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
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