XFX HD6850 CrossFireX review

Lost Planet 2 is a third-person shooter video game developed and published by Capcom. The game is the sequel to Lost Planet: Extreme Condition which is also made by Capcom, taking place ten years after the events of the first game, on the same fictional planet. The story takes place back on E.D.N. III 10 years after the events of the first game. The snow has melted to reveal jungles and more tropical areas that have taken the place of more frozen regions. The plot begins with Mercenaries fighting against Jungle Pirates.

After destroying a mine, the Mercenaries continue on to evacuate the area, in which a Category-G Akrid appears and attacks them. After being rescued, they find out their evacuation point (Where the Category-G appeared) was a set-up and no pick up team awaited them. Lost Planet 2 runs on the MT-Framework 2.0, an updated version of the engine used in several Capcom-developed games.

We are testing in DX11 mode.

Lost Planet 2 is one of the newest Direct X 11 games on the market and our results show another great result for the CrossfireX XFX HD5850 cards, scoring around 65 fps average. This is around 10 fps slower than the GTX 460 SLI solution, but interestingly the minimum frame rate is around 3 fps higher which actually has slightly more impact on the gameplay smoothness.

The single HD6850 card performs around the same level as the HD5870, with slightly better minimum frame rate results.

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