Game Settings

World in Conflict has pages of tweakable settings. We found that most individual settings don't sap performance too much, but your frame rates will rapidly deteriorate once you start enabling all the settings. With settings like "windows on buildings," "flowers and bushes," and "grass," the game slices and dices your computer with the death of a thousand cuts. One setting here, another there, and suddenly those Russian tanks are approaching you in a slide show.

The game has a handful of grouped settings that automatically turn off five or more other settings when disabled. We have image-quality comparisons on the following pages that demonstrate how the game looks with the settings enabled and disabled.

The preset image quality settings vary quite a bit. The difference between medium and low is the most drastic and yields nearly triple the performance. You can easily free up some performance between very high quality and high quality by lowering the amount of antialiasing, because the very high quality setting has a preset of 4xAA.

System Setup: Intel Core 2 X6800, Intel 975XBX2, 2GB Corsair XMS Memory (1GBx2), 160GB Seagate 7200.7 SATA Hard Disk Drive, Windows XP Professional SP2. Graphics Card: GeForce 8600 GTS, Nvidia ForceWare 163.44