Quake III Arena

Version and / or Patch Used: Default install

Timedemo or Level Used: Demo001

Developer Homepage: http://www.idsoftware.com

Product Homepage: http://www.idsoftware.com/games/quake/quake3-arena/

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Quake III Arena is a real-world OpenGL benchmark that we have been using here at TweakTown for quite a while now because it has proven itself to be one of the best gaming benchmarks around to compare a wide range of different products. Quake III Arena is getting very old, but is still one of the best ways of testing video and PC systems for any instability and best performance hence the reason we are still using it today.

Some folks still enjoy seeing what can done with this oldie but goodie, so I am still including it in the test suite. I had thought that we had finally gotten to the limit of what a graphics board could do with this game engine, but it appears that I was mistaken. Both resolutions tested show a solid 12% increase in frames per second.

As a side note, all in game settings were at their absolute maximum during testing.