Deamon

31st October 2003 23:00 UTC

AVS benchmarking
Something that benchmarks your computer on AVS capabilities would be great, so we can know what the average is and build our packs on it. There are multiple ways to do this.

1. combining some earlier made presets with various heavy effects in it, and counting up (or whatever) the reached FPS.

2. just posting our CPU's and somehow use that.

Personally I'd like to do no. 1. Some people who want to help me with this?

The reason for posting this is that I bought a new computer (AMD 2600+) about 3 months ago, and AVS is really fast now. I know lots of people don't have a proc which runs over 1.8 gHz or whatever. So I want to build my packs according to the average speed. I now count on my own computer for avs's to run at least with 20 fps, and render priority on lowest.

Tell me what you think :)

sidd

1st November 2003 02:47 UTC

How about we just make one singlke preset, with a non varying fps. And post it somewhere as the official benchmark preset.

ie, "you should get at least 25 fps running this preset" or somesuch. For benchmarking purposes, its very important that you dont have much else running also.

for the record: im runnng amd athl 1700+ 1.4gHz w/ 256.
I run avs at 400x300, sometimes less for editng. No pixel doubling or retrace.

/edit and i cant stand watching anything less than 25fps

Yathosho

1st November 2003 09:39 UTC

i ran avs on a shabby amd with 700mhz at 320x200. now i'm back on intel with 2.4ghz and i achieve about the same fps as before (even SLIGHTLY faster) in 480x360, page-flipping and retrace ON.

Originally posted by siddhartha_one
and i cant stand watching anything less than 25fps

jonasc1

1st November 2003 11:49 UTC

There are some sliders in the display and fullscreen settings that can speed the ramerate up.

mikm

1st November 2003 17:18 UTC

ummm...
a. we know that
b. that's not the point of this thread

Deamon

2nd November 2003 14:32 UTC

so who would like to make the benchmark preset?

for the record as well:
AMD 2600+ with 1 GB RAM.
running AVS at 400x340

horse-fly

5th November 2003 17:53 UTC

sure what the hell...

Intel Celeron 466mhz with 160 mb ram with AVS at 256*140

AVS usually runs from 7 - 14 fps

Edit: On windows XP, as different OS'es take up different amounts of resources

gaekwad2

12th November 2003 10:58 UTC

Nice gd game :p

P4 2.6G 512MB XP 400x300(overlay)

I think the results so far show already that the differences are just too high to determine an average setting that would produce decent results on all comps.

Magic.X

18th November 2003 11:01 UTC

WTF?

Ok, i am about to upgrade my pc to Athlon64 3200+ next month. This will speed up my current avs which run at about 15fps on my AthlonXP 1800+ but my future presets will still run on 15 fps. Why? Because i tend to add as much effects as possible or increase the gridsize of DM's if i can get more out of my cpu.

Deamon

21st November 2003 09:40 UTC

That will result in shitty looking-presets on slower machines, Magic.X, though go ahead, a lot of us have a good computer anyways.