How to benchmark in Half Life and Quake 3???

[ManojM]

After seeing some great improvments in Quake II benchmarking, I would like to test them in Half Life and Quake 3

Can someone tell me how I can benchmark in Half Life and quake 3.

Regards,
Manoj Mahtani

[mj12]

Half-Life isn't a very good benchmark as the fps counter stays running and if you stop and look at the sky as opposed to looking at a dark corner you will get HUGE differences. There is no time demo.

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[NoClue]

well how about just telling the console command instead of telling us what it does and how good or bad it works as benchmark...

thx

[troop]

In HL , mp, bring down the console by pressing the tilde
<~>
then type
timerefresh
hit ENTER

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[Kruzin]

timerefresh sux bad.

To get the FPS counter in HL, go to the console, and type:
developer 1
host_speeds 1

to turn it off, use zeros

[Speedy]

ok, easy
go to
half-life.pcgame.com
download blowup timedemo,
than go to HL console, and type
timedemo blowup

but i don't think it is accurate, i checked it before TGL, on all res and also d3d/Ogl
and i got around 25 fps

Post results

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Matrox Millennium G400 Dual Head - English
Resolution 800*600
Color Depth 16-bit Color
Frame Buffer Triple buffering
Refresh Rate VSync Off
CPU Optimization AMD 3DNow!(tm)
3DMark Result 5420.49 3DMarks
Synthetic CPU 3D Speed 9142.76 CPU 3DMarks
Rasterizer Score 2206.33 3DRasterMarks
Game 1 - Race 63.58 FPS
Game 2 - First Person 47.24 FPS
Processor Type AMD-K7(tm) Processor
Processor Speed 500 MHz
Physical Memory 128 MB

[Grimace]

I just ran the halflife blowup demo and got 29FPS at 1024x768 on a PIII450@504, G400MAX@162, 128MB CAS2 Memory, and SBLIVE. What are good numbers?