Unreal Tournament 3 Benchmarking

The easiest way to do your own benchmarking is through some simple batch scripting. Using the START with a /WAIT switch, then the executable's name and command line options for each map you can create the same sort of test as I use in my testing.

The key is the /WAIT switch: it halts the progress of the script until after the program it started has closed. The effect is that each test is run one after another until :END is reached. Here's a snip of how it's done:

@echo off

REM - Full UT3 Benchmark
REM - author: Alcom
REM - purpose: To automate the benchmark testing of Unreal Tournament on three specific maps

:BEGIN

START /WAIT C:\Program Files\Unreal Tournament 3\Binaries\UT3.exe CTF-Coret?numplay=12?timelimit=5?automatedperftesting=1 -onethread -seconds=60 -unattended -novsync -fixedseed -CaptureFPSChartInfo=1 -nomoviestartup

START /WAIT C:\Program Files\Unreal Tournament 3\Binaries\UT3.exe CTF-Omicron?numplay=12?timelimit=5?automatedperftesting=1 -onethread -seconds=60 -unattended -novsync -fixedseed -CaptureFPSChartInfo=1 -nomoviestartup
…

:END

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If you're having crash issues, please read my UT3 Troubleshooting page for tips on debugging the beast. The best guide to tweaking every aspect of UT3 is by far is at tweakguides.com, but if you are wondering about actual benchmark results and SLI performance in particular, read on.

If you want to go right to the test results, follow the list below. If you'd like to see some background information and maybe do some testing on your own, please read further.

• UT3 Forceware Drivers Comparison *Updated!
• UT3 SLI Modes Performance Comparison
• UT3 UTEngine.ini Tweaks Comparison

UT3Bench.exe - Real World Testing