San Andreas Benchmarking V1.01

[Cran.]

 

 

V 1.01

 

 

What you'll need
A working version of San Andreas PC Fraps
Easy steps to benchmarking
1. Now that you have everything, make sure that you've ticked the boxes 'MinMaxAvg' under 'detailed benchmark statistics' in fraps. Tick 'Stop benchmark automaticlly after' and set it to 200. This will ensure everyone gets the same time
2. Run GTA San Andreas with fraps running, and start a new game, and MAKE SURE IT IS A NEW GAME. Just as the intro starts, press the benchmark button. This should be the first intro of the game, and no other.
3. Press the benchmarking button again just after the hud appears and you will get control of CJ.
Rules everyone must comply with to make sure everyones score is fair
Basic Settings Res 800x600x16 Details Low Draw dis Full Mip mapping Off Frame Limiter Off AA Off AF Off
Normal Settings Res 1024x768x32 Details Very High Draw dis Full Mip mapping On Frame Limiter Off AA Off AF Off
Advanced Settings Res 1024x768x32 Details Very High Draw dis Full Mip mapping On Frame Limiter Off AA 4x (gfx card settings) AF 8x (gfx card settings)
What is my score?
Your score is the total amount of frames (this is in your fraps directory/benchmarks, and then click on the right text document, the total will be there).

Table fixed, thanks agin wolf

 

	Basic Top Ten
	Name	Score (frames)
1.	Cran.	13132
2.	wolf68k	11213
3.	wolf68k	10043
4.	GTA3Freak-2001	7685
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
	Normal Top Ten
	Name	Score (frames)
1.	Cran.	10903
2.	Sillyhed2000	10899
3.	Cran.	10623
4.	wolf68k.	9459
5.	GTA3Freak-2001	6552
6.	adamcs	6479
7.	wolf68k	5818
8.
9.
10.
	Advanced Top Ten
	Name	Score (frames)
1.	fido2 (asshole)	14128
2.	Cran.	10693
3.	Cran.	10454
4.	wolf68k	9515
5.	adamcs	6146
6.	GTA3Freak-2001	5712
7.	wolf68k	4233
8.
9.
10.

When posting your score, make sure you supply your full system specs. In the future, more things will be added to benchmark, and maybe if i'm lucky I can get someone to make a benchmarking script which I would like to have a car driving to somewhere, like around a city, or up Mt. Chillad. If this can't be done, I can always get some people to post their save game, which is before a cut screen or something, which can supply many different tests. This could always be several cut scenes, and then all the avg scores will be added together.

 

If anyone is still confused on what the text document should look like when opened, here is one of mine.

 

 

Frames, Time (ms), Min, Max, Avg10623,    197377,  12, 108, 53.821

 

 

Just incase you're wondering, my specs;

Pentium 4 3.4GHz

1GB PC4300 DDR2 Ram (Dual Channel, 2x512mb)

Nvidia GeForce Go 6800 256mb GDDR3

 

New laptop..

 

Pentium 4 3.6GHz EMT64

2GB PC4300 DDR2 Ram (Dual Channel, 2x1GB)

Nvidia GeForce Go 7800 GTX 256MB GDDR3

 

Thanks to wolf68k for the table.

 

Last updated:

Edited January 12, 2006 by Cran.

[GTA3Freak-2001]

2005-09-17 11:42:55 - gta_sa

Frames: 2971 - Time: 30218ms - Avg: 98.319 - Min: 0 - Max: 804

 

Specs | Normal Settings:

 

Athlon XP2000+ @1.7Ghz

1024MB PC2100 RAM

GeForce 6600GT 128MB

 

That enough or should it be more detailed?

 

Edited September 17, 2005 by GTA3Freak-2001

[Cran.]

No, as I said over MSN, you have to do the first mission intro! You must have misread. I need to do the advanced test soon, so expect my score soon.

[Wolf68k]

So start the benchmark as the intro movie starts, and then stop it just as soon as the hud comes up and you can move CJ?

 

Normal settings.....

Frames: 5818

Time: 198512

Min: 0

Max: 195

Avg: 29.308

 

 

 

Specs....

CPU: AMD XP 3200+ Barton (got it today too )

RAM: 1GB (2x512MB dual-channel) PC2100 (which is hold me back more than anything now)

GFX: nVidia GeForce FX 5700LE 256MB

 

 

 

/edit

table code coming

Edited September 17, 2005 by wolf68k

[Cran.]

YES! Someone got it! Yeah, you were just like a second out of the time when I did it, hehe.

 

Edit: table updated, thanks for making me a proper table

Edited September 17, 2005 by Cran.

[GTA3Freak-2001]

2005-09-17 12:51:27 - gta_sa

Frames: 6552 - Time: 202290ms - Avg: 32.389 - Min: 0 - Max: 93

 

 

Yeah now that I've done it correctly ignore my other post lol

[Cran.]

Updated with table. Oh, i'll update the table with your score, freakeh Oh thanks for the table wolf, very sexy indeed.

 

[Wolf68k]

Just because I want to feel special...even for a short time

 

 

Advanced settings...

Frames: 4233

Time: 197300

Min: 7

Max: 100

Avg: 21.455

 

 

 

Funny thing; at the part where the train shows up, the lag was so bad while still in the middle of waiting for the train to pass the cop car drove through the train.

Then later when CJ is walking toward the bike, the camera moves past CJ instead of staying behind him.

 

Obivously I'm not going to be running with the advanced settings, even the "normal" settings are a bit much for my weak rig.

 

 

I'm already slipping down the ladder.

[GTA3Freak-2001]

Just tried the Advanced settings and fond it wasn't that much different in terms of it looking better but not performaning that much worst.

 

 

2005-09-17 13:10:35 - gta_sa

Frames: 5712 - Time: 197330ms - Avg: 28.946 - Min: 0 - Max: 75

 

[Cran.]

Table updated, basic info and table up. Now I need to get my advanced score to pwn you idiots

 

 

James rins off and benchmarks.

 

My advanced score.

 

Frames, Time (ms), Min, Max, Avg10454,    197997,  11, 118, 52.799

 

 

I hate my native res, I get such a lower fps on 1680x1050x32 Heh, atleast i'm 1. on the advanced now! I'll do the basic one in a minute.

 

EDIT:

My Basic score

 

Frames, Time (ms), Min, Max, Avg13132,    197562,  18, 122, 66.470

 

Edited September 17, 2005 by Cran.

[Sillyhed2000]

On normal settings. Too damn slack to do it on high.

 

2005-09-17 15:53:11 - GTA_SAFrames: 11166 - Time: 197394ms - Avg: 56.567 - Min: 13 - Max: 129

 

 

Specs

CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3000+ (1.8 ghz)

RAM: 1 gig DDR (2 x 512 meg)

VIDEO CARD: Nvidia Geforce 6600 GT

[Cran.]

That's higher than me on Normal, you sure you had it on 1024x768 on 32bit mode? or was it 16bit mode?

[SEEJAY123]

I would do it, but with those damn dynamic shadows on I can literally count the frames per second myself. Really kills it. It's stupid too how they tied in grass detail with shadows. The countryside looks very plain, and when you enable grass they look like chia pets growing right in front of you eyes as your driving.

Edited September 17, 2005 by SEEJAY123

[Cran.]

Ummm.. you could do the basic benchmark. And I didn't know you could disable the grass, enlighten me.

[SEEJAY123]

Hmm, no sorry I meant that when you disable the 'Visual FX Quality' it also

 

disables the grass. In other words, no shadows, no grass. But, if you set

 

the game to 16-bit instead of 32 you can get the grass without the

 

shadows, but then the grass looks brown instead of green. Really weird

 

dude. Really weird like the Truth. And since it is 16 bit it looks a bit more

 

grainy too. But yea to those who want the grass details but not the

 

shadows turn the resolution to 16bit if you really want it. Hope you like

 

brown grass.

[Cran.]

Hmmm, never knew that. I don't venture into the 16 bit alot, you know. Still, i've played it on low just to see how it runs, and I never noticed that the grass was missing. The only reason the colours are screwed up in SanAn on 16 bit is because the game was intended to be played in 32 bit. But Rockstar left 16-bit for people with computers that can't handle 32 but, bit as a result, the textures look like ass

[Wolf68k]

Basic settings

Frames: 10043

Times: 198862

Min: 1

Max: 105

Avg: 50.502

[adamcs]

Normal:

 

 

Frames	Time (ms)	Min	Max	Avg
6479	195038	11	88	33.219

Advanced:

 

 

Frames	Time (ms)	Min	Max	Avg
6146	201035	0	81	30.572

AMD Athlon XP 2400+

1GB RAM

nVidia GeForce 6800 128MB DDR

[Sillyhed2000]

 

That's higher than me on Normal, you sure you had it on 1024x768 on 32bit mode? or was it 16bit mode?

Nope. 32 bit. But I think I overlooked AF (video card forced). What's that? I saw no option.

Edited September 18, 2005 by Sillyhed2000

[GTA3Freak-2001]

 

That's higher than me on Normal, you sure you had it on 1024x768 on 32bit mode? or was it 16bit mode?

Nope. 32 bit. But I think I overlooked AF (video card forced). What's that? I saw no option.

He means in your GFX cards control panel, AF is Anistropic Filtering and turning it on reduces your performance so that can't be it.

 

Ok so this is rather odd, just did the game on the Basic settings and I get;

 

 

2005-09-18 11:41:28 - gta_sa

Frames: 7685 - Time: 199881ms - Avg: 38.448 - Min: 0 - Max: 100

 

The game looked god awful, would that have anything to do with my LCD Monitor's natural resolution being 1028x1024?

 

[Sillyhed2000]

Did it again. Normal settings; checked and double checked. Started when "Francis Int. Airport..." appeared, stopped when the HUD came up. Got a slightly lower score, but I'm still beating you

 

 

2005-09-18 12:24:06 - gta_saFrames: 10899 - Time: 195306ms - Avg: 55.805 - Min: 10 - Max: 132

 

[Cran.]

I still want to know what the hell is going on, everyone with a 6600GT is getting like 5-7k (I'm including admacs, since 6800 vinalla is basicly a 6600GT with a fancy name). When you get home from work, I gotta talk to you on MSN and figure this out.

 

BTW, if you can wolf, fix the tables

[Wolf68k]

Working on it

 

//edit

new coded PM'ed to you

 

 

//edit

You need to add my Basic Settings score

Edited September 18, 2005 by wolf68k

[GTA3Freak-2001]

Hmm strange that eh, I just can't see how I can get still such an average score compared to how the game actually looks with jaggies noticble enough to measure witha damm ruler!

[Cran.]

Update, yet again. Now to make it easier, set the time to 200 seconds so fraps will finish the benchmark so you won't have to have a good reaction time.. Table updated, new scores added

 

edit: Now i've thought about the scores, it seems wolf's 5700LE just loves low settings, so it beat Freakeh's 6600GT But I guess the low setting rely more on the CPU and RAM, therefore he came out the winnar!

Edited September 18, 2005 by Cran.

[GTA3Freak-2001]

Ah good idea, makes more sense and rules out the pullution of pressing the buttons at different times thus the benchmark not being acurate.

[Cran.]

Ummm, it was wolf's idea! Just so you know, I wouldn't want to take all the credit Do you have MSN wolf? if so add me, it would be easier to give each other code and such via MSN instead of PM.

 

EDIT: Code is f*cking up, and it's fine when i preview it

Edited September 18, 2005 by Cran.

[Wolf68k]

My bad, I'm working on it...I don't get what's wrong though

Go back to the original until I can get this worked out

 

//edit

I'm sorry but it's getting late as hell and I'm getting tired as hell

Just go back to the original...I hope you backed it up like I told you to.

And I'll work on this tomorrow.

Sorry again.

Edited September 18, 2005 by wolf68k

[Cran.]

Code works now Everything up to date, blah blah. Thanks again to wolf for getting everything to work.

[Wolf68k]

Basic

 

Frames, Time (ms), Min, Max, Avg11213,    200000,   0, 107, 56.065

 

 

Normal

 

Frames, Time (ms), Min, Max, Avg 9459,    200000,   1, 109, 47.295

 

 

Advanced

 

Frames, Time (ms), Min, Max, Avg 9515,    200000,  13, 106, 47.575

 

 

 

Just for fun...Maxed same as Advanced but the res is 1600x1200x32

 

Frames, Time (ms), Min, Max, Avg 9192,    200000,  11, 106, 45.960

 

 

 

//edit

Forgot my specs

 

CPU: AMD XP 3200+

GFX: eVGA 6800GS 256MB AGP8x

RAM: PC2100 2x512MB

Edited January 8, 2006 by wolf68k