Let's do some VIS benchmarking

Setup and execution

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Download gmsp3.zip and extract it. Make a copy of the gmsp3v2.bsp file.

Download visbjp.zip and extract it. Run

Bspinfo.exe -prt gmsp3v2.bsp

This is important: Between each Vis tool you have to restore the original gmsp3v2.bsp file. To do that remove the generated gmsp3v2.bsp file and recreated it by making a copy of the copy you made earlier. If you do not do this, funky errors will happen.

Download wvis_20100119.7z and extract it. Run

WVis.exe gmsp3v2.bsp

Download tyrutils-0.5-win32.zip and extract it. Here you find vis.exe in the bin/ directory. Run

vis.exe gmsp3v2.bsp

If you are on Linux, use tyrutils-0.5.tar.gz . Just make, it will build a binary named vis in the bin/ directory.

Download quakeforge-tools-0.7.2-win32.zip and extract it. Here you find qfvis.exe in the quakeforge-0.7.2-win32/bin/ directory. Run

qfvis.exe -t 4 gmsp3v2.bsp

Adjust the number after the -t according the number of threads your machine can run in parallel.

And for laughs and nostalgia also run a full-vis with the one single-threaded Vis.exe from the bjp tools.

Vis.exe gmsp3v2.bsp

Then add your times and information about your processor to the table below. If you are running with a non-standard frequency, please add that. Please add entries ordered by time, if in doubt by the time of the tyrutils. The top entry should be the fastest.

Results

"Linux/Wine" means that WVis was run in Wine as it is not available as native binary. WVis already rounds to full minutes.

Processor	Platform	WVis	tyrutils' vis	qfvis	bjp's Vis	Name
i5-3470	Linux/Wine	13min	67s			Spirit
Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N570 @ 1.66GHz	Linux		1182s			Spirit