Q3map work better on a pentum 4. 2gig ?

(DACROW) #1

hello its dacrow here, just wanted too ask if the new Q3mqp will be faster on a pent 4 based system ??? or if it can be made to compile a map quicker on it ?.. before u ask yes ive had a athlon… and ive moved back to the Pent… as i think its better … but thats my belives…
anyway hope u dont mine me asking this … thanks ME! :banghead: :bored:

(Emon) #2

Depending on how Q3Map2 is compiled, one of the two will happen:

  1. No change in speed.
  2. Change in speed so small you can’t tell anyways.
(pazur) #3

very good question dacrow :wink: i`m curious what ydnar has to say about that… more optimized for p4 or still athlon xp profits from the good floatingpoint unit like in raytracing/rendering.

(ydnar) #4

I haven’t had time to do CPU comparisons. I use Athlon CPUs at home and at work. RAM (1 Gig or more) is as important as a fast CPU, especially when doing lighting.

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(Emon) #5

Is Q3Map2 open source? If so, couldn’t we download it and compile it with optimizations for our CPU? How would one even go about doing that in Windows? I remember reading something about some sort of Winmake that would let you compile stuff similar to making it in Linux.

(SCDS_reyalP) #6

zerowing.idsoftware.com has a fairly recent version in CVS. There are msvc projects to build everything. The ‘stable’ branch should build amost right out of the box.

I wouldn’t expect huge improvements from compiling for your specific cpu.

(RabidCow) #7

I think you can download a compiler from Intel for P4 optimizations.