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    • C Offline
      chango70
      last edited by

      14.0 frames/sec

      Which is annoying since i bought a £600 Quadro FX3700. Probably better off with a game card.

      Rest of the system

      CPU i7 720
      6G Ram

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      • G Offline
        gamore
        last edited by

        maybe Quadro or FireGl can get hight score

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        • C Offline
          chango70
          last edited by

          @unknownuser said:

          maybe Quadro or FireGl can get hight score

          That IS the result with a Quadro card.

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          • D Offline
            dylan
            last edited by

            My MacBook Pro has exactly the same spec as troyhome.
            2.93 Duo
            9600 GT

            P.S I love this machine 😄


            MacBook Pro

            http://dmdarchitecture.co.uk/

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            • GaieusG Offline
              Gaieus
              last edited by

              I think the best test would be to test something like this (with shadows and heavy textures and everything that taxes the GPU much) with different graphics cards but on the same system.

              Something that we won't obviously do... 😒

              Gai...

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              • EscapeArtistE Offline
                EscapeArtist
                last edited by

                Wow. I got 21 FPS in a previous post without turning shadows on, I figured I'd give it a shot with shadows to see what happens. SU shadows are nasty, apparently:

                w_shad.jpg

                That's a pretty serious hit.

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                • TIGT Offline
                  TIG Moderator
                  last edited by

                  My PC is an Advent Intel Core2 Quad 2.4GHz with 4Mb RAM - Vista SP2, NVIDIA GeForce 8300 GS
                  Without's OK... but with shadows !


                  Times.png

                  TIG

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                    chango70
                    last edited by

                    @escapeartist said:

                    Wow. I got 21 FPS in a previous post without turning shadows on, I figured I'd give it a shot with shadows to see what happens. SU shadows are nasty, apparently:

                    That's a pretty serious hit.

                    Thats high! What is your setup?

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                    • EscapeArtistE Offline
                      EscapeArtist
                      last edited by

                      It's way back at post #8 on page 1, but here ya go:

                      E8400 Core Duo
                      EVGA 9800GTX+ x 2 in SLi
                      4 GB OCZ RAM
                      EVGA 780i FTW
                      WinXP SP3

                      Nothing overclocked.

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                        diana
                        last edited by

                        Sony Vaio VGNFS660W laptop, which I've had for almost four years.
                        Intel® Pentium® M Processor 740 (1.73GHz1 , 2MB L2 Cache)
                        1GB PC-2700 333MHz DDR (512MB x 2)
                        NVIDIA® GeForce™ Go 6200 with TurboCache™ supporting
                        128MB (NVIDIA® TurboCache™ technology combines the size and
                        bandwidth of video memory and dynamically available
                        WinXP Home SP2

                        VAIO laptop results

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                          Wacov
                          last edited by

                          Using a Q6600 at 2.4GhZ, 4GB DDR2 RAM, and a GTX 295:

                          Time test1.png

                          I reckon I'm let down by my CPU clock. I get 2.5 FPS with shadows... and up to 15 FPS by making my SU window insanely small ^_^

                          http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/cldetails?mid=3096a836877fb9af6cd8ad826e9017b8&prevstart=0

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                          • GaieusG Offline
                            Gaieus
                            last edited by

                            New machine:

                            • 3.0 GHz Dual core CPU
                            • nVidia 9600 (1Gb) GPU
                            • 4Gb RAM
                            • Windows XP SP3 (32 bit)

                            This seems to be pretty fast with NO SHADOWS
                            With SHADOWS ON, it's considerably slower.
                            Did I tell you that I like this new computer? 😄
                            And even my girlfriend likes it as it has a nice box/house, too (with a 22" Samsung monitor) 😉

                            Gai...

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                              chango70
                              last edited by

                              @escapeartist said:

                              It's way back at post #8 on page 1, but here ya go:

                              E8400 Core Duo
                              EVGA 9800GTX+ x 2 in SLi
                              4 GB OCZ RAM
                              EVGA 780i FTW
                              WinXP SP3

                              Nothing overclocked.

                              Hmmm. I didn't realise SU can take advantage of SLi setup. I read that it doesn't even scale linearly in most games. Apparently it does scale with SU. Otherwise GTX 280 from Solo's setup would have achieved higher score.

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                              • Rich O BrienR Online
                                Rich O Brien Moderator
                                last edited by

                                Here's my result on an old laptop that's slowly dying 😢

                                Dell Latitude D400
                                Intel Pentium M 1700Mhz
                                1GB RAM
                                Intel 82855 GME Graphics Controller

                                Without Shadows

                                With Shadows

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                                • GaieusG Offline
                                  Gaieus
                                  last edited by

                                  Ouch. 😞

                                  Gai...

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                                  • Rich O BrienR Online
                                    Rich O Brien Moderator
                                    last edited by

                                    Here's the result on my Desktop

                                    Dell Dimension 9150
                                    Intel Pentium D 3.40Ghz
                                    2GB RAM
                                    Nvidia GeForce 7900GS

                                    Without Shadows

                                    With Shadows

                                    Bit of an improvement over my Laptop but not as impressive as Gaeius' new machine 😳

                                    Have fun with it

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                                    • GaieusG Offline
                                      Gaieus
                                      last edited by

                                      Now consider that it's new, the Windows registry is hardly messed up (which is unusual on MY machines 😄 )and not too many programs are installed yet. I will remember this thread in a couple of months and revisit to see if there's a considerable slowdown.

                                      Gai...

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                                      • arail1A Offline
                                        arail1
                                        last edited by

                                        Gaieus -
                                        Those are impressive numbers. Could you tell us which CPU you have?

                                        Thanks

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                                        • arail1A Offline
                                          arail1
                                          last edited by

                                          I'm curious about this -
                                          My (rather underpowered) computer -

                                          AMD Athlon 64x2 Dual Core 5000 2.6 GHz
                                          NIVIDIA GeForce 6150SE nForce 430
                                          1GB PC2-5300
                                          2GB DDR2 PC2-8500
                                          32 bit Vista Home

                                          My results -

                                          No textures or shadows:
                                          72 frames in 7.228 seconds
                                          Average frame = 0.100 seconds
                                          10.00 frames/second

                                          With textures (1 wood texture on the whole group):
                                          72 frames in 30.46 seconds
                                          Average frame = 0.423 seconds
                                          2.4 frames/second

                                          With shadows on:
                                          72 frames in 34.9 seconds
                                          Average frame = 0.485 seconds
                                          2.1 frames/second

                                          I'm going to upgrade the video card on this computer in a couple of weeks. I'm limited in my options because it's a HP Slimline so I can only use a low profile card. But no matter what it is, the memory available for the GPU will be increased. If I understand the situation correctly (which is doubtful) I should see better scores on the texture and shadow tests because it's the GPU that's handling texture and shading, right?

                                          I invite anyone who is actually knowledgeable about such matters to correct me if I've totally misunderstood this issue.

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                                          • GaieusG Offline
                                            Gaieus
                                            last edited by

                                            @arail1 said:

                                            Gaieus -
                                            Those are impressive numbers. Could you tell us which CPU you have?

                                            Thanks

                                            Here is a screenshot of the processor(s) and the video card. Since the test above, I found that SU performed glitchy with certain models and updated my video driver (but haven't made another test yet).


                                            Specs.png

                                            Gai...

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