STAR benchmark

Level 5 took 184s on my Athlon64 3400+. I have a bunch of other things going on at the same time. What I noticed is the the size of the SW window has a significant impact on the score. Resizing the window to 1024 x 768 from the normal 2048 x 1536 cut the time to about 150s.

I just ran it again with SW2004 and got the same numbers. I did, however, have to manually open a new part each time or I would error out. I also noticed that the conf corner was turned on.

Screen resolution for both SW2004 & SW2005 was 1600 x 1200.

WT

Dale I think you are onto something

My usual level 4 time is 55s approx - however when the SW is reduced down to just the width of the FM on the left and 1cm wide graphic window my time is 29-30 seconds and when the SW window is just the menus at the top and the FM on the left I get level 4 rebuild times of

So is it all in the graphics card ? I'm using an Nvidia FX 500 - no great shakes compared to others.

Regards

Jonathan

level 1 = 1s

level 2 = 2s

level 4 = 17s

level 5 = 112s

SolidWorks 2005 sp3.0EV Windows XP Pro sp2.0 AMD 3200+

Conf. corner ON

Muggs

Sorry That should be AMD Athlon 64 3400+

Don't want to give anybody a heart attack.

Muggs

I just ran it again with the screen resolution changed to 1920 x 1200. All numbers the same except that the 5 layer went from 102 to 107. The SW window has been full screen maximized on all the tests.

WT

To All,

level 1 Time = 1s Disp = 0

level 2 Time = 1s Disp = 0

level 3 Time = 4s Disp = 0

level 4 Time = 17s Disp = 0

level 5 Time = 109s Disp = 0

Dual Opteron 246 MSI K8T master FAR

Mark

That is interesting because the timing routines are either side of the call that makes the fractal. On a part of this nature the number of triangles shouldn't change much with size. And most of the construction work goes on off screen. Guess we'll have to settle on a window size.

So then how do you reconcile what I found? Maybe my change in resolution wasn't great enough to really see a difference?

WT

Sorry,

That's with SW2005 SP2. Full screen, 1280 x 1024, performance slider all the way up, shaded no edges, Norton AV disabled.

Mark

Paul,

It quits on the line:

Part.SetUserPreferenceIntegerValue swUnitsLinear, swINCHES

I'm using SW 2005 SP1.1

By opening a dummy part first, I got it to run with the following results:

Level Time Disp. time

System specs:

Mobo: MSI K8N Neo 2 Platinum CPU: Athlon 64 3500+ Video: Quadro FX-1100 Ram: 1 Gb PC3200 OS: Win 2K SP4 HD: 2x WD Raptor 74Gb SATA, in striped array SWX: 2005 SP1.1

I compiled the results. It doesn't look like the graphics card has a lot of influence on this benchmark although apparently screen size does. There is a possibility that SP3 will be faster than SP2 judging from Muggs results.

Wayne's P4 won top honors so far by a nose over Mark's Opteron.

Dale needs to tell us what his graphics card is. Mark and Dale need to tell us what SP they are on unless I missed something.

I thought maybe the performance slider might be an issue as I had mine set clear to the right because of the big car bodies I am currently using. So I slid it all the way to the left. The only difference is that my level 5 run went from 102 to 103. Hmmm.

So, the big question is what's better about my setup than everyone else's? I know I don't have the hottest hardware as the Opterons run faster and everyday usage suggests that they would outdo my P4. I have the 3Gb switch on, 2 Gb RAM, SCSI drive, etc. The one unique thing I have seen is the FireGL video card. Anyone else have one that can run the test?

So, I guess if the prize lands here today, I'll take it. But I'm too big of a geek to not want to know why, so we can put it in a can and sell it!

WT

How about if I swap settings with someone and we run again. That way if we see some major difference, maybe we can find it.

WT

If this will run on 2001+ could someone post it somwhere else (that I can get to).

Gary

T> I compiled the results. It doesn't look like the graphics card has a

Paul,

You guys aren't gonna believe this, but I just ran this test on my home machine (which is IDENTICAL to my work machine).

Dual Opteron 246 MSI K8T master FAR

I consistently get a level five of 87s !!!! I'll post a screen shot on the SW forum if ya don't believe me.

What's up wid dat Paul ? I would think they'd be pretty close

Mark

Make that 90s, after restarting SW I lost 3 seconds

Mark

Mark,

You must have deep pockets to have a dual Opteron at home. How does the number of tasks in the task manager compare?

The whole point of benchmarking is to find discrepancies like this and then explain why. It isn't as easy to write these things as I thought either.

I tweaked the STAR benchmark and posted it in the same thread on the forum. The new one is STAR_1.1 and will run faster, but it also reports times to two decimal places.

Mark Mossberg wrote:

Star 1.0 Shaded but no HLR

Level 4 was 55s approx with HL and no HLR give or take a few seconds with SW screen maximized to a 15" LCD screen.

- However I have now disabled my second monitor ( running dual screen on a FX500)

Time is now 34 secs !! shaving off 20 secs - In this race I can't bare being lapped !!

I seems we have to have some consistancy with the window size inwhich SW operates.

Maybe I ought to buy a cheap second card to run my second screen which I only use for Emails and secondary programmes.

I'll download star 1.1 and try later today.

TTFN

Jonathan