Doom 3 benchmarking

KdjaCL

To run benchmarks enter console (CTRL + ALT +TILDE`)
Type "timedemo demo1.demo"

Make sure you have your g settings as you want.

Mine 1280/968 ULTRA 4AA 8AF
1st run

2148 frames rendered in 116.5 18.4 FPS

NOW THIS IMPORTANT ITS 2ND ONE THAT COUNTS AS TEXTURES LOADED TO MEMORY.(just go into soncole striaght at end and run it again)
2nd run

2418 Frames rendered in 95.6 22.5 FPS

My Specs
2400XP@2032
512 2700 DDR @333
9800XT

I using a modified CFG file which i made myself i get all the glorious visuals but cheating the game into loading things in a certain order, this increases my load times but as you can see i can run at ULTRA (it set HIGH as my prefered setting).

The game will run on almost everyones pc but ULTRA setting is possible without X800 or 6800 and to HARDOCP i say fook you!

//Did not take me 2 days to get ULTRA running fine


kdjac

boo4842

K BOOM

http://www2.hardocp.com/article.html?art=NjQ0

jesus_thats_gre

1024 x 768 - Medium



9800 Pro stock - 2.8 Prescott@3.4

First Run: 34
Second Run:38.1


9800@448/374 (max I can run without getting sparkles, can normally run at 470/374 in every other game) - 2.8 Prescott@3.4

First Run: 38.7
Second Run:42.4

Sir Random

Anandtech DOOM3 benchmarks (for all cards since Ti4200):

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2146

RuggieBear

how come the 9800pro did better than the x800 and 9800XT? Is it better drivers....
p

bizmark

Jesus ati got owned

Sir Random

pekelly wrote:

how come the 9800pro did better than the x800 and 9800XT? Is it better drivers....
p

Yeah, the XT scoring less than the Pro indicates that the drivers are not using the most efficient paths for each card. Maybe it's forcing R350 paths for the XT, but that can be fixed through drivers.

RuggieBear

I didn't even notice the Nvidia cards kicking arse! Just looked for my own! Is it coz it's a Open GL game....?
p

jesus_thats_gre

800 x 600 - High - No AA



9800 Pro stock - 2.8 Prescott@3.4

First Run: 48.3
Second Run:51.6



9800@448/374 (max I can run without getting sparkles, can normally run at 470/374 in every other game) - 2.8 Prescott@3.4

First Run: 44.5
Second Run:54.2

jesus_thats_gre

1024 x 768 - High - No AA



9800 Pro stock - 2.8 Prescott@3.4

First Run: 32.2
Second Run:41.0

9800@448/374 (max I can run without getting sparkles, can normally run at 470/374 in every other game) - 2.8 Prescott@3.4

First Run: 35.7
Second Run:45.0

jesus_thats_gre

1024 x 768 - High - 4x AA

9800@448/374 - 2.8 Prescott@3.4

First Run: 24.0
Second Run:27.0

CombatCow

1600x1200 - High settings

First Run = 42.6 FPS

Second Run = 53.4 FPS


Spec:
AMD 2800+
1 Gig of crucial pc2700
GeForce 6800 Ultra
WD,Raptor 76Gig Hdd
All Stock Speeds



Should be better by the weekend

CC

Ciaran500

pekelly wrote:

Is it coz it's a Open GL game....?

Yep, Nvidia has the jump on ATI at the moment with their OpenGL drivers. ATI has been rewriting their opengl drivers from scratch and should hopefully be released soon.

KdjaCL

4.9s out with improved OGL support mid september, CC only running in HIGH? Expected more from you tut tut tut


kdjac

cregser

Where did you hear mid-september? They must be pretty efficient if they succeed in re-writing the drivers by then.

Can you tell the difference between Ultra and High? I mean REALLY? From what I know it doesn't use any compression. But High settings would also use next to no compression as well. I would need a 30" monitor to tell the difference.

Anyway, I plan on getting a 6800GT with maybe a AMD64 3200+. I'm enouraged by CombatCow's results with a 2800 (even though he has a 6800 Ultra - which seems to be doing all the work )

CombatCow

Ok KdjaC....Thats weird i got the exact same score as i did in high settings....and yes im sure i changed the detail setting....looks like the gfx card card can take the ultra setting no probs, and the bottleneck is the cpu.Not to worry im gonna re-run the test with these specs on friday.

***
AMD S939 3800+ *watercooled*
Asus A8V Deluxe mobo
1 Gig of Corsair XMS 3200XL pro *dual channel*
AOpen 6800 Ultra *watercooled*
***
:eek:

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1600x1200 - Ultra settings

First Run = 43 FPS

Second Run = 53 FPS

Spec:
AMD 2800+
Abit KD7 mobo
1 Gig of crucial pc2700
GeForce 6800 Ultra
WD,Raptor 76Gig Hdd
All Stock Speeds

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Btw i will be selling the cpu,ram and mobo on the forsale board soon aswell...


CC

BeatFreak

1024x768 on high,
41.3 fps for first run.
50.3 fps for the second.

Specs : 3.2 @ stock
9800XT @ stock
Gig of GeiL platinum ultra @ 2.5/3/3/7

I'll post the overclocked scores once I've rebooted

KdjaCL

4.9s read a post on guru3d ,they expect to have them soon with better OGL.

I just installed beta 4.8s OCed Cpu a little (damn pc overheating so cant go to 2505 @2.2 now and got about 5fps better in Ultra.

Tried turning off AA and running Ultra and it ran at 31 fps with the 4.8s

Combatcow giva yah 100 for your ram on friday i buying some 2700 this week


kdjac

BeatFreak

1024x768 on high,
45.7 fps for first run.
54.3 fps for the second.

Specs : 3.2 @ 3850mhz
9800XT @ 440/380
Gig of GeiL platinum ultra @ 2.5/3/3/7

Now to turn up the settings

Señor Juárez

hmm, I dont suppose anyone knows the command to change the max drawfps from the console? it appears to be locked to 60 by default

KdjaCL

com_maxFPS 0
com_maxFPS 65 (if this works change to whatever)


may work but i think its hardcoded , i could make a mod to override it but why do you want more than 60?


kdjac

CombatCow

I'll send you a pm now, KdjaC


CC

Sir Random

Cat 4.9 betas available from ati.

From ATi website:

ATI is providing an early version of CATALYST 4.9 to users interested in increasing performance of Doom 3.

http://www2.ati.com/drivers/wxp-w2k...27a-017086E.exe

EDIT:
info and beta warning:
http://www.ati.com/support/infobase/4547.html

UPDATE:
According to this thread on Rage3D, there's no performance gain for 9800 cards, only the X800 series.
http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?t=33773350

KdjaCL

Sir Random wrote:

Cat 4.9 betas available from ati.

From ATi website:

http://www2.ati.com/drivers/wxp-w2k...27a-017086E.exe

EDIT:
info and beta warning:
http://www.ati.com/support/infobase/4547.html

Well done , good spot.

/me runs off to check.

FPS seems ot be hardcoded into the Gamex.DLL so not changed easily.

kdjac

Señor Juárez

KdjaC wrote:

com_maxFPS 0
com_maxFPS 65 (if this works change to whatever)


may work but i think its hardcoded , i could make a mod to override it but why do you want more than 60?


kdjac

why do I want more than 60? because my PC can do more than 60! the most efficient framerate is 125fps, regardless of what your monitor will display.

KdjaCL

seta image_cacheMegs ""


Find this line in Doomconfig within the base DIR and change it to 64/128/256
Note your system ram willl be used more so if less than 512 leave it alone.

Nice boost in performance.

Found 4 other CFG entires i john Carmacks and other devs CFGS , will try them out morrow.

Señor Juárez

tried that KdjaC... it was 20megs by default, increased it to 256. benched before and after, 39.7/43.6 before, 40.2/43.7 after. so no real difference...

CivilServant

Sweet post Sir Random, I'll check them again in the morning.

Did the benchmark on Monday.

2.4Ghz Barton(stable for doom)
512Mb PC3200 @ loose timings
x800xt pe

1600x1200 High quality (8AF) + 2AA
36fps

Hope to get up the 50's with 4.9 and preloaded textures. BTW nice scores Combatcow.

BKtje

Was bored so i tried most of your settings out.
Overall it did a little worse than i thought but its obviously my 9700pro dragging me down. May purchase a 6800 Ultra. Depends on a couple things

System:
AMD64 3200+ clawhammer @ 2.4ghz
1gig corsair 2-3-2-10 (200mhz)
9700pro 349/319 (cats4.7)

1024*768 Medium
1-38.9
2-42.8

800*600 high
1-44.7
2-53.1

1024*768 High (what i play on)
1-34.3
2-37.3

1024*768 High 4xaa
1-21.2
2-21.9

1600*1200 high
1-17.1
2-17.7

1600*1200 Ultra
1-14.5
2-15.1

Will trya couple witht he 4.9 drivers tomorrow but i dont think they'll make a difference for my card.
new speakers or 6800ultra. Will have to see

Overall im happy with how this pc plays doom3 tho

BeatFreak

CivilServant wrote:

x800xt pe

Errrrr. Where didcha get that, how much and where can I get one

I'm having trouble getting my hands on one at the moment

BeatFreak

Sir Random wrote:

UPDATE:
According to this thread on Rage3D, there's no performance gain for 9800 cards, only the X800 series.
http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?t=33773350

So it seems I installed them both last night, ran a few benchmarks with a 9800XT @ 1024x768 on ultra and there was a MASSIVE increase from 41.5fps (4.8) to 41.6fps (4.9) and I ran it a few times to make sure. It actually came up worse by 0.1 fps on a few occasions

Sir Random

Massive Performance boost for some mid-range cards:

In your DOOM 3 directory, find "DoomConfig.cfg"
(x:\Program Files\Doom 3\base)

Open DoomConfig.cfg in Notepad.

Find the line:
seta image_cacheMegs "32"

change the 32 to 128 (or 256 or 512, up to half your system ram)

http://www.forumplanet.com/planetdoom/topic.asp?fid=5733&tid=1438663

vishal

it is just my graphics card (9800 pro) cos when i get close up to textures i see they are very low res and very pixelaly? why didn't they use high res textures?

KdjaCL

vishal wrote:

it is just my graphics card (9800 pro) cos when i get close up to textures i see they are very low res and very pixelaly? why didn't they use high res textures?

That happens when i turn AA off? Have you turned it off?

kdjac

Mutant_Fruit

"seta image_cacheMegs "32""

Mine was set to 20

EDIT: I went from 16fps on second run, to 22 fps on second run when i increased from 20 to 256. Now, to re-overclock everything. My 9600 (which i was so proud of a few weeks ago) is creaking badly

CombatCow

An intresting post here,claims to get better detail textures ''ultra new'' with his config file.

http://www.quake3world.com/ubb/Forum9/HTML/000249.html?


CC

vishal

i was running it with aa2x af8x 1028*768. even in i raise the res and filtering it still looks the same. the stuff looks gorgeous, it's just when is would say walk into a wall to examine the detail of the textures.

edit
i just used that config file, made things look even sharper but still a little blurred. you should all try it out, was getting even better fps.

KdjaCL

Try knocking up AA to 4 or increasing res , i found they looked fine when that was on. But i did see some odd texturing, could just stay away from the walls .

kdjac

vishal

here is a pic of it in with the new config file. right in the centre. that is the max res my lcd monitor will do, besides i don't think it will run smoothat anything higher. i can live with it, just wondering why it is happening and is it happening to other people? aa doesn't fix it.

CivilServant

Copied the latest 3.9 cats opengl driver to the same folder as doom3.exe Tis a simplier way of testing out the opengl performance.

1600x1200 8AF+2AA

First run - 36 fps
Second run - 44.1 fps

Nice jump, thanks Ati!!

Matfinn

Hey guys

I have a GE force FX 5200 card with 128mb memory. I also have this

Amd athlon XP 2800
512 mb ram

Do any of you have experiences running this game pn similar computers with good results ?

gobby

Hey lads,

I've been hearing a lot bout this game. Can't wait to get my hands on it. I will be back in Ireland in a matter of weeks and can look into getting it. Thing is my pc is a bit out of date. Most noticable is my gfx. Its a Ti4200 128Mb. The rest of the system is old enough too but I reckon with a new gfx everything would be okay.

The rest of the spec is: p4 2Ghz @ 400 fsb, 512Mb DDR ram (Cant remember speed).

I am thinking of getting a 9800 pro.

Do ye think that this system as is would run Doom III okay?

Or if I got my grubby little hands on a 9800 pro would everything be okay?

Thing is I cant really afford to upgrade much else. Obviously the next thing to be upgraded would be the cpu but I wont be able to afford it!

BKtje

Both pcs will run the game tho i duno know at what settings.

A good gfx card helps a lot. CC's system is a 2ghz Xp and he can run ultra 1600* with a 6800 ultra without much problems.

bambam

As for the question on maxfps being locked to 60. It appears to be so, confirmed here from Rob Duffy's blog : http://www.webdog.org/plans/313/

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Another question I have had multiple emails about, yes the game is capped at 60fps for normal game play. For render demos, like what was used for the HARD OCP stuff, we run those at full tilt which is why you will see > 60fps.
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OfflerCrocGod

gobby wrote:

I've been hearing a lot bout this game. Can't wait to get my hands on it.

It's not actually that good

Mutant_Fruit

Its locked at 60fps s that the physics work out correctly. I can't remember the details, but i believe it was mentioned before that in quake3 you couldn't jump at certain frames, so if you pressed the button at the wrong time, you wouldn't actually jump...

Whatever the reason, it was a good reason. Besides, i sincerely doubt anyone can reliably tell the difference between 60fps and 100fps ingame. (not screen refresh).

pebble

Damn, I read something recently on the sort of specs needed to run the game, but I cant remember where. I think you might find out more about it from one of the developers blogs.
Anyway, its says that to get the best performance, you really need a 512MB graphics card. A 256 would be pretty good, a top of the range 128 would me medium settings and a 64 MB card was the lowest you could possibly go. I presume he is talking about todays standards of cards. After all, I still have an old Herules 4500 64mg sitting around somewhere that would probably run at about 15 fps!

And I bet they ain't usin' AMD Athlon 2200+ either!

ykt0di9url7bc3

Second run = 45.0fps
640x480 - Medium Detail
AA & AF turned off

Second run = 39.1fps
800x600 - Medium Detail
AA & AF turned off

Second run = 29.1fps
1024x768- Medium Detail
AA & AF turned off

Athalon XP 2500+
GeForce 4 Ti4800 SE | 301/605 (nice card for overclocking)
512Mb Dual DDR 2700
NForce 2 Motherboard - (makes a hell of a difference)

I was impressed with my systems performance especially my gf4 to step up to the challenge and deliever so well - at its overclocked setttings... original settings 250/550

I play 640x480, the same res as I play Quake3 at

Mutant_Fruit

So, what drivers give best performance for the 9600 series of ATI cards. I need to boost doom3 performance as much as possible. It looks like people with such "old" technology won't be benefiting from new drivers

netman

1600 x 1200 High setting

first run: 41 fps
second run: 49 fps

P4 3.2C @ 3.5 GHz
X800 Pro softmodded to XT (520/560 MHz)
512MB OCZ PC3700 Gold edition RAM - cas2

Catalyst 4.7

Didn't bother with the beta, it runs quite fast just the way it is
Looking forward to the full release of 4.8.

CivilServant

netman, u should try the 4.9 cats, nice boost. Got 51 fps @ 1600x1200 high quality noAA