benchmarking Far Cry

[Doomtrooper]

Why not try that benchmark software posted above, seems to make things easier. Free Trial version.

 

[Heathen]

First off, if Far Cry has a stable benchmarking mode would you like to see it used in potential upcoming performance tests?

Yep.

 

[Mark]

I have a big cludgy batch file made if anyone is interested

 

[digitalwanderer]

I have a big cludgy batch file made if anyone is interested

How does it work and how does it output the results? I'm interested. 8)

 

[Tim Murray]

I'm writing a guide. Should be posted tonight or tomorrow.

 

[digitalwanderer]

I'm writing a guide. Should be posted tonight or tomorrow.

Thanks! You publishing it over at Bjorn? If not I'd be happy to give it a home and pimpage for ya. 8)

 

[Tim Murray]

Depends how long it is. If I'm going to legitimately publish it, I'm going to have to figure out how the hell to record gunfire.

 

[Mark]

ok, here it is in all its cludgy goodness
http://www.rage3d.com/temp/ratchet/r3d_farcry_bench.rar

the demos you need for it are here (leached from 3dcenter.de forums):
http://home.arcor.de/xbugx/Download/FarCry/rebellion02.zip
http://home.arcor.de/xbugx/Download/FarCry/cooler02.zip
http://home.arcor.de/xbugx/Download/FarCry/researchdemo.ace

put them in their respective dirs in the Levels\ dir, then extract both files from the rar somewhere (it doesn't matter where as long as they are in the same dir together), edit the config.cfg file to tell the script where Far Cry is installed, and that's it.

It runs 800x600, 1024x768, 1280x960 and 1600x1200. It'll spit the results into a .txt file in the same dir as the script. Here's an example of what the output looks like: http://www.rage3d.com/temp/ratchet/farcry_aiw9600xt.txt

 

[Mark]

I'm going to have to figure out how the hell to record gunfire.

I don't think you can, at least not with the current versions of Far Cry

 

[Tim Murray]

I'm going to have to figure out how the hell to record gunfire.

I don't think you can, at least not with the current versions of Far Cry

I've noticed, but I have a few ideas.

 

[Tim Murray]

Hah, I was right.

And you said you couldn't record gunfire. Oh, ye of little faith.

 

[anaqer]

Here's an example of what the output looks like: http://www.rage3d.com/temp/ratchet/farcry_aiw9600xt.txt

Ratchet, would it be possible to add gpu/mem clocks to the report files?

 

[Mark]

Hah, I was right.

And you said you couldn't record gunfire. Oh, ye of little faith.

I didn't say it was impossible, I said I didn't think you could.

Regardless, enlighten us on how you do it

 

[Mark]

Here's an example of what the output looks like: http://www.rage3d.com/temp/ratchet/farcry_aiw9600xt.txt

Ratchet, would it be possible to add gpu/mem clocks to the report files?

not easily, unless there's a simple tool out there that will report core/mem clocks in a way I can extract uisng the batch file (I'm simply using a dump of dxdiag to get that stuff).

 

[digitalwanderer]

Hah, I was right.

And you said you couldn't record gunfire. Oh, ye of little faith.

Was it your idea from last night? Who got that thing to do that thing you wanted it to and how? I couldn't figure it out. (Then again, I was up with my wife most of the night...she's feeling better now)