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How to benchmark

By aidanr

How to run the in-game benchmark

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6 Oct, 2014 @ 10:24am

8 Oct, 2014 @ 5:14am

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Overview

Right click on the game in the library and select properties:

Click on set launch options and type in -benchmark

Launch the game and it will run the benchmark automatically and then close

In the game properties click on browse local files

Open up the .csv file in excel or in notepad, here you can read the results

Modify the BENCHMARK_TEMPLATE.TXT file to modify the benchmark settings

Use -engine_settings=benchmark_template.txt to pass in custom settings for that run

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Right click on the game in the library and select properties:

Click on set launch options and type in -benchmark

Launch the game and it will run the benchmark automatically and then close

In the game properties click on browse local files

Open up the .csv file in excel or in notepad, here you can read the results

Modify the BENCHMARK_TEMPLATE.TXT file to modify the benchmark settings

Use -engine_settings=benchmark_template.txt to pass in custom settings for that run

You can use -engine_settings=benchmark_template.txt to pass in custom settings for that run (and hence add multiple runs to a batch file with different settings). Valid settings that can be used in the txt file are listed in \data\engine_settings.xml and invalid settings will be ignored.

Source for this section: http://forums.alienisolation.com/forum/main-category/main-forum/19389-alien-isolation-benchmark-mode-pc#post19499

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Botboy3 17 Apr, 2015 @ 4:50pm

Thanks, but I dont particulary use steams FPS counter, since sometimes it says im getting 596FPS when im actually getting around 100-120. Not very accurate. Hopefully this one is more accurate. :)