Hitman: Absolution benchmark feature
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Hitman: Absolution contains a performance benchmark feature that you can use to test the game's performance on your system. It will either use the current display and graphics settings or read specific values from an INI file depending on the way you initiate the test. The file benchmarkresults.txt is written to the gamefolder when the test is completed. It contains the benchmark results and the used display and graphics settings. To get an accurate test of the performance, the game will always go to exclusive fullscreen mode and disable VSync.

There are three ways to start a benchmark test:

1) From the main menu:
Start the game and proceed to the main menu. Select the Options menu. When you are done tweaking your Display and Graphics settings, select START BENCHMARK at the bottom of the options menu. Once the benchmark is completed you will be prompted with the results and be returned to the main menu. 


2) From the Options dialog:
When you start the game you are prompted with the launcher menu. Choose "Options". Tweak your Display and Quality settings and choose "Start Benchmark" on the bottom of the dialog. Once the benchmark is completed you will be prompted with the results and the game restarts itself to the launcher menu. 


3) From the command line:
You can also start the benchmark test from the command line. Use one of the following combinations of arguments: 

HMA.exe -startbenchmark 					- Starts the benchmark mode with the current display and graphics settings and shows the results on screen.
HMA.exe -startbenchmark <benchmark.ini> 			- Starts the benchmark mode with display and graphics settings read from the given INI file. An example benchmark.ini is included and contains a description of each setting.
HMA.exe -startbenchmark <benchmark.ini> -autoquitbenchmark	- Starts the benchmark mode, reads the settings from the given INI but quits without displaying the results on screen.