Saturday, December 11, 1999

Tweak3D Demo for Q3A -- 11:04 am CST, Update by A.T. Hun

Tweak3D has created a demo for Quake III Arena similar to their "Crusher" demo for Quake 2. It will give you an idea of what your framerate will be in a worst case scenario. You can download the file here (1481K). He also posted his results with the demo, including some tweaks he used that may have influenced performance.

To run the demo, make a directory under your baseq3 directory called demos, unzip die.dm3 into the demos directory, fire up Q3A, pull down the console (with the tilde key), and type in the following commands:

timedemo 1
demo die

To create the demo, he fired up Q3DM17 (The Longest Yard, formerly known as Q3Test2) with 31 Visor bots. He stayed in spectator mode, swooping in and around the action. I would never join a server like this :)

With my standard settings: based on high-quality settings at 640x480 and bilinear filtering, dynamic lights off, cg_gibs 0, I got 14.3 fps. My system is a Celeron 400 with 128M RAM, Creative Labs AGP TNT card with CL's 2.08 drivers, Creative Labs SoundBlaster Live! Value with Live!Ware 3.0. Theoretically it should work with the Q3ADemo, but I couldn't get it to work (To be honest, I didn't try very hard either. I assume performance would be very similar to the full version.).

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