UT2003, SS2
Unreal Tournament 2003 (2225)- Author: Epic
- DirectX Class: 8.1
- Pixel and Vertex Shaders: No
- Other: High resolution textures show massive detail when aniso is applied
Pretty much in a line here. Doubts are cast over NVIDIA-based cards' results due to the poor image quality exhibited by the drivers. It's difficult to see the difference visually. It's usually brought up via colourised mipmaps. I guess that makes the 3D Prophet 9800XT top dog here again.
Serious Sam 2
- Author: Croteam
- DirectX Class: 8.1
- Pixel and Vertex Shaders: No
- Other: Uses OpenGL, supports quad pass multitexture and game applied aniso
Some jumping around here between ATI and NVIDIA cards. Bottom line is that both are as playable as one another. Both are as stable as the day is long. We'd have no problem in choosing any of our trio for a marathon SS2 session.