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3D MARK VANTAGE GOLD.....COUNTDOWN BEGINS

MattandJet said:
I keep getting "You have provided an incorrect captcha. " when you put your email address in to get a key?

Is any1 else getting this problem?
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You need to fill in the box under your e-mail with the words displayed.
 
XP user here so I'm fishing for some information regarding the graphical benchmarks.

Do they look a lot better than the scenes we see in 3dmark06?.
 
Yeah they look a lot better than the 3dmark06 scenes.

Well I'm glad they do cos they rape my card - otherwise I'd be thinking something's wrong.

:D
 
hi

soon as it changed from madonion to futuremark you could see things changing . 2001 was the most customisable imo the after that you had to buy a version to be able to change things and the cash cow is upon us .

what a pile of greed merchants

cheers
 
I was very impressed "visually" by the graphics, really does show DX10 very well, all be it at a slide show like rate, managed about 10-18fps with my 8800GTX @ 641/1500/2020

Unfortunately the blasted thing crashed and never got to do the CPU tests :rolleyes: , meh, woulda mean a very small score anyway.

Roll on future generations of graphics cards :p ;) :D


EDIT: Im not sure about any1 else, but the one key they sent I've used 3 times... lol w00
 
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muppet said:
hi

soon as it changed from madonion to futuremark you could see things changing . 2001 was the most customisable imo the after that you had to buy a version to be able to change things and the cash cow is upon us .

what a pile of greed merchants

cheers
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It took them time and effort to make this program, expecting everything for a free is a bit narrow-sighted.
 
muppet said:
hi

soon as it changed from madonion to futuremark you could see things changing . 2001 was the most customisable imo the after that you had to buy a version to be able to change things and the cash cow is upon us .

what a pile of greed merchants

cheers
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LOL
They are a company out to make money.
They aren't there to release free packages to make everyone happy.

Damn them "Greed Merchants" along with all the other company's out there trying to make money.
 
3DMark in general is pants. It doesn't really represent real world gaming and it only uses DirectX10. Now that's great if your card is good at DirectX10, but if it's crap at DirectX 9 and OpenGL then it's not measuring the card's all-round ness. It shouldn't be called 3DMark, it should be called DirectX10Mark imo.

*hides under flame retardent blanket*
 
stoofa said:
LOL
They are a company out to make money.
They aren't there to release free packages to make everyone happy.

Damn them "Greed Merchants" along with all the other company's out there trying to make money.
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+1

:D yeah damn them "Greed Merchants" they charge for something that they have worked ages on I think that's really bad!! :D
 
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Where do you think they get their funding to make these benchmarks?

Probably ATI and nVIDIA right?

What do these benchmarks make us all do? Upgrade our systems, Right?

So why shouldn't it be free if it's main goal is to make us buy faster hardware?
 
Well, to be honest, while I am happy paying for software I won't pay for this.

The software was only good to me as a basic test to see if things were running ok. Its not something that I personally see as worth paying for, so will stick to using other free benches or, god forbid, actual games!

For those who benchmark for "fun" it might be worth it, but for the majority... don't think so.
 
I think its pretty crap to be honest, best bit was the birds boobs wobbling around, pretty boring otherwise.

Will carry on using 3dmark06 for now.
 
You should not really use any 3dmark :p

I don't even know why I downloaded it! not even going to use it!
 
I'm downloading it, looking forward to running it, shame it'll be a lag fest but oh well, and damn!, I just forgot I'm in XP at the mo :(
 
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