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HIS HD6970 CrossFireX Graphics Card Review

Lost Planet 2 is a third-person shooter video game developed and published by Capcom. The game is the sequel to Lost Planet: Extreme Condition which is also made by Capcom, taking place ten years after the events of the first game, on the same fictional planet. The story takes place back on E.D.N. III 10 years after the events of the first game. The snow has melted to reveal jungles and more tropical areas that have taken the place of more frozen regions. The plot begins with Mercenaries fighting against Jungle Pirates.

After destroying a mine, the Mercenaries continue on to evacuate the area, in which a Category-G Akrid appears and attacks them. After being rescued, they find out their evacuation point (Where the Category-G appeared) was a set-up and no pick up team awaited them. Lost Planet 2 runs on the MT-Framework 2.0, an updated version of the engine used in several Capcom-developed games.

We are testing in DX11 mode with all settings on the highest. Direct X 11 features are on high.

Lost Planet 2 isn’t a game we particularly like, but the DX11 engine is a fantastic hardware test. Cranking everything to full and enabling 4x MSAA shows that the AMD hardware in Crossfire configurations really delivers the best overall experience. The GTX580 also puts in a solid showing, leading the single GPU performance path.

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6 comments

  1. I think these are good boards, even though a lot of people will be disappointed with the fact the 580 is still leading the single card attack

  2. @Sam: Not quite. The 5970 is still the fastest card. The GTX580 is definitely the fastest single chip.

  3. The price is the biggest selling point. I dont think they are the performance killers we expected, but the 280 price for the 6970 means its actually only 30 more than the 5850 was at launch. thats quite a good figure for them to achieve. I think they are doing what they do against intel in the CPU sector. drop pricing as low as poss.

  4. CFx is very good with these cards. the drivers must be much better than I last remember

  5. @Faith – thats what I meant, ill be sure to make sure I analyse the text perfectly before posting next time 😉

  6. these arent too shabby. good job from AMD. they hit the sweet spot on the pricing

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