About benchmarking Quake III Arena?
As of this writing, Quake III Arena is at version 1.32. ID Software didn’t include a new demo that was fully compatible with their updated network code. However, the one from version 1.30 works perfectly fine, and exists even if you’ve patched to version 1.32. To use it, cd into /tmp, and run unzip /path/to/quake3/baseq3/pak6.pk3 demos/four.dm_66. This will give you a directory in /tmp, called /tmp/demos containing four.dm_66. Create either a demos directory in your global game data directory (usually /usr/local/games/quake3/baseq3/), where pak6.pk3 is kept, or in ~/.q3a/baseq3/. Copy the file into there, and then rename it to four.dm_67. Start Quake III, and bring down the console (using the key below the tilde ` key), and type: timedemo 1 demo four Quake III will then load the demo, and perform a benchmark. The results are displayed in the console. Note that selecting the demo from the demos menu will ditch you back to the menu screen.
