Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast, Massasi Temple

The same engine, but the graphics is simpler than in RTCW, to our taste. The light sabers flash quite nicely, though.

We see a curious situation in case no FSAA and no anisotropic filtering are involved: the fps rate doesn’t depend on the resolution and lies within the measurement error. NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti4200-8x is still ahead. Moreover, this time even overclocking doesn’t help RADEON 9500 Pro to win, although it manages to catch up with the leader in 1600x1200. When FSAA 4x and anisotropic filtering are enabled, GeForce4 Ti4200-8x immediately yields to TYAN, due to higher working frequency and 8 pipelines of the latter.

NVIDIA is on top here. Even the overclocked RADEON 9500 PRO can only catch up with the competitor in 1600x1200. The same goes for the 2x FSAA mode. But as soon as we turned on 4xFSAA and anisotropic filtering, GeForce4 fell behind. The higher frequencies of Tyan’s product and the power of the eight pipelines do the trick.

Serious Sam: The Second Encounter, Grand Cathedral

Nothing extraordinary happened: NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti4200-8x is ahead in the first, “light”, mode, but goes down on enabling FSAA and anisotropic filtering, especially in higher resolutions. The overclocked RADEON 9500 PRO is on top: the extra 77MHz core and 50MHz memory frequency do their job.