DRI Wiki - Benchmarking

Blender

The blender developers wrote a script for benchmarking their app. Download benchmark.blend. Run blender with blender ~/benchmark.blend , then press alt-P.

OpenArena

anholt recorded a timedemo for use. The developers may include a canonical timedemo in a future release.

Place anholt.cfg in ~/.openarena/baseoa/

Place anholt.dm_68 in ~/.openarena/baseoa/demos

Run openarena using:

openarena +exec anholt 2>&1 | egrep -e '[0-9]+ frames'

Quake3 Demo

Install Quake 3 Demo

wget ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/quake3/linux/linuxq3ademo-1.11-6.x86.gz.sh
chmod a+x linuxq3ademo-1.11-6.x86.gz.sh
./linuxq3ademo-1.11-6.x86.gz.sh -target ~/q3
cd ~/q3
cp bin/x86/glibc-2.0/q3demo .
./q3demo

The timedemo we use is DEMO001. Place the following script in ~/.q3a/demoq3/demo.cfg

timedemo 1
set demodone  "quit"
set demoloop1 "demo DEMO001; set nextdemo vstr demodone"
vstr demoloop1

Run Quake3 Demo using:

cd /q3 && ./q3demo +exec demo 2>&1 | egrep -e '[0-9]+ frames'

Quake3

The timedemo we use is demofour. Place the following script in ~/.q3a/baseq3/demofour.cfg:

timedemo 1
set demodone  "quit"
set demoloop1 "demo four; set nextdemo vstr demodone"
vstr demoloop1

Run quake3 using:

cd /usr/games/quake3 && ./quake3.x86 +exec demofour 2>&1 | egrep -e '[0-9]+ frames'

Enemy Territory

The timedemo we use is "Radar", located at http://www.3dcenter.org/downloads/enemy-territory-radar.php. Place the demo in ~/.etwolf/etmain/demos.

Start the game, hit '~' to get to the console, and type:

timedemo 1
demo radar

To show fps at runtime, hit '~' and type:

/cg_drawfps 1

Doom3

Go to the console and type

timedemo demo001

UT2004

Get the primeval demo and put it in .ut2004/Demos/:

http://www.3dcenter.de/downloads/files/cb46p71/ut2004-primeval.zip
cd ~/.ut2004
unzip ~/ut2004-primeval.zip

Set MinDesiredFramerate to 0 in your UT2004.ini in ~/.ut2004/System/UT2004.ini. You probably also want to set UseVBO=True if your driver supports VBOs (UT doesn't automatically set this if the extension is exposed, for some reason).

Theory is that you should be able to run it with

ut2004 -benchmark -ini=UT2004.ini -exec=demo_primeval.txt -exitafterdemo

but that results in segfaults, so start ut2004 manually, hit '~' to get the console, and type

demoplay primeval?timedemo