Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

One of the biggest game releases of last year was Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. With a huge cross-platform multiplayer following, we have decided to include Modern Warfare 2 because despite its hardcore appeal to FPS players, it handles low detail settings very well.

We set Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 to its lowest settings, with V-Sync disabled and the resolution was set to 1280x800. We manually ran the first part of the Special Ops Alpha campaign for 90 seconds, three times over with FRAPS 3.03 and took an average result.



The Radeon HD 5450 512MB doubles performance compared to onboard graphics at these basic settings, providing an incredibly smooth and very playable gameplay experience. We'd certainly be tempted to crank the texture detail level up a notch because, quit frankly, at its lowest settings Modern Warfare 2 looks like a PS1 game scaled to HD resolutions.