FYI 3dMark05 is out as of yesterday

I will dload and install simply because I wanna see the pretty chiz on my cards. But ... I don't trust that this is a fair benchmark since they cheated for nVidia with 03.

Grendel · Post by **Grendel** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 11:14 am

Looks like that right now ATi is cheating. 15% jump from 4.9 to 4.11 drivers and some strange CPU dependencies where none should be.. We'll see.

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 12:26 pm

Futuremark keeps on getting cheaper and cheaper. It has all these buttons, and as soon as you push em it says "you cant do this, pay us money now or go f$%k yourself".

Warlock · Post by **Warlock** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 12:50 pm

the thang i dont gt is y the ★■◆● would u want to pay for a bench mark progy 0.o

but what ages me the most is they make u run it at 1024x768 full AA and full AF and i never run aney of my games like that cause like u have time to stand there and look at then detail when u have 7 other people trying to kill your ass

Sage · Post by **Sage** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 1:13 pm

Yeh, I sure as hell aint going to buy a program that tells me my computer sucks.

STRESSTEST · Post by **STRESSTEST** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 2:47 pm

Sage wrote:Yeh, I sure as hell aint going to buy a program that tells me my computer sucks.

hahah I can relate

Jeff250 · Post by **Jeff250** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 3:05 pm

Probably need Pixel Shader 7.0 just to run all but the first, likely shitty, benchmark.

fliptw · Post by **fliptw** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 4:41 pm

yeah. spoiler:

It tells you at the end you need a new video card.

Jeff250 · Post by **Jeff250** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 7:49 pm

And don't you have to buy the Pro version for the free 500 mark bonus?

BlueFlames · Post by **BlueFlames** » Sat Oct 02, 2004 12:07 am

Just for shits and giggles, I was going to try to run 3DMark 2005 on my crappy laptop, just to see how deep in the single digit range I'd get. I should have checked the minimum requirements before starting the download, but I was doing it on a lark, so it didn't surprise me when the benchmark wouldn't run.

Now, what did surprise me was when I dug up an old PC Gamer demo disk with 3DMark 2000 on it, I couldn't get that one to run either. That served as a nice, handy reminder why I have a job this year...