3DMark 2001 will be out THIS evenning

Brent · Post by **Brent** » Tue Mar 13, 2001 4:59 pm

get ready to download, out between 4-6 PST

so that's 6-8 CST and 7-9 EST i believe

it will be on CNET first, and then will be mirrored off a lot of sites, i'm sure it will be crowded for a bit with all the people trying to dl it

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Tue Mar 13, 2001 5:04 pm

i'm not gonna bother, unless someone with an amd posts a decent score, cuz its intel favored.

colour · Post by **colour** » Tue Mar 13, 2001 5:31 pm

been trying to access madonion for hours now cant get through. so im refreshing the download.com mirror.

itll be worth it just to see the new movies they have.

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syncmaster · Post by **syncmaster** » Tue Mar 13, 2001 6:01 pm

Originally posted by YARDofSTUF:
i'm not gonna bother, unless someone with an amd posts a decent score, cuz its intel favored.

Hahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Man its Nvidia favorite .. Not INTELs ..
I have read all the new 3D marks F.A.G.

They say that the Voodoo3 is the minimal power that you need to run this bench.

This bench will be GeForces race ,they will race the rev 2 VS the rev3 ..

Damn the old days was better , now days its get more to be everything a big monopoly !!

syncmaster · Post by **syncmaster** » Tue Mar 13, 2001 6:16 pm

hahaha the Madonion servers is on fire !!
They can not i ven move them selfs ..

They say do not refresh our pages fast our server can not take it !!

Same story with ABIT new bios release,they server is burn down ,theyr FTP is out, for days ..

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david24151 · Post by **david24151** » Tue Mar 13, 2001 6:31 pm

it's ready for download now at download.com

colour · Post by **colour** » Tue Mar 13, 2001 9:15 pm

damn it! "can not create Direct3D device" hunk of crap.

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syncmaster · Post by **syncmaster** » Tue Mar 13, 2001 10:06 pm

What is your video card ??

Qwijib0 · Post by **Qwijib0** » Tue Mar 13, 2001 10:07 pm

I just ran it and got a 626.

Have a Voodoo5 5500 AGP and PIII 667EB...

Is this good, bad, or just plain UGLY?

david24151 · Post by **david24151** » Tue Mar 13, 2001 10:09 pm

mine won't run the nature part!! any advice why this would be ...video card hercules 3d prophetII GTS Pro 64mb

minir · Post by **minir** » Tue Mar 13, 2001 10:28 pm

Hi Brent

you can download it here now as well

hope it helps

http://www.the-ctrl-alt-del.com/game/3dMark2001New.htm

regards minir

Brent · Post by **Brent** » Tue Mar 13, 2001 10:30 pm

Originally posted by colour:
damn it! "can not create Direct3D device" hunk of crap.

[ 03-13-2001: Message edited by: colour ]

I had the same problem, I had to disable my second monitor (dual monitor setup) and set my desktop to 16bit for it to install, then it worked great

i'm still playing with it, i'll post scores when i tweak it all up

So far the fastest score i've seen is 3700 from a VEYR powerfull system with a GeForce2 Ultra

2000 something seems to be the average so far

it's a VERY taxing benchmarks, puts all our systems to shame, haha

The Nature scene is totally BREATHTAKING

david24151 · Post by **david24151** » Tue Mar 13, 2001 10:40 pm

Well i got 2734. I guess that is about up to par. Got Amd duron 700@1040/128mb ram/geforce 2 pro 64mb. Have to agree with Brent that nature scene in demo is really awesome..

syncmaster · Post by **syncmaster** » Tue Mar 13, 2001 10:43 pm

I am on dial-up 56K , it will take lot of time to come down ....

I know that my numbers will be low ,but i am not un happy ...

I know all ready what is the power of my system , and about that, oh yea i am really happy

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Tue Mar 13, 2001 10:43 pm

2409 thus far, grrrrrrrrr... u ppl made me dl it grrrrrrrrrrr... must tweak more

syncmaster · Post by **syncmaster** » Tue Mar 13, 2001 10:50 pm

hahahaha

15.9 Megs here and counting ... 4,7 k/sec stable ...

FunK · Post by **FunK** » Tue Mar 13, 2001 10:58 pm

Getting it now. 8 minutes to go....
Sync, don't you wish you had a faster connection?

Hispanic208 · Post by **Hispanic208** » Tue Mar 13, 2001 11:01 pm

I got a 961 with a p3-600 and TNT2 non ultra on default settings.

syncmaster · Post by **syncmaster** » Tue Mar 13, 2001 11:05 pm

Originally posted by FunK:
Getting it now. 8 minutes to go....
Sync, don't you wish you had a faster connection?

I wish to have the cash to pay for it

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Tue Mar 13, 2001 11:07 pm

2590, it says my geforce mx cant handle AA and it wont support the nature sceene?

RoundEye · Post by **RoundEye** » Tue Mar 13, 2001 11:31 pm

3267 at low resolution
2848 default benchmark

Brent · Post by **Brent** » Tue Mar 13, 2001 11:59 pm

for the Nature Scene Test you must have a 100% DX8 compatible Card AND Drivers, if even the slightest thing is off in the drivers or card for DX8 the Nature scene will not run in the Test mode

Anybody else got a Voodoo5 so i can compare my scores? heh

I got: 1592

My setup:

Abit BE6-2
P3 600E @ 800EB
256MB PC133 @ 2-2-2
Voodoo5 5500 64MB AGP Latest Official Drivers (not the x3dfx ones)
Windows 2000 Pro SP1

Qwijib0 · Post by **Qwijib0** » Wed Mar 14, 2001 12:17 am

I also have a V5 5500 AGP... where did you get your drivers (I got a 626)

W2K/PIII667

FunK · Post by **FunK** » Wed Mar 14, 2001 1:43 am

WOW, WOW, and more WOW!!!!!

That is GREAT.
Cannot believe the amount of detail.
They finally made a benchmark program that is ahead of the hardware.
I was totally taken by the nature effects and how my FPS dropped to nothing on the Dragon sim.
Totally AWESOME!!!

I didn't score well, but haven't had a chance to tweak either.
Just installed DX8

and New Nvidia Drivers.

Peace,
FunK

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Brent · Post by **Brent** » Wed Mar 14, 2001 2:40 am

Originally posted by Qwijib0:
I also have a V5 5500 AGP... where did you get your drivers (I got a 626)

W2K/PIII667

i got my drivers at www.3dfx.com those drivers seem to work better then then the www.x3dfx.com drivers

Brent · Post by **Brent** » Wed Mar 14, 2001 3:38 am

ok i just found out, the Nature Scene in 3dmark2k1 in the test mode needs a 100% pixel shader card to run, currently the only card is the GF3 and the Radeon, and the radeon is having a little trouble with it right now due to driver problems with it, but it's being worked on

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Wed Mar 14, 2001 3:46 am

Damn i want to see that too, oh well, i'll have the GF3 soon enough. finally got my settings right and went to uncertified drivers for nvidia so i can OC, and now i have a 3248 score at my optimum settings

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colour · Post by **colour** » Wed Mar 14, 2001 4:51 am

thats pretty stupid, excluding everyone that doesnt have a gf3.

Brent · Post by **Brent** » Wed Mar 14, 2001 5:11 am

Originally posted by colour:
thats pretty stupid, excluding everyone that doesnt have a gf3.

what are you talking about?

they aren't exluding anyone, heh

colour · Post by **colour** » Wed Mar 14, 2001 2:01 pm

from seeing all of the scenes.

ssjDoh · Post by **ssjDoh** » Wed Mar 14, 2001 4:22 pm

1GHz Tbird
256MB Ram
Radeon 64DDR

Brent · Post by **Brent** » Wed Mar 14, 2001 4:46 pm

Originally posted by colour:
from seeing all of the scenes.

it's not Madonions fault

it's the video card chipset makers fault for not support hardware pixel shaders

It's the video cards fault, the only two video cards that currently support hardware pixel shaders is the ATI Radeon and the NVIDIA GeForce3

you can expect all new cards to have a full vertex and pixel shader support coming out now, it's just such a new thing really...

3dmark2k1 is pushing for the future man

but madonion is in no way singling anybody out, it's just a feature that most cards don't support YET and 3dmark just goes ahead and tests for it if it's there, if it's not there then it's not there and it cant test it, heh

Brent · Post by **Brent** » Wed Mar 14, 2001 4:49 pm

Originally posted by John:
I hate my system. I can't wait for some more ddr boards to come out.

I got a 1259.

Duron 700, not o'ced to 1.1ghz anymore (long story)
V3 3500 tv
KT7-raid
256mb pc133

i'm sure if you could get that CPU higher up to 1gig at least it would help

but your V3 is very limited also

with my Voodoo5 and my cpu at 816Mhz on a 136 fsb with my mem at 2-2-2 I am pulling 1577 3dmarks right now.... I'm trying VERY hard to get it to at least 1600! hehe, I WILLLLL do it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! hehe

for comparisons sake with 3dmark 2000 default settings i'm pulling 4125 3dmarks right now

Cornbread · Post by **Cornbread** » Wed Mar 14, 2001 4:53 pm

Originally posted by YARDofSTUF:
i'm not gonna bother, unless someone with an amd posts a decent score, cuz its intel favored.

blah, blah, blah

Heaven_No · Post by **Heaven_No** » Wed Mar 14, 2001 4:56 pm

I had 3303.....

Though I would have done better...
The test is more graphic board intensive...

2x 1GHz PIII
512Meg 133RAM
RAID
Radeon 64DDR vivo

mikemean · Post by **mikemean** » Wed Mar 14, 2001 5:07 pm

I got 528 (onboard graphics..yuck!)

colour · Post by **colour** » Wed Mar 14, 2001 5:20 pm

yeah i was thinking to myself why madonion put something that doesnt support all current vidcards and it came to me that its for "benchmarking the latest and future cards" 3dmark99 and 2000 was for the cards already released.

bringing me tot he conclusion that its time to start putting my new box together. same here, waiting for ddr boards to come more common place.

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the_mp3_refuge · Post by **the_mp3_refuge** » Wed Mar 14, 2001 6:12 pm

Man it looks so koo

but i'm on a #^@#y 56k so i'm lookin at about a 3 hour dl. Screw that i'm just gonna walk the 100 feet to my neightbors, and use his cable to get it. And then I wonder why cant I get cable lol. Too bad its intel favored, but what ya gonna do? Peace

Brent · Post by **Brent** » Wed Mar 14, 2001 6:26 pm

it's not intel biased, would ya'll stop saying that

your making me mad with your delusions on that

Bababooey · Post by **Bababooey** » Wed Mar 14, 2001 6:42 pm

1661

1ghz T-bird
V3 2000 pci <----must upgrade
256mb pc133 2-2-2
Asus A7V