3DMark2000 Released

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PIII-616 Annihilator SDR. 128megs.

3D Marks: 3799
CPU: 329

default benchmark. Im going to o/c the cpu more and then o/c the
geforce to try to hit 4000 3D marks.

#85 I must be on crack. Look at my results 3DMark Score 4483 (Post 123) I do have a celeron, and all i did is downloaded the benchmark program and ran it. i didnt change anything. I dont know why my marks are so high. it really dosnt make sence. There\'s somthing funkie going on.

CPU Intel Celeron A (366 oc\'d to)550 Mhz
Memory 128 MB
3D Accelerator NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 (English) 173/230
Resolution 800X600 16-bit Color
Buffering Triple
3DMark Score 4483
CPU 3DMarks 5207

wow
3DNOW really adds to performance

i used software T&L then 3DNOW and there was a very noticable increase, especially in the flying pipes and matrix like part

now, if I only had a video card 50x faster than the Geforce with complete OpenGL support....

celeron-400, 64Mb RAM, v3 3000
3DMark2000, default settings: 934

life is beautiful

that demo is the most impressive thing that my voodoo2 has everdone

That chick in the silver suit is amazing

I want to see more of her and in a long period of time

oh, heh, forgot to mention that I am also using a Rage Fury, with Lightspeed drivers.

#103 it\'s a 300 watt PS...that better be enough

WHat the fuck does Direct Sound have anything to do with OpenGL???

#104 Q3 uses Direct Sound. That\'s why DX7 is on the Q3 CD.

poop. I just built a new 700 Mhz Athlon/TNT2U box, and anything that uses DX7
(3DMark 2000 and Q3) locks it up stone cold within a few seconds. Q2 will run
until the cows come home, though. Has anyone else run into this?
(BTW, I *am* using the detonator 3.62 drivers and the updated AGP miniport)

Okay, the guy who just \"yelled\" out has no idea what he\'s talking about, since he forgets a few key facts:

1) AMD actually made an Athlon-optimized 3DMark DLL to modify the \'99 version to show what the hardware could do. So, you can\'t say that the benchmarks are skewed towards Intel (except that AGP4X support, currently only for Coppermine P3s, happens to help in high-stress rendering).

2) Athlons are somewhat hampered by a few motherboard manufacturers who don\'t provide enough power to the AGP slot; it\'s for that reason that the GeForce 3.62 drivers tone the chipset down to AGP1X for compatibility.

Yes, it\'s not the best situation - but don\'t go crying wolf without knowing the real situation.

Here are my scores running the default (1024x768x16) test:
Cel400@450, GeForce with 3.53 drivers, 128Mb RAM.

Score: 3163 DMarks.

96, huh? This is the funny side of Lex. \"Lethal\" is more serious.

Thanks!

-Lex

Oh my mother god. Holy flip flop. That\'s a real pretty demo. Q3 eat your flimpy little heart out.

Thanks!

-Lex

P3/450, 128 MB of RAM, ATI Rage Fury (don\'t laugh) with the latest drivers, Windows 98

640x480 in 32-bit colour: 2421 3DMarks

It was funny to watch the benchmark in progress, because I knew that the moment it got to \"high detail\" (I think those scenes tend to have 100,000-120,000 polygons per frame on average), my system would die. I think I got 12-18 FPS average at that level.

Actually, what really shocked me was when the benchmark tried to do the bump-mapping tests. Of course, EMBM didn\'t work (that\'s G400 country), but embossing had massive visual flaws. Either ATI\'s drivers have unforseen glitches (most likely), or MadOnion did something weird in this year\'s tests. I didn\'t see this problem with 3DMark 99...

Even with my system occasionally struggling to keep up, it was definitely worth the download. The room with the pool is quite possibly the best-looking 3D scene I\'ve ever seen on my PC. Now, if I can just get that Annihilator Pro I want...