OK, how the heck do I benchmark Quake 3?

[Renob]

I did a search and nothing came up.

Ok I found some of the consol commands but there are now timedemos in my menu/demos

I would love to test my new system.

Thanks for any help you might have.

 

[erikiksaz]

What you get to benchmark with really depends on the PR release that you're running. I have no clue which version Anand is using, but here goes anyways:

Bring down the console
type "/timedemo 1"

If you know the name of the demo you're planning to bench with, type:

"demo XXX" where XXX is the name of the demo, minus the extension.

I think the last PR release that had a demo included was 1.30...

 

[Renob]

I have PR 1.31 and when I go to the menu and click the demo tab its empty, no demos.

 

[rbV5]

Timedemo Q3A 1.31 point release:

1.Go into pak6.pk3 with winzip and look in the demos folder, find the file four.dm_66.
2.Make a copy of it and put it in your [game dir]/baseq3/demos folder.(Create the folder if you need to)
3.Notice that it has a .dm_66 extension -- change the extension to .dm_67
4.Launch Quake 3 and type "Timedemo 1" in the console, then type "demo four"

 

[CrazySaint]

Also make sure you turn off sound:

/s_initsound 0
/sndrestart

Also, I forgot how to make Quake display the current FPS while in the game.

 

[rbV5]

Also, I forgot how to make Quake display the current FPS while in the game.

cg_drawFPS "1"

 

[Renob]

thanks guys I will try it out when I get home from work.