Source: Extremetech
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It has been a long time since we added a title to our standard repertoire of gaming benchmarks. Unfortunately, many developers have not seen fit to add a repeatable performance analysis mode to their titles. Some have plans to do so, but when it comes down to crunch time and there isn't room left in the schedule to get everything in, the benchmark mode is one of the first things to go. It's a shame, really—we need better ways to compare PC performance, and adding a benchmark mode to your game has benefits well beyond the obvious marketing advantage of having your game mentioned in hundreds of hardware reviews for a year or more after its release. If your game is a "benchmark title," and everyone knows it, the CPU and GPU manufacturers will bend over backwards to make sure their hardware runs your game the best it possibly can, a big win for the developer and consumers.
Mar 26, 2007, 07:19 AM
