UT2003 benchmarks

[Helevitia]

Radeon 9700 Pro

10x7 no AA no AF
FLY: 152
BOT: 50

10x7 4xAA 16xAF
FLY: 95
BOT: 48

[xortam]

Dave ... quit it, you're making me itchy. How's that puppy working out for HDTV res'es and DVD playback?

[Indiana]

Yeah, I'd like to know about the DVD playback and the TVOut (is there a full Overscan?) as well

(Sorry for being OT)

[Faramir1966]

My results:
800x600 no AA no Aniso
flyby 65.55
botmatch 23.89

1024x768 no AA no Aniso
flyby 63.79
botmatch 23.27

Almost no difference between 800x600 and 1024x768
But i think i need a new CPU ;-)

[xortam]

Dave ... maybe you could start a new thread in GHW to discuss the video aspects of your new graphics card ... please. I guess I should get back to AVS and see what they're saying about this.

[jackzod]

I figure this is the place to post it

Heres some bench
done on a radeon 8500 retail 64 meg
Just to compare (Im still waiting to upgrade i didnt made my mind yet between P and a 9700)

All these score are at 1024x768 32bit
on a P4northwood@1.8

noaa/nofsaa
Flyby: 111
Bot: 43

16x aniso/nofsaa
Flyby: 111
Bot: 43
no change at all which is surprising (suspicious ?)

16x/aniso and fsaax2
FB: 59..
Bot:38

16xaniso and 4x fsaa
FB: 24
bot: 19

I tried to O/c my comp to 2.25 ghz for the fun of it

noFsaa and no AF
FB: 125
bot: 54

[Evildead666]

Hmmm, just for fun, tonite i'll try to cook up some V5 and G550 benches...
if i get over 5fps i'll post them

[Gohan]

Without 16xFAA and AF @ 1024:
Flyby: 103,839737
Botmatch: 45,178829

With 16xFAA and AF @ 1024:
Flyby: 51,368389
Botmatch:34,060620

System:
Athlon XP 1666 Mhz @ 166 FSB
(5:2:1 tiler is used)
512MB-DDR-Ram @ 166 FSB
Parhelia - Bulk
Abit KX7
SB Live! 5.1

All Components are wirth the latest Drivers.

[piaxVirus]

Just to warn you before you go to all the hastle installing those cards. The demo won't run on any 3Dfx or Matrox G-series cards.

[Helevitia]

Out of curiosity, are all of you running with EAX enabled? I am.

Xortam, Indiana, I will tell you more about the 9700 features as I test them. I have looked at DVD already but to be honest, I don't watch DVD's with my computer. I have the DVD player sctrictly for running software apps that are supplied on DVDs. If you tell me things to look out for, I'll be more than happy to look at that aspect. Also, I will be comparing it to my Home Theatre set up since that is what I use to watch DVDs.

Dave

[xortam]

Dave ... I don't want to pollute this thread too much with this side issue. I guess you don't have enough experience with the video to start a new thread in GHW/SW. The AVS folks seemed to prefer the DVD playback on the 9000 over ATI's previous gens. I was wondering about Gamma, T&Rs, color saturation, etc. I usually check out skin pores and such on facial close-ups to check on clarity. You'd probably prefer the HTPC output over your home deck unless its a progressive scan player. Anyway ... I'll just monitor AVS to get more feedback on this aspect of your card.

[DosFreak]

UT 2003 Demo
D3D

BENCHMARK.EXE

640X480
Flyby: 152.320267
Botmatch: 49.975044

800x600
Flyby: 152.435501
Botmatch: 49.959011

1024X768
Flyby: 151.934494
Botmatch: 49.901531

1280X960
Flyby: 142.084518
Botmatch: 49.754349

1600X1200
Flyby: 86.616623
Botmatch: 46.055515


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1600X1200

16x Ansio

Flyby: 56.752377
Botmatch:38.702225

6x AA

Flyby: 47.968014
Botmatch: 24.337336

16x Ansio & 6x AA

Flyby: 37.581856
Botmatch: 20.769403

[DosFreak]

This benchmark absolutely sucks. Not representive of real gameplay and it seems to overwrite UT2003.ini every time you run it with it's default settings. So no testing of Truform or other options in .ini.

We need a UT 2003 GUI benchmark and a real demo representive of gameplay.....oh and we need actualy gameplay in UT 2003 to give us an incentive to play it over UT.

[DosFreak]

Took a peek inside of benchmark.exe....

So, since benchmark.exe is using the same .ini the only difference in major cause of problems with benchmarking with benchmark.exe is inability to adjust graphics options (unless you change the source .INI in this case MAXDETAIL.INI), according to the readme the difference in BOT battle (slower CPU=stupider AI?), inability of crappier graphics hardware to take advantage of options enabled in MAXDETAIL.INI.


So we need a Benchmark prog that can detect the host vid card.
Support all graphics options of said graphics card without having to tweak host video card settings. (Also the benchmark could automagically set the video card settings to default if necessary).
Automagically gray out unavailable options for crappy video cards.


BENCHMARK.EXE information

file..ut2003.exe..open....

1024x768
1600x1200
1280x960
640x480
800x600

dm-asbestos?spectatoronly=true?numbots=12?quickstart= true -benchmark -seconds=77 -exec=..\Benchmark\Stuff\botmatchexec.txt ini=..\Benchmark\Stuff\MaxDetail.ini userini=..\Benchmark\Stuff\MaxDetailUser.ini -nosound -UPT -

dm-antalus?spectatoronly=true?numbots=12?quickstart=t rue -benchmark -seconds=77 -exec=..\Benchmark\Stuff\botmatchexec.txt ini=..\Benchmark\Stuff\MaxDetail.ini userini=..\Benchmark\Stuff\MaxDetailUser.ini -nosound -UPT -

dm-asbestos?game=engine.gameinfo -benchmark -seconds=70 -exec=..\Benchmark\Stuff\flybyexec.txt ini=..\Benchmark\Stuff\MaxDetail.ini userini=..\Benchmark\Stuff\MaxDetail.ini
User.ini -nosound -UPT -

dm-antalus?game=engine.gameinfo -benchmark -seconds=77 -exec=..\Benchmark\Stuff\flybyexec.txt ini=..\Benchmark\Stuff\MaxDetail.ini
userini=..\Benchmark\Stuff\MaxDetailUser.ini -nosound -UPT -




Files explanation

botmatchexec.txt
showhud - Removes HUD information. Text etc.etc.
Ship - removes demo version text


flybyexec.txt
causeevent flyby - Some sort of scripted flyby sequence?
Ship - removes demo version text



MaxDetail.ini - Benchmark.exe uses these for the UT2003.ini to see benchmark information

MaxDetailUser.ini - Used to set control information for the benchmark?