Team Fortress 2 Stress Test

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Puckbandit35

Discussion Starter · Mar 19, 2009

Hey guys, I found this earlier on the Steams Forums.

Basically a demo file of a 32 player server, with everyone having unlimited ammo, constantly firing their weapons, really stresses out your pc, good way to see and see how much the multi-core patch helps you

To use it, download the demo file and extract it and place it in steam\\steamapps\\your account name\\Team Fortress 2\\TF folder

First run the demo without the mutli-core patch, then with it. To enable multi-core go to Options > Video > Advanced > Multi-Core

Open TF2 and open the console and type "net_graph 1" to see your fps

Then "playdemo stress_test"

Here is the demo file.

http://rapidshare.com/files/210922646/stress_test.zip

Thanks to Ramzy on Steams forum's for doing this.

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Antolen

· #2 · Mar 19, 2009

a lot of crashes happen because of this path tho

Puckbandit35

Discussion Starter · #3 · Mar 19, 2009

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a lot of crashes happen because of this path tho

I haven't had any. :-D

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Mootsfox

· #4 · Mar 19, 2009

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It's worth it in my opinion.

Without:

With (55-65% average CPU usage):

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Antolen

· #5 · Mar 19, 2009

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I haven't had any. :-D

i was playing on a server and people were crashing and i had like 4 crashes in 1 hr. it might be the server

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Mootsfox

· #6 · Mar 19, 2009

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i was playing on a server and people were crashing and i had like 4 crashes in 1 hr. it might be the server

What was the error?

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richierich1212

· #7 · Mar 19, 2009

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Disabled:

Enabled:

I likey!

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darksideleader

· #8 · Mar 19, 2009

crap, even with the multi-core enabled im getting like 20 fps.

tehmaggot

· #9 · Mar 19, 2009

I just tested it out using the "timedemo" command. The results are saved in "sourcebench.csv", for me at least.

Code:

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Half-Life 2 Benchmark Results

demofile,frame data spreadsheet,frames/sec,framerate variability,totaltime (sec),width,height,numframes,dxlevel,backbuffer format,cmdline,driver name,driver desc,driver version,vendor id,device id,subsys id,revision,whqllevel,forcetrilinear,fastclip,shaderdll,sound,vsync,
stress_test.dem,stress_test_disabled.txt, 49.0,  3.6, 90.7,1680,1050,4444,gamemode,BGRA8888,"e:program files (x86)steamsteamapps*******team fortress 2hl2.exe"  -game tf -steam,ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2,0x1002,0x950f,0x25421002,0x0,disabled,disabled,DEFAULT,enabled,disabled,
stress_test.dem,stress_test_enabled.txt, 60.9,  5.5, 72.9,1680,1050,4444,gamemode,BGRA8888,"e:program files (x86)steamsteamapps********team fortress 2hl2.exe"  -game tf -steam,ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2,0x1002,0x950f,0x25421002,0x0,disabled,disabled,DEFAULT,enabled,disabled,

Derp

· #10 · Mar 19, 2009

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You guys arent doing proper tests

. I did some tests recording with rivatuner to show the real min FPS that i was getting. The first screen shot includes:

First line marker is multicore disabled with i7 920 at stock HT OFF. lowest minimum FPS marked.

Second line marker is multicore enabled with i7 920 at stock with HT OFF. lowest minimum fps marked.

And the second screen shot includes:

Multicore enable with i7 920 stock with HT enabled as well.... unfortunately HT sucks. Gotta love the 20-30% GPU usage

. Thanks for the test, +rep.

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richierich1212

· #11 · Mar 19, 2009

Well it doesn't take a genius to look at the net_graph command to see the increase in FPS with multicore enabed Auld

. But your method does provide the minimum FPS in each case.

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Bartmasta

· #12 · Mar 19, 2009

sadly i've only got a dual core

go4life

· #13 · Mar 19, 2009

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sadly i've only got a dual core

should work for you too. Worked with my E8600 if I dont remember wrong! (this was with a command though)

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Derp

· #14 · Mar 19, 2009

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sadly i've only got a dual core

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should work for you too. Worked with my E8600 if I dont remember wrong! (this was with a command though)

Yup it will greatly increase the performance of a dual core as well, TF2 without the multicore support only uses 1 core. The old command to force multicore support was mat_queue_mode 2 but it was very unstable and caused the game to crash for me. This new update hasnt crashed me yet.

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go4life

· #15 · Mar 19, 2009

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Yup it will greatly increase the performance of a dual core as well, TF2 without the multicore support only uses 1 core. The old command to force multicore support was mat_queue_mode 2 but it was very unstable and caused the game to crash for me. This new update hasnt crashed me yet.

oooh so no crashes?

when I used that command, it crashed like every 20min -_-

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Bartmasta

· #16 · Mar 19, 2009

Ooh nice. So is the option already implemented in the game or what?

Mootsfox

· #17 · Mar 19, 2009

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Ooh nice. So is the option already implemented in the game or what?

Read the OP again.

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Bartmasta

· #18 · Mar 19, 2009

when I type in playdemo stress_test I get

COM_CheckGameDirectory: game directories don't match (hl2 / tf)

Mootsfox

· #19 · Mar 19, 2009

Did you put the stress_test demofile into your tf folder?

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