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Frame Rate Tests - F.E.A.R

For F.E.A.R we kept things simple, by showing how each card did with Antialiasing (AA), Anisotropic Filtering (AF) and Soft Shadows (SS). We show the frame results only from running F.E.A.R. at a resolution of 1024x768 with Soft Shadows turned off and with AA and AF disabled (Trilinear Filtering selected). The other data comes from the frames at a resolution of 1600x1200 with SS enabled, AA disabled and AF at sixteen times sampling (16xAF). For each of the tests, we display the 30 frames per second boundary with a red line.