Tropics, a new Unigine-powered demo/benchmarking tool

[Mithrandir]

I came across a new UniGine demo called Tropics which can be used for benchmarking as well. Not used it yet myself (at work) but looks good.

Download HERE

A new Unigine-powered demo is available for download. It shows dynamic sky with light scattering, live water, real-time ambient occlusion and a lot of other modern technologies. The demo works with DirectX 9, DirectX 10, and OpenGL. Read more in the official press-release.

Features:
Support of DirectX 9, DirectX 10 and OpenGL
Dynamic sky with light scattering
Live water with a surf zone and caustics
Special materials for vegetation
HDR rendering
Parallel split shadow map
Depth of field
Real-time ambient occlusion
Benchmark mode


In order for us to compare our results, lets stick to the following settings:

1280*1024, 4xAA, all other settings at stock. (as below)



When you get your results press the F12 key and you'll find the screenie in C:\Program Files\Unigine\Tropics\screenshots\

(Thanks to shadowmaster & streetster)

[shadowmaster]

Thanks, cant get it to work though. Keeps giving me a 'cant initialize direct3d9 wrapper' error message when I try to run it.

OpenGl mode works though

EDIT: OpenGl sucks on my card

[moogle]

very nice stuff. doesn't match the crysis water though. still managed to chug out at 13fps or so

[Mithrandir]

Whoah! My first run and it was close to watching a slideshow

I managed around 6-7 fps oin average. Here's my screen:




I also ran the Santuary one and personally I think that one is much better, better use of lighting, texture, fogging, depth of field, HDR and viewing from stain glass windows - even runs at a decent rate.

[streetster]

Thanks, cant get it to work though. Keeps giving me a 'cant initialize direct3d9 wrapper' error message when I try to run it.

you need the August 2008 DirectX redist (80mb)

[Mithrandir]

very nice stuff. doesn't match the crysis water though. still managed to chug out at 13fps or so

Did you run yours at 1920x1200 res? I ran mine at 1680x1050 and was painful. I'm gonna run mine again with the Depth of field, transluecense and parallax enabled but at a lower res.

you need the August 2008 DirectX redist (80mb)

Good tip!

Luckily I updated my catalyst driver the other day and also updated DX at the same time

[moogle]

Did you run yours at 1920x1200 res? I ran mine at 1680x1050 and was painful. I'm gonna run mine again with the Depth of field, transluecense and parallax enabled but at a lower res.

Yeah I did
Silly me I'll try again, I didn't know you could save the score

[Mithrandir]

I ran the benchmark and then you can save the score at the end. Even at your higher res you scored twice miine

[streetster]

8xAA is a bit more of a slideshow

how do you enable the 'disabled' stuff? do i have to use the opengl renderer?

[stevie lee]

got about this far then crashed - me thinks I need new computer.. running in 1024x768 dx9, catalyst 8.8.

[shadowmaster]

I think we should all benchmark with the same standard settings, otherwise its almost impossible to compare.

So I recommend DX9, 1280*1024, 4xAA, Anisotropy 16x, and the rest at stock.

[streetster]

dx9/dx10 or opengl?

[Mithrandir]

how do you enable the 'disabled' stuff? do i have to use the opengl renderer?

I don't seem to get the options to enable/disable stuff in tropics (I managed it in the Santuary demo), so looks like this first release of tropics doesn't allow it.

[Mithrandir]

I think we should all benchmark with the same standard settings, otherwise its almost impossible to compare.

So I recommend 1280*1024, 4xAA, Anisotropy 16x, and the rest at stock.

Yup, good idea and I think this is a really good setting to use.

[stevie lee]

I think we should all benchmark with the same standard settings, otherwise its almost impossible to compare.

So I recommend 1280*1024, 4xAA, Anisotropy 16x, and the rest at stock.

hell yeah!!


(crashed/locked up again.. had enough time to press printscreen button before desktop)

if you are doing a top 10 list, enter me in last place..

[shadowmaster]

dx9/dx10 or opengl?

I think DX9 would be best

Yup, good idea and I think this is a really good setting to use.

Thats good, I would put up those settings in your opening post, so its easier for people to see