{"video_id":"S1za-dmDMjQ","title":"Starcraft 2 Benchmarking Procedure Explanation Linus Tech Tips","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2013-05-07T14:53:29Z","duration_s":279,"segments":[{"start_s":7.879,"end_s":14.12,"text":"Welcome to our Starcraft 2 benchmarking","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":11.28,"end_s":18.48,"text":"instructional guide so this will allow you to Benchmark Starcraft 2 just like","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":16.72,"end_s":23.199,"text":"us so it should be noted first of all that we use the ultra and extreme","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":20.32,"end_s":27.119,"text":"presets we Benchmark at 1080p with no anti-aliasing and Slick is going to walk","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":26.0,"end_s":32.8,"text":"you through there's links in the description for anything any additional instructions you might need but lick 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unboxing reviews and other","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":271.52,"end_s":275.52,"text":"computer videos","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"Welcome to our Starcraft 2 benchmarking instructional guide so this will allow you to Benchmark Starcraft 2 just like us so it should be noted first of all that we use the ultra and extreme presets we Benchmark at 1080p with no anti-aliasing and Slick is going to walk you through there's links in the description for anything any additional instructions you might need but lick is going to walk you guys through from the entry Screen through to the several minute Benchmark that we run in Starcraft 2 now there's a reason that we run it the way we do with a butt ton of units and all these particle effects and like sort of this intense battle and that because Starcraft 2 for the most part runs on pretty much anything so in order to actually give you guys some idea in the most intense possible scenario in the middle of a battle when your graphics card or your CPU might actually tank and lower your frame rate giving you not that smooth performance you need in order to you know click on things accurately and in order to react to things in time uh we wanted to show you the worst case scenario so guys the idea is you can follow along with this Benchmark your own system and you can easily compare it to how our reference systems perform in this game um so you can decide if you need to upgrade or not just going to do a quick recap of our settings so we're running full screen 1080p running the ultra preset and the extreme preset with no anti-a lasing how you find the game is just jump into arcade real quick go to micro 3 jump in here I'd highly recommend bookmarking it bookmark button it's just right up here just play game pretty straightforward and start game so we're going to start off right away by spawning 50 freaking zealots just because that sounds awesome all the clicking there we go then jump into Teran spawn 30 medac because no one should die on this day jump back to protos and click it again as you can see on the tool tip press again to show upgrades we're going to give the zealots armor armor three and we're going to give the zealots Shields three so that they're all tanky as possible possible uh mirror the whole setup over jump onto the other side and give them upgrades as well Shields three and armor three yet again save this preset as whatever you want just because it's a lot easier this way I can spell um lot easier this way if you ever have to run the Benchmark again that way say you came in with a clean slate you cleared the board you could just load and it would bring everything back so instead of precisely spawning a monstrously ridiculous amount of units again it's just all there right away um your upgrades are saved everything it's pretty awesome so now you just want to start which doesn't actually start the match it'll properly set your screen right in the position it should be in and it puts you into kind of the battle UI so you can see over here just pause reset attack energy all that kind of stuff all you want to do for the pregame is throw energy on just gives all your medacs full energy so that while they're healing everybody up they won't run out and then you just start your benchmark right when you click attack yes the unit composition is totally unrealistic and this would probably never happen um but that's not exactly the point it's just there's a lot of units on screen there's a whole bunch of particle effects from the different uh medacs and all that kind of stuff so it's just lots of stuff on the screen which is pretty hard on the computer we find that a lot of Starcraft benchmarks are too easy too much Base building stuff like that which is isn't actually very hard on the computer so we thought we'd throw something a little bit harder now this isn't as hard as it gets we're not throwing mother ships cooking everything and all that other kind of stuff at it but this is still a pretty difficult Benchmark I hope you found this educational click the link in the description to visit our Forum so you can post your own results and see how it compares to anything that we've pretty much ever tested in the past and as always guys thanks for watching and don't forget to subscribe to L this techtips from unboxing reviews and other computer videos"}