GSoC Proposal - Direct3D - Automated game benchmarks - Proof of Concept

[Aaryaman Vasishta]

On Sat, Apr 7, 2018 at 4:11 PM, Aaryaman Vasishta <jem456.vasishta at gmail.com
> wrote:

>
>
> On Sat, Apr 7, 2018 at 6:21 AM, Dimitris Gounaridis <
> moihack.inside at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello everyone! I'm Dimitris Gounaridis a Computer Science student from
>> Thessaloniki, Greece.
>> I have sent a proposal for this year's GSoC "Direct3D - Automated game
>> benchmarks" idea.
>>
>> I created this repo( https://github.com/moihack/mywinescripts) with some
>> simple scripts after being asked by Stefan Dösinger for a simple proof of
>> concept around my scripting skills.
>> Right now my scripts download the wine-3.5 branch, build wine, then
>> download and silently install the standalone benchmark for Devil May Cry 4.
>> After also grabbing and unpacking autohotkey they launch the benchmark and
>> output through WINEDEBUG=+fps the current fps value to a log file.
>>
>> What this script is currently missing is any kind of dependency
>> management and proper error handling. Also, the script currently does not
>> still parse and calculate a metric (like average fps) from the fps.log
>> file.
>> Finally,there is a log file that gets frequently updated so the user
>> kinda knows till which part the script run if an error occured.
>>
>> Please let me know of any possible improvements and/or any possible
>> issues you may find.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Dimitris Gounaridis
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi Dimitris,
>
> Thanks for creating the repo!
>
> Suggestion: I'm not an expert in game automation scripts, but I noticed  a
> 20 second sleep in the beginning of your Devil May Cry 4 autohotkey
> script. Would it be possible to replace that with an event listener which
> triggers the script when the game finishes loading?
> I see autohotkey has API's for COM objects and window handles like OnWin,
> winExist and/or ComObj which could be worth checking
> https://autohotkey.com/board/topic/56987-com-object-referenc
> e-autohotkey-v11/  hope it helps!
>
> Ah, I also noticed there's API's like ImageSearch and PixelSearch which
can be used. Someone had suggested to use them for detecting in-game events
https://autohotkey.com/board/topic/117060-script-trigger-
based-on-in-game-eventhelp/ this might be easier than the other API's I
mentioned before.

Cheers,
Aaryaman
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