R:TW Benchmarking

[Ilsamir Lord]

Hi guys,

Sorry if this is in the wrong place. I was wondering if there were any ways to benchmark R:TW - like getting fps to display etc.?

Thanks,
Ilsamir Lord

[Red Harvest]

You can use FRAPS. I've used it before on RTW (when the game first came out.) It is freeware.

[Ilsamir Lord]

Doesn't Fraps just record at a given fps though? It makes movies of what you are displaying doesn't it?

[Red Harvest]

It doesn't make movies as far as I know. It displays, but it will also log frame rates: ave, min, max. It writes the info out to a log file.

You could probably use historical battles or custom battles to benchmark. I always saw the lowest frame rates when I was zoomed in during a big fight.

[demon rob]

does both I believe.
movies are limited in size and with watermark if you don't licence.
I've only used it for FPS (not that that was a pretty total on my old pc, and havent bothered on the new box, maybe in the next 12 hours I might...)

[Ilsamir Lord]

Cool, thanks for clearing that up guys! Yeah, I'm upgrading from an Athlon mobile K7 1800+ and a Radeon 9600xt 256mb to an Athlon 64 3000+ with a Radeon x1800xt 512mb. So I really want to see the difference in terms of frames between the two systems. Though I'm sure I'll notice the smoothness anyway ;) .

Thanks again!