Supreme Commander
This game is multithreaded and can actually take advantage of more than two processor cores, making it a rare commodity indeed. We ran into some snags when we first tried to test this game with FRAPS. Getting consistent results proved difficult, and the sound didn't want to work on our Intel D975XBX2 motherboard, whose Vista x64 audio drivers may not yet be up to snuff. I was also developing the first signs of extreme RTS addiction—a grave condition indeed. I found myself analyzing unit types and lusting after level-two engineer bots. Fortunately, we were able to overcome these problems by using Supreme Commander's very nice built-in benchmark, which plays back a test game and reports detailed performance results afterward. We launched the benchmark by running the game with the "/map perftest /nosound" options. (Normally, we prefer to test games with audio enabled, but we made an exception here.) We tested at 1024x768 resolution with the game's default quality settings.

Supreme Commander's built-in benchmark breaks down its results into several major categories: running the game's simulation, rendering the game's graphics, and a composite score that's simply comprised of the other two. The performance test also reports good ol' frame rates, so we've included those, as well.