Need For Speed: Pro Street is the latest chapter in a long and very successful genre.  Beautiful settings of weekend race wars for all you racers and racer wannabes.  We used 1600 resolution with all settings set to max except FSAA which was turned off.

Our testing shows a nice grouping of results here.  The only huge notable is the lagging of the HD3850.

STALKER is a very resource intensive game with a variety of graphics settings within the game.  The most intensive of these is the 'Full Dynamic Lighting'.  This effectively turns on all the eye candy, grass and sun shadows as well as max detail for all areas.  FSAA is turned off to keep our results easier to extrapolate between ATi vs. NVidia product reviews.

This was truly interesting.  The results themselves held true to the trend that had already established itself.  What is behind the scenes are the increases in speed from the time of our original testing of the 8800 GT.  Testing today was with the NVidia driver update of 12/19/07 with the 169.21 WHQL drivers.  The gains didn't show up as much elsewhere but here we are talking huge increases.  So much so in fact that I reran benchmarking with older drivers to confirm I didn't screw something up.  Yep, the new drivers are that much better in some areas.

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