The 'other' Q2 Benchmark

[Maggi]

Hi Folks !

Wanna try a Q2 map that has really big textures ?

There is a special S3TC level available here:
http://www.s3content.com/quake2/mon2.exe

That one contains two timedemos ...

All you have to do is extract it to your Q2 dir, delete/rename that given OpenGL32.dll (it tries to enable TextureCompression on S3 cards) and off ya go.

Note that you'll need quite a lot gfx-ram or at least a decent AGP-card, but be prepared for some 'advertising' and a bit too colorfull textures.

It runs very impressive on my G400 with 32MB RAM, but I'd like to know if even a G200 AGP can handle that one ...

The demo names can be found in your Q2 demos folder.

Best thing is that I'm no longer annoyed by those well known 4 regular standard benchmarks ... I hope I can find some scores from a S3 card.


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Cheerio,
Maggi

I used to have some posts in my record and hopefully some of the guys 'n' girls will still know me and my system ...

[Micko]

Thaaank you, Maggi. I've been searching this one...

[Maggi]

No prob , Micko

No one else around that would give it a try ?

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Cheers,
Maggi

Asus P2B-S @ 112MHz FSB - Bios 1009 final
Celeron300A @ 504Mhz
128MB 7ns SDRAM
G400 DualHead 32MB SGRAM @ 201 MHz memory clock

I'll be on holyday for the coming three weeks and I miss you folks already ;-)

[Micko]

It's quiet around here!
But I tried mon2.dm2 and my G200 (oc'd) got over 22 frames/s with celeron 464A. I think it's quite nice score, not playable, but nice....

How's your G400?

Micko

[Maggi]

Thanx Micko !!!

That's quite good for a G200

I'll have to reinstall the public drivers to give you the fps on my G400 ... I hope I can do that tonight.

Btw, do you have 8 or 16MB gfx RAM ?

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Cheers,
Maggi

Asus P2B-S @ 112MHz FSB - Bios 1009 final
Celeron300A @ 504Mhz
128MB 7ns SDRAM
G400 DualHead 32MB SGRAM @ 201 MHz memory clock

I'll be on holiday for the coming three weeks and I miss you folks already ;-)

[Micko]

I have 8Mb. I'm at school/work now, so I have to check my results when I'm at home.

Micko

BTW, Voodoo2 doesn't handle mon2.dm2 very well, whatta suprise...about 17fps.

[Maggi]

I'm surprised that it runs on a Voodoo at all, because somewhere I read something about textures in 1024x1024x24bpp, used in that map and Voodoos are limited to 256x256 ...

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Cheers,
Maggi

Asus P2B-S @ 112MHz FSB - Bios 1009 final
Celeron300A @ 504Mhz
128MB 7ns SDRAM
G400 DualHead 32MB SGRAM @ 201 MHz memory clock

I'll be on holiday for the coming three weeks and I miss you folks already ;-)

[Micko]

More accurate results:
800x600 16bit mon2.dm2 - 22.2fps
Voodoo2 - 14.2fps

Celeron 464, 128Mb, G200 8Mb (oc´d 210sclk)

[Maggi]

Tahnx, Micko !

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Cheers,
Maggi

Asus P2B-S @ 112MHz FSB - Bios 1009 final
Celeron300A @ 504Mhz
128MB 7ns SDRAM
G400 DualHead 32MB SGRAM @ 201 MHz memory clock

I'll be on holiday for the coming three weeks and I miss you folks already ;-)

[Nuno]

Hi there

Well I am getting even better results with my g200 8 mb oc PLL200, Celeron 450:
map mon2.dm2:
640x480x16, 35.8 fps
800x600x16, 28.4 fps
1024x768x16,20.1 fps

Test were done with q2 default settings (gl_linear_mipmap_nearest)

Does that Matrox AGP implementation rocks or what

I have 96 Mb ram, and the agp aperture size at 128 Mb.

[Maggi]

Sweeeet

You just kicked some VooDoo2 right in its butt

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Cheers,
Maggi

Asus P2B-S @ 112MHz FSB - Bios 1009 final
Celeron300A @ 504Mhz
128MB 7ns SDRAM
G400 DualHead 32MB SGRAM @ 201 MHz memory clock

I'll be on holiday for the coming three weeks and I miss you folks already ;-)

[Maggi]

Good Morning everybody !

Dummy me forgot to bring the revised PD5.13 with me back home, thus I had to use the first one ...

Anyway, here we go ...

Firstly I deleted 'autoexec.cfg' & 'config.cfg', set to standard OpenGL,
disabled palettized textures & VSync and chose the according resolution.

All tests were run five times and I report the 2nd highest framerate.

PD 5.13 - 1st public release - 16bit Zbuffer

map mon2.dm2

640x480x16bpp - 82.6 fps
640x480x32bpp - 82.0 fps

800x600x16bpp - 79.7 fps
800x600x32bpp - 77.5 fps

1024x768x16bpp - 70.2 fps
1024x768x32bpp - 66.1 fps

1152x864x16bpp - 63.9 fps
1152x864x32bpp - 58.3 fps

.........................

map one.dm2

640x480x16bpp - 64.1 fps
640x480x32bpp - 63.2 fps

800x600x16bpp - 63.1 fps
800x600x32bpp - 62.2 fps

1024x768x16bpp - 57.6 fps
1024x768x32bpp - 55.0 fps

1152x864x16bpp - 52.0 fps
1152x864x32bpp - 48.3 fps

.........................

Is that impressive, or what ?



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Cheers,
Maggi

Asus P2B-S @ 112MHz FSB - Bios 1009 final
Celeron300A @ 504Mhz
128MB 7ns SDRAM
G400 DualHead 32MB SGRAM @ 201 MHz memory clock

I'll be on holiday for the coming three weeks and I miss you folks already ;-)

[arbymo]

here u go :
celery 464 .. G200 at 225 sclck AGP 1x AGP aperture size 64 Meg.
mon2 :
640 34.8
800 27

one :
640 30.5
800 22.9
i'm happy to see it beating the voodoo2


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GigaByte 6BXE, celeron 300A@464, 128 PC100 RAM,
G200 8 M SD @112.5 core. driver 4.51, bios 2.3.

[arbymo]

hmmm .. stupid question .. but is it possible to play these maps ?? especially the one.dm2?


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GigaByte 6BXE, celeron 300A@464, 128 PC100 RAM,
G200 8 M SD @112.5 core. driver 4.51, bios 2.3.

[Maggi]

Of course you can, arbymo !!!

NEWS3.bsp
S3CITY2.BSP
S3CITY6.BSP
S3MONST9.BSP

are the maps that come with this installation

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Cheers,
Maggi

Asus P2B-S @ 112MHz FSB - Bios 1009 final
Celeron300A @ 504Mhz
128MB 7ns SDRAM
G400 DualHead 32MB SGRAM @ 201 MHz memory clock

I'll be on holiday for the coming three weeks and I miss you folks already ;-)