[ut2003io] radeon 9700 - all ATI users

[Paul Berger]

On Tue, 2003-04-15 at 13:44, Matthew Arnold wrote: 
> Paul Berger wrote:
> 
> > So it looks like the ATI 2.9.6 OpenGL driver for the 9000 Pro at least
> > is equivalent to their current shipping Windows 2000/XP driver.
> 
> Unfortunately, this isn't a straight apples-to-apples comparison. The 
> botmatches are going to be different from one platform to another. Even 
> changing certain settings will change the botmatch altogether. Only the 
> flybys are the same. Unfortunately, they don't stress your system as much 
> as the botmatches do.


Under the ATI 2.5.1 driver I was getting ~7FPS for the low rating and
about 20 for the average.  The new drivers makes certain high-detail
levels like IronDeity go from totally unplayable ~4FPS under 2.5.1, to
acceptable 20s frame rates under 2.9.6.

The Antalus level was one of the standard levels that I had issues with
poor FPS in areas so what I used to compare performance on. I had not
intended on this being an exhaustive benchmark comparing the performance
of the Windows Ut2003 vs. the Linux UT2003, but just the OpenGL video
driver.

A lower end system would probably have a wider difference than what my
system does, and yes botmatches would make a big difference also since
they are cpu intensive..

Regards,
Paul