UnrealTournament stat's showing strange things...Coolbits cool?

[hovenas]

I've spent some time clocking my GTSPro, coolbits after reading a great article

http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/det3_overclocking/

but UT shows really lousy Timedemostats (around 35 average) sometimes, and great (60+) sometimes. why the difference. These times when it shows the low marks, it doesn't seem to differ if I change to 16bit color instead of 32. ?????

 

[vss1980]

You should use a proper benchmarking level of UT's.

You cant go on playing a level again and again with different settings as things dont happen exactly the same way.

To benchmark properly in UT, firstly get this UT benchmarking file.
I dont know where to place the file exactly in the UnrealTournament directory, but I know that placing it in the 'system' and 'maps' subdirectories work.
Once in UT, to benchmark follow these instructions exactly otherwise it wont work:
1)Start a Practice session, not important what map or type, just get into game.
2)Once at level start screen (dont actually need to start the level - once it says 'waiting for ready signal, press fire' is good enough) bring down the console (usually using the ' key).
3)Once console is there, type:
timedemo 1 [Enter]
demoplay utbench noframecap timebased [Enter]

(note [Enter] means press enter )

Once you press Enter the 2nd time UT will start benchmarking. When it finishes it goes to a blank screen, but dont worry, you can check your results by bringing down the console. It will give a minimum, maximum, and average fps count.

Hope this helps.

 

[cmaMath13]

vss1980,

Thanks for the info. I will try tonight.

 

[cmaMath13]

Broken link.

 

[vss1980]

UT Bench file

Link works fine from many computers.

Your article linkified

 

[cmaMath13]

Ok, thanks. I got it now. Now to bench!

 

[hovenas]

Thanx, will try the bench tonight.

 

[hovenas]

Min 26.59
Max 54.88
Avg 38,92

1024x768, High settings, 32bit color and all support for sound enabled. Is this normal for my rig, feels kinda weak...

 

[vss1980]

Best thing to do is compare it to a similar system. Anandtech reviews I think use a different demo level for the stats so you cant do a direct comparison.

 

[RoboTECH]

IIRC, UT bench is a pretty rough benchmark

go to Rev's site and download his UT demo with a 1 vs. 1 botmatch. It'll give you a point of comparison for a system

UTBench is majorly CPU-limited

also, are you running in D3d or OGL, and are you using the S3TC compressed textures?

 

[hovenas]

I run in D3d and no, don't use the compressed texture.
Maybe I should do Q3 to see what the Video card does...

 

[cmaMath13]

Thanks for the UTbench.

RoboTECH,

Did you link a DIFFERENT UT benchmark in your last post?

 

[hovenas]

All test I've seen of the card shows high bench, my rig ain't that bad, so I guess I'm kinda surprised and dissapointed...

 

[vss1980]

hovenas, using the utbench demo, that sounds about right for your rig. Only way to find out exactly is to test on an identical set-up.

If you really want a direct comparison then try to get the demo anandtech uses, ie. this file

RoboTech linked to the site earlier

 

[hovenas]

Thanx, will use thunder to get a more precise bearing on what my efforts have resulted in.

 

[hovenas]

Strange, strange. It seems like I get different framerates for different times I start the computer. It seems like coolbits kicks in on about 50% of the time...