Benchmark games how to#

That one setting was allegedly responsible for exploding Michael 'Shroud' Grzesiek's UPS (Uninterruptable Power Supply) during a stream, and millions of gamers questioning the sanity of Amazon Games’ development team. The developers had left one of the settings as “unlimited” during the menu screens, which meant there was no cap on the amount of power it could draw. For instance, New World recently had a major problem that meant it was bricking and overheating GPUs, as well as pulling huge amounts of power from PCs. You will then have an original performance benchmark for your CPU, GPU and RAM including power usage and temperatures, which means you can see how your components are degrading over time and often understand where problems are arising in future.īenchmarking is not just a way of flexing your gaming capabilities - it is in fact a great way to troubleshoot games or failing components in your system. Whenever you build a new gaming PC or buy a pre-built PC it’s a good idea to benchmark your virgin machine before you start installing too many applications and games.

Benchmark games how to#

This guide will show you how to set up benchmarking software and show your stats in an OSD (On-Screen Display) using MSI Afterburner and RivaTuner.

Benchmarking games allows you to check the performance of your components and, of course, flex your gaming PC specs with your friends or the Reddit and YouTube community.