Q3map work better on a pentum 4. 2gig ?

[DACROW]

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]

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]

very good question dacrow ;) 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]

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]

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]

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]

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