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Titanium: More Quake III Arena Benchmarks


Regular readers of Go2Mac will remember that we posted PowerBook G4 Quake III Arena benchmarks on 03 February 2001:

  16-bit color 32-bit color
800×600 29 fps 18.1 fps
1024×768 20.4 fps N/A

Since everyone is nuts for Quake III Arena benchmarks, we’ve got ’em. The following benchmarks are from a PowerBook G4 Titanium 400 MHz with 512 MB RAM and Mac OS 9.1. Thanks to ZoInKs @ bartsource for the juice.

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Configuration 1 – Default

Graphics settings: custom, video mode: 640*480, color depth: 16-bit, lighting: lightmap

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Configuration 2 – Fastest

Graphics settings: fastest, video mode: 512*384, color depth: 16-bit, lighting: vertex

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Results 1 – Default

Results of time demo with configuration 1 above, 29.1 FPS

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Results 2 – Fastest

Results of time demo with configuration 1 above, 35.9 FPS

To benchmark your Mac follow these steps:

  • Launch quake
  • Select Resolution in setup
  • bring down console (~ tilde key)
  • type:
  • timedemo 1
  • demo demo001
  • [demo runs]
  • bring down console (~ tilde key) and take a screen shot
  • type: screenshot
  • the screenshot will tell all (fps, time, resolution.. etc.)

Post your Q3A benchmarks using the feedback link below.

By Jason O'Grady

Founded the PowerPage in 1995.