relatively fresh game. It is quite resource-consuming, while its engine generally works better on NVIDIA’s GeForce6 series cards. The RADEON X800/X850 cards can’t boast high performance here, being barely capable of providing for comfortable play in 1600x1200. There’s no difference between the two versions of the RADEON X800 XL: their results coincide to a fraction of fps.

There’s no difference in the 4x FSAA + 16x aniso-filtering mode, either. Then, the game is only playable on the RADEON X800 XL in 1024x768 at such settings.

We didn’t find any performance gains in the maximum quality mode. The game doesn’t seem to operate with as many complex textures as to demand for more than 256 megabytes of graphics memory in typical resolutions.