X2 Benchmarking As mentioned previously (here), X2 - The Threat has arrived in its closed BETA stages from the developers over at Linux Game Publishing. There still are many bugs to work out but we have already begun to report X2 frame-rate results to the public. For our first article we have ran six X2 benchmarks on an Athlon 64 system with a NVIDIA GeForce FX5200 128MB, 6600GT 128MB, 6800GT 256MB, and 7800GTX 256MB. OpenSuSE 10.0 was used through testing due to a Fedora Core 4 compatibility issue with the dialog box (which will be fixed before the retail version ships).
Upon launching the X2 Linux binary, the dialog box will appear, which allows for the modification of the graphic resolution, input device, player logo, and screenshot directory. In addition, the standard X2 - The Threat benchmark can be executed that is comprised of 24 scenes. The graphics resolution area allows the game resolution to be altered, windowed/full-screen gaming, automatic quality, bump-mapping, anti-aliasing, and real-time shadows to be enabled or disabled. Once again, if you are interested in our X2 v1.4 (BETA 1) benchmarks, the article can be found here. Upon the completion of the benchmark, the average frame-rate through all of the scenes is printed in the terminal window while much more information can be attained from data outputted to ~/.lpg/x2/xperf.txt Presently, in its BETA form, the xperf.txt file contains the average FPS for all 24 scenes as well as the settings in which the game was executed. Below is a sample xperf.txt file. X2 - The Threat (Linux Version) Executeable compiled Dec 30 2005-03:21:22 Video Settings during test:
Overall average framerate: 58.671 fps (c)2005 Linux Game Publishing Posted by Michael Larabel on January, 02 2006 |
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