13 - Colin McRae 05

For all you racing fans out there, this test is for you and will represent the Racing game category in our benchmarks.

From the graphics point of view, the first thing you'll notice in the game is the excellent amount of detail on your racing car. High resolution textures on the car and lighting make it quite impressive. All the eye candy such as the sun reflection in the virtual camera is still the same as with the older CM versions, but motion blur has been added when your card hits something hard which will happen most often if you're new to the racing simulation world.

To measure performance on the game we used fraps to get the average fps of the whole UK 8th stage which is actually the only stage you get to play on the demo.

Colin McRae 2005 brings the best out of the X600 and gaming is excellent under all resolutions.

Even setting Anti-Aliasing to 4x and Anisotropic Filtering to 8x won't prevent you from enjoying this rally simulator. Up to 1024x768, you can play the game without any problems or difficulties other than crashing your car on one of the many trees you'll encounter in the game. However, increasing the resolution any further is discouraged as the average of 24 fps or less in not acceptable, especially for games like this.