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I'm not much of a gamer, but I do enjoy the odd killing spree. I'm a vintage man usually, rarely touching a game that's been made in the current decade. My regular game of choice is Battlefield 2, which was released way back in 2005. Therefore I can only comment on performance in terms of my own enjoyment (that's what she said).
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In these two atrociously different screen shots I will attempt to show you the difference in quality that I have played the game with. The one above was using a 3.0ghz Penitum D + Nvidia GT8500 (256mb) graphics card. Medium settings at 800x600, with no antialiasing. As you'd hope, the A10 blows that away. Everything up full and 8x anti-aliasing at 1920x1080 in the image below and first image in post.
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And what about the frame rate? Pardon? Framerate, you say? Listen, it's got plenty of frames, ok. Who are these snobs that insist that you can't play below 30fps. Back in my day, on the Commodore Amiga, we'd be lucky to get 10fps on a racing game. 30 frames per second, indeed. I'm averaging 60fps with the A10 anyway, so nothing to worry about.
Wolfenstein (2009) plays perfectly with everything up full*. Arma2 runs well on high settings and looks great. STALKER: Call of Pripyat is a game I might get into next, but I'm still figuring out what settings work best with. The first two STALKER games were always rough on graphics cards if you didn't get everything just right. The A10 is DirectX 11 compliant but I'm not sure if it will be up to much with the features (I'll have to do without that texture "tessellation" or some such shit). I guess the rule of thumb is, anything pre-dx11 will run great, but you need to tone it down for the newer shizzle.
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Of course, AMD say the A10 is unlocked and easily overclockable. Well that's great and all but for the extra few percent I might get out of it, I think I'll leave it. I spent a bit extra for faster RAM modules, because it uses shared memory for the GPU cores, so I think I'll leave it at that for extra performance.
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I saw a gamma goblin playing the battlefield that came after bf2 - i played 1942 for a loooong time
Gamma Goblin's popped up all over the place after 2005. It's a blessing and a curse. If by saying "the game after BF2" you mean "Battlefield 2142", then that definitely wasn't me, as I hated that game with a passion.
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