doom 3: resurrection of evil timedemo?

[nemesismk2]

hi, does anyone know if doom3 resurrection of evil has a built in demo for benchmarking purposes like the original doom3 had? cheers

 

[Acanthus]

The original doom 3 benchmark was not very good. The timedemos do not use physics or AI so they do not reflect in game performance. Moreover, physics and AI are what are used on the 2nd thread (doom 3 is multithreaded) so timedemos put pentium 4s with HT (and will put dual core) at a disadvantage over fast single CPUs (the athlon 64) when in fact their performance is very similar.

 

[lavaheadache]

the timedemo is the same one on doom3 ctrl+alt+~ then type timedemo demo1. Too bad they didnt make a new one though. You could make your own demo

 

[kylebisme]

Originally posted by: Acanthus
The original doom 3 benchmark was not very good. The timedemos do not use physics or AI so they do not reflect in game performance. Moreover, physics and AI are what are used on the 2nd thread (doom 3 is multithreaded) so timedemos put pentium 4s with HT (and will put dual core) at a disadvantage over fast single CPUs (the athlon 64) when in fact their performance is very similar.

The timedemo is for benchmarking graphics cards, and it does what it is meant to do well.

 

[nemesismk2]

It's a shame they didn't do another demo for d3roe, will either have to search for a demo or do my own instead.

 

[Acanthus]

Originally posted by: TheSnowman

Originally posted by: Acanthus
The original doom 3 benchmark was not very good. The timedemos do not use physics or AI so they do not reflect in game performance. Moreover, physics and AI are what are used on the 2nd thread (doom 3 is multithreaded) so timedemos put pentium 4s with HT (and will put dual core) at a disadvantage over fast single CPUs (the athlon 64) when in fact their performance is very similar.

The timedemo is for benchmarking graphics cards, and it does what it is meant to do well.

The timedemo is for benchmarking your SYSTEM not just graphics card, and because it doesnt execute ALL of the features, causing performance loss that isnt seen in game because of a lack of multithreading, it does not do its job well.