If you’ve been enjoying PC video games for lengthy sufficient, you’ll little question be aware of how uncommon it’s to see a half-decent benchmark check in a PC recreation. Often instances, folks provide you with their very own stress runs and report all the things manually.

Plenty of PC video games do embrace benchmarks, although seemingly simply to verify a field and get it out of the way in which – however not Modern Warfare 2.

Modern Warfare 2’s servers are actually on-line all over the place, together with on PC, and one of many few surprises PC gamers noticed (apart from the shortage of a cross-play toggle) was a benchmark.

For one, it’s stunning as a result of Infinity Ward didn’t talk its existence forward of launch, but additionally as a result of Call of Duty is likely one of the better-optimised PC video games nowadays, and its recognition means there’s loads of exams on the market for various system configurations.

The benchmark will be discovered within the Multiplayer row, which is a little bit of an uncommon placement for it. Scroll previous all the opposite tiles and also you’ll discover it on the finish of the row.

Once launched, the benchmark will run for a little bit over a minute, enjoying completely different effects-heavy eventualities. As it’s operating, you’ll be capable to monitor common FPS, CPU render time, in addition to GPU render time and temperature.

All of that’s pretty normal, however the outcomes display is the place issues get fascinating.

As you possibly can see, not solely do you get a tally of the common framerate, it’s damaged down by 1% and 5% lows. The abstract dives even deeper, recapping all three outcomes once more whereas exhibiting GPU and CPU framerate individually.

This is a implausible method to see which of the 2 elements is affecting your framerate probably the most. In my case, the sport is GPU-bound, that means I would wish to improve my GPU to succeed in increased framerates.

Playing on decrease resolutions will change that dynamic, and get you into CPU-bounded conditions extra usually.

The right-side panel shows a couple of different helpful bits of details about your system, together with RAM and VRAM utilization, in addition to the precise render decision to your chosen upscaling methodology.

Though it’s not as exhaustive as, say, the Gears 5 benchmark, it’s nonetheless fairly helpful. Give it a attempt to share your outcomes.

If Modern Warfare 2 is operating nicely for you, it’s most likely finest to be taught the quickest method to rank up and stage up weapons.