I've been doing a bit of work on the-big-benchmark.sh and attach a patch of a few changes for conveniece, none of them make a difference to the results. I'm sure these can be ported to the .bat file too. Apologies for naming the patch as a .txt, no I didn't write it in Notepad, the forum just won't let you upload a .patch file.
Changes:
- Print 'Benchmarking on $e' to the terminal to give a bit more feedback on progress
- Print out benchmark MED results to the terminal after each quality run to give a bit more feedback and give something very easy to copy to the forum
- Split the quality settings up and made it so that before Normal and Ultra it scans through the engine logs for OpenGL 2.0 not beeing found or vid_soft being enabled respectively. It then exits if these tests aren't supported so should make process simpler and much quicker for non-experts to gain more reliable results
Please use as you see fit, even if it doesn't get in the codebase it still may help a few people out when benchmarking as you can apply it to your own install. Be aware though for git or rsync users that updating will overwrite this patch!
Enjoy.
Changes:
- Print 'Benchmarking on $e' to the terminal to give a bit more feedback on progress
- Print out benchmark MED results to the terminal after each quality run to give a bit more feedback and give something very easy to copy to the forum
- Split the quality settings up and made it so that before Normal and Ultra it scans through the engine logs for OpenGL 2.0 not beeing found or vid_soft being enabled respectively. It then exits if these tests aren't supported so should make process simpler and much quicker for non-experts to gain more reliable results
Please use as you see fit, even if it doesn't get in the codebase it still may help a few people out when benchmarking as you can apply it to your own install. Be aware though for git or rsync users that updating will overwrite this patch!
Enjoy.
I'm at least a reasonably tolerable person to be around - Narcopic