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More OpenGL with Quake3 |
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An Oldie but Goodie. |
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Quake3:
In the remaining pages we're
going to give the Siluro Ti4200 with OTES an all out attack
of the veteran OpenGL game, Quake3. We loaded up the
Timedemo for DEMO004 and ran a wide variety of scores based
on different driver settings. To start things off we
ran the test at three popular resolutions with the visual
settings set for "High-Quality" and the textures set to
maximum. In this round we included some overclocking
scores as well.
Usually when we run a
motherboard test we like to run Quake3 at 640x480 with the
"fastest settings" to determine the CPU limitation of the
system. Even at 1024x768 we are seeing the test system
is CPU limited. This is clear when you see that the
overclocked score was virtually unchanged, leveling off at
the Ti4600's score.
At 1280x1024 the card's
performance comes into play a little more. The Ti4200
ran roughly 14FPS shy of the Ti4600's score, but once we overclocked the Siluro we saw that margin narrow to less
than 6FPS.
At 1600x1200 the power of the
Ti4600 really becomes more evident, although the Ti4200 was
still posting great scores whether it was overclocked or
not. While the scores between the two cards are
becoming wider as we go on, we are still seeing very high
results. So now we are going start turning up the
quality in the drivers to see how the two react to the
increase graphic load.
2X Full Screen
Antialiasing:
In this round of tests we
enabled Full Screen Antialiasing to try to bring these cards
frame rates down to Earth. We started things off by enabling
2X FSAA and then running the same three resolutions.
Even with 2X FSAA enabled,
Quake3 wasn't much of a challenge to either of these video
cards. Once again the Ti4200 refused to be blown away
by the Ti4600, keeping the race within 16FPS.
At 1280x1024 the gap widened between the two scores, with
the Ti4600 holding a 30FPS advantage. Nonetheless, the
Siluro was posting an excellent score, period.
With the
resolution set to 1600x1200, the Siluro still posted a very
playable 68FPS. Naturally the Ti4600 took top position
although it also dipped into the double digits.
Next we'll turn
up the heat some more and see how the two handle 4X FSAA.
More FSAA & 32-Tap Anisotropic
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