Benchmark Proposal

I had an idea and wanted to know what you thought. I propose a thread be started where people would go inworld to a specific sim and record their frame rates and post their hardware specs so folks can get an idea of what they should be getting with their hardware. Ideally the sim should be fairly representitive of the average sim plus should have a void in one direction and a built up area in another. Would it be better to have people go to three or four different types of sims instead?

Any sim suggestions? Do you think this info is worth gathering? What should be gathered?

Proposed format

System:
CPU: Speed, Brand, Type ie 2.8 Pentium 4 or 4400+ Athlon X2
Memory: Size, Speed ie 512 2700
Motherboard or Computer brand: Asus A8N-SLI Pro or Dell Dimention 5100C
Video Card: Brand, Model, Memory ie MSI 6600GT 128m
Driver version: ie Nforce 77.77
Broadband Connection: ie 3MB Cable or T1 DSL
Crash and problem frequency with this setup: Brief decription of how often you have problems with your current set up; ie Crash to desktop once with current driver, music skips when I turn sometimes.

Sim:
Sim Name and location: ie Ahern (100,100)
Framerate looking North: 15
Framerate looking East: 12
Framerate looking South: 5
Framerate looking West: 7
Agents(avatars in the sim): 2
Child Agents(avatars looking into sim) 3


Any other ideas or suggestions, please feel free to comment.

Just need a "default" SL setting tho,
view distance
local light on/off
ect

ill post mine when i get in cause now i cant again (stupid asus smartdoc)

Oooh, good point. Yeah standard settings would be a good idea indeed.

Default settings for SL benchmark:

Anistropic Filtering: Off
Local Lighting: Off
Shadows: Off
Disable Far Clip: On
Shiny Objects: On
Avatar rendering: Normal
Terrain Detail: Full
AGP Acceleration: On if Possibe, note if it can't be enabled for your set up
Avatar Vertex Program: Enabled if possible, note if you can't
Object Detail: 50%
Tree Detail: 50%
Avatar Detail: 50%
Draw Distance: 128

Whaddia think? Anything else that might affect framerate?

Doesn't SL come with default settings? Why not use them.

The only way I know of to reset the defaults is to uninstall Sl and reload it. Is there a Restore Defaullts button somewhere? Otherwise what I listed are what affect framerate and performance, fog on the other hand doesn't so there isn't any reason to change it.

Any suggestions for a sim? Preferably without a lot of people as they are never consistant in number. The sandbox in Isora might be a good canidate, older sim, next to a void with moderate builds reasonable number of scripts, etc.

Setting everything to some default is fine. I think there is a default button. I don’t know if clicking it resets the settings to what they were when SL was installed or if it makes the current setting the default. In any case we need a way to save and restore our tweaked setting before we set everything to some default. Is there a “.ini” file that can be copied and then restored?

Afraid I dunno, anyone else got any idea?

There is a ini file in second life folders, but messing with that also changes things you dont want changed so it wouldnt work to well.

As for sim, it would need one that never changes (seems alot of them or is it just me ) ,, and some way to force camera view in one direction so it wouldnt vary where people put cam , i know if i look at ocean i can get 50+ easy

I don't mean to change it just copy it as a backup while the defaults are used durring the benchmark tests. Then copy it back to restore the original settings.

(Info: I did find the Keys.ini file and changed the key binds to better suit my use of the keyboard and made backups of it. When SL gets an update it will overwrite the keys.ini file.)

Thili, my sample benchmark has folks looking in all four directions, ideally one view toward a void. Looks like Isora is bust as the sandbox is up for sale...