Street fighter 4 PC Benchmark Tool

Azza

Capcom have released a Street fighter 4 PC Benchmark Tool for download to the general public. This will test how well SF IV will run on your PC.

The 400mb file can be got at
http://file.4gamer.net/demo/StreetFighterIV_Benchmark.zip
or
http://www.onlinex.jp/download/OEX.lzh

K.O.Kiki

400mb for a simple tool to test your FPS? :eek:
I know fighting games that are smaller!

Azza

Okay I just ran this several times.....and its absolutly hilarious!

Okay here are my rig specs
Intel Core Duo e8400 @ 3.00Ghz
4GB 1066mhz DDR 2
Gainward HD 4870 512MB
Windows Vista 64bit Ultimate
150GB Western Digital Raptor

First thing I did was max the settings out
1920x1200
16xAF (Texture Filtering)
8XAA
Vsync Enabled
Frame Rate Locked

You have options for
Frame Rate (fixed or variable)
Vsync
Aspect Ratio (4:3, 16:9, 16:10)
Brightness
Anti Aliasing
Texture Filter (AF)
Parallel Rendering
Model Quality
Soft Shadows
Self Shadows
Background Quaility
Motion Blur
Particles

Ran the test 4 times with each of the graphics filters.
For the whole time pretty much wedged to 59.6-59.9 FPS
Only during some of the character entrance scenes where a the frame rate very briefly (about 1 second) dropped to about 56-57 frames.
In one of the 4 run throughs during Ryus Ultra animation the frame rate briefly dropped to 50.0fps but it was not during controlable gameplay so it was irrelevant.
Graphics filfters had no affect on performance.

Then I ran it with Vsync disabled and frame rate set to variable. My frame rate started averaging out at 85fps. This caused the game to run considerable faster. Imagine 3 times the speed of Super Turbo!

So that got me thinking how high can I get my frame rate. So I turned the game down to its lowest possible settings at 1920x1200.
FPS average =274
Game ran at super hyper speed.

I then ran it at the resolution of 640x400 its lowest resolution setting.
FPS=645
Game went into warp speed. The sound could not keep up.
Normaly the demo needs about 3-4 minutes to run through at 60fps but was over in about 25 seconds at this speed!

Also the funniest thing about lowest settings is that it does not even render a background. You fight in a pitch black box! Looks so stupid with screen tearing going ape ****, and gens flashing ultra!

I can safely say Capcom have done a great job with this.
You will need an awful PC not to get this running at 60FPS on the lowest settings.

animaX

Nice one azza, thats good to know!

Cunny-Funt

Some good detailed info there m8, I hope the game doesn't require the cd to be in the machine to play, I wanna have it on both my laptop on PC.

Azza

I'd imagine the retail version will require a disc in the drive. Its using SecuROM for its DRM but not a version that has activiation limits which normaly does not require the disc in the drive.

You could always get it off Impulse or Steam. They won't require the disc in the drive.

L31mr0d

Azza wrote: »

You could always get it off Impulse or Steam. They won't require the disc in the drive.

can't you just register it with steam even if you don't buy it from them? Also cheers for the benchmark tool.

Azza

No you can't register the retail copy with Steam I'm afraid. Its something your able to do with only a very few games.

thelinked

This thing is awesome. I managed to get it up to about 300-400FPS on lowest settings.
For some reason, AA breaks the game for me.

Azza

In what way.

Whats your PC spec and what settings can you run it at properly?

thelinked

Ok, my pc is.
Intel Core 2 q6600 @ 2.4Ghz
2GB DDR 2
Nvidia Geforce 8800 gts 320MB
Windows 7 64bit Ultimate

My drivers are 185.85 which are the latest.

I was able to max everything except for AA at my native resolution(1680X1050) and run close to 60fps. If I turn on AA all I get is a black screen. I can hear the pre fight screen but there is no sound after that.

Azza

Must be a driver bug. No issues with AA here but I have an ATI card.

Dreddybajs

I can't run this very well, looks like I'll be skipping it.

L31mr0d

thelinked wrote: »

Ok, my pc is.
Intel Core 2 q6600 @ 2.4Ghz
2GB DDR 2
Nvidia Geforce 8800 gts 320MB
Windows 7 64bit Ultimate

My drivers are 185.85 which are the latest.

Try the latest beta drivers:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/win7_winvista_64bit_186.08_beta.html

Also are you doing any sort of overclocking on any of your components?

cherryghost

Pentium D 2.8ghz
8600GT
1GB RAM
XP SP3

Runs at 60fps smoothly, although I have AA turned off. Will defo be getting this for my main pc (Q6600, 8GB RAM, GTX 260)

cherryghost

Dreddybajs wrote: »

I can't run this very well, looks like I'll be skipping it.

Whats your PC spec?

Azza

Did not take long but there is already custom skins being made for the PC version.

Nothing too spectacular yet but here are new Cammy and Chun Li skins.
Cammy
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v111/mikros/cammytex.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v111/mikros/cammytex2.jpg
Chun Li
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v111/mikros/chuntex.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v111/mikros/chuntex2.jpg

L31mr0d

Azza wrote: »

Did not take long but there is already custom skins being made for the PC version.

I give it one week before someones released a skin of cammy in a fishnet body stocking, and one more week before Rufus also has one rule 34 ftw

cherryghost

L31mr0d wrote: »

I give it one week before someones released a skin of cammy in a fishnet body stocking, and one more week before Rufus also has one rule 34 ftw

I give it a week til all characters are naked

K.O.Kiki

But they'll be like Barbie dolls.
Besides, half the beauty of Sakura Alt.10 is that she's still wearing something skimpy...

Dreddybajs

cherryghost wrote: »

Whats your PC spec?

Intel 2160 @ 1.80Ghz (2 CPUs)
Geforce 8600 GT
3 gigs ram

Azza

Think your gpu is the weak link in your setup. Still you should be able to get 60fps on a mixture of medium/low.

What resolution you running at and what settings?

cherryghost

Azza wrote: »

Think your gpu is the weak link in your setup. Still you should be able to get 60fps on a mixture of medium/low.

What resolution you running at and what settings?

i have an 8600GT on high settings running smoothly

Dreddybajs

Azza wrote: »

Think your gpu is the weak link in your setup. Still you should be able to get 60fps on a mixture of medium/low.

What resolution you running at and what settings?

AA and all the fancy filters off, originally ran it on 1280x1024, didn't get much difference by lowering the resolution.

I think the fan in the graphics card is dodgy these days, maybe that's it somehow.

Kirby

Impressed with the engine tbh. Ran it maxxed everything at 1920x1200 and it was solid as a rock. All 3 fights was stuck at 60 fps.....never left it once. The 4th test with the cast standing around, it dropped to 55fps though. But all the intro's, moves, and gameplay was solid and thats all that matters really.

The Ink filter is definately the coolest looking.

Having said all that, Im still not sure it's worth another 50 quid. I already have it on the xbox so I'll have to wait and see.

Azza

Its suppose to retail for €39.99 not €50 and I'm sure some online distrabutors will sell it at around €30.00. Remember PC games are normally cheaper than console games.

I heard Tesco UK where going be selling it for £17.99

Kirby

Good point. Actually, SF4 was always cheap. I'd forgotten that I got it on launch day for 36 quid. Infact, its 23 quid in HMV at the moment. It may very well be cheaper than I thought. Worth picking up again for that price.

Azza

Good Kirby...I need a delicious Dhalsim player to perfect my pyshco power on!

Kirby

Well you didn't need much help last saturday .

I always struggle against pyscho man....your one in particular had me pressured like hell in the corner.... mistiming my back+roundhouse and flailing about . The only fight where I was well beaten.... gotta remedy that with some anti-bison practice. Maybe I can win more than one match against ye next time. Its one of the few fights where ex yoga blast is useful and I didn't use it....and got stuffed close range with slides. Dhalsim shall train his foot for footsies next time.

Azza

Think your mistaking me with Blag. I only played you once and just about scrapped a win. I'm not too experienced playing a decent Sim so I'd like to learn the match up.

Kirby

Am I? I remember fighting two bisons. The first was my first fight there and I had a tough time of it. Was much better against the second Bison.

Gah. Nametags next tme people

cherryghost

jaysus. have it maxed out at home on 1680x1050. looks great!

Q6600 @ 2.6ghz
8GB DDR2 RAM
GTX 260 216 SP
Vista 64 bit SP2

Azza

Join the SF IV steam group cherryghost
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/StreetFighterIV

More Irish players the better!

L31mr0d

I know it's going to run fine on my main PC, as it runs Crysis without a bother, but just tried it out there on my HTPC.

Here's the specs:
E6600 @ 2.4Ghz
4GB PC2-8000 RAM
8800GT (overclocked 730/930)
Vista 32bit

Ran like butter with everything at the highest allowable settings and at 720p. Stayed at a solid 60fps with vsync on. Impressed, Capcom have really cleaned up their game in regards to ports.

Azza

Capcom never did bad ports. The crap ports of previous Capcom games like Devil May Cry 3 Special Edition and Resident Evil 4 where out sourced to Source Next and published by Ubisoft. Any game that they have worked directly on recently for the PC has been a good port.

Kirby

To be fair, thats not an excuse. Its still a Capcom port. Just because you ask mary down the road to do it for you......its stil your port. Valve did the same thing with the orange box on the ps3. Outsourced it and it was a poor product because of it.

If you hire a load of chaps to port a game and it turns out poorly, you can't turn around and say "not our fault! they did it!". You picked them to do it, you paid them, you knew their finished product was shoddy and still released it anyway..... or in capcoms case, allowed your IP to be released.

Azza

Thats the equivelent of blaming EA for crappy support on Battlefield 2 when it was actually the developers fault and not the publishers or blaming Activision for Call of Duty: World at War bring crap (matter of opinion which may not necessarily reflect the opinion of poster ).

The reason Valve outsourced The Orange Box to EA was because they had not the manpower to do it themsleves at the time, being still a small sized company in terms of manpower. Gabe Newell also has a strong like for the PS3 architecture. Who knows what reason Capcom had for outsourcing their previous IP's but they are handling all the PC versions of future games internally.

Dreddybajs

Sound files relating to Deejay and T.Hawk found in the benchmark program:

http://www.eventhubs.com/news/2009/jun/15/dee-jay-and-t-hawk-sounds-files-sf4-benchmark/

Woden

Great I have a similar spec to the op and game at 1920x1200 also.

Good to know there will be no issues.

Cheers

ssjkiego

Intel (R) D CPU 3.96 GHz
ATI RADEON XPRESS 1100 Series

1280 X 1024 60Hz 2X AA

Vista 32 BIT

---

i can hear everything fine, and i can see the startup logo's just not SF4 itself.
i can see the FPS and the SF4 logo on the lower corner but...

i just cant get a picture of the GAME is there anything i can do you guys?
preferably not having to spend any money?

L31mr0d

ssjkiego wrote: »

ATI RADEON XPRESS 1100 Series

Ouch! What other games have you managed to get running on that?

Have you updated it's drivers recently?

ssjkiego

i have no clue how to manually... ive loaded your typical mmorpgs...but no other games...

animaX

ssjkiego wrote: »

Intel (R) D CPU 3.96 GHz
ATI RADEON XPRESS 1100 Series

1280 X 1024 60Hz 2X AA

Vista 32 BIT

---

i can hear everything fine, and i can see the startup logo's just not SF4 itself.
i can see the FPS and the SF4 logo on the lower corner but...

i just cant get a picture of the GAME is there anything i can do you guys?
preferably not having to spend any money?

You could try turning down the settings in the ini file (located in localsettings/applicationdata/capcom i think) if you dont have access to the menu. Also, you could run the game through 3d analyzer (an app which emulates graphics cards)

ssjkiego

Ive been looking for this "emu" and ive come across some as 1K MB and one as 4GIG's
which one is real?

also i cant find my localsettings folder...

Dreddybajs

C:\Documents and Settings\Your User Name\Local Settings

ssjkiego

gotcha! thanks!

i tried everything and read the readme that came with 3D ANA...and still nothing...

the only result i got was not seeing ANYTHING AT ALL! so i think im just screwed

Kirby

Try turning AA off completely. When I used max AA it ran fine.....but when I tried simple AA x2, the thing crashed.

animaX

ssjkiego wrote: »

Ive been looking for this "emu" and ive come across some as 1K MB and one as 4GIG's
which one is real?

also i cant find my localsettings folder...

Try this. Also, try skipping pixel shader 2.0 or something like that

ssjkiego

Kirby wrote: »

Try turning AA off completely. When I used max AA it ran fine.....but when I tried simple AA x2, the thing crashed.

[SYSTEM]
RenderingThread=OFF
[DISPLAY]
Resolution=1280x1024
RefreshRate=60Hz
FullScreen=OFF
VSync=OFF
FrameRate=VARIABLE
Aspect=16:10
[GRAPHICS]
MSAA=NONE
TextureFilter=DEFAULT
ModelQuality=LOW
StageQuality=LOW
SoftShadowQuality=LOW
SelfShadowQuality=OFF
MotionBlurQuality=OFF
ParticleQuality=LOW
ExtraTouch=OFF
Brightness=100
[BENCHMARK]
Type=BATTLE+DEMO
Loop=OFF
[GAME]
FPS=OFF

what should i do with this?

Kirby

"MSAA" is anti-aliasing......and it appears its already turned off. Thats my idea out the window

Try altering the "Resolution" in the ini file to 800x600. Also change the "Aspect" to 4:3. See if that helps. Turn "FullScreen" on aswell.

Remember to save and close the file before you load up SF4 again.

ssjkiego

Kirby wrote: »

"MSAA" is anti-aliasing......and it appears its already turned off. Thats my idea out the window

Try altering the "Resolution" in the ini file to 800x600. Also change the "Aspect" to 4:3. See if that helps. Turn "FullScreen" on aswell.

Remember to save and close the file before you load up SF4 again.

common im not that much of a newb...but i would at least have a fighting chance at sf4....

* tries it*

here we go...
it looked really clean like it was about to work but im stuck back at square one. no title screen...

OMG I SAW THE VS SYMBOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!