First post, by clueless1
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Xonotic is an open-source first person shooter using the DarkPlaces engine. OS requirement is WinXP or higher and 32/64 bit linux. It runs from a folder (no installing) so is portable; it has highly configurable detail settings, so you can use it to compare systems old and new; and it has a built-in benchmark that makes it easy to get results.
I started a database that I'm opening up to Vogons users to add to. I've added results from my systems to it already, and made it publicly available here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18oAYU … dit?usp=sharing
Xonotic 0.8.1 can be downloaded at http://www.xonotic.org
First make sure you set your resolution and color depth to 1024x768 and 32bpp:
In order to compare across the widest range of systems, I chose the 1024x768x32 resolution and three detail presets (feel free to run your system on all three detail settings if it will run):
LOW: most any system can participate here. An Athlon XP/Radeon 9800Pro can run this, probably even slower systems can do this setting.
NORMAL: While the Athlon/9800Pro seems to run out of video memory on this test, a P4 2.8/6800GS can run at Normal just fine.
ULTRA: All the game's eye candy is turned on.
Next post: how to run the benchmark.
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