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'Voodoo3 Benchmarking Guide'

If V Sync is not disabled, your timedemo results will never exceed your monitor refresh rate setting, therefore has to be disabled, but should be present when playing, otherwise 'tearing' of the game may occur.

Automatic Option

As this is mainly targeted at the Voodoo3 owners, the best option is to download ‘PowerStrip’ from http://www.entechtaiwan.com/ps.htm and installing it.

After running the program, right-click on the logo at the bottom (next to the clock) and choose ‘advanced options’ and going into ‘About PowerStrip’.

Now choose the ‘Performance’ tab, and ‘tick’ "Don't synch buffer swaps to monitor refresh rate", for both Direct3D and Glide/OpenGL.

Now Vsynch is disabled.

The Manual option

By putting in the following statement into your autoexec.bat file found directly in your C:\ directory:-

SET FX_GLIDE_SWAPINTERVAL=0

For D3D you will need to edit the registry and enter a new string value under [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Class\Display\xxxx\D3D]

(xxxx will be 0000, 0001 or higher)

SSTH3_SWAPINTERVAL 0 "

VoodooII

If you are using a Voodoo II, go to your "control panel/display/voodoo II/advanced tab" and place a check mark in the "Don't synch buffer swaps to monitor refresh rate for glide" box and hit "OK".

 VoodooI

To disable V Sync when using a Voodoo 1, add the below command variables to your Quake 2 batch file or autoexec.bat. Reboot if adding them to your

autoexec.bat. Don’t confuse the autoexec.bat with your autoexec.cfg.

The autoexec.bat is most likely on your "C" drive (root directory).

c:\autoexec.bat

SET FX_GLIDE_SWAPINTERVAL=0

SET SST_SWAP_EN_WAIT_ON_VSYNC=0

Pre-Benchmarking

Before carrying out any of the benchmarking methods described below, it is best to start Windows ’98 (preferably) freshly.

Make certain that NO other programs are running in the background. Also make certain that all Screen Savers are turned off, and any tasks in the ‘Task Manager’.

Unreal

Patch 224

***Remember, this is for the Unreal copy that has the 224 patch, which is the same as the version distributed on the Voodoo3 3000 AGP card's free copy of Unreal.

  • Press ‘~’ to get to the console
  • Type:

        Timedemo 1<Enter>

        at the console so as to get the fps.

[This only works with the 224 patch…]

  • Type:

          Timedemo 0 <Enter>

So as to stop the fps readings.

Other Versions

Here, you must get the Timedemo02.zip file.  Get the file here.

Extract the 'timedemo.u' file into your Unreal/System directory.  

  • Press ‘~’ to get to the console
  • Type:

        summon timedemo.timedemo <enter>

Type this a few times to get a better result.

Quake II

Timedemo 1

  • Press ‘~’ to get to the console
  • Type:
  • Timedemo 1 <Enter>
  • Map demo1.dm2

 

For the following two files, crusher.zip and massive1.zip , read the 'readme.txt' files that come with them, respectively.  You may get them by right-clicking and choosing 'save target as'.

radsml.gif (2041 bytes)Crusher.zip
radsml.gif (2041 bytes)Massive1.zip

Crusher.zip

  • Press ‘~’ to get to the console
  • Type:
  • Disconnect <Enter>
  • Timedemo 1 <Enter>
  • Map crusher.dm2

 

Massive1.zip

  • Press ‘~’ to get to the console
  • Type:
  • Disconnect <Enter>
  • Timedemo 1 <Enter>
  • Map massive.dm2

 

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