Reverend's thunder demo

[ucanmanda]

Hi everyone,
I can't seem to find thunder.dem anywhere on the net, does anybody here still got it?

[Dozey]

it seems to be that reverend's thunder demo is a pack or edition for UT did I?? I haven't found anything about this except a post on one of unreal forums with similar question but it hasn't got answer yet. :-/
It seems that reverend's thunder demo is dead.

[ucanmanda]

I am looking for thunder.dem file, for benchmarking. I recently put together a retro rig (P3 1400, Voodoo5) and I wanna compare it to other systems from that era.

Weird thing is with latest driver updates Opengl is even faster than Glide in UT & Unreal

[Dozey]

I am looking for thunder.dem file, for benchmarking. I recently put together a retro rig (P3 1400, Voodoo5) and I wanna compare it to other systems from that era.

Weird thing is with latest driver updates Opengl is even faster than Glide in UT & Unreal

I'm not recomend to use glide for unreal. It's bugged and it's got a effect worse than standard direct3d support. I tryed this on computer of my friend (cause i've don't have voodo graphic card) and i say for Glide again:NO!

Use utpatch451 - it's the best resolution and you will find help in any problems if they catch your ut not like with this thing in this topic.

[ucanmanda]

I grew up with voodoo cards and Glide is not the problem if you got a voodoo card, its the unofficial drivers for them (on windows xp).
UT and Unreal used to work best with glide thats why i was suprised to find out that it runs faster in Opengl even on a Voodoo card

[Turboman.]

I'm not recomend to use glide for unreal. It's bugged and it's got a effect worse than standard direct3d support. I tryed this on computer of my friend (cause i've don't have voodo graphic card) and i say for Glide again:NO!

I don't know what computer your friend has, but in my experience glide always outperformed d3d or opengl hands down, glide always had the better rendering, better optimization and alot better graphics, even d3d9 today couldn't rival the visuals of glide on a voodoo card.

For me only recently 227 got close to the quality of glide, with its excellent d3d9 renderer.

[medor]

voodoo glide here http://unrealtournament.99.free.fr/utfiles/index.php?dir=Video_Renders/Glide/

the two .dll more .vxd and .ovl in C:\UnrealTournament\System

Nice hot render

[ucanmanda]

I just did some benchmarks for you in Unreal Tournament with Glide, Opengl and Direct3d. UT is patched to 451b. Opengl renderer is updated to the latest version (37 i think) and Glide renderer is the the one posted by medor// thanks btw. Direct3d renderer is the one came with the 451b patch. Newer ones seem to be incompatible with voodoo cards i think.

Test bed: P!!!-s @ 1522, 512mb sdram @ 145, and a Voodoo 5 pci @ stock
OS and driver: Windows XP, Amigamerlin 3.1 r11
Benchmark: UTbench @ 1024x768 16bit, sound off.
Min desired fps set to 999 and cachemem set to 64.

Renderer min / max / avg
Direct3d 42.96 86.36 66.53
Opengl 36.97 79.43 56.49
Glide 44.95 86.03 65.25
WickedGL* 41.62 89.70 67.37

Direct3d seems fast but looks really bad IQ wise. Glide is the fastest renderer here if you exclude wickedgl* which is exclusive to 3dfx cards.

Although Glide is the fastest I use opengl for everyday use. That way i can use 32bit rendering and s3tc textures

Please don't compare this figures with modern cards, all I want to say and prove is back in the day UT was released Glide was the way to play it.

[medor]

UT is patched to 451b is only for servers you must stay in 436.

You can try to d3d9.

If you whant be more perfect you must use the same setting for all render in UT.ini.

You can take for all

[OpenGLDrv.OpenGLRenderDevice]
[D3DDrv.D3DRenderDevice]
[D3D9Drv.D3D9RenderDevice]
[SglDrv.SglRenderDevice]
[MetalDrv.MetalRenderDevice]
[GlideDrv.GlideRenderDevice]
[SoftDrv.SoftwareRenderDevice]

Code: Select all

[xxx.xxxxRenderDevice]
UseVSync=False
FrameRateLimit=210
Translucency=False
VolumetricLighting=False
ShinySurfaces=False
Coronas=False
HighDetailActors=True
DetailTextures=False
FastTranslucency=1
VertexLighting=0
UseTNT=False
Translucency=1
UseVertexSpecular=1
UseTrilinear=False
UseS3TC=True
LODBias=0.000000
MaxAnisotropy=0
SupportsLazyTextures=1
GammaOffset=0.420000
NumAASamples=0
UseAA=False
SwapInterval=0
UseVertexProgram=False
UseCVA=False
UseMultiDrawArrays=True
UseSSE=2
AAFilterHint=0
TexDXT1ToDXT3=False
DynamicTexIdRecycleLevel=100
UseTexPool=True
UseTexIdPool=True
BufferClippedActorTris=True
SinglePassDetail=True
ColorizeDetailTextures=False
DetailClipping=True
UseDetailAlpha=True
NoFiltering=False
UseFilterSGIS=False
Use4444Textures=False
UseAlphaPalette=True
UsePrecache=True
AlwaysMipmap=True
ShareLists=True
UseMultiTexture=True
MaskedTextureHack=False
MaxTMUnits=0

[ucanmanda]

I have found the Thunder.dem demo file Its near to the bottom of the page.

http://www.3dfxzone.it/dir/tools/benchmark/video/

[[]KAOS[]Casey]

3Dfx zone.. I remember that place. good thing they're still around for you.

[ucanmanda]

I found the thunder demo there totally by chance. I was looking for something else. I guess that site is not included in google search.