Framerate capture software for linux?

[AlTech]

Hi guys,

'been playing around with Linux and i want to benchmark some games.

 

Is there some kind of fraps equivalent? 

 

I  basically just want to save the Min, Max and Average fps to a file.

 

Thanks much .

[Guest]

Add game to Steam, enable fps counter in steam. I don't think there is a way to save it in a file though.

[fjdhdhcyfhf]

I do not think there is a fraps equivalent but quake based games on linux have a benchmark feature. Thats why you will see them on a lot of linux based benchmarks.

http://openarena.wikia.com/wiki/Manual/Demos

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Timedemo: use demo as benchmarkEdit

It is possible to use the game as an hardware benchmark tool. To do it, set /timedemo 1 (default value is 0), then play a demo (as usual, with the /demo <demoname> command): that demo will be played at the maximum possible speed (e.g. a demo that usually plays in one minute could be played in three seconds); after playback end, pull down the console to read the average fps count (frames-per-second, higher is better); at the end, set timedemo to 0 again. You can repeat the same test with different graphic settings, and/or copy the same demo file to more machines (where you should set similar graphic settings), write down somewhere the results and compare them to figure out which hardware works better with the game.
Benchmarking with different settings on the same machine may help you to find the best ratio of quality settings/speed for you; anyway, remember that when not running a timedemo, your maximum frames-per-second limit is limited by your com_maxfps setting (a variable that you should keep on a fps value your machine can manage constantly), see Graphic options#Framerate.

If you have an Nvidia card you could look at nvidia-smi

http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/DCGM/docs/nvidia-smi-367.38.pdf