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by Jarred Walton on March 6, 2006 8:56 AM EST- Posted in
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Doom 3 and Quake 4 Performance
We tested with Doom 3 version 1.3 and Quake 4 version 1.04. Both of these games use the same engine, and the results are largely the same. Quake 4 does have an SMP optimized version available, but since we are testing with single core processors, it didn't help to enable the SMP optimizations. It's interesting to note that Quake 4 doesn't render all of the graphical of text during the timedemo; in particular, the shadows from the moving characters. However, it still gets lower frame rates overall, indicating that it uses an upgraded engine that demand more from the system.
We tested with Doom 3 version 1.3 and Quake 4 version 1.04. Both of these games use the same engine, and the results are largely the same. Quake 4 does have an SMP optimized version available, but since we are testing with single core processors, it didn't help to enable the SMP optimizations. It's interesting to note that Quake 4 doesn't render all of the graphical of text during the timedemo; in particular, the shadows from the moving characters. However, it still gets lower frame rates overall, indicating that it uses an upgraded engine that demand more from the system.
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JarredWalton - Monday, March 6, 2006 - link
HDCP support is a graphics/display issue. As has been reported, HDCP is not supported on any current retail graphics cards. It's also not supported under Windows XP. We should start seeing HDCP enabled cards (meaning, with the necessary decryption chip) in the near future. The GPUs are ready, but they still need the appropriate chip soldered onto the boards.Personally, I'm really not happy with HDCP at all, so I'm doing my best to avoid it. 1280x720 DivX looks quite nice and runs flawlessly on current hardware. Here's an example from the olympics (18GB compressed to 4.5GB 1280x720):
http://images.anandtech.com/reviews/multimedia/tvt...">2006 Olympics Men's Hockey Gold Match
AGAC - Tuesday, March 7, 2006 - link
Hey, what's to love about HDCP. That said, it seems that we just will have to swallow that frog... I mean, DivX does look nice indeed. The problem is availability of mainstream content. I think it's going to be a very cold day in hell before you can walk in the regular video rental and get the latest blockbuster title in beautiful DivX 1280x720.DHCP will be broken, we all know that. It only harms the legal user because one will have to upgrade video cards, monitors and god knows what more will not be HDCP compliant. Thanks for the your tip and simpathy. Keep up the good work.
AGAC
DigitalFreak - Monday, March 6, 2006 - link
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