Post HL2 benches here

[priyajeet]

<A HREF="http://www.tweakguides.com/HL2_1.html" target="_new">HL2 Tweak Guide</A>

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[pauldh]

Borsti;

I found while running your timedemos, if I run all three in a row and repeat this again, my results go down compared to if I run them and quit the game. I was wondering why as it throws off comparison results.

Well, reading <A HREF="http://www.blep.net/hl2stutter/#PatchAnalysis" target="_new">here</A>, it seems that the new sound-studder patch can cause a performance slowdown. Have you heard more info on that?

I guess I will have to try this console variable when benchmarking timedemos:

"With this patch, Valve added a new console variable, mat_forcemanagedtextureintohardware, which controls whether textures are preloaded into video memory during level load. By setting this variable to 0, you end up with same behavior as before the patch."

MSI K8N Neo2 platinum, A64 3000+, 1GB Corsair XMS 4000 Pro Series, Radeon 9800 Pro

 

[priyajeet]

yeah, I also had the same doubts. What about pre caching and that $hit. Doom 3 allowed that. Any command to allow that ? Because running each demo, fills up the card's memory and has to be refreshed all over to get the new demo in. And we dont want this refreshing to start after the demo starts.

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[pauldh]

Try running THG's 3 demos in a row 2,5,8,2,5,8,8,8. That is what I did and I found them to go down each run. Then I ran # 8 after a restart of the game and found it scored a little higher than the first time even, I guess because it was the third demo run that time. It actually made me give up on that Athlon XP scaling comparison I was going to run because I knew I had to figure out how to get repeatable results first, and no way was I going to run a timedemo/quit each time.

This patch could place some screwy results on review sites if they don't discover the slow down first. Imagine pouring days into a big review only to find out afterward your #'s mean dirt.

MSI K8N Neo2 platinum, A64 3000+, 1GB Corsair XMS 4000 Pro Series, Radeon 9800 Pro

 

[eden]

Prolly a reason why HL2 runs so well is everything is cached from start, causing long load times, and probably not always properly programmed to expect anything later in the level and cache it from start.

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[priyajeet]

will do today/tomorrow. Got this damn AI project to complete

Anyway, i have updated the demo collection to include 2 new (or maybe old) ones from tech report. Also can be got here
<A HREF="http://techreport.com/reviews/2004q4/sli/kanal4.zip" target="_new">http://techreport.com/reviews/2004q4/sli/kanal4.zip</A>
<A HREF="http://techreport.com/reviews/2004q4/sli/boat7.zip" target="_new">http://techreport.com/reviews/2004q4/sli/boat7.zip</A>

But for everybodies simplicity sake, I think one should stick to ATi's and THG's.

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[priyajeet]

what about this
<A HREF="http://www.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=191707" target="_new">http://www.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=191707</A>

I m gonna try that.

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[priyajeet]

Here u go, perf does reduce.

Heap: 64mb
thg2.dem 50.3
thg5.dem 81.5
thg8.dem 86.1

Heap:512 mb, ran one after the other
thg2.dem 52
thg5.dem 71.1
thg8.dem 66.1
thg2.dem 45.8
thg5.dem 63.6
thg8.dem 67.2

oh BTW, i found a way to preload the entire level.
-preload

:tongue: <A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/priyajeet/fing.jpg" target="_new"><i><font color=red>Very funny, Scotty.</font color=red><font color=blue> Now beam down my clothes.</font color=blue></i></A> :tongue: <P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by priyajeet on 11/29/04 09:26 PM.</EM></FONT></P>

 

[priyajeet]

Some benchmarks with min FPS <A HREF="http://www.driverheaven.net/reviews/X-850article/Half Life 2.htm" target="_new">here</A>

:tongue: <A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/priyajeet/fing.jpg" target="_new"><i><font color=red>Very funny, Scotty.</font color=red><font color=blue> Now beam down my clothes.</font color=blue></i></A> :tongue: