Performance comparison initiative

[yellonet]

Something that should be in the interest for a lot of people would be a comparison of performance between different hardware configurations when running the game with the same settings.

This would be beneficial for:

• People looking to invest in new hardware for this game

• People looking to maximize performance on their existing hardware

• People who want to know if that new patch gave better or poorer performance

What I propose is that we agree (yes I know ) on three different graphical settings that are used, low, middle, max, and use them as we run a specific mission as viewer only, then we only need some software - unless it can be done in-game - that can create some statistics for the FPS, min, max and average.
The mission could be created, but for simplicity it might be easier to use one of the stock missions.

I don't know how to best go about the FPS measurement, anyone have a suggestion?


The result could look something like this:

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1c forum CloD test result

i7-860 @ 2.8 GHz
4 GB RAM
ATI 4870 1 GB (Catalyst 11.7)
W7 64-bit

CloD version: 1.02.14821

Low settings
Min: 24 fps
Max: 148 fps
Avg: 66 fps

Medium settings
Min: 18 fps
Max: 92 fps
Avg: 48 fps

High settings
Min: 9 fps
Max: 44
Avg: 16 fps
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The critical bit will be to agree to which settings to use for each "performance level" and to get reliable statistics.
It would be best if everyone used the the same graphics driver but that won't happen so we'll have to make due with just specifying which driver was used in the test.

I know that the game is perhaps not ready in terms of performance tweaking, but any performance improvements should be of a general nature, and relative numbers between hardware might still be valid.