Comanche 4 Performance
We rarely benchmark with flight simulators for a handful of reasons but mostly that they are usually not very demanding on GPU power and are limited by CPU performance. It is also very difficult to find repeatable benchmark capabilities within most flight simulators; timedemo-like functionality isn't something that's normally built in.
Novalogic's Comanche 4 was an exception to the latter and thus we started using it in our reviews. The graphics aren't incredibly stunning but having another genre represented in our reviews never hurts:
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Most flight simulators are very CPU bound and Comanche 4 is no exception; here's a situation where all of the contenders perform similarly.
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As the resolution increases the pack begins to spread apart with the Radeon 9500 Pro falling just shy of the GeForce4 Ti 4200.
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Performance at 1600x1200 for the Radeon 9500 drops off considerably, while the GeForce4s and Radeon 9700s stick together at the forefront of the chart.
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