Cityintro.unr benchmarks here (updated)

Edenslayer · Mar 21, 2001

I don't know all the exact specs on my comp, but heres what i DO know.

Old:
Asus p2-99 motherboard
Celeron 400
SBLive
128 meg ram
asus 50x cd
v5 5500
99% virgin install of ut(patch 436)

dont remember if this was 640x480 or 1024x768
Min 19.82 Max 73.75 Avg 34.43

New(same comp, 2 changes as listed):
p3 800
327 meg ram

1024x768
min 38.99 Max 100.39 Avg 60.29

Kray · Mar 22, 2001

PII-300
128mb
10Gb HDD
via apollo pro 133 mobo using on-board sound
no-name savage4 AGP 32mb

directx 7
via 4-in-1 v425 (AGP driver set to STANDARD mode)
JGC tweaked driver 1.1 for savage 4

World detail high
skin detail medium
screen flashing off
the rest all on

640x480 - 27 fps
800x600 - 26.5 fps

mobace · Mar 22, 2001

(same system)
Tbird 1GHz
Ge2 32MB DDR
256MB PC133

1280x1024x16 with *FSAA* on, 43fps. Found in some maps like DM-Seraph (or is that Saraphim er...) FPS would occasionaly fall as low as 10 for 1/2 moment when viewing a higher poly area with a gob of weapon affects and bots in the area.

[PuF]BadAss · Mar 22, 2001

Update (volumetric lighting disabled):

1.2Ghz Athlon at 266mhz FSB
256 mb PC133 @ Cas2
Voodoo3-3000 AGP 166 o/c 189mhz
Max Skin
Max Textures
Maxed everything from the Drop-down menus
Advanced settings at default
1024x768 Res X 16bit

Citryintro:
Min: 45 fps
Max: 140 fps
Avg: 82 fps

I didn't notice any difference w or w/o volumetric lighting, except for a bit of fog at the end of the Cityintro.

Robot TinMan|BuF · Mar 23, 2001

Why?

AMD 1GHz
512MB (PC133)
Color Power (nVidia TNT2, 32MB)
Win98SE
Seagate 20.5GB, ATA66 (7200)
SB Live Plat. 5.1

All goodies OFF
Low detail/Low sound
1024x768
D3D (tested new OGL drivers, but poor result)

(FPS from my memory, tested it y-day)
Min=~28
Max=~94
Avg=~55

OK, what am I doing wrong? Is it my GIC that blows?

I've done all the tweaks I found out there.
There are comps with "worse" specs than mine, but still with much better FPS.

[Edit] Forgot to ask this n00b question: what is FSAA?[/Edit]

Swedix · Mar 23, 2001

Hej Tinman!
What drivers do you use for your card?
You can get nvidias ref. drivers here.
They are all beta drivers but most of the people use them. I use one from the 6.xx serie.
About FSAA, Full Scene Anti Aliasing, you can read about it here. A very good article. It gives a good description about what FSAA is.
And of course we have the geforcefaq

Robot TinMan|BuF · Mar 23, 2001

Tjena Swedix!

And thx for the links.

I use the 7.52 (I think it was)
I saw the 1.xx were mostly for GF3, but they work OK for TNT2?
Is there any way I can turn this FSAA on?

I thought my FPS would speed up a lot since I got my PIII450 (384MB, PC100) upgraded to this new rig.

Swedix · Mar 23, 2001

I quote myself from another thread were I did some benchmarking on my own:

Originally posted by Swedix|PuF
I did some "benchmarking" on my own.

My spec:
Mobo: ASUS CUSL2
CPU: PIII 700@875
RAM: 192 Mb PC133
Graphic: Outrageous GeForce 2 GTS 32 Mb (not o/c) Have flashed the card with Nvidias ref. BIOS 3.15.00.12
Sound: SoundBlaster Live Value
OS: Windows ME and DX 8.0a
UT: 4.36 1024x768 32Bit Color

I run through Cityintro 5 times and took an average.

I used detonator 6.67 WHQL, 7.52 and 10.50

Result:
6.67 min=41.80 max=87.65 avg=66.42
7.52 min=41.61 max=88.03 avg=66.49
10.50 min=40.40 max=86.08 avg=64.94

You can make your own conclusion.

There ain't so big difference between the drivers.

About the fsaa, I don't know if your card support it, if it does it's somewhere in the preferences for your card.
I'm at work now so I can't check were it is.

Robot TinMan|BuF · Mar 23, 2001

Thx again, Swedix.
I'm gonna try the new 7.58 beta drivers, to see if it can crank it up sumthing.
Where can I find the BIOS-file?
I looked at 3DChipset, but the BIOS page wasn't working.
Can I even flash the BIOS on my TNT2?

Blistering_Pants · Mar 24, 2001

I decided to give this a try.

PIII 450
Asus Geforce(1) 256 DDR 32
20 Gig Hd
192 Meg ram

UT 436

800x600
High Details everything on
Min=24.25
Max=60
Avg=43.5

800x600 W/O Lighting
Min=25.96
Max=60.36
Avg=47.79

640x480
High Details everything on
Min=26.38
Max=60.32
Avg=43.02

I usually run 800x600 and don't have any complaints with these frames. I've read through this and seen some pretty high numbers. For those of you that have started with numbers like mine and then upgraded to bigger systems. What is the difference like? Is it a big deal? Just curious. Thanks

Robot TinMan|BuF · Mar 24, 2001

Naa, it's not a big deal.
I started with a PIII 450, 384MB (PC100) and I've upgraded to an AMD 1GHz, 512MB (PC133).
The diff ain't worth the cost. At least not for me.

As for my FPS, I found a neat lil proggy called TNTclk, which cranked my FPS up to:
Min: 34.28
Max: 112.8
Avg: 64. 73

w00t!

I even tried without lighting and was given an extra 20! FPS.
The game looked quite awful tho, so I won't use it.

Loibisch · Mar 25, 2001

Ok, I want to know who is responsible for digging this dinosaur up

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SuRGV · Mar 25, 2001

Hi Blistering_Pants,
When overclocked my PIII600E to 800, I got 15 FPS more from 54 FPS to 69 FPS (1024x768x32) with Geforce2 GTS 32 MB. Min FPS also increases from about 33 to 39 in Cityintro.
I think your vid card is capable with higher FPS. So upgrading your CPU to GHz will show a big difference. 90 FPS should be expected.
Trung.

SuRGV · Mar 25, 2001

90 may be too much...80 or 85 may be more reasonable...
Trung.

mjh8227 · Mar 25, 2001

Here's my numbers

****1280X1024****

all settings maxed, everything on...

Min. 44.25
Max. 87.60
Avg. 69.21

My System (nothing OC'd....yet)
P3 1Ghz
Asus CUSL2-C
Herc. 3DProphet2 Ultra
256MB Crucial CAS2 PC133
SB Live! X-Gamer
IBM 75GXP 45 Gig

mashley278 · Mar 26, 2001

New drivers

Ok, installed the newer drivers from 3dfxfiles (v. 4.13.01.oo27) and got a whopping 2fps increase. Still think I should be getting better..

AMDAthlon700
MSI K7 Pro
Voodoo5 (2xFSAA)
Maxtor 30G ATA100 7200
PCI128 Creative Soundblaster
RealTek Network Card
TDK VeloCD 12x10x32x24
Mitsumi 40x CDROM
RCA Cable Modem
128MB PC100 RAM (64Crucial, 64Gateway)

250W power source
800x600 (anything more is just too damn small)
Everything on high detail

Min 29.8
Max 86.4
Avg. 49.07

It looks like its time to o/c and add 256MB of PC133 RAM
Any suggestions why I'm not going any quicker??

Stillborn · Mar 27, 2001

mashley278:

Where did you find the new drivers for your Voodoo5? (v. 4.13.01.oo27)

G-Lite · Mar 27, 2001

Whoops, that ain't good. Drops all the way to 10 sometimes, never goes over 30. But then again It's running almost at max:
Sys specs:
1,2 Ghz AMD Athlon
256 MB RAM
Geforce II MX
SoundBlaster Live! 1024
Some ASUS motherboard and hella fast HD (7200 RPM, dunno what that means)

Game settings:
V436 OpenGL: S3 metal textures on
Everything at high, even sound's at 48000
surround, also downloaded EAX update.
I think the only thing not turned on is weapon flashes

resolution = 1024 X 768

Mmm, maybe I should turn something off?

mashley278 · Mar 27, 2001

V5 Drivers

Stillborn:

At least these were new to me...my others were fine so I didn't want to risk screwing them up after 3dfx went belly up. The comments on these betas were good so I risked it. They only UPDATE, so there is no complete driver install. Anyway here's the address:

http://www.voodoofiles.com/s/3dfxdrivers

[MUTTS] Hiteche5 · Mar 28, 2001

Gotta keep this thread going...hehe

Here I go...

Coppermine 850
Abit sph6 version one motherboard
256meg pc100 ram
Maxtor 15Gig HDD (swap file set to 1000MB)
TNT2 model 64 (32meg)

UT runs in 1024x720, World and Skiin detail set to High
detail textures off, 16bit color everything else set to on

the final verdict...50fps in the city intro

I personally think it should be higher this is a fairly good system.

Cityintro.unr benchmarks here (updated)

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