- Call Of Juarez (DirectX 10)

Call of Juarez is a Western-themed first-person shooter from the Polish developer Techland. First released for Windows in 2006, it was ported to the Xbox 360 on June 5th 2007.The U.S. release of the PC version is one of the first games to utilize Microsoft's DirectX 10. It was released on June 12th, 2007.

Call of Juarez is loosely based on a number of Western movie hits from the last four decades, particularly the Spaghetti Westerns that became popular in the sixties and early seventies. The game features two different characters: Billy "Candle", a young fugitive accused of murder and the Reverend Ray, an ex-outlaw who turned to religion, believing that God Himself has chosen Ray to be the instrument of His wrath. Billy's character provides stealth and sniper elements to the game. With his whip he can latch onto objects to get into hard to reach locations. Later in the game, Billy acquires a bow, which can be used for ranged stealth kills.

In order to benchmark the graphics cards, we used the DirectX 10 demo version that is actually a benchmark utility. While you can set various quality settings, we chose two modes, one with AA enabled:

COJ utilises all DirectX10 features and the results should be considered as an indication of what you can expect from the retail game.

Both the Gainward 8600GT and Asus EN8600GTS Top performed very poorly, so it's a good idea to at least disable anti-aliasing:

While the lowest FPS remained the same, the average rendering performance of the Gainward 8600GT didn't improved at all, while the Asus EN8600GTS produced almost double the framerate, making the game, somewhat playable...