Tue Sep 04, 2012 6:00 pm
OK, so let's reorder what's available for Windows users:
1/ Try the easy-to-use software that goes with BMD video hardware drivers.
2/ If the read/write speed doesn't explain the lack of real-time playback, and you aren't familiar with the Command Prompt, then here's the list of switches to add after bandwidthTest.exe and TestIOWin.exe:
--help Display this help menu
--csv Print results as a CSV
--device=[deviceno] Specify the device device to be used
all - compute cumulative bandwidth on all the devices
0,1,2,...,n - Specify any particular device to be used
--memory=[MEMMODE] Specify which memory mode to use
pageable - pageable memory
pinned - non-pageable system memory
--mode=[MODE] Specify the mode to use
quick - performs a quick measurement
range - measures a user-specified range of values
shmoo - performs an intense shmoo of a large range of values
--htod Measure host to device transfers
--dtoh Measure device to host transfers
--dtod Measure device to device transfers
--wc Allocate pinned memory as write-combined
--cputiming Force CPU-based timing always
Range mode options
--start=[SIZE] Starting transfer size in bytes
--end=[SIZE] Ending transfer size in bytes
--increment=[SIZE] Increment size in bytes
Blackmagic Design Disk IO benchmark program - Version 1.0.4847
Usage: testiowin.exe <diskPath> <FrameSize in MB, 1,000,000 bytes> <Num Of Frames> <Number of Threads> <keep_cpu_busy> <Use Direct IO>
Examples:
testiowin.exe /dvt4/ 12.754 100 6 1 0
testiowin.exe /dvt4/ 12 100 1 0 0
[READ_ONLY_TEST] Usage: testiowin.exe <diskPath> <FrameSize in MB, 1,000,000 bytes> <Num Of Frames> <Number of Threads> <keep_cpu_busy> <Use Direct IO> <ClipPattern> <Start Frame>
That's the whole list just in case you require something special, but there's no need to be frightened. You can just check little things, like for instance if you have "PASSED" at the end of the bandwidth test.