Phoronix Test Suite Brings Benchmarking To Mac OS X

[Chilly]

Thought so, that's why I only got avg. 36 frames in the bench.

[Michael]

For the X-Plane bench is the plane supposed to just sit on the runway with a -PAUSED- sign flashing lol? or does it take off???

It's a bug within X-Plane that is Mac-specific. Laminar Research is working to correct this issue with the 9.3 version of X-Plane for its special PTS version.

[deanjo]

It should take off without any pause displayed on screen.

[Chilly]

For the X-Plane bench is the plane supposed to just sit on the runway with a -PAUSED- sign flashing lol? or does it take off???

[Exman]

O.K, thanx, now I know I'm on the righ track

It will take me long time to download all the packages. My ISP has throttled my net speed down to a wee bit faster than 56K dialup

[Chilly]

Yes, it needs those files for the OpenGL benchmarks i.e. test your graphics card.

[Exman]

O.K I ran the bench suite, but is it normal for it to want to download all the software such as nexuiz-242.zip (375MN), UrbanTerror_41_FULL.zip (720MB) etc?

[Chilly]

Well I ran the darwin suite, definitely some interesting results:
benchie

Get plenty of errors so when I get the time I'll go through each test individually to see whats happening, but for now build-php always fails
no matter what :P.

[Michael]

Thanx for that. Sorry, another noob question. Is this benchmark supposed to be run from Terminal as well?

The installation went o.k, when I doubled clicked on "Phoronix-test-suite", Terminal returned this message:
To run the Phoronix Test Suite locally you must first change directories to phoronix-test-suite/ or install the program using the install-sh script. For support visit: http://www.phoronix-test-suite.com/


What's my next step?

Yes you run from terminal.

Just launch terminal, cd to the directory of phoronix-test-suite, and then run say ./phoronix-test-suite benchmark darwin.

[Chilly]

I think I answered my own question lol.

http://www.alientrap.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3090

AlienTrap has a heads up for Nexuiz on OS X about the OpenGL 2.0 Shaders not being saved when enabled by the user.