So like many North Americans I played a little hookey to go get the contending game of the year Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare yesterday. I must say I am really impressed with how well and smooth this game runs on mediocre computer setups.

I have a fairly outdated system in today’s gaming world. It’s a Socket 939 x2 3800+ cpu, 2gigs ram, Nvidia GeForce 7950 GT OC, onboard sound etc… The reason why I even mention sound relating to performance is that some will argue that onboard sound takes away from your processor while gaming to process the sound and rightfully so.

I never even loaded up the single player game as I went into multiplayer “just to check it out” and ended up playing for about 5 hours straight. Now my graphics settings are fairly low, running @ 1280 x 1024. Which still looks pretty damn nice but I do find it a bit dark, and it has some almost blacked out area’s through out the game, including enemy soldiers. They somtimes appear to be black, and if they hide in a “blacked out” corner or crevass then needless to say unless they fire at me I do not see them. I can live with that though for now. I would attempt to turn the graphics settings up a little higher although I would then probably make my, already lacking frame rates even worse. I was getting an everage of i’d say around 38FPS. Not the most ideal FPS to be getting but I can live with it for now.

 I had a great time playing this game and already made it to Master Gunnery Sergeant. I have yet to make a custom class as all the weapons that I unlocked are not appealing to me. In Call of Duty 2 I was a huge fan of single shot bolt action rifles. So the sub machine guns, and machine guns that I unlocked still don’t appeal to my game play. I am actually really liking the m16a that I have been using in burst mode, the grenade launcher attachment doesn’t hurt any either. It’s pretty easy to rack a few kills with those, as well as make a body or two fly.

So far so good with this game though, it’s really living up to the hype, for me anyways. I recorded alot of my yesterday’s gaming streaming my video out to ustream.tv. Which did take a little toll on my video card as well as my bandwidth. Did it affect my playing, maybe a little as my ping was avg 100 when my ping to the server was actually around 30. It did get a little choppy for me at times, but the stream looks choppy anyways.

 If you live in a part of the world that will not be getting this game released until friday or you just won’t be able to pickup the game for a little while then you can check out my Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare stream over @ ustream.tv.

The video is choppy because of feed it does not run like that on my end. As well my screen output is a little off so some edges are cutoff but I couldn’t figure it out in a timely manner and wanted to just game so I did it like that anyways. If any of you have any ideas on how to improve the feed in anyway please do let me know, Leave a comment on this article and I will get back to you. I would like to continue to add videos & feeds in the future but would like to see the quality improve drastically.

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