Starcraft 2 Benchmarking Procedure Explanation Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
·
825 words · ~4 min read
0:07
Welcome to our Starcraft 2 benchmarking
0:11
instructional guide so this will allow you to Benchmark Starcraft 2 just like
0:16
us so it should be noted first of all that we use the ultra and extreme
0:20
presets we Benchmark at 1080p with no anti-aliasing and Slick is going to walk
0:26
you through there's links in the description for anything any additional instructions you might need but lick is
0:30
going to walk you guys through from the entry Screen through to the several
0:35
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
0:40
units and all these particle effects and like sort of this intense battle and
0:45
that because Starcraft 2 for the most part runs on pretty much anything so in
0:50
order to actually give you guys some idea in the most intense possible
0:54
scenario in the middle of a battle when your graphics card or your CPU might
0:59
actually tank and lower your frame rate giving you not that smooth performance
1:03
you need in order to you know click on things accurately and in order to react
1:07
to things in time uh we wanted to show you the worst case scenario so guys the
1:13
idea is you can follow along with this Benchmark your own system and you can
1:17
easily compare it to how our reference systems perform in this game um so you
1:22
can decide if you need to upgrade or not just going to do a quick recap of our
1:27
settings so we're running full screen 1080p running the ultra preset and the
1:31
extreme preset with no anti-a lasing how you find the game is just
1:36
jump into arcade real quick go to micro
1:42
3 jump in here I'd highly recommend bookmarking it bookmark button it's just
1:46
right up here just play game pretty straightforward and start
1:55
game so we're going to start off right away by spawning 50 freaking zealots
2:00
just because that sounds
2:05
awesome all the clicking there we go
2:09
then jump into Teran spawn 30
2:13
medac because no one should die on this
2:16
day jump back to protos and click it again as you can see on the tool tip
2:20
press again to show upgrades we're going to give the zealots armor armor three
2:25
and we're going to give the zealots Shields three so that they're all tanky
2:29
as possible possible uh mirror the whole setup over jump onto the other side and
2:34
give them upgrades as
2:37
well Shields three and armor three yet again save this preset as whatever you
2:43
want just because it's a lot easier this way I can spell um lot easier this way
2:49
if you ever have to run the Benchmark again that way say you came in with a
2:53
clean slate you cleared the board you could just load and it would bring
2:57
everything back so instead of precisely spawning a monstrously ridiculous amount
3:01
of units again it's just all there right away um your upgrades are saved
3:06
everything it's pretty awesome so now you just want to start which doesn't
3:11
actually start the match it'll properly set your screen right in the position it
3:14
should be in and it puts you into kind of the battle UI so you can see over
3:18
here just pause reset attack energy all that kind of stuff all you want to do
3:22
for the pregame is throw energy on just gives all your medacs full energy so
3:27
that while they're healing everybody up they won't run out
3:30
and then you just start your benchmark right when you click
3:35
attack yes the unit composition is totally unrealistic and this would
3:39
probably never happen um but that's not
3:42
exactly the point it's just there's a lot of units on screen there's a whole
3:45
bunch of particle effects from the different uh medacs and all that kind of
3:49
stuff so it's just lots of stuff on the screen which is pretty hard on the
3:52
computer we find that a lot of Starcraft benchmarks are too easy too much Base
3:58
building stuff like that which is isn't actually very hard on the computer so we thought we'd throw something a little
4:02
bit harder now this isn't as hard as it gets we're not throwing mother ships
4:06
cooking everything and all that other kind of stuff at it but this is still a
4:10
pretty difficult
4:14
Benchmark I hope you found this educational click the link in the
4:17
description to visit our Forum so you can post your own results and see how it
4:21
compares to anything that we've pretty much ever tested in the past and as
4:26
always guys thanks for watching and don't forget to subscribe to L this techtips from unboxing reviews and other
4:31
computer videos