TGEA 1.7.1 VRS TGEA1.8 performance comparison results:

I have read several times about a performance difference between TGEA1.7.1 and TGEA1.8 so decided to run some TGEA 1.7.1 vrs TGEA 1.8 METRICS(FPS); tests and took screen shots to compare the results.

Testing system is an AMDx2 2.8, 2 gig ram, 2 GF8500 with 256meg each(NOT SLI), 1 GF8200 with 128meg running Video driver 175.19 on XP PRO 32bit SP2.

Test are right from SDK GameExamples Stronghold with no settings changed.

This is TGEA 1.7.1

Here is TGEA 1.8



Now i added to mission file;

new fxShapeReplicator(lottatest) {
      canSaveDynamicFields = "1";
      Enabled = "1";
      position = "441.157 201.387 209.828";
      rotation = "1 0 0 0";
      scale = "1 1 1";
      HideReplications = "0";
      ShowPlacementArea = "1";
      PlacementAreaHeight = "25";
      PlacementColour = "0.4 0 0.8 1";
      shapeFile = "scriptsAndAssets/data/shapes/trees/shrub.dts";
      seed = "1376312589";
      ShapeCount = "500";
      ShapeRetries = "100";
      InnerRadiusX = "0";
      InnerRadiusY = "0";
      OuterRadiusX = "100";
      OuterRadiusY = "100";
      AllowOnTerrain = "1";
      AllowOnInteriors = "1";
      AllowOnStatics = "1";
      AllowOnWater = "0";
      AllowWaterSurface = "0";
      AlignToTerrain = "0";
      Interactions = "1";
      AllowedTerrainSlope = "90";
      TerrainAlignment = "1 1 1";
      ShapeScaleMin = "1 1 1";
      ShapeScaleMax = "4 4 4";
      ShapeRotateMin = "0 0 0";
      ShapeRotateMax = "0 0 0";
      OffsetZ = "0";
   };

This is TGEA 1.7.1

Here is TGEA 1.8

Not truly a real game scenario, but simple enough test to give an idea.
One can notice right away that TGEA1.7.1 is a bit FPS faster, but once both builds have some stress on them (latter two pic's) the FPS is near the same.
My observations that are not noticeable from screen shot is 1.7.1 pause multiple times for about 100MS each once the fxShapeReplicator mass came into the viewstrum. And the 1.8 3D positional sound FX were very realistic, much better then TGE versions and even TGEA1.7.1. Both could be results of hardware configuration and not examples of build version differences.

It would be interesting if other TGEA SDK holders would also run GameExamples Stronghold metrics test and post results, just to see how much differences hardware configurations actually make.