Far Cry (2004) + Secret Service 2 played on High-End 2003 Gaming PC (Athlon 64 & ATI Radeon 9800 XT
DISCLAIMER: Contains profane language and unscripted rambling. This video was produced "guerrilla style" (as in "hastily and with little effort") using a consumer-grade camcorder (GoPro Hero 7 Black to be more specific) and as such expect less-than-ideal lighting, moire patterns, some video grain and other imperfections. In this first volume of a segment I like to call *Optimized or FLOPtimized?* we are going to play some Secret Service: Security Breach (Activition Value, 2003) and Far Cry (Ubisoft, 2004) to demonstrate how a high-end computer from 2003 handles said games. It will be of educational value to anyone dumb enough (like me) to care about the history of computer performance. System specifications for the computer featured in the video are as follows: - AMD Athlon 64 3200+ (Socket 754) 2.0Ghz processor - MSI K8T Neo (MS-6702) motherboard - 1GB of PC-3200 / DDR-400 DDR SDRAM - ATI Radeon 9800 XT video card (GPU) - Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy 2 (Model: SB0240) sound card - Microsoft Windows XP (Service Pack 2) operating system (unregistered copy; I rely on the "30-day Trial Reset" trick to keep using it past activation time limit because I'm a cheapskate) The following video card drivers were used for the video above: - ATI Catalyst 3.9 (Win2K/XP) (Note: the first number indicates year and second number indicates month; these drivers date back to September 2003) The monitor used for displaying the video signal from the computer: - Mitsubishi Diamond Plus 200 Credits for images used in thumbnail art goes to: - Karsa Orlong; Mobygames, Far Cry front cover contribution - ClydeFrog; Mobygames, Secret Service: Security Breach front cover contribution - OverclockersClub; (https://www.overclockersclub.com), AMD Athlon 64 image featured in the article "AMD Athlon 64-Bit CPUs Explained"
DISCLAIMER: Contains profane language and unscripted rambling. This video was produced "guerrilla style" (as in "hastily and with little effort") using a consumer-grade camcorder (GoPro Hero 7 Black to be more specific) and as such expect less-than-ideal lighting, moire patterns, some video grain and other imperfections. In this first volume of a segment I like to call *Optimized or FLOPtimized?* we are going to play some Secret Service: Security Breach (Activition Value, 2003) and Far Cry (Ubisoft, 2004) to demonstrate how a high-end computer from 2003 handles said games. It will be of educational value to anyone dumb enough (like me) to care about the history of computer performance. System specifications for the computer featured in the video are as follows: - AMD Athlon 64 3200+ (Socket 754) 2.0Ghz processor - MSI K8T Neo (MS-6702) motherboard - 1GB of PC-3200 / DDR-400 DDR SDRAM - ATI Radeon 9800 XT video card (GPU) - Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy 2 (Model: SB0240) sound card - Microsoft Windows XP (Service Pack 2) operating system (unregistered copy; I rely on the "30-day Trial Reset" trick to keep using it past activation time limit because I'm a cheapskate) The following video card drivers were used for the video above: - ATI Catalyst 3.9 (Win2K/XP) (Note: the first number indicates year and second number indicates month; these drivers date back to September 2003) The monitor used for displaying the video signal from the computer: - Mitsubishi Diamond Plus 200 Credits for images used in thumbnail art goes to: - Karsa Orlong; Mobygames, Far Cry front cover contribution - ClydeFrog; Mobygames, Secret Service: Security Breach front cover contribution - OverclockersClub; (https://www.overclockersclub.com), AMD Athlon 64 image featured in the article "AMD Athlon 64-Bit CPUs Explained"