Ofpmark part deux (ofpmark v2.0)

[toadlife 3]

I decided to start a new thread since the other one is littered with now *invalid* benchmark scores. I thought this would cause confusion.

OFPmark is an OFP mission that benchmarks the performance of your machine. For more info on OFPMark see the old thread.

The new OFPMark was tested using two different systems, and now takes into account the userinfo.cfg settings.

Download the new version and check the readme below:

http://toadlife.net/ofp/downloads/missions/ofpmark_2.zip

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OFPMARK version 2.0

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by toadlife (toadlife@toadlife.net)

http://toadlife.net/ofp

Use OFP to benchmark your rig!

Installation:

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Place the OFPMark.pbo in your Operation Flashpoint Missions directory.

Setting your system up for the Benchmark:

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* Place the included flashpoint.cfg file in your Operation Flashpoint

directory

* Lauch the Flashpoint Preferences program. DO NOT CLICK "AUTO DETECT"!

* Set your screen resolution to 1024x768 (or as close to it as you can)

* Set every setting in your preferences to the highest it will go to.

* Things to check

* Geometry performance (slide to the right)

* Textures (set all to the highest setting)

* Auto drop down should be NONE

* LOD settings - (slide them both tot he right)

* Max Lights - slide to the right and check every box

* Max. Objects - slide to the right

* Exit your flashpoint preferences and start the game

* Once in the game, click on "Graphics Options" and set the following settings

* Things to set

* Object Shadows - enabled

* Vehicle Shadown - enabled

* Cloudlets - enabled

* Blood - enabled

* Frame Rate - slide all the way to the LEFT

* Visual Quality - slide all the way to the RIGHT

* View Distance - set to 2000 (as close as you can get it)

* Terrain Detail - Normal

Running the Benchmark:

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* Click on single missions, and Open up the mission "OFPMark"

* Start the mission. Once it starts, press escape and click "restart"

* Let the mission play through and record your scores.

Repeating the mission by pressing restart a few times is encouraged, as it will give

you a better idea of what your average score is. You scores *should* allways be

very similar as you replay the mission.

Test Systems:

(My computer)

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AthlonXP2800+ (Barton@2080Mhz - default clock settings)

Asus A7V333(166x2Mhz FSB)

512MB PC2700 DDR RAM (333Mhz)

Gainward GeForce4 ti4800SE 128MB(275/550 - default clock settings)

Windows 2000 Service Pack 4

Average OFPMARK: 1080

(My wife's computer)

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Athlon 750

Gigabyte MB

640MB SDRAM (PC100)

Visiontek Geforce3 64MB

Windows XP Pro Service Pack 1

Average OFPMARK: 459

Edit:One extra note. The scores you get on each test will represent the average Frames Per Second you got during the test run. The final OFP mark is the average frames per second for all tests multiplied by 100.

[bonko the sane 2]

Argh...Why do I test my rig...I always feel depressed afterwards

With Quincunx AA (4x?) accentuated textures and controled Anisotropic:

884.157

With no AA and controlled Anisotropic (cant turn it off):

851.86

P.S: Love the Space Capsule test

EDIT: Tested on a AMD XP1700+ @135

GF5600 128Mb @ 325x550

KT4V-motherboard

512DDR RAM @266

running WinXPPro and 1.94b

Decidedly OFP is mainly about CPU...

[mr burns 132]

Athlon Barton 2500+@2014 (FSB 171)

2x 256MB DDR333 Infineon

Power Color Rad 9600 Pro ez

Asus A7N8X

1st time with toadlifes config and 2xAA & AF

2nd test with my config and 4xAA & AF

edited: was too much ram...  

[toadlife 3]

@Mr Burns

I'm wondering if your higher score than mine (our systems are fairly similar) has to do with the newer motherboard and FSB overclocking, or the Ati GFX card?

I have a feeling OFP's speed relies heavily on internal memory bandwidth, and overclocking my FBS to 170 would raise my scores (with the default CFG) to that of yours.

Edit: SInce you used 2xAA and AF, your score is not an 'offical' OFPMark - but nonetheless, it's an impressive score, and probably points out the excellent AF/AA performance of Ati cards.

Let see how those P4 2.8 owners fare in this one.

[lee_h._oswald 0]

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AthlonXP 2500+@3000+ (via multiplicator)

2x 512MB DDR333 Samsung

GF4 Ti4600 detonator 44.03

Shuttle XPC SN45G

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Nice new version, thx.

MfG Lee

[Acecombat 0]

I cant run the 5th test i get a CTD

P4 2.4b

512 DDR 266mhz RAM

40GB HDD

GEforce 4 440 MX at no AA or Ansfilter.

display is at 1024x768 @60 refresh rate since monitor doesnt supports more..atm (running a old pile)

WHy do i CTD?

[lee_h._oswald 0]

Check if you are running OFP with "-nomap" in your shortcut.

MfG Lee

[Acecombat 0]

YES i am.

[toadlife 3]

@Lee_H._Oswald

I dont get how you scored so high. With a system like that, your score shouldn't be 1900.

Did you put your settings exactly how was described in the readme file?

In version 1, my rig scored a ~1600 and in version 2 it scores ~1100. THat's 500+ points I lost.

In version 1, you scored 2000 and in this version, you scored 1975. That's a measly 25 point drop.

[lee_h._oswald 0]

Uhm...

* View Distance - set to 2000 (as close as you can get it)

Is this important or did you set the viewdistance in every test via trigger?

MfG Lee

[Acecombat 0]

What about my test?

[toadlife 3]

Uhm...

* View Distance - set to 2000 (as close as you can get it)

Is this important or did you set the viewdistance in every test via trigger?

MfG Lee

viewdistance is set via scripts, but I figured it wouldn't hurt to have it set the same in the user preferences.

DId you slide the fram rate and visual quality bars in the right directions? The frame rate bar should be slid all the way to the left (lowest) and the visual quality bar to the right (highest).

[toadlife 3]

What about my test?

I would suggest running it over and over and sending your flashpoint.rpt and context.bin files to BIS. It might have to do with you geforce4 MX card not being able to handle all that texture loading in test5.

Try doing your settings how you normally do them and run the test.

If it stilld oesn't run, keep setting your setting lower and lower until it runs.

[lee_h._oswald 0]

I found the "problem".

From some testings I had this in the userinfo.cfg

frameRate=100.000000;

It results in a higher score.

We need a standart number of frames set in the userinfo.cfg to compare results.

MfG Lee

[toadlife 3]

We need a standart number of frames set in the userinfo.cfg to compare results.

There is a standard. If you follow the instruction in the readme (which is posted in the first thread), it says this:

Quote[/b] ] * Frame Rate - slide all the way to the LEFT

SLiding this bar to the left sets the framerate option in your userinfo.cfg

[lee_h._oswald 0]

Ah, it´s too late here in germany, didn´t see it.

MfG Lee

[mr burns 132]

@Mr Burns

I'm wondering if your higher score than mine (our systems are fairly similar) has to do with the newer motherboard and FSB overclocking, or the Ati GFX card?

I have a feeling OFP's speed relies heavily on internal memory bandwidth, and overclocking my FBS to 170 would raise my scores (with the default CFG) to that of yours.

Edit: SInce you used 2xAA and AF, your score is not an 'offical' OFPMark - but nonetheless, it's an impressive score, and probably points out the excellent AF/AA performance of Ati cards.

Your thought about the newer Mobo seems fine to me.

Not only the nforce chipset but also the Dual Channeled Rams on my one should increase my performance quite a bit  

about AA & AF: Yes...they handle it very good

in fact i was very surprised by the capabilities of my small (ez   ) ATI Card when i activated these features for the first time

@lee: are you cheating or what    ?

/ed.: weird typo

[kegetys 2]

test1: 16,9438

test2: 15,6982

test3: 13,3201

test4: 9,15402

test5: 7,72767

ofpmark: 1256,88

With:

Intel Pentium 4C 2,4 at 3GHz

GF4 Ti4200 at 300/650MHz

2x512MB at 400MHz DDR (Dual channel)

Windows 2000 pro

(Yes its running a bit lower right now than last time :P)

Edit: btw. you can have the ofpmark flashpoint.cfg with some different filename, for example ofpmark.cfg and then run OFP with -cfg=ofpmark.cfg parameter to use it. Could also be useful to have an userinfo.cfg file with the zip file, in a users/ofpmark/ path or something so you could just extract the zip to ofp dir, and run the exe with "-cfg=ofpmark.cfg -name=ofpmark" parameters to automatically have the correct settings without screwing up the existing ones.

[Airwolf 50]

I hate my computer.... one would think that when you spend so much money OFP wouldnt lag.. but noooooo, i sware i got better graphics with my old geforce 4200...

heres my craptastic score

system..

3.0ghz HT pentium 4

1024mb corsair ddr400, supposably duel channel

geforce fx 5900

asus p4p400 deluxe motherboard

audigy II platinum.

if anyone has an idea why my flashpoint lags, especially when i look from side to side, PLEASE TELL ME!

[4 IN 1 0]

after i tested it on my machine, i am sure that i would stuck with my own setting now

(sorry i dont take a screen shot)

test one : 11.66

test two : 12.746

test three : 10.7902

test four : 8.04182

test five : 4.12975

4 IN 1's OFPmark is 947.335

my machine:

1800+(o/c 1900+),

9500Pro,

512MB DDR RAM,

Chaintech 7NJL1(nForce2)

seagate 80GB HDD

AA is at 6x and Anisotropy at 16x

i wonder if "A" card is "set" not to work as good as "N" card, anyway my netfriend who using 9800pro really makes me to think about upgrading my lovely 9500Pro

[Lolsav 0]

P4 2.6, 512 ram @800, Radeon 9600 Pro, disk 5200 rpm

1.94 version of the game with -nomap option in command line

[mr burns 132]

just out of curiosity:

what does -nomap do ?

i only know that it makes my ofp running again with all the addons...and thats good

[toadlife 3]

I hate my computer.... one would think that when you spend so much money OFP wouldnt lag.. but noooooo, i sware i got better graphics with my old geforce 4200...

system..

3.0ghz HT pentium 4

1024mb corsair ddr400, supposably duel channel

geforce fx 5900

asus p4p400 deluxe motherboard

audigy II platinum.

if anyone has an idea why my flashpoint lags, especially when i look from side to side, PLEASE TELL ME!

Quit complaining Airwolf - your score is the highest of anyone by far!

After seeing these scores I would have to say OFP depends most heavily on raw FSB speed.

@Mr Burns

I set my geforce4 to 2xAA and 2xAF and my score was identical to my first one. THis is good news for me, as I though the GF4 lagged when you set any amount of AA and AF. I'm pretty sure now that your higher score is your Mobo witht he nforce chipset. My old Asus A7V333 is yesterdays technology now.

@Kegetys

I did not know that. The problem is, some peoples computers simply will not run with the provided .cfg files. THe instructions for setting up the benchmark can be tedious, but they give everyone an opotunity to run the test and have an 'official' score.

[Airwolf 50]

No!!!!!!! the score may be high, but the actual game play is horrible! i cant look in any direction without it lagging!

[ale2999 0]

my score dropped by 500. this is brutal