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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Graphics Performance

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On November 11, 2009, 4:08 AM EST

The wait is over as Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 was released worldwide this week. Developed by Infinity Ward and published by Activision, this is the sixth installment in the series and a direct sequel to Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.

We expect Modern Warfare 2 to be just as hardware friendly as its predecessor despite the numerous engine enhancements. In our graphics card performance evaluation we'll be testing a large range of previous and current generation GPUs, both mainstream and high-end chips from the GeForce 9600GT and Radeon 3000 series, to the recently launched Radeon HD 5000 GPUs, dual GPU cards from Nvidia and ATI, and even a Radeon HD 5770 Crossfire setup to make up for a total of 19 different GPU configurations.


Needless to say, this should give you a perfect picture of how your current or prospective system will perform in Modern Warfare 2.

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Guest
on January 14, 2010
10:19 AM

im running my nivida 7950 gx2 with amd athlon x2 5600+ and twin corsair 2gb ram.

Multiplayer was fine but lately all the soldiers are just black with no colour/texture just like shadows running around.

anyone know why?

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Guest
on February 1, 2010
6:49 AM

My GeForce 8400 GS 512MB can play COD6 but a litlle laggish when set AA x4 sometimes it will hang at there a while Do anybody know any trick to make my graphic card more powerfull for gaming

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Steve
on February 1, 2010
7:12 AM

Wow a GeForce 8400 GS, that is impressive, that is practically integrated graphics! There is no real trick to making that card faster and honestly I have no idea how you are playing CoD6 with it at all. I would disable AA all together and set every other visual quality setting to its lowest possible value.

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CMH
on February 1, 2010
7:24 AM

These guys don't know what they're missing out playing this aesthetically beautiful game on a budget card.....

Then again, I'm still sorely disappointed by the lack of dedicated servers.

Playing on my shining new GTS260... at least until BC2 is released.

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Steve
on February 1, 2010
8:11 AM

Yeah they stuffed Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, I got my money back

I don't want to know the game, waiting for something better to come along, something that has the option to run a dedicated server.

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CMH
on February 2, 2010
12:26 PM

BF:BC2 is that option, and its cheaper than MW2 @ US$49.99 on Steam as pre-order, with instant access to beta.

A good deal if you ask me, although I'd be waiting till this Friday before I put my purchase through.

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Guest
on March 6, 2010
12:17 PM

Can call of duty run with this card: Intel GMA 4500M?

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Steve
on March 6, 2010
5:07 PM

Can call of duty run with this card: Intel GMA 4500M?

Not a chance sorry.

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Guest
on March 20, 2010
12:30 PM

i have an x1650 pro vid card wit 1g ram and pentium 4 proccessor for some reason rundown, sub base, underpass, terminal, and derail dont work. When the loading map screen comes up after half way of loading, the screen brightness increases and it freezes. wat do i do? i used the msconfig to stop all the services and startup other than steam. As well as sometimes when im playing on afghan i get these black squares that on the screen that cover up the crosshairs and other details on the map

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