Ofpmark part deux (ofpmark v2.0)

[Consigliere 0]

Testing on my new rig:

http://drewb99.homestead.com/files/Images/ofpmark.jpg

Huzzah  

OMG!!  

What system is that??

Athlon 64 3200+ running at 2.22ghz, GF4 Ti4600 running at 320/670, 512mb Kingston PC3200.

Tssssch...You make me sick

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[drewb99 0]

Testing on my new rig:

http://drewb99.homestead.com/files/Images/ofpmark.jpg

Huzzah  

OMG!!  

What system is that??

Athlon 64 3200+ running at 2.22ghz, GF4 Ti4600 running at 320/670, 512mb Kingston PC3200.

That a high score. As your system scored higher than a 3.2ghz P4 system, I'm assuming your processor is the Athlon64 FX model, right?  

no, just the 3200+ running at 2.22ghz (up from 2.0ghz stock). the FX-51 was just a little too rich for my blood

[m21man 0]

Goddamn it, I wish the Athlon 64 had been released when I decided to get a new comp .

[berghoff 11]

Hmm, this OFPMark crashes at the last test here

[m21man 0]

Quote[/b] ]Hmm, this OFPMark crashes at the last test here

What are your specs?

[M60 0]

Athlon XP 2500+ (202 x 10) 2020MHz

Geforce 3 175/400

512MB "PC2700"

1479

I'll see what happens when I overclock my video card.

Athlon XP 2500+ (202 x 10) 2020MHz

Geforce 3 220/505

512MB "PC2700"

1649

[toadlife 3]

Athlon XP 2500+ (202 x 10) 2020MHz

Geforce 3 175/400

512MB "PC2700"

1479

I'll see what happens when I overclock my video card.

Athlon XP 2500+ (202 x 10) 2020MHz

Geforce 3 220/505

512MB "PC2700"

1649

Those score a *a bit* suspect....

From the readme...

Quote[/b] ]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

[M60 0]

Doesn't really prove much though. Maybe it just likes the FSB?

[toadlife 3]

True 200+, is an extremely high FSB speed. I was just wondering if you followed the instructions in the readme regarding the OFP settings.

Running the benchmark using the settings you normally play with will inflate the benchmark bigtime.

[toadlife 3]

BTW: how do you get your FSB so high and not have problems? I would LOVE to be able to crank my FSB up that high. I can only raise mine to around 175 before it starts complaining.

Is there a specific type of memory, or MB you have?

[M60 0]

I replaced the flashpoint.cfg file. I know it's doing it's job to because the resolution is lower than my standard (1152x864). I'll try 166x12.5 and 235x8.5 sometime soon. I unfortunatly lack a 9 multiplier. My Barton also doesn't like 2200MHz+

202 is my standard setting. 235 is my extreme setting. Don't belive me?

That's as high I can go with my memory in sync (1:1).

Motherboard and chipset are very important when trying to get a high FSB. RAM that can run synced with it is also desirable. My RAM is only rated to run at 166MHZ. It's Corsair XMS though, so it overclocks quite well (235MHz!). As for the proper chipset, an nforce2 (for Athlon XP) is the best for overclocking. It locks the AGP/PCI bus at 66/33MHz respectivly to prevent instability. The newer versions (nforce 2 400, nforce 2 Ultra 400) are guarnteed to run at 200MHz FSB. And a good overclocking motherboard, such as my Epox 8RDA3+, is desirable.

http://www.newegg.com/app....&depa=1

[M60 0]

OK, done.

202x10 (2020MHz) = 1479

166x12.5 (2076MHz) = 1413

235x8.5 (2000MHz) = 1520

Same memory timings and video card settings. This seems to prove that at least in these tests, FSB/memory bandwidth is important. This also explains why the Athlon 64 did so well. The Athlon 64 has an integreted memory controller to reduce memory latencies and free up FSB bandwidth for other purposes. The "FSB" is also really non-existant on an Athlon 64. They use "HyperTransport" instead. Simply put, I want an Athlon 64 . And this was the standard Athlon 64, not the FX version. The FX version uses dual channel memory, doubling memory bandwidth.

Read about HyperTransport here is you wish:

http://www.amd.com/us-en....00.html

[toadlife 3]

Oh I see you have a MB that is rated to run at 200 in the first place - that explains everything. I have an 'old' asus a7v333 which is only designed to run at 166. IO can crank it up to past 200 in the BIOS, but that's completely unrealistic.

No one has posted a benchmark with the FX model of the Athlon64. From the benchmarks I saw, a regular athlon64 gave only marginal performance gain over an AthlonXP 3200, but the FX model really wiped the floor with it's 128 bit memory controller, and I have a feeling it will run OFP faster than any other processor.

I'm just waiting for AMD to settle on a socket for the FX model before I buy one.

[M60 0]

I agree. Wait for more mature chipsets, and Socket 939. Just make sure to save up

[benus 0]

my specs: OS: WIN XP

XP 3000+ - 2.17 GHz

1024 MB RAM (DDR)

Radeon 9800 Pro 128 AA 2x / Ani 8x

OFPMark results:

1. 17.4

2. 17.5

3. 16.4

4. 10.7

5. 8.5

averrage: 1400

is that a normal score for such a system ?

I have the feeling that OFP runs not the best way at my computer ?!! don't now perhaps you have some ideas THX

[toadlife 3]

That's a prefectly fine score. Look at the baseline systems and their scores listed in the readme file, and you'll see that your score is much higher than my AthlonXP 2800 system.

[benus 0]

yeah I saw that and I was really proud hehehe

with my settings and ECP enabled and HISKY I get arround 1770 points.

But still when I am playing the mission BATTLEFIELDS with 1500 viewdistance  it will sometimes go down to 10 frames.

ah what I wanted to ask perhaps yopu know that.

the texture/file heap can only be set to 16 mb.

would a manual change have any effect on the game.

in the config can be find that: Frame_Rate_Pref="500";

can you perhaps tell me what that means???

[Azraell 0]

Ok, now i got it....

OFP Preference screen is there just to show a normal Preference screen benchmark.

Cry me a river why dont you

[Placebo 28]

Azraell please do not post images over 100kb

[Jmaster33 0]

I got a score of 1089.45

AMD Athlon XP3200+

512mb DDR RAM

Geforce FX 5600

A7n8x Deluxe Motherboard

How come my score is only slightly higher than toadlife's, when my system is a reasonable amount faster? Way I've got it set up?

[kegetys 2]

I did some testing by running OFP on Linux with WineX 3.1, and I got some interesting results... With WineX, I got 1074 OFPmarks (In Windows 2000 I now get ~1400) which is not so bad considering that it translates all Direct3D stuff to OpenGL realtime, and I was running it from a network filesystem so loading models etc. causes short stops in the game. Everything worked fine, except for fog which appeared bugged in low viewdistances.                        

What's even more interesting, is that when I made a mission that has lots of AI's in it (over 200), fighting around Lipany, I got better performance in Linux with WineX than in Windows. The mission ran about ~19fps in Windows and ~24fps in Linux with WineX, which is a 20% difference, and this when emulating the Windows API.

I can only imagine how much better it would run if there were a native Linux binary, or at least an OpenGL renderer for Windows ;)

[Dracos 0]

My results.

*has no screenshot proof*

SO, onwards.

My Box:

ABIT 865PE

P4 2.8Ghz HT (OC'd to 3.3Ghz)

1x512MB DDR400 (PC3200)

GeForce FX5200 128MB DDR (OC'd to: 301mhz Core/515mhz Memory)

AGP 8X

OS: Win XP

With AA/AF OFF and readme settings:

Run One: 1084.29

Run Two: 1292

With AA=4X & AF=8X and the following settings:

Terrain Detail = Very Low

MultiTexturing = Disabled

Object Shadows = Disabled

Vehicle Shadows = Disabled

Visibility = 4180

Visual Quality = 9.21

Frame Rate = 20.40

Game Version = 1.96

Run One: 1589.21

Run Two: 1538.39

Settings as above, but AA = 2x

Run One: 2275.03

I only did one run, as the results were obviously better.

[toadlife 3]

I got a score of 1089.45

AMD Athlon XP3200+

512mb DDR RAM

Geforce FX 5600

A7n8x Deluxe Motherboard

How come my score is only slightly higher than toadlife's, when my system is a reasonable amount faster? Way I've got it set up?

Loading the game with tons of addon installed can sometime fook your score up.

Try loading it with no addons installed, and make sure and run it a second time.

[toadlife 3]

I did some testing by running OFP on Linux with WineX 3.1, and I got some interesting results... [sNIP]

/me quickly starts downloading his favorite linux distro.

I HAVE to try this.

[toadlife 3]

Crap. WineX won't compile on FreeBSD.