How do you benchmark halflife 2?

[Assimilator1]

I tried using the demos files AT provided on their intiall HL2 GPU roundup 2yrs ago ,but they didn't work as unsurprisingly HL2 has been updated & its broken the demoes.

How do they benchmark it now? (a bit of searching here & at AT turned up nothing)

I want to see the difference between my current 9700 Pro & my new(2nd hand) XT800XT PE

TIA

[edit] I see in a review of the 4200 about a year latter they use the halflife 2 guru3d demo 5.Is this what they use now?.Btw Im downloading that demo now ,but if there's an easy way to fix those older demoes I'd be interested to know

 

[imported_JeReMY]

download fraps and set it to save frame rates to a text file

 

[Assimilator1]

Ok thanks ,I've ended up using the HOC benchmarking tool for it which is great ,but is it possible to get ATs old demeos working again?

 

[BFG10K]

but is it possible to get ATs old demeos working again?

No because the game has changed its server details through patching so the old demos can no longer connect.

 

[quattro1]

you can record your own demos from the console, then play them back in timedemo mode which will give you a score.

Believe the command to record is "record". You also need to enable the console from the adv keyboard options.

 

[TheRyuu]

http://www.gamefaqs.com/computer/doswin/code/914642.html

Scroll down to Console Commands (yes, although they technically all are, there is a section called Console Commands)

It says commands are:
(i added the quotes to show that the "name" of the file goes there, just remove the quotes):
play "demo_name"
record "demo_name"
stop

 

[espress0]

Hl2 comes with counter strike source, i dont know how reliable it is but in-game you can do a stress test.

 

[Kromis]

Originally posted by: espress0
Hl2 comes with counter strike source, i dont know how reliable it is but in-game you can do a stress test.

Lol, I guess it pretty is reliable, sorta. Because the stress test isn't really anything you're gonna see in CSS.

 

[Assimilator1]

Thanks for the input folks

I had wanted to run the AT demos so I could compare scores ,nm.
With some trial & error I found which demos were more CPU or GPU bound.

Oh & my new card is over twice as fast (when scores aren't held back by the CPU) ,anyway I can now whack the details up & play to the monitors max of 1600x1200

Btw what's this new demo AT uses for HL2, episode one?? ,where's that from?