Facelift: The ATi Radeon 9600 XT

X2 Rolling Demo

This demo, which includes a benchmark mode, gives you a pretty good feel for what Egosoft's next game "X2 - The Threat" will look like. Although the engine doesn't use any pixel shaders, the graphics are nonetheless impressive. Egosoft makes heavy use of stencil shadows and Dot3 bump mapping with high-res textures. More information on the demo is available here at egosoft.com .