Benchmarking With Halo For PC

Thanks to ExtremeTech for their article discussing comparative benchmarking of PCs using newly-released FPS Halo. The piece explains how to "add a few command line options to the [Halo] shortcut" to enable benchmarking, which "runs through several of the game's cut-scenes", and the final page of the article has results for ATI and NVidia's current high-end graphics cards. The article concludes: "Halo is not the most elegant console game port, and given what you see on the screen it's odd how slowly it runs at times... Still, the Halo benchmark is a pretty good graphics card test- at once stressful, deterministic, and scalable with both graphics cards and CPUs."

Comments

PC gaming - that's it, I'm done.

[WasterDave]

Oh my god.

A Radeon 9800 on a 2.4GHz P4 is *required* to get even halfway decent performance. I'm done with PC gaming.

Dave

Hmm...

[Tisephone]

After foolishly attempting to run the demo on my six-month-old PC, I can confirm Microsoft's vision of Combat Evolved is shooting their other corporate branches in the feet.