pyro/HT: a better method of registering frame rate

[fradim]

I know you have many things to do and this is certainly not first priority, but would it be possible to have a way of recording frame rate using a unique method, making it easier for us to compare our benchmark results?

Or as a squad mate (Westy) has so clearly expressed:
" One method to ensure all testing is the same might be to make create a gun camera film that people can use so that all testing is the same.
People would only have to run the film after selecting the correct resolution and either 16 or 32bit before viewing.
This way the test would be the same for every person running it. "

fradim
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[GrinBird]

I have for a long time missed a timedemo feature in AH, something like the timedemo in Quake. It would be cool to use the Filmviewer for it. The filmviewer could have a button marked "timedemo" which would start the test and finally spit out the average framerate of the sequence. Its not unrealistic that some magazines and Hardware websites like Anandtech or Toms Hardware would use AH as benchmark, and that would be very good publicity. AH can be downloaded for free and that makes it interesting as a universal benchmark platform.

Untill we get a timedemo I use the hangar for testing when I have tweaked something.
I use the same plane and goes into the hangar in offline mode. For some reason just being in the hangar seems to be hard on framerate, and it gives the opportunity to get excact same conditions to test framerate.

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GrinBird

[fradim]

thx, grinbird

Though I donīt know well quake, timedemo was exacty what i had in mind. Havenīt thought about that marketing advantage.

Hope ht or pyro have time to look at this idea :-)

[Westy]

I third all of this!!  
If we could the FPS coutner selectable when watching films it would work. Maybe a toggle under setup to either have it on or off automatically on start-up (whether online, offline or watching films) and of course the Ctrl "I" is handy for spot checking under any circumstances.

 -Westy

[GrinBird]

A couple of years ago I bought Quake 2 only to get a benchmarking tool for tweaking and troubleshooting, but offcourse I went out shooting som monsters now and then too
Quake2 was used a couple of years by Anandtech and Toms Hardware, and a lot of computer magazines for realistic 3D Card and CPU performance testing. Different kind of demos was used or different purposes.Eg the "Crusher" Demo demanded a lot from the CPU and was good to test Multiplayer perfomance.
The same way the AH communty would use different films to test different aspects of the AH performance. Eg. We could use a film called "smoking!" with the plane flying around in heavy smoke or "formation" with a lot of heavy polygon B17s and Lancasters in a huge formation to test how the system cope with that.
 


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