Q3A questions

**Kronin** · August 29th, 2002, 01:17 PM

I have not loaded norplayed Q3A in many many months... (like 24 minths.)
I recently got a very high end system and a Gf4-TI4600... I really want to load it up and test the FPS.
Now for the questions...

Questions #1
What do I have to change to see the FPS on the screen as I play?

Question #2
Is there any "timedemo"'s like what I used to do with Quake1...?

Zanksh everyone!

**HomeYield** · August 29th, 2002, 01:38 PM

To show your fps in the console type:
/cg_drawFPS 1

There are timedemo's for it but I can't remember those right off the top of my head. I haven't played since the timedemo's didn't work. They released a patch and it broke the timedemo and I don't know if they ever got it fixed or not.

**Makaveli** · August 29th, 2002, 03:07 PM

Here is a webpage with lots of commands
http://www.planetquake3.net/tweak/gl..._commands.html

I know the timedemo command, but cant think of it right now.. Somethign like

/timedemo 1
/demo demo1

Thats probably not right but it might help someone else remember! I will see if I can find the exact one..

-MaK

**kjg** · August 29th, 2002, 03:26 PM

This only works up to version 1.17, but heres thew commands:

At the menu screen ( not in a game ) bring down the console key (the one next to number 1 on the your key board) type in " disconnect" then hit enter then type in "timedemo 1" hit enter type in "demo demo001" hit enter Make sure you put the spaces in and 00 are numbers. Then watch it speed through a demo sequence once it finishes bring down the console and your information is there.

**Makaveli** · August 29th, 2002, 03:59 PM

Thats the command! Thanks KJG, I couldn't remember it exactly.

-MaK

**Kronin** · August 29th, 2002, 04:12 PM

Yes, thanks guys...
I will be trying this tonight.. (hopefully)

**Kronin** · August 30th, 2002, 12:01 PM

Great. It worked..

I ran the demo001 and 002....

Both came back as 198.8 FPS.

Not bad!
Although, I was expecting much more.... is there a cap on the max FPS?

**Dudster** · August 30th, 2002, 09:11 PM

No there's no fps cap when running timedemos.

AFAIK there's not been a version of Q3 where timedemo didn't work though some versions ago, "demo001" and "demo002" were replaced with the demo "four" (which is pretty much as system taxing as 001 and 002).

The latest version 1.31 doesn't include a demo but you can get 3 demos (in a single .pk3 file that goes in the baseq3 folder) from here (the UC Benchmark Demo Pack 1.31). The 3 demos are "four" (converted to 1.31) and 2 others that are considerably harder on framerates than demos 001, 002 and four.

Just ran them on my 1.2GHz, GF2 GTS, WinXP and got:

four - 99fps
ucguidedemo1 - 63fps
ucguidedemo2 - 42fps

Also, I've never heard of entering "disconnect" before running a timedemo, I just:

\timdemo 1
\demo demoname