FIFA 10: Horrible graphics but also playable on aged PCs
Every fall, the gaming market is hit with updated versions of the football classics FIFA and PES. Since FIFA 10 will be released about three weeks earlier than PES 2010 it has to pass our graphics and performance test first.
EA presents its annual update of the popular football game FIFA 10. It has already been known that the PC version of FIFA 10 will have the same graphics as FIFA 09 whereas the console version gets visually updated. EA justifies this step with the unbalanced performances of different PCs. This statement in mind we cannot expect worldshaking graphics. How FIFA looks like and on which PCs FIFA 10 is playable will be shown below.
FIFA 10: Performance rating and graphics (5)
Quelle: PC Games Hardware
The minimum system specifications of FIFA are very moderate, even the recommended specs are possible for PCs bought within the last years.
Minimum system specifications:
Processor: 2,400 MHz (Single-Core)
RAM: 512 MiByte under XP / 1 GiByte under Vista
Graphics card: Geforce 6600/Ati Radeon 9800 or better, support for Shader 2.0 or higher, 128 MiByte graphics memory, DirectX 9.0c compatibility
Sound card: DirektX 9.0c compatibility
Optical drive: 8-fold DVD drive:
Hard disk: 4.4 GByte or more free disk space
Internet: Broadband internet for installation and online gaming
Recommended system specifications:
Processor: 3,200 MHz (Single-Core) or 2,400 MHz (Dual-Core)
RAM: 1 GiByte under XP / 2 GiByte under Vista
Graphics card: Geforce 7800/Ati Radeon X1800 or better, support for Shader 2.0 or higher, 256 MiByte graphics memory, DirektX 9.0c compatibility
Sound card: DirektX 9.0c compatibility
Optical drive: 8-fold DVD drive
Hard disk: 4,4 GByte or more free disk space
Internet: Broadband internet for installation and online gaming
FIFA 10 - Performance rating:
Due to the moderate system specs FIFA runs absolutely faultless on our test system (see Fps developing for hardware) except for the cutscenes. The Geforce 7950 GT almost constantly delivers 60 frames per second. Those 60 fps are the reachable upper limit as well. The more powerful Geforce 8800 GT can handle the cutscenes better and most of the time we had 50 fps. According to the task manager FIFA uses only one core - that's why even aged processors have enough power for FIFA 10. Furthermore the recommended RAM for FIFA 10 is sufficient as well: The task manager only shows 300 MiByte.
FIFA 10 - Graphics:
The graphics of FIFA 10 has not noteworthy been improved since last year's edition and therefore it's not very convincing: Especially negative is the grass, most of the time it looks like a green carpet. Although you cannot expect much of the minimum details the lawn reminds us of football games of the last century - scary. You can get some impressions with our FIFA 10 screenshots with different settings. FIFA 10 has been released today.
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