Benchmarking With Halo For PC

Posted by simoniker on Saturday October 18, 2003 @11:21AM from the frame-rate-frame-rate-rah-rah-rah dept.

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."

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Great. by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-18 11:34 · Score: 1, Interesting

Now everyone can see how badly it plays even on the best hardware.

Seriously though, you'd think they'd take these options out before release, knowing how it makes even a P4@3GHz + Radeon9800 cry. Considering most users are still on GF2 or GF3 class hardware, it's not going to help sales, surely?