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    • K Offline
      Kekomander
      last edited by

      Old: 210-220
      New: 300-310!
      8GB of ram
      I5-4288U
      2.60GHz

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      • JipJ Offline
        Jip
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        I think we can conclude that one reason for this test to trigger higher scores is because it doesn't cause laptops to go into high performance mode. To me, that sounds like a good thing - as typically a laptop can't sustain that for too long when the GPU is involved.

        A work of art is never finished, merely abandoned

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        • GiebmasseG Offline
          Giebmasse Team Lead
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          It isn't really a good thing, in all cases I've seen the power saving mode the laptops are in do not reflect the true performance of the laptop in-game, as in the power saving is much lower clock speed even compared to a potentially throttling laptop. Scores between 350 and even 1750, when the laptop true performance would've been somewhere around 250ish or so.

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          • TheVVheelboyT Offline
            TheVVheelboy
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            Well I just made a few runs ​with my laptop and surprisingly it's actually scoring better than previously.
            Old score was jumping around 185-187, new one seems to be landing at average at 174 mark though depending on run it goes as low as 168 , with the worst run scoring 178.(*funnily enough it was the first run)
            That was while having the laptop run on half empty battery in performance mode. There's also little bit more bloat compared to the runs done on the old benchmark but it seems like the new one doesn't care about it.

            I also agree with Gieb that it's clearly not a good thing if the benchmark can't reliably tell you the expected performance from the players PC.

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            • JipJ Offline
              Jip
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              I wasn't referring to power saving mode - I was referring to not being in high performance mode. There is a middle ground, and that is exactly what we want to benchmark in my opinion. At least for my own laptop, it hits high performance mode for the first 15 minutes or so and then it throttles back into 'regular mode'. A typical laptop can not reliably perform at its peak performance - it isn't uncommon that people complain about laptop users.

              Lenovo y-50
              16GB ram
              i7-9750H

              before: 160 (regular mode, as supreme commander in the lobby doesn't trigger it)
              after: 141 with high performance mode because of a single-core background task, 225 on 'regular mode'.

              Lets gather more information at least - keep the scores coming.

              A work of art is never finished, merely abandoned

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              • Dragun101D Offline
                Dragun101
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                I went from 181ish to 140 on my labtop. Will look for additional data in a moment on my labtop.

                I’m a shitty 1k Global. Any balance or gameplay suggestions should be understood or taken as such.

                Project Head and current Owner/Manager of SCTA Project

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                • T Offline
                  triple-x1
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                  I've been playing this game for a few months now and never had any issues. However from patch 3723 my cpu score went from 180 to 359.
                  It is hard for me now to join any games, most of the times i get kicked because of this.
                  intel i7 5820 , 16 Gb DDr4 , nvidia GTX970
                  Please restore the old cpu score!
                  cpu-z 3.jpg cpu-z 2.jpg cpu-z 1.jpg

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                  • TheVVheelboyT Offline
                    TheVVheelboy
                    last edited by

                    Just to ask, did you run the laptop in performance/high power mode when running the benchmark?
                    @triple-x1

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                    • GiebmasseG Offline
                      Giebmasse Team Lead
                      last edited by

                      That doesn't look like a laptop, full "K" CPU. Could still be some power saving thing going on?

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                      • TheVVheelboyT Offline
                        TheVVheelboy @Giebmasse
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                        @giebmasse Oh yes, you are right. My sleepy mind was like, this numbers in cpu name are looking like the laptop SKU's so it must be a laptop.
                        It totally slipped my mind that the earlier I7 tended to have this kind on nomenclature compared to the current more streamlined line-up.

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                        • M Offline
                          meatontable
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                          Looks like new CPU score is overcorrelated to the cache size. I have similar to Jip's CPU by performance (https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i7-9750H-vs-Intel-Core-i7-7700/m766364vs3887 ) but CPU scoring utulity is thinking that my CPU slower two times. I have checked around 1-15 online replays today (Dual gaps usually ) and never replay slow down to 0, sometimes to +1 . But I am kicked from lobby regularly with verdict bad CPU.

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                          • JipJ Offline
                            Jip
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                            I think we've got enough data to make to ratify some form of change. I'm not sure what yet, but please keep more data coming.

                            A work of art is never finished, merely abandoned

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                            • M Offline
                              meatontable
                              last edited by meatontable

                              Hello,
                              My test steps are :

                              1. Install lua from https://github.com/rjpcomputing/luaforwindows/releases
                              2. Use a short adoptation of the faf code from : https://pastebin.com/GUTBXF7a
                                I've add GetSystemTimeSeconds() + move out string with yield
                                and verify that code shows a strongly relation at my IMac 1492 and running time 1.5 sec (around)
                                CPU intel-core-i7-4980hq 16 DDR3 RAM
                                Windows machine has 1202 i7-7700

                              I have a question how is time is calculated in the lobby ?![My CPU](CPUZ.png image url)

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                              • M Offline
                                meatontable
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                                Another one result (Sorry i have tested it on Linux box):

                                model name : AMD FX(tm)-6350 Six-Core Processor
                                serg@debianserver:~# lua CPUscore.lua
                                test
                                1295
                                1295
                                serg@debianserver:~#

                                As I see 6 cores AMD CPU was produced in 2013 is a little slower that 4 cores Intel was produced 2017 ! Phenom has few running docker images and this activity is slowing it down !
                                Lets imagine if we can use only one core :
                                Intel i7-7770 time = 1202 * 4 = 4808
                                Intel i7-4980hq = 14924 = 5968
                                AMD Phenon 6350 time = 1295 * 6 = 7700
                                After this I've used pages from
                                https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i7-7700-vs-Intel-Core-i7-4960HQ/3887vsm9629
                                https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i7-7700-vs-AMD-FX-6350-Six-Core/3887vsm713 and compared all my CPUs
                                4960 is slower 20 % single core (no 4980 in list) = 4808
                                1.2= 5889.6
                                AMD Phenom is slower 65% single core = 4802*1.65 = 7933

                                Looks Like new lua can use more that one core and it is not good for single core (2 cores) game.
                                I'm proposing to multiply the current CPU score by CPU count and divide it by 2.

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                                • UvesoU Offline
                                  Uveso
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                                  @meatontable

                                  Using a benchmark list was my first attempt to compare the speed results.
                                  The same CPU in a different PC has different results.

                                  Just as example, the Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700K CPU @ 4.00GHz tested with Prime:
                                  over 700 different results:
                                  https://www.mersenne.org/report_benchmarks/?exp_date=2016-01-01&64bit=1&exover=1&exbad=1&exv25=1&exv26=1&specific_cpu=4379147

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                                  • GiebmasseG Offline
                                    Giebmasse Team Lead @meatontable
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                                    @meatontable said in Outsourcing new CPU scores for lobbies:

                                    I'm proposing to multiply the current CPU score by CPU count and divide it by 2.

                                    Wouldn't this skew results of CPU's with many cores even though they are high performance? Like new Ryzen chips, even when they have many cores their single thread performance is also excellent for supcom.

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                                    • M Offline
                                      meatontable
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                                      Ok . I would like to clarify. Supcom is really old game and it uses 2 cores only. In this case it is no sense to keep in mind how many cores are. Our application uses only 1-2 of them.
                                      I definitely sure that I 'm saying nothing bad about new Ryzen chips.
                                      In our CPUscore Ryzen 9 5900x (3.7HZ)12 cores bits Ryzen 7 5800x 8 cores(3.8GHZ) (I assume that Ryzen 9 has 1.5 twice better value ) but for SUPCom both CPU are near equal and Ryzen7 is better due to better Hz.
                                      CPUscore should show the right information about the slow CPU for the game purpose.
                                      I'm not happy that definitely slow CPU from 2013 year bits more better CPU from 2017 due to the count of cores....

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                                      • GiebmasseG Offline
                                        Giebmasse Team Lead @meatontable
                                        last edited by Giebmasse

                                        @meatontable said in Outsourcing new CPU scores for lobbies:

                                        I'm not happy that definitely slow CPU from 2013 year bits more better CPU from 2017 due to the count of cores....

                                        I don't think you have the right picture of how the CPU test in-game is working. The test that is ran in-game is single threaded, don't know why you are thinking about core counts in this way. A slow older gen 6-core AMD CPU will show up as a slow CPU with the test as it should, it does not gain anything from having a larger core count when compared to e.g. a faster 2-4 core Intel CPU from the same era. You can't compare the CPU score ran manually in a newer lua version to the one used in-game.

                                        Also in case it wasn't clear, lower is better in the FAF CPU test.

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                                          meatontable @Giebmasse
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                                          @giebmasse said in Outsourcing new CPU scores for lobbies:

                                          @meatontable said in Outsourcing new CPU scores for lobbies:

                                          I'm not happy that definitely slow CPU from 2013 year bits more better CPU from 2017 due to the count of cores....

                                          I don't think you have the right picture of how the CPU test in-game is working. The test that is ran in-game is single threaded, don't know why you are thinking about core counts in this way. A slow older gen 6-core AMD CPU will show up as a slow CPU with the test as it should, it does not gain anything from having a larger core count when compared to e.g. a faster 2-4 core Intel CPU from the same era. You can't compare the CPU score ran manually in a newer lua version to the one used in-game.

                                          Also in case it wasn't clear, lower is better in the FAF CPU test.

                                          I have take a function from https://github.com/FAForever/fa/blob/741febf45a165e257db972fc2104484a51dd799d/lua/ui/lobby/lobby.lua#L5228
                                          I do nothing with this function except the adding time check before and after checking CPU score. Original FAF score function is related to the CPU's count but game is a single core application.

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                                          • M Offline
                                            meatontable
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                                            I'm proposing to do next ;

                                            1. Inform about CPU and your current CPU score.
                                            2. Run replay with max possible speed.
                                              I hope you have 6 or 8 cores CPU.
                                              I also replay the same game and we can compare the running time.
                                              If CPU score is working correctly then CPUscore * running time in sec should be near to equal for everyone.
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