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Article #281800Re: Q2 Benchmarking
From: Margolis
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 11:54
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 11:54
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"EvilBill" <devlin@SPAM-ME-NOT-o-JERK-weset.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message news:ca8eva$rao$1@newsg2.svr.pol.co.uk... > For quite some time, I've been puzzling over why Q2 consistently gets a > lower FPS than Q3 on my system. > > Then tonight it hit me: cl_maxfps was left at the default value! > So I boosted it up to a more appropriate value of 200 and benchmarked. > 197.7 FPS on demo2.dm2. > > So I thought, let's see if it'll go higher. Boosted it to 300. Ran the > demo again. > 210.3 FPS! w00t w00t! > > Then I ran Crusher.dm2. > 119.9 FPS! Another w00t! :D > > -- thats strange. My cl_maxfps is still at whatever the default is, and I just tried crusher at 1024x768 with 4xaa and 8x af and scored 286.2 fps ;op -- Margolis http://web.archive.org/web/20030215212142/http://www.agqx.org/faqs/AGQ2FAQ.htm http://www.unrealtower.org/faq
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!internal1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!wn13feed!worldnet.att.net!216.196.106.140!border1.nntp.sjc.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!sjc1.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-06!sn-post-02!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: "Margolis" <someone@somewhere.org> Newsgroups: alt.games.quake2 Subject: Re: Q2 Benchmarking Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 06:54:55 -0500 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <10cgivrt66ijkc5@corp.supernews.com> References: <ca8eva$rao$1@newsg2.svr.pol.co.uk> X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Lines: 31 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit