The Framerate Analysis Thread part 2

In the overscan area, how shifty said, for the most of the time, from what I can to see...

 

I believe grandmaster suggested to PS360 earlier in this thread that he should account for the overscan tearing somehow. It's a tricky one. Probably needs two numbers, one for absolute tearing, and one for tearing past the top however-many-lines where it's not really noticeable.

 

the bit at the start in the house is pretty bad (PS3) - seemed to be better outside, but I'm hopeful of improvements in the final code

 

Looks just as bad as I expected after playing the 360 demo.

Honestly, if you just glanced at those numbers you wouldn't realise quite how bad it is. During shootouts (i.e. precisely when you need a good framerate) it looks to average ~20fps or thereabouts on both consoles (with plenty of time spent in the tens on the PS3) and that's with the "joys" of constant tearing to put up with.

It might sound harsh but as far as I'm concerned the game just isn't in a shippable state on consoles. Its strange but the performance on PC is absolutely fantastic.

 

Even a high end PC from 2006 runs circles around any console so it aint that strange.

 

Yeah, but even a midrange PC from 2006 runs circles around consoles here. The gap is much wider than your usual multiplatform title. This performs better than the recent K&L2 demo on my rig and that was a 60fps game on the 360.

 

It should be that way when they optimise for PC taking perfomance ratio and capabilities into account. Sure they could shape it up a bit more but no miracles. An open-world game that also dont have loading screen for indoor parts but instead stream it in/has to render it from a distance (windows letting you peek in etc). That sure adds to the load.

 

You're assuming that the demos are off the final builds of the respective consoles, but they actually appear to be the E3 ones going from the vids that have been circulating since early June.

The release isn't that far off so we'll wait and see how they fair, but naturally if you have a capable rig, PC is the way to go.

 

A 2006 Core 2 Duo doesn't and a 7900 GTX sure as hell doesn't, so I'm not sure what PC hardware you're thinking of. Nvidia squeezed the 8800 GTX in just before *2007, so that would, but that was hideously expensive and only available in very limited quantities so that's kind of a stretch.

*[EDIT] 2007 is generally considered to have followed 2006, and not the 2009(!?) that I originally put at 1:46 AM [EDIT]

 

The game really doesn't seem that impressive as far as tech is concerned. I see nothing that hasn't been done as good as or better on consoles or PC.

 

I suggest he uses a different number based on where the tear is, i.e multiplying it with a value from a lookup table:

Torn Line/IQ Factor
0(No tear)/0
1/0
2/0.01
3/0.01
4/0.02
5/0.03
6/0.05
7/0.07
8/0.1
......
150/0.99
.....
360/1
......
510/0.99
.....
715/0.03
.....
720/0

Or a curve similar to this. A proper tear would be fully counted while tears around the edges would be a lot less weighted.

 

Such analysis is possible.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVOP_Gxa7NU

 

thats what i figured that games would tear in a manner which was unprejudiced to the location on screen. the couple outliers basically would average out with the high lows adjacent... basically meaning the tear spread is practically even thoughout the entire screen.

only game that is an exception would be bayonetta on ps3 but only during cut scenes.

 

Mafia II Analysis For Over Scan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2hdpiRaBxA

360 Avg:24.013fps Min-Max:19.5-30.0fps Tear: 0.440%(0.397%)
PS3 Avg:24.485fps Min-Max:17.5-31.5fps Tear:39.482%(2.213%)

Over Scan Area
Top:7dot + Bottom:7dot

 

Is that the new tear % sans overscan or the amount of tearing in the overscan?

 

it's sans overscan.

 

PS360, do you have any updated gameplay comparisons on Mafia 2?

 

A thought just occured to me about a visual presentation for framerates. If you group framerates by perceptually similar, maybe 5-ish frame groups, you could have a chart of distribution. You could then present this with colour intensities, or a distribution graph. This'd give an at-a-glance view of stable framerate (tight distribution, only one or two bars/peaks), variable framerate (broad distribution), 30 fps locked with a little dip (major peak around 30fps, some area underneath), and occassional severe dips (peak in the low end). A game could be given a framerate profile, and this could be fairly compared against other titles including from the same engine.

I dare say the same could be achieved with tearing, with a distribution graph of where in the vertical refresh the buffer switch happens, although as you point out that misses the perceptual impact.

 

Err which number is which? Which number is in red?